The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

"A DISH IOT u laWyeI-foueI'
BRANCH stablishmcnts-Trecs
The best share in a farm is the plOw
share.
STRANGE bed clothes-Three sheets in
the wind.
THE fear that surrounds us all-The
atmosphere.
WHAT literary ladies ought to wear
Book muslin.
WHEN is a man out of date-When
he's weak back.
WHAT animals are always seen at
funerals? Black Kids.
The Delaware peach-growers report
the crop in good condition so far.
DOES the Lord love man who spends
at a church festival the money he owes
his washerwoman
PAUL BoYNToN says that the greatest
depth to which diver can descend is
one hundred and sixty feet.
AMONG the things sent to the starving
people OF Kansas was tract headed
"The Wickedness of Gluttony."
FEMALE doctors are officially recog-
nized in France, and take their degrees
as regularly as those of the ruling sex.
A BERLIN circus horse sits at table
and eats like human being, with knife
and fork fastened to his two forelegs by
straps.
A NEBRASKA druggist got boy to
take big sniff of hartshOrn as a joke;
boy kicked over kerosene lamp; oil
took fire; loss on store $1,000. The
druggist is now driving team.
AN English physician, during lee
ture to female audience on the Use of
alcoholic beverages, asserted that the
"babes of London are never sober from
their birth until they are weaned."
A UNRoMANTIC view of the subject
was taken by a maiden. Upon her lover
remarking. 81 think I'll marry thee,
Jane," she replied, "Man Jock, would
be muckle obleeged to we if ye would"
IF the Southern people really want to
encourage good feeling with the North,
why do they keep sending us word every
week that they are enjoying green peas
and strawberries in Savannah" ETC.?
THE proper test of ability to spell cor
rectly would be to take words that are in
common use; such as ordinarily appear
in public print; such as appear in com
mon letter writing. The best spoilers
will find it difficult to win dictionaries
OH words of this character.
As fake by fake, day by day,
On cloudy SUBMITS far away,
The snow Is gathering silently,
Until whisper sets 1t free;
So in the poets heart is stored
OF thoughts and words countless horde,
Silently added, hour by hour
But dumb, inert and void OF power.
Till when the hour appointed calls
And the fair whisper family falls,
The echong centuries along
Thunders the avalanche of Song.
MOST men when they "pop" by
writing are more straightforward and
matter-of.fact. Richard Steele wrote to
the lady of his heart: "Dear Mrs.
Scuriock (there were no misses i'm those
days., l am tired of calling you by that
name, therefore say day when you will
take that of, madam, your devoted, hum
BILE servant, Richard Steele" She fixed
the day accordingly, and Steeled her
name instead of her heart to the suitOr.
A HARRISBURG lady recently achieved
enemies by carrying a quart of popped
corn to donation party, and eating
two dozen fried oysters, pound of
crackers, three slices of fruit cake, half a
mince pie, and some apples; after which
she was threatened with spasm," and
in the effort to prevent it she sacrificed
all the wine there was in the house. She
attends donations regularly, and does a
good deal for the church in that way.
The celebrated preacher Whitefeld
proposed marriage to a young lady in q
very cool manner-as though Whitefeld
meant field of ice. He addressed let
ter to her parents without consulting
the maiden, in which he said that they
need not at all be afraid of offending him
by refusal, as he thanked God he was
quite free from the passion called love.
Of course, the lady did not conclude
that this field, however white, was the
field for her.
AT recent marriage of young lady
the following good advice was given to
the bride and her husband: "Never
talk at, but to each other. Never both
maintain angerat the same time. Never
speak loud or boisterously to each other.
Never find fault or fret about what can
not be helped. Never repeat an order
or request when understood. Never
make remark at the others expense.
Neglect everybody else rather than each
other"