The Lake County star., 1876-06-15
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES

The Royal Theater, of Munich, has
issued an edict forbidding actors who
die ON the stage to come before the
curtain and bow hbefOre the close OF the
play"
AWEsTERN editor met a well. educated
farmer recently and informed him that
he would like to have something from
his pen. The farmer sent him pig ana
charged him 1915 for it.
A VEGETARIAN who was lodging an
infurated bull behind tree, exclaimed:
"You ungrateful beast! you toss
vegetarian, who never ate beef IN his
life! Is that the return you MAKER
Miss MATTE GoRMAN, of Chicago,
recently enjoyed the distinguished prlvl-
lege of declining three offers OF marriage
within twenty-four hours. The discarded
suitors. each and all of them, admit IL
was the liveliest Mattie-Nay performance
they ever attended.
The sky Is clouded, the rocks are bare,
The spray of the tempest Is white In air,
The Winds are out with the waves at play
And shall not tempt the sea to-day
The panther clings to the arching limb;
And the lions W helps are abroad at play
And shall not join the chase to-day
But the ship sailed safely over the sea,
And the hunters came from the chase In glee;
And the town that was built upon rock
Was swallowed up in the earthquake shock.
Bret Ha,ie.
The following, from Chicago source,
NAV be received with some reserve:
Last Tuesday, while a st. Louis young
woman was putting on pair OF ball
slippers, she found missing sealskin
Jacket in the toe of one of them."
A TITUsvILLE brewer has buried one
hundred bottles of book beer, five OF
which are to be annually exhumed and
absorbed by him or his descendants. AS
the brewer is hale and hearty, the look
out for his descendants is rather gloomy.
CUISINES IS BUSINESS" but it has
not. therefore, right to throttle charity
and beat out the brains of intelligence,
to smother the breath of cheerfulness
and pluck out the eyes OF public
spiritedness, to smear the garb of genial
deportment and put its nailed heel on
those humanities that are better than
money.
The infirmities of age are diminishing
the respect which Brigham Young once
used to command in his household. Now
he can stand on the threshold of his bed
room door two or three hours every
morning hollering for some of his wives,
and still have to 60 back and button his
shirt with string.
SOME genius has invented an electric
chair for schools. The boys feet rests
on an insulated stool, but when he
touches another boy the circuit is COM
plete, and he gets dose Of electricity
that sets him yelling. If the little
Youngsters only knew it they could use
glass rods and poke each other with per-
feet impunity.
A TEXAN disciple of Isaac Watts the
other day went to the neighborhoodi o.
Cottonwood Spring to gather some fish
! bait, and while digging around struck 9
bag of gold containing between $2,OO(
and $4,000, which had been buried there
some years before by gang. Of robbers
who left their estates to be administered
upon by vigilance committee.
WHEN visiting an old acquaintance,
} farmer, at time when albums were all
the rage, we'll known wit was handed
} by the daughter a superannuated accoun
book, ruled for pounds, shillings ant
pence, in which he was requested t,
write something pretty for her; will
this request he complied in the following
manner: