The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-05-07
ALL SORTS.

Roses are in bloom in Arkansas.
Palatka, Florida, Is eating, blacsr
berries.
A woman keeps tho leading saloon
OF Oxford, Ia.
Texas has reported population of
100000.
A horned rabbit has been caught at
Tehuacana, Texas. 50 - -''
Two heads are better than one
especially in a barrel.
Virginia has $40l, so 10 balance In
the State Treasury. -
Nothing makes person laugh so
much as a new set OF teeth.
The Emperor of Russia never
laughs. 49, wrHfv
The early birds are catching sore
throats.
The Agissiz Memorial fund has
reached *9l ,23s.
The undertakes are preparing to
strongly oppose cremation.
"The House Of misrepresentation"
Is what it is snow called. gWRgN
Why do we speak OF the silence or
sleep, when most of us sleep sound +:
Quincy, Florida, has a cork tree
growing In the garden OF Governor
Allison.
The temperance crusaders are pre-
pairing to assault the Varieties, in
Mobile.
st. Louis Is to have an Assay Office
instead of Branch Mint, as 1t
wanted. - f#
Billiard balls exercise Christian
principles when they return "kisses"
for a blow. ecs
1t Is a wonder scarf-pins don't get
sea sick-they often ride on the bosom
OF heavy swells.
Oh, bother cremation! We have
to earn our living-and we don't
want to be compelled to urn our
dead. rrf
New Yerk has used more than a
million postal cards per month since
they were first issued in May last.
journalism is not q profitable call
Ing In Tennessee. Hallyluyer ="
exclaimed an editor there, "we've got
new shirt"
"WhO was the meekest man p"
asked a Sunday-schOol teacher
"MOses." Every well who was the
meekest woman ." 90 Never was
any,"
Dan Bullock, u Wisconsin conductor,
kissed a lady passenger. He felt very
sheepish when the courts ordered him
to pay 81 900 and costs.
Since the middle of the fourteenth
century, of the fifty-three POpes, Ar
teen have got beyond the age of
eighty-three years.
A young man was conversing in O.
tavern of his abilities and accomplish
ments, and Boosting of a great deal
of his mighty performances. When
he had finished, a quaker quietly OBJ
served, "There is one thing thou canst
not do; thou canst not tell the
truth"
When good wife had prepared IN
excellent dinner for her husband, and
he declared he was pleased with it,
she said, "Well, kiss me then" ooh,
never mind that my DEAR" was the
reply; "the necessaries of life we
must have, but the Injuries we can
dispense with"
A very extraordinary child died
recently in Memphis. She was only
two months old, and yet we are told
she "rOse a star, and beamed lucently
with meteOric re5plendency along the
horizon of her parents, lighting their
pathway with sheen of hope"
Our penal laws are sadly deficient
II they provide no remedy for an
clearinghouse keepers against the flend
in human form who evinces his en-
nifty to his kind by scratching the la
bel off tomato bottle, leaving it to
read, in its mutilated form thus
"TomSh* Cats***."
a correspondent, writing from
Cape Coast Castle on the 10Th of Feb
ruary, says: 81 suppose you heard
that the Ashantces could not under
stand our telegraph, and SO they, i'm
imitation, carried q line of white cot
ton from tree to tree all along the road,
passing 1t here and there through
rags of white calico"
A prominent blind man, who docs
smashing business in Chicago by
begging on the street corners, was OBJ.
served, few evenings ago, cxaming
his postal currency by the light of
street lamp, tosec II II was all good.
1t Is supposed that this particular
blind man Is one of the best Judges of
counterfeit money in:the city.
He was a quaint old fisherman.
One day, along toward dusk, no was
fishing in a trout stream, and, as he
swung his fly over the water 1t was
suddenly snapped by a large bat. The
strengthening thing dangled and
Mapped its wings at the end of the
line. The fisherman's companion
called out: "Say, Sam, got anything?"
Yeas" looking at the bat on the
hook. What Is it?" W dunno,
unless It's a cheru6im :"
"How much better it would have
been to have shaken hands and allow
1t was all q mistake," said q Detroit
Judge. "Then the lion and the lamb
would have lain down together, and
white-robed peace would have tanned
you with her, wings and elevated you
with her smiles of appreciation. But
no, you went clawing and rolling In
the mud, and here you are. It's five
dollars apiece"
AT meeting In the northern part
Of Maine the pastor remarked that If
any present had relatives or friends
In distant lands, prayer would be
offered i'm their behalf. Then rose up
u simple-looking individual, and said:
II would like you to pray for my
brother. He went away two weeks
a. III knx