The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-07-29
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

GREAT souls have wills; feeble ones
have only wishes.
WHAT should you lend to an impor-
tunate borrower "A deaf ear.
The lion of the day-The dandelion.
The lion of the night-Lion abed.
WHAT have we gained then by our unbelief
But life of doubt diversified by faith,
For one OF faith diversified by doubt?
-RObeet Brocning.
VICTOR HUGO says that Woman is the
conundrum of the nineteenth century.
We may not be able to guess her, but we
won't give her up.
81 SAY, Pat, what are you about
sweeping out the roomT' "No," an
swers Pat; 81 am sweeping out the dirt
and leaving the room."
THINK have seen you before, sir.
Are you not Owen Smith, ooh yes,
Pm owin' Smith, and OWN Jones, and
owin' Brown, and owin' everybody"
WHAT is the difference between sper-
mace.i and a school-boy's howl?-One is
the wax produced by Vie whale, and the
other is the wall produced by the whacks.
THE beautiful !" VS. of time and space,
once dislocated by our inaptitude, are
holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed
by rash and stupid hands, instead of
honey, it will yield us bees.
OVER the shop-door of pork-butcher
in an English village in the eastern
counties, may be seen sign-board repre-
senting man i'm black coat, brandish-
ing a hatchet, with the inscription:
John Smith kills pigs like his father"
"LoRD, we know what we are, but
know not what we may be. Of all the
animals which fly in the air, walk on
the ground, or swim in the sea, from
Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the
most foolish animal, in my opinion, is
Man."-Boiledu.
A RUSTIC couple, newly married,
marched into drug store and called for
soda water. The Obliging clerk inquired
what syrup they would have in it, when
the swain, deliberately leaning over the
counter, replied: stranger, money is
no object to me; put sugar in it."
WHEN Reading man receives a
strange box which he thinks may be an
internal machine, he thoughtfully and
carefully sets it aside, cautions his wife
nOU 10 open u, iIlu tucl lctNCo thC houSC.
When he returns he finds the box open
and his wife with her head tied up, and
he seems panied that she should have
disobeyed his orders.
IT is the fashion in England now to
name anv new variety of flower that is
produced after some personal friend OF
the ingenious cultivator. And thuse we
have nurserymen sending out catalogues
of their newest roses with such descrip-
tions as these "Miss Hassard-Beauti-
full delicate pinkish flesh color, large,
full, and fine form, very sweetly scented"
WHILE man was guzzling drink in q
saloon, little ragged girl entered and
sought him out, and instead of request
ing him to come home, dear father, as
poor Benny was dead and the house was
all dark, she whispered: "Now, old
man, you'd better be dusting out O. here.
Mans coming around the corner with q
club in her hand and both eyes shootin'
fire."
MEMPHIS Avalanche: One by one our
idols are shattered. Even Plymouth
Rock is not safe. Major Phinney, of
Barnstable, Mass, declares that the Pill
grims didn't land at Plymouth Rock at
all, but at Providencetown. Some OF
these days the idol smashers will be try
ing to prove that Susan b. Anthony,
George Francis Train and Eli Perkins
never lived