The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-12-23

Ihee OF all love the best.
THE-PULPIT.-We extract
from December ST. Nicholas some of the
sayings of that sprightly genius, "Jack-
in-the-Pulpit:"
WELL. Wonders never cease. You III
excuse my bringing forward dried up
old adage, my chicks, as wish to apply
it strictly to something the birds told
me-which is, that certain creatures of
the worm and small fry order can be
dried up completely, kept in that state for
years, and then be brought to life again !
Now, it's bad enough to be worm any
way, but just conceive the state of mind
a worm must be in who is brought to
life after having been dried up for
dozen years! The pretty schoolmistress
and Deacon Green were talking on this
subject in the twilight last evening.
Speaking of minute sort of worms
known as vinegar cells, she said that it
was known to the botanist Linneus that
these worms could be dried up and then
revived. Also, that she had read that
somebody named Baker, in 1875, found
that the young of Anguiilula tritici, in
closed in diseased grains of wheat, could
be revived, even after desiccation of
twenty-seven years, by being moistened
with water; and other naturalists oh.
served the same fact for shorter periods.
All the schOolmistress is wonderful
little woman. She brought out that
Anguiliula tritici so glibly that it made
Deacon Green fairly blink.
WHAT a werld this is Hearing some
persons mention the British Broad Ar
row, / naturally inquired of the birds
interested, poor things! in arrows and
in all sorts of weapons. Now, what DIN
you think they told me? Why, the
English Broad Arrow is MT an arrow at
all. That is, it 3 not an arrow that you
can fire from bow at a mark, but it is
mark itself. Yet not mark to be fired
at. 1t is a mark stamped or cut upon
wood and iron and certain other materi-
ais which belong to the British govern
mept and are used about its naval ships
or dock yards. The Broad Arrow is
very little like an arrow, and very much
like the print which hens foot leaves
in the mud.
CTS amazing" said Deacon Green,
show stupid we human beings are, little
and big; what worthless things we strive
for, and what blessings we carelessly cast
away. In some parts of Japan, when
you 60 home from dinner, servant is
sent after you with box containing
everything that was offered you at table
and that you refused. All what il some
day an angel comes after us to show us
all the blessings that were offered to us
on earth, that we were too stupid or too
obstinate or too proud to takeW
RESPECT your teachers, boys" said
Deacon Green to two smart young fell
lows from town who were just now walk
ing "across lots" with him. respect
your teachers. / dent mean only that
you should treat them with outward
Difference, but want you to truly honor
them. If you try to do it and can't,
why, 60 to another school. Honor the
man who teaches you, who breaches you,
who reaches you, say l." The boys
laughed at the deacon's funny rhyming,
but poticed that they Strengthened up
as he spoke, and, from the bright look in
their eyes, it was evident that they took
his idea.
HERE is letter that will amuse the
chicks that have been prying into cows
mouths of late; though l hope they will
not admire the cute farmer too much
There are some kinds of shrewdness
which Jack doesn't by any means hold
up as good examples:
DEAR JACK: Your item concerning
"Cows' Upper Teeth " reminds me of an in.
cident which occurred in an adjoining
town:
city gentleman who had Just purchased
farm in the country, wished to buy some
cattle with which to stock it. He therefore
attended an auction where cows were to be
sold. One of them, a remarkably fine ami.
NAL, soon attracted his attention, and he
bought her at a fair price. He was examin-
iDg his purchase, when farmer, who un.
fortunately had arrived too late to buy the
COW himself, as he had intended, drove up
and thus accosted him:
say, friend, did you bid off that COW ?"
90 did" was the reply.
"Well, did you know she had no front
teeth in the upper jaw"
"No," replied the gentleman, Indignantly.
"Is that 500"
"You can see for yourself"
The gentleman examined the mouth of
the COW, and finding no upper teeth, imme-
diately went to the auctioneer and requested
him to sell the cow again.
what's the trouble?" asked the auction
eer.
"she hasn't any upper front teeth" was
the reply.
every well, replied the auctioneer with
smile, "Pll put her up once MORE"
He did SO, and the shrewd farmer who had
given the information to the city gentleman
bid her off at the same price.
The Boy WITHOUT MoTHER.-One
cold day in winter a lad stood at the
outer door of cottage on bleak moor
in Scotland. The snow had been falling
very fast, and the poor boy looked very
cold and hungry.
Mayn't / stay, ma'amT' he said to
the woman who had opened the door.
"Pll work. cut wood, go for water, and
do all your errands."
=" You may comein, ut any rate, until
my husband comes home" the woman
said. There, sit down by the fire; you
look perishing with the cold;" and she
drew chair up to the warmest corner,
then suspiciously glancing at the boy
from the corners of her ewes. she coptin-