The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-04
TRUTHS AND TRIFLES.

AN eminent foreign doctor asserts that
the drinking of coffee invigorates and
preserves the sight, and 80 prevents the
use of spectacles. Chocolate is cOnsid-
cred injurious.
A FLORIDA railroad boasts of making
a net earning of nineteen cents last year.
This may look small to some folks, but 1T
should be remenb bered that nineteen
cents per year for one thousand years Is
$3.50.
CONTEMPT is not thing to be de-
spised. 1t may be borne with calm
and equal mind, but no man, by lifting
his head high, can pretend that he does
not perceive the scorns that are poured
down upon him from above.
DON'T crowd the world is large enough
For you as well as me;
The doors Of all are open wide
The realm of thought is free.
In all earth's places you are right
To chose the best you can,
Provided that you do not try
To crowd some other man.
A WELSH clergyman in an obituary of
q brother minister states that she died
in his harness, and his buckles were un-
done as noiselessly as the angel unbarred
and unlocked the prison in which Peter
was confined" "Undone his buckles"
as a mortuary figure is good; indeed,
better than "passed in his checks"
NEEDLES and pins needles and pins
man must not marry for needles and pins!
What can a wife, who's at least a B. A.,
Know about sewing on buttons to-day?
How can wife, who six languages knows,
Be expected to know how to darn her own hose
Needles and pins needles and pins!
When man marries learning, his knowledge
begins.
BEECHER preached the other evening
from the following text: "Turn we not
unto idols, nor make to yourselves
molten gods; I am the Lord your God"
The newspapers say he emphasized the
word "mOlten," and that much merri-
ment was caused thereby. If the old
man keeps on in this way he can get
salary of ten dollars week out here on
most any paper as punster.
A WESTERN editor pictures reporter,
in a proposed new style of school-reader,
thusly: Here is the face of reporter.
See how joyful he looks. He has just
heard that man has cut his own throat,
and he is going for the item. Should
you like to be reporter and get togged
on dark nights, and see dead persons, and
climb up four pairs of stairsT'
The present winter is more severe, if
possible in Europe than in this country.
In Austria, during the last month, the
railroads were blocked with snow, and
travel virtually suspended for a fort
night at a time. Snow-storms and in
tense cold are unusually common all
over the continent. Even in Southern
Europe there is general complaint.
A FAsTIDIoUs boarder, at cheap"
establishment in New York, lately ap-
peared at the table when a rather un-
savory ham presented itself for discus,
sion. 1t looked well, but said the
boarder to the host, "How horrible it
smells! "Well," replied his keeper,
"what O that? Take hold, man you
come to the table to eat your victuals,
not to smell 'em."
HOPING AGAINST HOPE.-HOping fol
q servant who will be satisfied with hall
the work being put out and all the wages
doubled. Hoping for a friend to lend
you fifty dollars without interest or Sc
curity. Hoping for another friend to
pay the fifty dollars you lent him on the
same conditions. Hoping for the horse
to win that you've backed with money
intrusted to you for something else
Hoping the man you asked to dinner in
a moment of enthusiastic want OF re
Election, won't come. Hoping, when h'
has come, that he will 60 away soon
Hoping the landlord won't come for hi
rent Just yet. Hoping there's another
bottle left in the cellar.