The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-02
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

uONEST luuusITy udS UIOuyuG many u
carpenter to the scaffold.
AN ounce of mother-wit is worth q
pound of book-learning.
ACT we'll at the moment, and you have
performed good action to all eternity.
In Scotch court witness swore to
the identity Of chicken from its resem-
blance to its mother. ny
"CoME into the garden Maud,
With brickbat and stone;
Here's the biggest cat you ever sawed,
Gnawing chicken bone; ,..-. ,.f
Run like the mischief, Maud,
I'm with the beast alone" t4
If you wish success in life, make per-
severance your bosom friend, experience
your wise counselor, caution your elder
brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Addison.
A MAN ought to carry himself in the
world as an orange tree would if it could
walk up and down the garden-swinging
perfume from every little censer it holds
up to the air.
A PERSON of Pixies Peak, writing to a
Minnesota journal, says that the miners
are greatly discouraged in that region;
they have to dig through solid vein of
silver four feet thick before they reach
the gold.
A LOUISVILLE saloonist has "Ameri-
can team cocktails" Remington cob
blers," and "Sharp's rifle whisky" The
first will kill at eight hundred yards, the
second at nine hundred, and the last at
one thousand. '''+ H'ii
"HAvE you no hearth" groaned
Michigan avenue woman when she was
told that beefsteak was seventeen cents
a pound. "No; but l haf some lifer
which you can puy very cheap" was the
learned butchers consoling reply.
LITTLE Alice was crying bitterly, and
on being questioned, confessed to having
received a slap from one of her play,
fellows. "You should have returned it,"
unwisely said the questioner. "Oh,I
returned it BEFORE" said the little girl.
The daily routine of existence devel-
ops countless and varied assortment Of
minor miseres, but which of them SUR
passes that of finding that some one has
walked off with the silk umbrella which
you have just borrowed for five minutes
from friend.
April, June, and November, -ru'e.t
And from February until May
The rain raineth every day. ~
All the rest have thirty-one y.tT1fl-
Without single geam OF sun
And il they should have thirty-two,
They'd be dull and dirty too
The friendship of high and sanctified
spirits loses nothing by death bnt its
alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues
of those whose faces-faces we shall be-
hold no more-appear greater and more
sacred when beheld through the shades
of the sepulcher. ''' ~
The Sultan of Zanzibar was seen on
the negro and the Arab with his coffee
colored complexion and crisp and curly
beard. He wore a loose silk robe,
slightly embroidered with gold, and had
on his head large white turban, barren
of decorations. 'i.Pf
A CERTAIN. clerk in Western village
recently made thefollowing comment on
Pocahontas POcahOntas was great
man." "Hold on" cried his compan-
ion, "Pocahontas was woman.' "She
was, eh ?" said he. "Well, that's just
my luck. How am ! expected to know?
l never read the Bible"
MILWAUKEE Sentinel:. A Texas, man
bought ten cents worth of plug tobacco,
and in paying for it pulled out a roll of
hundred dollar bills. A man who saw
him followed him home and murdered
him for his money. That's just what we
always said would happen, when folks
asked why we didn't haul out hundred
dollar bills. To avoid any such result,
we have always told the tobacco man to
mark it down on a slate.