The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-20
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

In the vegetable world the reed runs
century, and Is as solid as the hills; 50
the slower the human body is in reach
ing its maturity, the more durable Is the
constitution, and longer the life. NJ
AN Arizona landlord surprised and
made glad twenty-one of his guests by
putting a hunk of frozen whisky In the
stocking of each. AS they bit and
chewed and swallowed they felt CRATE
full to the man who invented Christmas.
WE see but dimly through the mists and vspors,
What seem to US but sad funereal tapers,
May be heavens distant lamps.
There is no death what seems so Is transition;
This life Of mortal breath. 1a g-e
Is but q suburb Of the life Elysian,
Whose portals we call death. it
NATURE is the true idealist. When she
serves us best; when, Oh rare days, she
speaks TO the imagination, we feel that
the huge heaven and earth are but web
drawn around us; that the light, skies
and mountains are but the painted
vicissitudes of the soul. .r
NORWICH Bulletin: 1t is not always
prudent to drop into French. Up town,
the other night, a lady spoke to a young
man of dernier resort, and he thought
she was swearing at him, and went out
and shred his locks till he. was bald
enough to use towel for ahair brush.
MAN runs about restless and in pain
when his condition or the objects about
him do not fully match his thought. He
wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young,
that may obey him. In the ocean, in
the fire, in the sky, in the forest, he finds
facts adequate and as large as he.
DID it ever occur to you, kind man.
mas, asks the thoughtful Boston Tran
script, while trotting your babies on your
laps in such vigorous way, that II some
giant, about ten times your size, were to
trot you in similar style the breath would
he very apt to be bounced out OF your
body?
A YOUNG lady of Rochester lately re-
ceived the following note, accompanied
by "bucket of fOurs:" send you bi
the boy bucket of fours. They is like
my luv for u, the mite shade means keep
dark, the dog fenil means am your
slave, rosis red and posts pail, mi luv for
u shall never fale." rli .os gaa =
To place a placard, "Supper thirty
cents, directly over motto, "Ibe Lord
| will provide" suggests an association OF
material and spiritual food not warranted.
1t was done in the Sunday school room
of Boston church at sale where re-
freshment tables were kept, and the smile
of the ungodly prevailed.
I STOOD upon the oceans briny shore,
And with fragile reed wrote
Agnes, love thee :"
The mad waves rolled By and blosted out
Frsii in reed % Cruel sr wavel Treacherous sand
But with giant hand pn pluck I -.
| From Norway's frozen shore, -
Her tallest pine, and dip Its top r, AZ ALH'
Into the crater Of .Vesuyius,
And upon the high and burnished heavens
I - Agnes, love thee ~, e.,
And would like TO see any
| Dog-soned wave wash that out. 20 fff
~ A PENNsYLvANIAN says that lie en-
tered a car and when the brakeman came
inside and took key out of his pocket,
unlocked the st0ve, put in some wood
and locked the door again, he asked him
what he locked The stove door FOR and he
shut his left eye and said he locked the
door SO the fire couldn't 60 out.
WE are so wonderfully formed that,
whilst we are creatures vehemently de-
sirous of novelty, we are as strongly at
tached to habit and custom. But it 10
the nature of things which hold us by
custom to affect US very little whilst we
are in possession of; them, but strongly
| whom thew are absent t.Iah .i'ett