The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-30
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

The best medicine for children-fun,
frolic, out door play and unrestrain!.
EVEN in the hardest times clocks en-
ploy their regular number of hands.
WHAT is that which makes everybody
sick but those who swallow it? Flattery.
WHAT is that which belongs to your
self, and yet is used by everybody ?
Your name.
In proportion as nations get more cor
rupt, more disgrace will attach to pow
erty, and more respect to wealth.-COt-
ton.
In St. Louis everybody is considerate,
and, therefore, a daily paper remarks:
"Two gentlemen and lady left for the
penitentiary last week."
UNDER the new constitution of Texas,
nine of jury may return verdict; but
that doesn't prevent tho other three from
gathering a. crowd and lynching the
prisoner to telegraph pole.
NEW YORK Commercial advertiser:
"Mrs. Victoria keeps one hundred and
sixty horses" says the Boston Post.
Well, that accounts for her having such
long reign.
CHEERFULNEss is always to be kept up
ifs man is out of pain but mirth, to a
prudent man, should always be acciden-
tai. 1t should naturally arise out of the
occasion, and the occasion seldom be
laid for it.
AN ex.confederate of Williamsburg,
Va, who signs himself GA Rebel Of
1865, Patriot of 1876" observing that
the last monthly debt statement fixed
the national debt at 1924, ,9S1.26, has
written to Secretary Bristow letter in
closing twenty-five cents to pay the
last two figures"
THIS world Is all a crooked" world,
The whisky straights included,
And he who thinks that rings" are rare
Is very much deluded
The world is round of curves made up,
And curves are always crooked;
And rings are round-Of curves made up
(Geometries 30 book it);
Hence doth IL come that worldly men
Are cro0kedy disposed,
And hence IL is that there are rings
Oh crooked men composed!
To which it may be replied:
This world is not so crooked az
Some men would like to make II;
But whether straight " or whether curved,
Depends on how we take It,
A FRIEND of the Christian Register in
Vermont, who is sometimes amazed and
sometimes amused by the English of the
Frenchmen of his vicinity, sends an
obituary tribute paid by a French doctor
to the memory of one of his patients:
"It is with sorrow that Mrs. San Souci
is dead. She was Christian; she was
lively she was happy but death was in
her, so goodbye to her with prayer"
The other evening gentleman
pointed out dandifed looking indi-
vidual to his friend as a sculptor.
"What!" said his friend, "such look
ing chap as that a sculptor? Surely you
must be mistaken" "He may not be
the kind ofa one you mean," said the in
formant, "but l know that he chiseled
a tailor out of suit of clothes last
week."
MILWAUKEE papers give this society
news: The lovely aud accomplished
Mrs. Crooked Bourbon was the admira-
tion of all the indicted guests at the
fancy ball last night. She wore 10000
gallons of the finest point lace, sent by
her husband when he fed to Europe and
forfeited his bail bonLs, and set of
diamonds valued at twenty-five gaugers
and inspectors.
A BENEVOLENT. tramp has procured
the publication in Kansas City paper
of a story, telling how farmer kindly
cared for sick member Of the brother
hood, who, dying, left him $4,000 wad
ofgreenbacks which was concealed in his
shoes. And now the farmers put sick
tramps in their front bedrooms, and feed
them on chicken fxings, SO long as they
are not barefOoted.