The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

ONE of our merchants sat his umbrella
against tree while he stepped into store
to ask a question. When he came out
the tree still stood there. No one had
taken it.
Back to the cheek Of fading. beauty; 81
Nor can 1t hush the still small voice
That hints Of long-neglected duty.
Throbbing with some unburdened sorrow;
II can not bring relief tomorrow. ,,,,
IT took Sir Isaac Newton less than
three years to thoroughly digest the prin-
ciples of gravitation, while an Indiana
farmer has spent eleven years trying to
find out why COW never kicks until the
pail is two-thirds full.
THOUGH sometimes small evils, like
invisible insects, infict pains, and q sim
gle hair may stop vast machine, yet the
chief secret of comfort lies in not suffer-
ing trifles to vex one, and in prudontly
cultivating an underground of small
pleasures, since few great ones are let on
long leases.
OvER-CAUTIoN and over-preparation
not seldom defeat their own object.
Washington Irving tells US of a Dutch
man who, having to leap a ditch, went
back three miles, that be might have .
good run at it, and found himself 50
completely winded when he arrived at 1t
again, that he was obliged to sit down On
the wrong side to recover his breath.
ACCORDING to Solomon, life and death
are in the power of the tongue; and
Euripides truly affirmed, every unbridled
tongue in the end shall find itself unfor-
tunate; for in all that ever observed in
the course of worldly things, lever found
that mems fortunes are oftener made by
their tongues than by their virtues, and
more mems fortunes overthrown thereby,
also, than by their vices. ~
ANEW year2 pray what is new
With her, or him, or me, or you? .4
Dear reader, let's consider.
Does the mechanic cease to fret
Over the long unsettled debt,
Due from the rich delinquentf q.
Can printers yet escap- from care,
| And hope for punctual payment where
Their labor and their Ink went2
STUFFINa FOR A TURKEY OR CHICKEN.
Take some bread crumbs and turn on
Just hot water enough to moisten them
put in q piece of butter not melted, the
size of hens egg, add spoonful ofpul-
verized sage, q teaspooniul of ground
pepper, and a teaspoonful of salt; there
may be some of the bread crumbs that
need to be chopped; then mix thorough
ly and stuff your bird. s'"-' -
A YOUNG scallawag drove into the bug
gy of staid old Quaker. and then in
suited the man of peace, who quietly
remarked: "Verily thou art q son Of
Belial, and am going to stretch forth
my right hand in thy neighborh00d.
Therefore would / counsel thee to get
thee hence in peace, lest thou think the
ass of Baalam has kicked bis brother"
And in moment it came to pass even as
the Quaker had prophesied.
DANBURY Ne,cs: A new fashion has
been introduced in Paris. 1t is to have
the chairs and sofas stuffed with aromatic
herbs which will emit an agreeable but
not powerful perfume. This is most
sensible fashion, as it is in the reach Of
the humblest people. They may not be
in condition to cushion their furniture,
but the most Of them can afford . small
paper bag of some kind of mint, 10 be
carried around with them, and sat on
when resting; and no one Is 30 poor as
not to be able to secure an onion neatly
done up in cloth. -