The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-29
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

LAY aside your long-tailed Ulster,
Take your fur cap on your head
Now call In your wraps and mufhers,
For the winter has gone dead.
On the snore, the beautiful snore
Filling the chamber from ceiling TO floor;
Over the coverlet, under the sheet,
From her dmpked chin, way down 10 her feet.
Now rising aloft like bee In June, "a,
Now sunk to the wall of cracked bassoon;
Now fute-like. subsiding then rising again. .,,
Is the beautiful sDore Of Elizabeth Jane.
Your honors here may serve you for
a time, as it were for an hour, but they
will be of no use to you beyond this
world. Nobody will have heard word
of your honors in the other life. Your
glory, your shame, your ambitions and
all the. treasures for which you push
hard and sacrifice much will be like
wreaths of smoke. For these things
which you mostly seek, and for which
you spend your life, only tarry with you
while you are on this side of the flood.
THERE is party, fat and stout
As any Turk on BOsph0rus
Who at our dinner table sits,
And ne'er his babble intermits, .ri
But prates of mush and wheaton grits
And "mean amount OF phosphorus"
He always airs his favorita theme,
Nor cares q pennv's toss for us, .ys ]
But rails at beef with Pooh p and "Pish!'
Hoping to gain-his dearest wish
"The mean amount Of phosphorus" .,. .,,.,-
OH that he'd change his boarding place
'Twould surely be no loss for US III
But there's one consolation yet,
His star, ascendant, soon will set 'fIL
Some time he'll die, and then he'll get
" His mean amount Of phosphorus. .3!.I
A CLERGYMAN, at a recent teachers
meeting in Ohio, said that the teachers
are too often selected in the wrong way
Examiners make an intellectual or {,
mental requirement in straight-jacket
style, and pay no attention whatever to
the peculiar, natural and innate adaptive
ness of the teacher to the profession, and
thus men and women are found at the
head of our schools who are no more able
to develop the human mind than Mo-.
doc is to draw picture of the heavenly
with piece of charcoal"
ACCORDING to his last will and testa-
ment, the actors of America are the di-
rect heirs of Edwin Forrest. His i'm.
mense property, valued at over 81 ,000, 900
was so devised that American actors,
who, from old age, disease, or other
causes, were unable to obtain employ
ment, should reap its advantages. Two
years have now elapsed since the death
of the great tragedian, and, so far as can
be learned, no steps have been taken by.
his executors to carry out the purposes
of his will. Arrangements for calling a
meeting of all the actors of the country
are being made in New York.
A NEWLY married couple from some
where down the Lansing road were rid
ing i'm G and River car, and the groom,
insisted on holding the brides hand in
his big, red paw. cob! no, don'tp'
she said, as she jerked her hand away.
" Oh! luv, let me hold your hand for ten
he pleaded. "Shoo! don't
you see they are looking at usT' she
whispered. "They are, ell !" he replied,
looking up and down the car. "Well,
now, Pm going to put my arm right
around We, and If any fellow in this car
dares to spit crooked I'll get up N mop
the floor with him till wear him up to
the shoulder-bladesp His arm encircled
her, and the other passengers looked as
solemn as if they were on their way
home from funeral
In the British navy the heavy guns
are loaded by hydraulic power. The
apparatus is similar to that proposed by
Mr.. Stevens, an American, some years
since. The gun is allowed to recoil when
fred, until it is entirely within the tur-
ret, when the muzzle is depressed almost
to the level of the deck, and the turret
is wheeled round to a certain position
away from the enemy, where the charge
is raised to the mouth of the gun on
truck, and is rammed home by piston
which comes up through the deck. This
movement performed, the gun is run up
ready for firing again, as the turret re-
turns to its old position. The hydrauli
pumps are worked by steam direct from
the ships engines. tl1