The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-12-24
ODDS AND ENDS.

Cows that "moo" are among the new
holiday toys.
"BURY Me i'm the Garden" is much
sung in Boston, where lot in the ceme-
terry costs 5000.
A CALIFORNIA man has raised sixty
tons of cabbages on three acres of land,
and got $4 900, gold, for the crop.
TIE number of emigrants landed at
Castle Garden from January l to Decem-
ber |, of the present year, was 145, 1862,
shO wing heavy decrease.
THEY have now invented shot-guns
which can be carried in the pocket, and
fellow can slide out and 60 hunting on
Sunday and no one know it.
VEN some mans slaps me on der shoul-
der und says, az vos glad to hear you vos
20 WE'LL" und den sticks pehind my pack
his fingers to his nose, hef my opinion
of dot feller.
THE matrimonial market has been
picking up so fast since September that
one New Hampshire clergyman has laid
i'm three barrels of BEANS a barrel of cider
and three dried calf-skins.
A RICH but parsimonious old man, on
being taken to task for his uncharitable.
ness, said: "True, don't give much,
but if you only knew how it hurts when
/ give anything, you wouldn't wonder"
"Dear me, how fuidly he talks" said
Mrs. Partington, recently, at temper
ance meeting. 81 am always rejoiced
when he mounts the nOstrils, for his elo-
quence warns every cartridge in my
body"
"WHEN / asked" said Emerson, can
iron master about the Stag and cinder in
railroad iron, 'Oh, he said, there is al
ways good iron to be had; if there is
cinder in the iron, tits because there's
cinder in the pay"
A MILWAUKEE man is bent on going
to sea. He has been reading the Enoch
Arden class of stories till his soul is fired
with an ambition to be wrecked and
some other fellow.
AMID a hot political campaign, MUIR
ders and rioting all over the country, the
Beecher scandal, disappearance of little
Charley Ross, and Prof. TyndalPs alarm
ing materialism, the Philadelphia Ledger
stops to ask: "What is the plural of
Daddy Longlegs?
The following advertisement appeared
in a recent London paper: "To Chris
tians-A piOus young man never having
the blessing of the use of his limbs,
through being set on wet grass in child
hood, earnestly solicits fOrty-two postage
stamps, i'm return for which he will send,
free, six best nickel silver teaspoons to
any part of London"
THERE is said to be negro boy living
in Newport, Va, who will drink kerO-
sene oil by the quantity whenever he
can get it. He Graves it to such an ex-
tent that the family are compelled to
hide not only the can which contains 1T,
but even the lamps. He has been known
TO drink half pint at time. 1t pro-
duces wild intoxication, and makes
him act like frantic baboon"
A FEW days ago cat belonging to Mr..
Eugene Loveland, of Weathersfeld,
Conn.,, brought home a young woodchuck,
nearly full grown. The cat was covered
with blood, and otherwise showed signs
of severe struggle. This is supposed to
be the first case on record where cat
tackled and whipped woodchuck. Pus-
sy seemed TO be proud of her triumph.
A WESTERN writer maintains that the
supposed remains of ancint forts scattered
over the country drained by the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers were not forts at
all, but traps or pens into which the va
rious kinds of game then existing were
driven by the inhabitants and slaugh-
tered for food. The mastodon and mann
moth then inhabited the land, and he
supposes that they were lured or driven
into these Enclosures, and then dispatched
by "the natives" who could assail them
from places of safety without.