The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-17
TRUTHS AND TRIFLES.

SPEAKING of relatives, a cynic says:
"In your poverty they never help you,
in prosperity they always help them
selves"
THERE is a man in Indiana who takes
thirty-twO newspapers, and you might
as we'll try to ride whirlwind on side
saddle as to attempt to impose upon that
man.
A REPORT of an Illinois hanging says:
"The Sheriff did not wish to conduct the
execution, as he was Grains cousin, but
Grain insisted that no one else should
hang him."
MRS. WARNER, of Boston, says that
the woman suffrage agitation is due to
the persistency of One-half dozen persons,
who either get living or not0riety out
of the business.
M. PIERRET, one of the guardians of
the Louvre Museum in Paris, purchased
recently for that institution six ancient
Egyptian statues in wood, dating back to
the sixth dynasty.
LIvINGsToNE's dog, which followed
the great missionary explorer through all
his African wanderings, has arrived at
Bombay in charge of a member OF the
Cameron expedition.
A GENTLEMAN rode up to a public
house in the country and asked: Who
is the master of this housep 81 am,
sir" replied the landlord my wife has
been dead about three weeks"
"WHErHER women be handsome or
not" observed Bion, reputed one of the
seven sages, "does not signify. If they
are ugly, they turn ones stomach; II
they are lovely, they turn ones head"
THE Princess Beatrice sighs to be an
old maid. This thing of girl in her
teens having to hear about the teething
of sixty-fve little nephews and nieces
hits romance harder than pile-driver.
THE new Senator from Iowa first won
distinction by wearing red fannel shirt
at dinner party. He was an object OF
deferential interest, the other guests
supposing him to be poet from the
Pacific.
THE Chinese never dun debtor, but
don't 20 to China on that account. Ii
the money isn't paid when due, of comes
an ear. An era of prosperity would be
inaugurated ere long, if that system were
adopted here.
A CENTENNIAL pig has been born in
Kentucky. Its distinguishing character
istics are perfectly hairless body, eyes
as large as a sleeps, ears like those OF
hare. and q horn, several inches long,
projecting from the top OF his head down.
ward.
THE huge bullion scales in the Carson
(Nev.) Mint are 80 delicately adjusted
that the difference in weight between
pray and a brown hair from the same
persons head can be readily determined,
a recent test showing the difference TO
De two millionths of a grain.
HELMBoLD stated, on his lunacy ex-
animation, that $60. 900 year was none
too much for his wife to spend, that she
was the best woman in the world, and
that he intended that she should hold
the purse. What woman can put her
hand on her heart and declare that that
man is insaneY
SOME wag has said that Miss May, to
whom Young Jim Bennett is engaged,
has made him promise not to shoot the
beautiful young pigeons. There Is no
record of his ever shooting anything,
though he has been engaged in a hun
dred matches. 1t is absurd for him To
promise not to hit.
The Worcester Mass Gazette quotes
bank President in that city as saying
on hearing of the great bank robbery al
Northam pton 81 Pm sick of this rascally
world. Don't want to see or do business
with any body. I'd rather be an old
farmer, living on cross-road, four miles
from the sight of everybody, with a bar
rel of cider and two hogs, than to have
anything to do with banks, money, or
men,"
YoUNa statesmen and others who are
trying to acquire brain power through
fish diet, may as well cease to squander
their meagre salaries on that kind OF
meat. Many hundreds of years ago.the
fisherman of the Persian Gulf lived en-
tirely on dried fish, pounded and made
into a species of cake, and these people
are represented as the lowest of all the
Babylonians. 1t is possible that they
may have overdone the thing, and thus
failed to experience the benefit that
might have been derived from q more
moderate diet, but the facts look bad Tor