The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-23
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

HE who doe- base thing in zeal for
his friend burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together.
If young ladies wish to get stout they
should eat their food slowly. Haste does
not make waist in such cases.
WHY is lady at ball like an arrow?
Because she can't 60 off without beau,
and is in culver till she gets one.
STRIPED goods are going to be fashion
able this winter at Auburn, Sing Sing,
jackson, Columbus and other places.
WHY wonder bone-strewed fields TO mediate
On human mutability? Why rove
Der sites OF cities now depopuate
To feel how all things toward destruction move?
Why muse on wormy, mold-f filled skulls to prove
An us eye Ss ay ried i Which S did beam with love,
A single frown-a smile but yesterday
More than all empires dead, speak change, decline,
decay.
IT is pride which fills the world with so
much harshness and severity. We are
rigorous to ofienses as if we had never
offended.
MANY young men about to choose a
profession prefer the ministry to the law,
because it is easier to preach than to
practice. .''''t >ii'Iii"p -'Hh'iY
Or all the dead languages truth is the
most difficult to speak fluently. No one
knows anything about it until be has
tried it.
"How long will my chop be, waiter?"
angrily asked hungry man in a restau-
rant. ABOUT five inches, sir" was the
accurate reply.
"CHARITY begins at home," is well
defined by little Sunday-school child
as meaning " "giying to others what we
don't want ourselves"
|--SH0B dealer-""I find We have nenum-
Der twelve shoes; but there is pair OF
nines." Customer Ninesl Do yer
take me for CinderellerW spul ~
The cause of freedom is identified with
the destinies of humanity; ;and in what
ever part of the world it gains ground, it
will be common gain, to all those who
desire it.
NEVER place much reliance on man
who is always telling what he would
have done had he been there. have no
ticed that somehow this kind of people
hONOA 6Oo ehSASs
THERE is nothing tends so much to
the development of latent intellectual
genius as base ball, unless it is lolling
lazily under the outrageous shade OF a
tree and industriously endeavoring to
win the attention of wary bass.
A WRITER on dress says: "Short and
podgy women should not wear belts"
Now, what is the use of advice like that ?
What woman ever admitted that she was
short and podgy."
If man wants, to be mean and show
his littleness, he will build his garden
fence SO high that no neighbor's COW can
more than look over it and feel her mouth
water at sight of the cabbages.
ALL men praise him who gives and tits indeed,
A gracious thing to 80 through life as goes
king along the highway ys whe,e aS M ne ssfpW'
OF measure or Of merit in the deed.
How much of virtue lies in this God knows,
Who do receive" Il may be. But tofeed
On aims, each day, and look unmurmuring
On lips with careless, scernful pity curled,
To in forever grateful and content,
The place where rich mems lavishnoss Is spent,
Seems unto me braver, greater thing
Than from ones plenty TO endow world.
GoopNEss and truth are of more
weight than brilliant talents, and good
temper goes farther than great gift.
We cannot expect. people to. believe
either in our principles or our sincerity,
when they see them failing to amend our
faults and strengthen our virtues.
"sAY. mister" said soiled-lcoking boy
OH the wharf, edo you ever give piece
o. watermelon TO poor boy whose father
N mothers dead, N who goes to Sunday
school, N has got sore heelr' The
man was deeply touched, and gave him a
large slice off of a rotten one.
DEAR LAURA, when you were a flirting
young miss, and was your dutiful
swain, your smiles could exalt to the sum-
nit of bliss, your frowns could o'erwhelm
me with pain; you were dear to me
then, love, but now you're my wife, it is
strange the fond tie should be nearer; /; TOR
when am paying your bills, on my life,
YOU seem to get dearer and dearer