The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-05
TRUTHS AND TRIFLES.

WHY should lawyer make good
soldier? Because he is good at a
charge.
WHAT'S in name? Professor Sill
man is one of the wisest men in the
country.
1T is a strange fact that when peo-
pie indulge in high words they use lew
language.
A SWARM Of bees alighting on tree
near the street, effectually blockaded
one of the principal thoroughfares of
Duluth, Mimi, recently.
MICHIGAN boasts of the most ingen.
ious man in the country. A citizen of
that State has Just been awarded a
patent for new style of lady's hustle.
A SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, man recently
took bath in the dark. He managed
we'll enough, only he got hold of
piece of -blacking instead of soap,
with marked results.
MARVELLOUS have been the achieve
ments of science and art during the
past halfcentury, yet squaring the cir
Gle and perpetual motion remain un-
solved problems.
To do an evil action is base; to do
good action without incurring danger,
is common enough but it is the part of
good man to do great and noble deeds,
though he risks everything.
THIS is the kind of weather that makes
man wish for quiet retreat on the
shady side of Greenland glacier, with
an Esquimaux princess to put ice cream
plasters on his heated system.
IT is not so difficult task to plant
new truths as to root out old errors, for
there is this paradox in men: They
run after that which is new, but are
preiudiced in favor of that which is
old.
On tombstone in Ramsey grave
yard the following very singular inscrip-
tiOn appears: MARY Dawkins, who,
having been tapped for the dropsy
forty-six times, reposes in Christ, Sep
tember l, 1862
SHE passed Sunday afternoon in sad
regret over an unrequited love which
would not die, while he remained in his
clearinghouse and cursed the laundress
who had neglected to bring back his
other shirt, Saturday night.
AN old bachelor geologist was boast
ing that every rock was as familiar to him
as the alphabet. A lady declared that
she knew rock of which he was ignOr-
ant. "Name il madam" said he. Crock
the cradle, sir" replied the lady.
"I wish," said millionaire riding along,
With pallid and sorrowful brow
81 wish like that laboring man to be strong
I'd give all my wealth for 1t now."
81 wish," said the man. as the carriage he eyed,
And toed with the sweat dropping down;
81 wish was rich, and then could ride,
Like that millionaire, over the town."
"I wish" said gentleman, eying the pair,
"You both had your wishes, that's all;
But for %Sysfh dns;ws this wsa,hsT II s declare
WHAT Anach arsis said of the vine
may aptly enough be said of prosperity:
She bears three grapes-drunkenness,
pleasure, and sorrow: and happy it is If
the last can cure the mischief which
the former work. When Affections fail
to have their due effect, the case Is des-
perate.
IT, sentencing two murderers to be
hanged, the other day, Judge Reed, of
Charleston, South Carolina, dropped into
Vic iOiioWihS oViOSUivh'
This world is all a feeting show,
For mans illusion given.
Its smiles Of Joy, its tears Of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,
There's nothing true but Heaven.
The victims of the law failed to look con-
soled.
DETROIT Free Press: A man at Fort
street, going home at late hour in the
night, saw that the occupants of a
house standing flush with the street had
left window up, and he decided to
warn them and prevent a burglary.
Putting his head into the window he
called out: Hello! good peop-p
That was all he said. A whole bucket
of water struck him in the face, and as
he staggered back woman shrieked
get: "Didn't / tell you what you'd
out if you wasn't home by nine o'clockp'