The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-11-23
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.
"a SECRET AT HOME"

| The maid that deceived me was fatal and fair,
| With the curl on her lip and her arrogant air /;
| The wife deceived is as tender and true
AS the grass on the mountain-slope covered with
All many storm love can safely outride,
| But secret at home Is like rocks under tide.
The maid that forsook me was cruel and cold;
| She cared not for love, she cared only for gold,
The wife Of my bosom is simple and mild, ,,,
| With the heart of a woman, the smile OF child.
| All many storm love can safely ontride,
But a secret at home is like rocks under tide.
CHICAGO sells five million dollars worth
of jewelry and San Francisco gets away
with ten million dollars worth of drinks,
of all grades every year. The aggregate
annual sale of testaments and hymn
books in the two cities reaches $l75.27.
The Turks have battle hymn which
they sing when they 60 into battle. tits
said that the soldiers of the enemy put
their fingers in their ears and rush madly
upon the bayonets of the foe, gladly well
coming death rs an escape from the sinG-
ing.
A PARTY of vegetarians who were
boarding at water-cure establishment,
while taking walk in the fields, were
attacked by bull, which chased them
furiously out of his pasture. "Thacs
your gratitude, is it, you great, hateful
thing % exclaimed one of the ladies,
painting with fright and fatigue. +" After
this, I'll eat beef three times dayW
How often in the bright days of our
prosperity, when the hours fly past OH
golden wings, and the world seems made
solely for our happiness, are we stunned
by the shock of unforeseen disappOint-
ment and reverse, like boy who, with
his guileless cOuntenance wreathed in
the smiles that are reflex of the hap
piness at bis heart, slides down the
front stair-banisters to find, alas! that
some one has left the hall lamp sitting
on the lower post.
AN inebriate got intoa car and became
very troublesome and annoying to the
other passengers, so much so that 1T was
proposed to eject him but genial and
kind.hearted reverend doctor, who was
also passenger, interposed for him, and
soothed him into good behavior for the
remainder of the journey. Before leav-
ing, however, he scowled upon the occu-
pants of the car, and muttered some
words of contempt; but he shook hands
warmly with the doctor, and said:
Good.day, my friend l see you know
what it is to be drunk"
In 1862 there was exported from
Buenos Ayres SO, ,000, 900 pounds of wool.
Four years later the export was ia OOO,-
900 pounds, and in 1873, 17O,OOO,O 600
pounds. 1t appears that in 1868 the
Argentine Republic had 67,7OO,OOO
sheep, and the number is now put at
1000, 600. This is the principal in
dustry of this Republic, as of Uruguay;
but it seems that no progress has been
made in improving the breeds of sheep,
and little effort made 10 feed them well,
and they are suffering with many dis
eases which are prevalent with improper
food.
ALTHOUGH misers are not a public
spirited class they are treated with great
indulgence whenever they die, and have
very elaborate obituary notices in local
columns. This seems to have been a
very trying season for them; certain it
is that they are going of very rapidly In
all parts of the country, and the eccen-
tricities are chronicled in the news
papers. The money is in a strange place,
and the monomaniac generally dies
without telling where it is, his thought
being perhaps that his ghost can keep an
eye on it after dissolution. An old man
died about four months ago in Maysville,
Kentucky, hid 81 200 worth of United
States bonds in two mustard boxes and
buried them in pile of scrapwood in
his shanty. The wood was sold about
ten days ago to ragpicker for seventy
five cents, and while he was gathering 1t
together a bystander picked up the
mnstard boxes and found the bonds.