The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

1T is a difficult thing for women to
discover what men really like and
admire.
WHEN Colorado bank fails the de-
positOrs present sixshooter along with
their bank book, and the institution
pays in full.
HERE is a capital charade, the answer
to which we give at once-it is Cur ants.
Higgedy, piggledy, here we lie,
Pulled and picked, and put in pie.
Divide us In half. and I'm sure you will wonder,
10 see what guis we $ make linen ss%nSe
My second is busy, and active, and prowling;
But higgledy, piggledy, here we lie,
Pulled and picI I'd, and put In pie.
BIsMARCl. loves American slang, and
when he says, essay, there, Gully, cheese
that racket" the Great Powers have to
stand around.
A WORCESTER County female walks
ten miles to church every Sunday. She
wishes to be known by her "walk"
rather than by her conversation.
REMEMBER, te be almost saved, is to
be altogether lost To be jealous about
every thing but the one thing needful"
is an insult to God and your everlasting
interests!
PERSONS who like to contemplate
their own Importance, should consider
that the world got along very we'll before
they were born, and will probably get
along equally well after they are dead.
OUR enjoyment consists in pursuit,
not in attainment. Attainment is with
us, for the most part, the grave of pleas
ure. Had we no object to excite fresh
activity, and impel us to new tolls,
human life would quickly stagnate in
melancholy indifference.
GRATITUDE is the fairest blossom
which springs from the soul the heart
of man knoweth none more fragrant.
While its opponent, ingratitude, is
deadly weed, not only poisonous in it's
self, but impregnating the very atmos-
phere in which it grows with fetid vapor.
A NEW YORK paper offers, as pre-
miums for its subscribers, an annual cut
ting of the hair or quarterly vaccination
free, and to those who pay three years
subscription in advance coffin at death,
or, when it is preferred, half dozen sill
yer plates There can be no doubt as to
the truth of this, for it is printed in a
Paris newspaper.
OHi for plunge and bath in the briny,
Where Holsters are sporting and fishes sail round
Oh for some shady spot, sheltered and viney,
Where spiders drop DER me and earwigs abound
While people in cities in houses are broilipg,
The thermometer rising, and stocks getting low,
And lie on the ground where the sea-breezes blow.
I'd dream of the icebergs in Northern floating,
xuI,tt haoro anil lrir ak NO
I'D visit In fancy the cool caves OF ocean,
Where sea-monsters lurk and where mcrmsds
peep out.
Oh could but find retreat SO elysiau,
How quick would fly from this climate so hot!
I'd pack up my trunk and the last new edition,
And live at my ease In 80 favored spot
As long as there are cold and naked
ness in the land around you, so long there
can be no question at all but that splendOr
of dress is a crime. In due time, when
we have nothing better to set the people
at, it may be right to let them cut jewels
and make lace; but as long as there are
any who have no blankets for their beds,
and no rags for their bodies, 30 long it
is blanket making aud tailoring we must
set the people to work at, not
lace.-Ruskin.
HENDERSON (Ky.) Neacs: The two
charming sisters, Misses Jerusha Patsy
and Polly Ann Squashead, whose father
is one of the heaviest whiskey dealers in
The West, were the observed of all OBJ
servers" on Main street last Friday.
They honored one of our merchants with
a business. visit, examined twelve hun
dred dollars worth of silks, etc., and pur-
chased two spools of thread and steel
thimble. Such liberality in the bon tom
is highly commendable.