The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

The better man knows himself, the
more indulgent he is to the follies of
others.
The first principles of economy are
Get only what you need, and don't waste
what you get.
cts lovely doll, dear grandpa and
grandma; but-but-Id been hoping il
would be twins"
No one can be happy without a friend,
and no one knows what friends he has
until he is happy.
"THE rich," said Dutchman, "eat
venison because it ish deer. / eat NUT
ton because it ish sheep"
SATISFACTION at law" means giving
lawyer $500 to collect fifteen cents
worth of justice for you.
JOSH BILLINGS says: l don't recol.
lect now of ever hearing of two dogs
fighting unless there was a man or two
around.
A POOR woman in st. Louis went to
doctor the other day for medicine to
check the appetite of her five children,
she teing unable to provide sufficient food
for them.
BROOKLYN argus: The great need of
housekeepers at the present time is an
opportunity to employ servant girls
whose relatives make a practice of using
their own provisions.
IT is rumored that Sergeant Bates, be-
fore he went West to lecture, kindly told
the Centennial managers just to tele-
graph to him if things didn't 90 right,
and he'd be back by the first train.
IT has been discovered that the same
kind of coloring matter which poisons
the striped stockings is also used to color
the bad whisky. In both cases it goes
the legs and ruins the understanding
THERE seems to be only one objection
| to the proposed United States Court in
the Indian Territory. If any one was
convicted his friends wouldn't give judge
or jury time to get out of the court room
alive.
POETRY is not made out of the under
standing. The question of common sense
is always: "What is it good for?-a
question which would abolish the rose
and be triumphantly answered by the
cabbage.
IT took Sir Isaac Newton less than
three years to thoroughly digest the
principles of gravitation, while Rhode
Island farmer has spent eleven years
trying to find out why cow never kicks
till the pail is nearly two-thirds full.
NEW ORLEANS Republican: A mother
writes: Chow can l prevent my little
boy from wearing out the knees of his
pantsW There are two ways-either let
the horse cars run over the little boy, or
give his pants to some other little boy
who has none.
BE frugal, not mean; prudent, not
subtle; complaisant, not servile; active
i'm business, but not its slave. There arc
also four other habits which are essen
TALLY necessary to the happy manage
ment of temporal concerns these are
punctuality, accuracy, steadiness and
dispatch.
How much do you ask for that there
velvet by the yard w asked Mrs. Rural,
at Stewards, the other day. "That,
madam" said the clerk, holding it up,
els SO, formerly sold at $14." "Thought
So" said Mrs. Rural, "now where's them
eighteen cent calicoes l seed advertised
in the papersT
MAN is subject to fate solely in him
self, not in others; he soon hardens his
mind against all fear, and prepares it for
all events. A little philosophy enables
him to bear bodily pain or the common
infrmities of flesh; by philosophy
somewhat deeper he can conquer the
ordinary reverses of fortune, the dread
of shame, and the last calamity of death.
Group may be cured in one minute,
and the remedy is simply alum and su-
gar. The way to accomplish the act is
to take knife or crater and shave of in
small particles about teaspoonful OF
alum, then mix it with about twice its
quantity of sugar, to make palatable, and
administer it as quick as possible. AL
most instantaneous relief will follow.