The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05
ALL SORTS.

Inc WORST men often give the Desl
advice.
Congress has before IL for consider
alton ,085 bills.
The greatest bet that ever was
made-the alphabet.
American cranberries are to grace
Victoria's table.
Sixteen American colleges were
chartered previous to 1885.
A distasteful duty should receive
our first and most careful attention.
Many Scotch immigrants to this
country are going back home again.
Paris advocates the drowning of
criminals convicted of capital Of
fences.
Over 200 tons of nitro-glycerine
from first to last were exploded in the
House tunnel.
The grand total of square miles i'm
the United States, including Alaska,
is 1911, $3.50.
Great Britain has forty-six colonial
governments scattered over the four
continents.
The Springfield, Mass, Republican
thinks that the grizzly bear should
be made the emblem of America.
Thirty-seven persons were killed
last year by other persons playfully
pointing supposed unloaded guns at
them.
According to the Communists,
every man who saves money must
be made to divide with every man
who saves none.
And now also the Turkish, Japan
csc and Chinese Governments have
accepted our Governments invita-
ton to assist Mt the great Centennial
Exposition.
School teachers at Fall River, Mass,
are not permitted to whip pupils
until the day after that on which the
offense meriting punishment was
committed.
Dean Swift says: 1t Is with mar
rOw-souled people as 1t is with mar
row-necked bottles; the less they
have in them the more noise they
make in pouring 1t out.
The arsenal at Rock Island ILL.,,
when complete, will have capacity
equal to the manufacture of NUM-
tions of war sufficient to equip one
million men every six months.
There has just been discovered in
the London Clay at Cheppey new
fossil bird, with teeth, somewhat re-
sembling those in the Australian
hooded lizard. No evidence of true
teeth had previously been known in
any bird.
1t is noteworthy that out of seven
ty-seven stOrm-warning signals dis
played at United States ports last
month, sixty-two are known to have
been actually justified by the storm
following. This gives the gratifying
percentage of S0,51.
Henry Rochefort is still alive,
despite the recent report of his death.
The French Government has received
information of his safe arrival at the
penal colony to which he was sent.
On the voyage he suffered from sea-
sickness, but otherwise was in good
health.
The day when a boy begins to feel
uneasy at being dependent upon
somebody else is the day when his
boyhood gives way to manhood.
The day when a girl finds some
body on whom she is willing to de-
pend is that in which she passes from
girlhoOd to womanhoOd.
When boy is put to farm labor
he is given an old hoe, fork with
broken tine, rOund-edged ak, a
scythe that nobody else will use and
is expected to work more hours than
"A hi rpl hand tn dO all the chOrpa IN
build fires in the morning, to run on
all errands, to turn the grindstone
and go to church in cOwhide boots.
With this experiences he does not like
farming and lecturers, editors, men,
bers> of Congress and petty lawyers
mourn because so many young men
ge from the farm to the city.
can effeminate man." says recent
writer, sis weak poultice. He is a
cross between table beer and ginger
pop, with the cork let out; u fresh
water mermaid found i'm cow past
ure, with her hands filled with dam
delions. He is a teacup full of sylla-
bub; kitten in trousers q sick
monkey with a blonde mOustache.
He is vine without any tendrils
fly drowned in oil; paper kite in
a dead calm. He is as harmless as q
penny-worth of sugar candy, and as
useless as shirt button without a
hole. He is as lazy as slug, and
has no more hope than last years
summer-fy. He goes through life
on tiptoe, and dies like Cologne
water split over the ground"