The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-31
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

CFARLEY Ross will soon be big enough
to find himself
THE Rev. Samuel Butcher, of England
said he su;cided because he was mad.
Cow got into the garden probably.
PAwNBRoKERs and hard drinkers
often take pledges; we fear that the
former generally keep them longest.
AT any momentous period in the
career of an ambitious man, when he
fondly hatters himself that the eyes of
his country are upon him, how much it
diMinishes his sense of greatness to fall
over an ash barrel
NEW YORK Commercial Advertiser: :
care these eggs pOached p inquired a
customer of a colored restaurant keeper,
at an Alabama station. Yes, sab" re-
piled Sambo. "Dey is dat is, de chick
ems wat laid 'em war"
A WOMAN, who has no arms, was mar
ried at lexington, England, recently,
with great ceremony, the Indispensable
ring being placed on the third toe of her
left foot. At the conclusion of the mar.
riage ceremony she signed the marriage
register, holding the pen with her toes,
in very decent hand"
CONSIDERABLE so called slang is classic.
" Escape with the skin of my teeth is
from Job. "He is brick" is from
Plutarch. The historian tells of king
of Sparta who boasted that his army was
the only wall of the city-"and every
man is a brick" We call fair and hon.
esq man ca square man." but the Greeks
described the same person as Ietrdgonos
Ga fOur.cornefed man."
The following example might be use
full to an interrogation in pronOuncing
bee," but whether it would be equally
acceptable to the candidate is quite an
other matter:
"while hewing yews, Hugh lost his eve,
And put it in the Hue and Cry :
To name its faces dusky hues
Was all the effort he could use.
You brought the eve back by and by,
And only begged the hewers ever,
Your hand to wash in water pure,
Lest niced-nosed ladies, not few,
Should cry, on coming near you, Ugh u"
He bought cheap coat of one of the
gentlemen from Jerusalem, and he OBJ
served next day that it was made of two
kinds of cloth, or else it had faded from
some previous wear and tear. He went
to the dealer with fire in his eyes. The
dealer looked at the garment without
surprise, and at the wearer with extreme
wonder. "Vy, mine gootness" he said
"you been wear de goat in de sun You
t'ink him maat of sheet iron, heyW
THERE are chords in the human heart
strange varying strings-which are
only struck by accident; which will re.
main mute and senseless to appeals the
most passionate and earnest, and respond
at lasC to the slightest casual touch. In
the most insensible or childish minds
there is some train of reflection which
art can seldom lead or skill assist, but
which will reveal itself, as great truths
have done, by chance, and when the dis
coverer has the plainest and simplest end
in view.-Dickens.
TIE first-class of REF ders may be COM
pared to an hour-glass, their reading be-
ing as the sand it runs in and runs out,
and leaves not vestige behind. A Sec
ond-class resembles sponge, which i'm
bibes everything and returns it in nearly
the same state, only little dirtier. A
third class is like jelly-bag, which al
lows all that is pure to pass away, and
retains only the refuse and dregs. The
iourth-class may be compared to the slave
of Golconda, who, casting aside all that
is worthless, preserves only the pure
Coleridge.
WE say, in common discourse, that
man may be his own enemy; and the
frequency of the fact makes the express
ion ineligible. But that man should
be the bitterest enemy Of his friends inn
plies contradiction of peculiar nature.
There is something in it which can not
be conceived without a confusion Of
ideas, nor expressed without solecism in
language; yet man is often injured by
the assistance of friend, whose impulse,
however generous and sincere, combines
neither prudence for lis regulation
nor skill fer its successful adoption.-