The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

The dover for widOw-WidOwer.
WILL the Gear sit down on the Otto
man?
MORE shillings conceded to the making
of a shirt would double the religion Of
mankind.
How seldom can we see all things
working for our good. But it is better
discipline to believe it.
WHEN a man without cash or credit
attempts to leave hotel and lower his
valise out of back window by means of
rope, it makes charity seem cold to
hear the voice of the landlord below,
yelling up, CAL right--Pve got the va
lise let 60 the rope"
The following is an example Of didactic
humor which is afforded by an old New
Jersey graveyard:
Here lies the body Of Mary Ann Lowder;
She burst while drinking seidlitz powder;
Called from this world to her heavenly rest,
She should have waited till 1t effervesced.
AN old woman who went into the
poultry business some time since, under
the expectation that she could make a
fortune by selling eggs, has quilted it in
disgust, because, as she says, The hens
will never lay when the eggs are dear,
but always begin as soon as they get
cheap"
DURING cholera time Glasgow joiner
was asked by a lady, who was employing
him at some household work, whether he
would have a glass of whisky now or wait
till he had finished the job. "!'ll be
takin' the glass moo, men," said the ar
tisan, for there's been power O. sud-
den deaths lately"
HAPPINESS is the perpetual posses
sion of beings we'll deceived, for it is
manifest what mighty advantages fiction
has over truth and the reason is, at our
elbow, because Imagination can build
nobler scenes and produce more wonder
full revolutions than fortune or nature
can be at the expense to furnish.
The Chicago Alliance says that GER
tain Boston deacon formed his Sunday
school in line, and marched them along
the isles, himself in front, singing
Hold the Fort" The CONSERVATION
which seized all parties at the second
stanza, .,.
Satan leading on"
can be better imagined than described.
"Is polite society polite ?" asks Julia
Ward Howe; and then answers quite
emphatically, at is not" She had been
dining at the aristocratic board of oneo.
the most distinguished descendants
the Mayllower marines, and may have
noticed an Adams or a Quincy throw
away his fork in anger and grapple the
maccaroni with his fingers.
A COMMON liar, who, to the improve
ment of his faculty, had been traveller
was telling many stories of the re
markable things which he had met with
while he was abroad. Among the rest,
he said there were cannons 80 large in
Egypt that, once being in calash drawn
by four horses, and shower of rain fall
ing, he drove into one OF them for
shelter, calash and all. "Oh," said
gentleman, who was listening to him,
G can vomch the truth of that myself
for remember | was at the very same
time at the other end of it in post
chaise, and, upon your coming in at the
mouth, drove out at the touch-holeW
WONDERFUL to him that has eyes to
see it rightly, is the newspaper. The
advent of weekly journal is as that OF
strolling theater on whose stage, narrow
as it is, the tragedy, comedy and farce of
life are played in little. Behold the
whole huge earth in brown paper
wrapperl Look deaths and marriages,
notices of inventions, books, lists of pro-
motions, of killed, wounded and missing;
news of fires. accidents, OF sudden
deaths, and as sudden poverty. The
hand holds the ends of myriads invisible,
electric conductors, along which tremble
the Joys, sorrows, wrongs, triumphs,
hopes and despairs, OF as many men aDd
women everywhere.