The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

A LANCASTER man has nicknamed
his daughter Misery, because she loves
company.
THE general rule always holds good. In
constitutional States liberty is compen-
sation for the heaviness of taxation. In
despotic States the equivalent for liberty
is the lightness of taxation.
THERE is nothing more pitiable in the
world than an irresolute man, oscillating
between two feelings, who would willing
ly unite the two, and who does not per-
ceive that nothing can unite them.
WHEN bankers daughter of San
Francisco marries, the fond parents rent
wholesale and retail jewellery store, buy
the stock and exhibit the whole establish
ment as presents.-M o. Republican.
LAUGHTER should dimple the cheek,
not furrOw the brow. A Jest should be
such that all shall be able to join in the
laugh which it occasions but if it bears
hard upon one of the company, like the
crack of spring, it makes stop in the
music.
AT competitive examination for a
prize for the best composition at gram
mar school in Chicago, one of the effusions
handed in contained the following pas
sage "a man who has been born and
bred in the lap of luxury is more apt to
succumb to bed-bug poison than the
hardy pioneer of our western forests"
THE revival in Ireland, which COM
menced under the labors of Moody and
Sankey, is spreading throughout the
country. In Dublin, at recent COM
munion service, one pastor received 23O
members on profession, and similar re-
suits are reported elsewhere.
EVEN in the saloons opinions upon
grave subjects are expressed forcibly. A
gentleman slightly under the Influence
of the intoxicating bowl furnished proof
of this fact, night or two ago. "Whis-
ky, zur," said he, "hic-brightens the in
tellect. 1t ought, by thunder, to be in
troduced into the public schools, zur."
In spite of the snow on the line of the
Union Pacific, the westward bound trains
are crowded with young men who part
their hair in the middle and carry Russia
leather travelling bags. They have heard
that Mr.. Sharon, who gave his daughter
a 81 100000 wedding present, has another
daughter in reserve, and they are going
west to grow up with the country.
ONE of our judges recently employed
an Irishman to do some work about his
house. At noon he invited the Emerald
gentleman in to dinner, and while filling
up his plate remarked "Pat, you would
have lived in the old country long time
before dining with Judge ?" "Yis," said
Pat, with his ready wit, an ye'd lived
in the ould country long while before
ye'd been Jedge, too"
1T was on the edge of the wood. They
had come hither from different points
in pursuit of the seasonable partridge,
but in the shrubbery one startled hunter
discovered that the other had drawn a
bead on him. "Don't shoot" he said,
4" am not partridge" must shoot"
was the response, " for Ihave sworn that
if ever / saw a man homelier than / am
1 would kill him." The intended vic
tim gazed curiously for a moment and
then said placidly: "Fire away; if l am
than you are / even wish that /
were dead" They adjourned to get
from a Judge of beauty.
IT is related by DIR. Scudder that on
his return home from his mission in In
dia, after long absence, he was standing
on the deck of steamer with his son,
youth, when he heard gentleman using
loud and profane language. "See,
friend" said the doctor, accosting the
swearer, " this boy, my son, was born and
brought up in heather country, and
land of pagan idolatry, but in all his life
he never heard man blaspheme his
Maker until now." The man colored,
blurted out an apology, and looked not
little ashamed Of himself.