The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-12-21
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

Is man who has made fool of him
self to be considered q self-made man?
Norwich Bulletin: One of the reasons
why side-saddle resembles four-quart
jug is because it holds gallon.
LORD PALMERsroN once said, speaking
of the Turks: "What energy can be ex-
pected of people with no heels on their
shoesW
IT is a strange desire to seek power and
to lose liberty; or to seek power over
others and to lose power over mans
self.-Bdcon.
A GLASGOW medical student, who was
passing an examination, on being asked
the meaning of "the year of jubilee" re-
Piled, "Leap year." He passed.
IT is said that a Lowland Scot has
named his donkey Maxwelton. But the
neighbors don't think that "MaxweltOn's
braes are bonny."
THEREhave been eleven hundred mar
riages in Salt Lake within the last three
weeks. The name of the happy bride
groom isn't mentioned.
"YoU try in vain," saysa pithy writer,
"to sweep the mist from your door with
a broom, but when the sun shines upon
it, how soon it disperses"
"IT's all for the BEST" remarked
Blinks, with a sigh, as he paid for the
hat he had lost. "Nay," interposed the
lucky man, "'tis all for the better"
"PRAY, Mr.. Professor, what is peri
phrasis Y' Madame, it is simply cir
cumlocutory cycle of oratorical sonoros-
ity, circumscribing an atom of ideality,
lost in verbal profundity." "Thank
you, sir. "
A FAST youth asked at city restau-
rant, "What have you gotT "Almost
everything" was the reply. "Almost
everything? Well, give me plate of
that" "Certainly. Hash" screamed
the waiter.
Boston transcripts: The only need of
sympathy very small boy had for the
pupils of a deaf and dumb asylum. after
a visit to the institution, was that be
"pitied them, because torpedOes would
be of no use to them on the Fourth OF
july"
A BROOKLYN young lady, who was in
attentive at whist, has broken of her en-
gagement with her lover because he
recommended her to "scoop her mind up
in a peanut shell and fix it on the
game"
THERE is such thing as minding
ones own business too exclusively. Such
was the case of man in Orilla, Ontario,
who did not give the alarm when he saw
hao hn hod
his own business to attend to.
The late Professor Smell, of Amherst
College, kept weather record for more
than thirty years, taking observations
three times a day. The only benefit
gained was in knowing when to set out
cabbage plants.
A STUDENT once remarkipg in com.
pany that he could make an impromptu
rhyme upon any words that might be
given to him, was requested to try his
powers on "di do dunn" whereupon he
gave the following:
When Dido's lover would not to Dido come,
Dido sat moping, and was Dido dumb.
In France last year one hundred and
| fifty-two men and only thirty-seven wo-
men went crazy through love. An ex-
change thinks this poor compliment to
the boasted intellect of the sterner sex (;
we, on the other hand, think it argues
rather poorly for the boasted devotion of
the weaker.
The Patterson Guardian says: Mr..
Garrison, WHO lives up Broadway, got
into a dispute with person about the
difference of ten cents in bill for some
carpenter work which he had done. The
other person refused to pay the ten
cents, and so Mr.. Garrison brought suit.
It resulted in his favor, whereat he was
greatly elated at so easily obtaining jus
tice. It cost him five dollars and quar-
ter and the defendant eight dollars to
settle this little difference of ten cents.