The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-09
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mont.
France has no male clearinghouse
keepers.
A defaulter is now called "hypo.
thecary."
Livingstown's remains will be
buried in Westminster Abbey.
The national sin of Americans,
says DIR. McCosh, is self adulation.
The Great Desert of Africa has
nearly the dimensions of the United
States.
Salt Lake has u new directory.
which credits her with having 30, 600
inhabitants.
A young Western poet sent piece
to the paper beginning. Reveel, 1
begg, the magic SPELL"
The chief editor of the London
Times always stays ut his post till
three O'Clock i'm the morning.
A Michigan schoolma'm points out
the sad fact that no schOolmaster has
ever been President.
When they find u man in Washing
ton who hasn't a plan of his own for
the solution of the financial problem,
they drown him.
The statistics Of death by lightning
and by suicide show that man is
six times as likely to kill himself as
to be killed by lightning.
The first railroad in India was COM
pleted in 1852. Since that time five
thousand miles of railway have been
built and put into operation.
A doctor writes to the Baltimore
San that the nervous disease known us
hydrOphObia can be produced by the
bite of Il perfectly heartily dog.
A female sOmnambulist i'm Kansas
City was mistaken bya gang of burg
lars for ghost, with the effect of put
ting the thieves to ignominious flight.
st. Louis has discovered a method
by which bone-bOiling can be carried
on without giving out any odor, and
the inventor wants $4,000 for the
discovery
The patentee of the punch now
used by the passenger railroad COM
panies makes over $4,000; per an
mum he receives royalty of
twenty cents each day for each punch
in use.
An idea of the terrible nature of
the Indian famine may be gatherd
from the statement that rice is selling
at four cents per pound, which is eX-
actly the price of labOrer's daily
pay.
"What is money ?" asks an ex-
change. We thought the answer was
clear enough in our younger and more
circus-going days, but, after reading
the late explanation in Congress, we
are forced to give it up.
A clerk IN the Mare Island navy
yard, California, had the rashness TO
tell the cOmmandant how $4,000
could be saved i'm purchasing supplies
for his department. The command
ant Immediately began to retrench by
dispensing with the services of that
clerk.
At single mine in Cornwall, Eng
land, the monthly product of white
arsenic is sufficient to destroy the
lives of more than five hundred mil
lion human beings, and the amount
of the poison sometimes stored i'm its
warehouses would probably be suf-
ficient to destroy every living crea-
ture upon the face of the earth.
An old man of seventy-three, who
had been i'm bonds Of intemperance,
was recently converted, anu when
relating his experience, ascribed his
first determination to reform to the
remark of his little boy, who once
brought in the old mans braudy bot
tie from its hiding place in a hay
NOW, saying, 81 suppose some vag-
abOnd left il there" The word vag-
abond did the business.
That isa sound precept which adj
vises that when any good happens
a fellow creature we should rejoice at
it. 1t was illustrated i'm Brooklyn re-
Gently by the case Of man who built
bonfire in his back yard when his
neighbours mother-in-law died.
Don't tell a child you will do any
thing for it unless you intend to keep
your promise. A strict observance
of this rule may save you the agony
ST seeing your child become liar. If
you say, "I'll skin you alive !" go
and skin it though 1t bring tears to
your eyes.
Rev. Charles Kingsley of England,
the celebrated author, now in this
country, says he is especially struck
with the capacity of Americans for
public speaking, and that he heard,
in week, half dozen better speech
es thrown off upon the spur of Ae
moment than he would have heard
in England i'm twelve months.
The teacher of an infant school had
her attention called to one little fel-
low wlrO was listening to what she
said. She had been teaching her
class the elements of English history,
and wishing to see If he knew what
she had been talking about, she sud-
denly asked, Johnny, who killed
King Rufus ?" With q surprised
look, he replied, "Why, i didn't
know he was dead"
Kate Field has an exalted opinion
of American women, and places a cor
responding low estimate on the Eli
glish females. Kate is right (says the
Brooklyn Arg,ts). English girls, as q
general thing, are poor trash. They
measure over forty inches around the
waist, wear loose CATERS, eschew late
hours and llly-white, and enjoy q
state of health that is positively vul-
gar.
A young man who was married in
Detroit six months ago has joined in
the discussion of the question of
family economy, but his little contri-
button Is far from satisfactory. 81
do not" he says understand how II
Is. i used to figure II out, as i SAT
with my arm round her waist OH
Sunday nights, and all 1t would then
cost to live, would be two dollars and
scventy-five cents q week, and now j
spend fifteen dollars, and am hungry
half the time"
A doctor always treated his juven'
lie patients for "worms," whatevel
might happen to be their symptoms
One day, being called to see u boy VIII,
, >yos suffering severely. he felt thu