The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-26

very broad where they touch the ground,
but grow narrower as they reach the
sky. .5,., .,ailr,it.a nB
A. d. two thousand. Scene before a
cremation undertaker's shop, Small
boy-"I say, sir, dad done yet z, If he
is, please put him in this ere tin kettle"
BETTER than gold is a thinking mind sif
That in the realm of books cap find o..
I A treasure surprising Australian ore, QH
And live with the great and good OF yore.
The ages lore and the p'eps lay,i tuBHb
The glories Of empires pass away
The worlds great drama will thus unfold
And yield pleasure better than gold.
The opening of a Laundry by .Wah
Lee, has suggested to correspondent
that Wah Shing would be agood name for
the next Celestial who goes into the bust
ness. -,
THERE have been more remedies pub
lished for the determination of the potato
bugs than there are bugs, and now the
newspapers should hold back awhile to
let the pests catch up. ts !rn'*1sI
A WITTY Troy girl, having drank some
nauseous medicine by mistake, said to her
mother: at is said that one swallow
doesn't make spring, but that swallow
made me spring six feet" j...,. osIs
The model husband lives in Phila-
delphia. He never allows his wife to do
more than half the work. She puts up all
the canned fruit in the summer, and he
puts it down in the winter. '-ri auis,I
SARATOGA has such poor gas that COM
positors put lightning bugs in their cases
to enable them to read manuscript. The
Utica Herald is authority for this asser-
ton. Set up little light reading.
OLD GENT" You don't mean to tell
me, waiter, that you can't give me
toothpick Waiter" Well, sir, we
used to keep 'em, but the gents almost
inwaribly took 'em away with 'em.",
NEBRASKA planted twelve million
trees last year. This may seem small
number as compared with Nebraska's ne
cessities, but it must be remembered that
four horse-thieves can be hung on each
tree. sc.. o. 'a gliN gsDrFSS
A YOUNG man in Lancaster sent dol
lar to firm in New York, who adver-
tised receipt to prevent bad dreams.
He received small slip of paper, lOn
which was printed, "Don't SO to
Sleep"
hundred years ago?
\ Who filed the church with faces meek
hundred years agol
s. The sneering tale ftff @1ptH
The plot that worked lI.fg -"
A brothers. hurt;
The poor mans hope the rich mans fears,
That lived so long ago? 7lhRd . ilaA
ONE morninga little four-year-old boy
lay awake in his crib. His head seemed
to be stopped with cold. After vainly
suffering for q while to clear it, he ex-
claimed: Mamma, what is the matter
with one side of my nose?--it WON'T
CO." ,,, .,.s ~, j.. !isu III .y,i
"THE greatest obstacle to being heroic
is the doubt whether one may not be GO
ing to prove ones self a feoLo The truest
heroism is to. resist the doubt, and the
profoundest wisdom is to know when 1t
ought to be resisted and when to he
obeyed." r.. -...v. ,r..sid
The young man who offers to stop
drinking and chewing il his girl viii
marry him, will in less than year after
marriage tell her that he sold himself for
fifty cents on the dollar, and she will re-
ply that she paid twenty per cent. too
high for him. HHh 6fl,
GIVE a boy market-basket Of gro
ceries to carry home and he will swing it
across his spine, bend half way to the
ground and groan with agony, but give
him that weight of base ball bats and he
will skip along as merry as potato bug
in O ten acre lot. 81 ,iffgf3i dfi9
AN inventive music teacher holds that
the only way to, cultivate strength and
delicacy of touch ON the piano is to have
the pupils hands on a level with his
eyes, and accordingly raises the ipstIu
| rnents on blocks Of wood SOME eighteen
inches high. The apparently easier plan
ofcutting off the legs of the performers
chair, or, if need be, making him sit on
the floor, does not seem tohavel occurred
to him. Il.