The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-03-12
ALL SORTS.

The Emperor of Russia will visit
England next April.
Persia sings of her coal mines
underneath the ground.
Sing Sing Is said to be the largest
steal pen In the country.
A Kansas couple paid their mar
riage fee In butter recently.
The insurance companies contend
that an explosion Is not fire.
Virginia boasts that she has more
of her population at college than any
other State.
The most original phase OF society
life I'm Washington Is the card an
nouncement of birth.
An incoherent gentleman living In
New York has built a shed over q
sun-dial I'm his garden to protect IL
from the weather.
English Evangelists publish relig-
iOus tracts I'm the weekly newspapers
of the Kingdom, paying for them us
advertisements.
The New York papers now favor
killing criminals by an electric shock
WHICH lS c0Sihy ouAAAliAogOASu oAAu PsO
duces instantaneous death.
A culprit in q Chicago police court
recently began an address to the
Justice with, I" Now, Jest look ZEE here,
old Blinky," and he got ten days for
contempt.
To print thousand impressions OF
bank bills of the higher denOmina-
tions costs 81 AL in New York, but
can be done for sixty-three dollars by
the Government Engraving Bureau.
II is estimated that during the i'm
pending famine i'm India, the Gov
eminent will he called upon to sup
ply half a pound of grain per day,
for eight months, to $4,000, 900 peO-
pie.
An editor, who has INDUCED i'm a
heavy life insurance, Is said to be
followed, whenever he goes fishing,
by several insurance agents affection
ately bearing life preservers and
umbrellas.
Did you ever hear the noise OF
a quarfz-crushing machine when in
full operation? Well, that is nothing
compared to the chatter that would
fill the world If good resolutions were
made of glass and crOckery ware.
A philosopher remarks that there
is something peculiarly instructive in
standing upon a street corner in q
large city and watching the men all
rushing around trying to make money
and the women all floating around
trying to spend it.
Two Irishmen were i'm prisOn-one
for stealing cow, the other for steal,
ing a watch.
Hullo, Mike, and sure what
O'Clock is it?" said the cOw-stealer.
"An' sure," said the watch-stealer,
"I've no time-piece handy, but sup
pose it's just about milking time. 4"
The attachment of some French
ladies to their lap-dOg amounts, In
some instances to infatuatiOn. We
have heard of a lap-dOg biting a piece
out of q male visitors leg, his mis-
tress thus expressing her compassion.
"POOr little creature! hope 1t will
not -pake him sick"
A fond father recently wrOte:-" Ii
generally takes twenty years of train
ing to eradicate the word nice from
a woman's vocabulary. The Falls OF
Niagara, the Psalms of David, and
the progress of the human race were
all nice to my eldest daughter till
she got married"
A Detroit negro prisoner, on his
way 10 the penitentiary for larceny,
was asked what he thought OF his
trial. He said :-"When de lawyer
dat Tended me made speech, 1 made
sure dat was going to take my ole
hat and walk right out of dat cot
room; but when de Odder lawyer got
up and commenced talking, / knew l
was the biggest rascal on de top of the
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