The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-02-04
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

CAMEIS are used in Nevada to carry
salt to the Washoe mills.
THEY are shooting panthers thirteen
feet long down in Texas.
He who expects a friend without
faults will never find one.
A MAN may be very sharp, and yet
never cut an acquaintance.
EGYPTIAN mummies are ground up
and sent to England for manure.
MUSICIANS are fortunate. When they
want change of air they can change it.
CHARLES LAMB said of one of his crit
les, "The more think of him, the less
think of him."
SOME of the people of Leavcnworth,
Kansas, are so lazy that they write the
name of the place "11worth."
THE wealth of the soul is measured by
how much it can tell itspovcrty by how
little.
A CHICAGO plumbing firm advertises
lead sinks" AS if everybody didn't
know that.
THE quivering flesh, though torture
torn, may live, but souls once deeply
wounded, heal no more.
LAMARTINE says: "War, very far
from being the progress of humanity, is
only murder in mass, which retards it,
afflicts it, decimates it, dishonors it."
"WHAT'LL you ask to warrant these
horses good?' asked buyer of horse
dealer. ooh, don't trouble yourself;
I'll warrant them good for nothing" was
the rather equivocal reply.
TIE barnyard's sill mt now
There's mourning in its fold,
For the cheerful turkey gobblcr
In the Oven-pan Is rolled;
And the old turkey hen,
That so gayly led her brood,
Has left the ancient pen
And been turned into food;
While two shrinking little ones,
Kept for to seed,
Mourn for their little mates,
Led out for to bleed.
IT is wonderful what an amount of
struggling and red-facedness will be gone
through by person wrestling into new
pair of shoes "a size too large"
AN old gander was recently killed in
Virginia at the age of ninety. The
name of the fortunate boarding-house
that drew the prize is not given.
In the well settled districts of Texas
you can get free ride on hearse by
picking up rattlesnakc.
DARWIN still secretly believes in it,
but he hates to have a man come up and
say, "Good morning, Mr.. Darwin;
hOw's your old baboon of grandfather,
and how's the apess, your grandmother
A BALTIMORE corn doctor announces
that husbands can take their wives to his
office, and while he is skillfully extract
ing the good matrons' corns and soothing
tknsr hnc chan
themselves with wild ducks, partridges,
pheasants, fresh fish, saltwater oysters
and diamond-back terrapins.
A CRITIC in Lockport, N. Y, on hear
ing Miss Phillips sing one of her ballads
was moved to say: "The words are
sweet the air is sweet. And when such
q finely cultivated voice as that of the
charming Adelaide enters into the soul
of it, you want to hear it again, and
again, and again, and yet again, and even
after it runs into monotony it is like
that plaintivc, mOurnful, sadly sweet
tune that the wind plays in the chin
ney."
In England the waist of lady's dress
is called the body" A young Ameri-
can girl, on visit to an English coun-
try house, which had the reputation of
being haunted, had subdued her nerv-
business sufficiently to fall into light
when there came gentle tap
ut the door, and a sepulchral voice whis-
pered through the keyholc, 81 want to
come in and get my body"
A CatamOunt Drives Family ErOM
Home.
The Sioux City Journal relates this
story: "Settlers living on the frontiers
are subject to Indian raids and other
dangers, but we never before heard of
one wildcat raiding house and cleaning
it out. Such, however, was the case
about ten days ago. A large wildcat en-
tered Germans house near Changers
Woods, about forty miles up the Missouri
River from this city. The inmates of the
cabin comprised six persons, the mother
and five children. The father was milo
distant in the timber, chopping wood.
Upon the appearance of the animal Mt
the door, which was standing ajar, the
mother and little ones fled the house by
another door, and ran to where the man
was Mt work, while small dog and do
mestic pussy gave the intruder battle.
Upon the return Of the German and his
family, the beast had taken refuge in u
tree few rods from the house. The old
rifle was taken from its corner, and the
cat was brought to the ground with Il
bullet through its brain. The dog and
the pussy were both found dead inside of
the house. The cat was of very large
size, and had been frequently seen in that
section"