The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-12
ODDS AND ENDS.

| OCCUPATION is the necessary basis of
enjoyment.
THINK for yourself-and think much
more than you say.
The man who owns kicking gun
knows what it is to fire and fall back.
A NEW YORK policeman shot at mad
dog and hit man in the neck. Then
the man was mad.
A GREAT "whisky suit" is spoken of
in New York papers. Whisky suits here
are generally rags.
WHEN proposing to widow the ques-
tion whether her first husband is dead or
divorced should be put as delicately as
possible.
1T requires great deal of poetry to
gild the pill of poverty, and then it will
pass current only in theory; the reality
is dead failure.
If you own a Spitz dog you mustn't
let your judgment be warped by what
the papers say. Let him bite you, and
then wait for the results.
QUEEN VICTORIA speaks we'll of Amer
lean beef done into an English roast 1t
may be that Britannia rules the waves"
but America rules the roast.
THEY tell the story in New York that
man dressed in female clothes had his
secret discovered, because he thanked
gentleman who offered him seat.
The blue glass bee hive is having
wonderful success in the West. 1t works
with a crank, and every time the crank
turns, the bees swarm and start a new
colony.
THERE are lots of men in this country
who don't care for money, but they feel
Just like using postage stamp over
again if the ink has only touched one
corner.
A STORY in one of the late English
magazines is called "Owen, the Milk
man." Rather a commonplace title.
There are go many persons OWN the
Milkman, you know.
GEORGE WASHINGTON first to the White House
And next on the list is John Quincy Adams's name,
Tom Jefferson then filled the honored place.
| The name OF James Madison next we trace,
The fifth in succession was James Monroe;
And John Quincy Adams the next below.
And next we find Martin Van Buren there.
| Then william H. Harrisons name We meet,
Whose death gave John Tyler the coveted seat.
Then James X. Polk was the nations first choice;
| Next for Zachary Taylor she gave her voice,
Whose premature death brought in Millard Fill
And next Fran kiln Pierce the distinction wore.
| The fifteenth was jimmy Buchanan. they say,
| Who for Abraham Lincoln prepared the way;
Whose marty rdom gave Andy Johnson a cnance.
| The eighteenth name was Ulysses s. Grants,
With Rutherford Hayes, aud B. we must close;
Fer the name Of the twentieth God only knows.
LEG LURE used to relate that when
quite young man, and without fortuLe,
arriving at Luneville, he obtained the
place Of dentist to King Stanislaus on
the very day on which the king lost his
last tooth.
A LITTLE boy of our acquaintance,
who had Just learned that the names
John and Jack were used interchangea-
| bly,, took occasion, not unnaturally, to
air his knowledge of the different read
ings of Scripture by calling his sisters
attention to a picture of Jack the
Baptist"
The soldiers at the United States
Arsenal, Summerville, Georgia, had
pet monkey. 1t concluded to fire a
salute with one of the cannon, and
touched fire to the fuse of loaded one.
1t didn't 90 off Immediately, and he ran
and peeped into the mouth to see what
was the matter. At this juncture it
went ofi-so did the monkey.
OF THE snore, the beautiful snore,
filling the chamber from ceiling to floor!
Over the coverlet under the sheet, from
her wee dimpled chin to her pretty feet
Now rising aloft like bee in June now
sunk to the wall of cracked bassoon
now fute-like, subsiding, then rising
again, is the beautiful snore of Elizabeth
janet