The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-04
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

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calomel," was little Johnny's version
of the text yesterday.
The cook wants to know why the sun
is like good loaf of bread? Because
it's light when it rises.
III you have fair thought, express it
in the simplest language possible. A
diamond should have plain setting.
A FLY is a very. light burden, but it it
were to perpetual1y return and settle on
ones nose, it might weary us out Of our
lives.
The temperate are the most truly
luxurious. BY abstaining from most
things, it is surprising how many things
we enjoy.
The difference between perseverance,
and obstinacy is, that one often comes
from a strong will and the other from
strong won't.
In seeking situation, remember that
the right kind of men are always in de-
mand, and that industry and capacity
rarely 90 empty-handed.
AN Alabamian who lost a hat on
James Buchanan's election, paid the
wager last week. The returns must have
come in very slowly in Alabama.
FRANKLIN used to urge business men
to advertise, but if merchant prefers
playing checkers and sitting with his
feet on the counter, it's his own business.
In minds made better by our presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds Of daring rectitude In scorn
For miserable aims that end with sell,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars
And with their mild persistence urge mans search
To vaster issues. -Ge"ge 1eeos'
THE esteem of wise and good men is
the greatest of all temporal encourage
| ments to virtue; and it is the mark OF
an abandoned spirit to have no regard
to it. .-,-----,--.--...
A MAN made three unsuccessful at
| tempts to blow his brains out, and then
his wife said to him: "Don't try it
again, John; you haven't got any,"
That man now goes about saying he
owes his life to that woman.
IwouLp not dy in Ortum
| With pi aches fit for eatin'
| When the wavy korn Is gettin wripe,
| x the candidates are treatin'.
When sassidge-m, at Is phryin',
Aud hickory nuts is thick;
Ow, who would think Of dyin'
Or even getting sick
HELP somebody worse off than your
self. and you will feel that you are better
off fthan YOU fancied. You may subdue an
angry man by bearing with him, but not
by answering him; that is as if the steel
should try to make the flint leave OIL
giving sparks by striking it again.
SPOTTED TAIL wants seven million
dollars for the Black Hills. Some morn
ing when he gets up, red-eyed and shaky.
and can't find enough postal currency
about his clothes to buy cocktail, some
one will come along and offey. him two
dollars and a half for those hills, and
Spotty will take him up quick.
THE question is again agitated, "Shall
women he permitted to pass the hat in
eur churches?' A few years ago, when
hoops were in vogue, the ladies couldn't
"pass hat" in the aisle without drag
ging it up 10 the pew they entered. But
the present style of dress permits them
to pass the hat easily enough.
The squirrel gloats over his accomplished hoard,
THE ants have brimmed their garments with ripe
And honey bees have stored
The sweets OF summer In their luscious cells /;
The swallows all have winged across .he mla"i
But here the autumn melancholy dwells,
And sighs her tuneful spells
Among the sunless shadows OF the plain
. | Alone alone,
Upon mossy stone,
She sits and reckons up the dead ana gone,
With the last leaves for love-rosary; .
While All the withered world looks drearily,
Like dim picture or the drowned past -
In the hush'd minds mysterious far away,
Doubtful what ghostly thing will steal the last
INV ''' Thomas Hood.