The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-11
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.


TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.
THE tale-bearer and the talehearer
should be hanged up both together-the
former by the tongue, and the latter by
the ear.
PRIZE fighters have sunk so low in the
estimation of the people of the Far
Western States that they have great dit
ficulty in saving themselves from being
sent to Congress.
A HICKMAN, KY, poet writes of the
lively girl of his choice
The glance of her eye is blue ruin,
Her blush is the blood of the vine,
Her pout is punch in whose brewing
Tart, sugar and spirit combine.
REFERRING to the extravagant price
demanded in London, in 1881, to see and
hear the Orpheus of violinists, the
London Times asked:
"what are they who pay three guineas
To hear tune Of PaganHi1aia's2pp ., ,,,,,..
"SHAKE RAG" "Pull Tight" Hard
Scrabble" "POor Do" and Steal
Easy" are the names of localities in
Williamson county, Illinois, and "HelPs
Neck" and "Hell's Half Acre." in
johnson.
AT printers festival, lately, the fol-
lowing toast was offered: "WOmen-
Second only to the press in the dissemina-
ton of news" The ladies are yet un-
decided whether to regard this as COM
pliment or otherwise.
AT an anti-monopoly convention in
Iowa, recently, some fellow bawled at
the door, Candidates are requested to
step down stairs few minutes" Then
everybody went down stairs except one
deaf old fellow who wanted to run for
jailor.
SADLY says the Brooklyn Argus:
"There are 100000 white men in this
country who cannot read-750, 900 i'm
mortal beings to whom the Brooklyn
bonanza is the very arcanum ofmysteries,
and who never know of true inward
ness except by the bewildering avenue
ofhearsay."
MACHINERY has reached a great state
of perfection. An exchange remarks:
"We recently saw some burnt peas put
into hopper of a cofiee-mill, and in less
than two minutes they were Occupyinga
place in grocery window, labeled
Fine Old Mocha"
/ WON beauteous maid,
Or rather thought had;
But when asked her dad
He got so thundern mad,
felt afraid.
And when she babe me "stick,"
did but with frown
lie snatched by the cr0wn,
And yanked me up and down,
I"dusted" quick.
A MAN bought horse. 1t was the
first one he had ever owned. He saw in
a newspaper that side window would
make horses eye weak on that side;
window behind him would make him
squint-eyed; a window on a diagonal
line would make him shy when he
travelled; window in front would hurt
his eyes by the glare; and a stable with
out a window would make him blind.
He sold the horse.
IGAvE my wife little check
A little check to change for gold;
Because she loved to dress herself
In costumes rich and manifold.
And in return what did my wife,
OF all the meanest tricks that be?
She spent the gold quite otherwise,
And gave her bills unpaid to me.
Igave my " ife word of wrath
word of wrath to do her good
Because she had not spent my gold
The way told her that she should.
And in return what did my wife,
OF all the dreadful things that be2
No gold or word of wrath gave back,
But she divorced herself from me!
In the preparation of epitaphs, says
Lord, noted writer, nothing is so
desirable as conciseness. We do not
remember to have seen a more concise
statement Of mans virtues than are
contained in the following, from an
Oregon paper:
The angels tonight, in their mansions Of light,
Are waltzin' round Anthony Mink;
He was faithful and kind, as any you'll find,
And gin was his favorite drink.
In Sicily a woman who seemed dying
from consumption, but was without
many of the common symptoms of that
disease, was found by the use of the
laryngoscope to have leech firmly
adhering by both extremities to the
walls of the air passages at their upper
portion, and so the difficulty of breath
ing, speaking, coughing, etc, were easily
explained. He was got cut by surgical
operation.