The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-05-03
A LITTLE EVERY THING.


journal that, among other portraits, h,
had representation of Death as large Al
life.
BY chewing and swallowing a few
leaves Of parsley after eating onions, q
magic sweetening of the breath will bt
obtained.
The horrible idea is mooted that every
town in the country has got at least one
citizen who thinks he knows all about
perpetual motion.
| No good that the humblest of us has
wrought ever dies. There is one long
unerring memory in the universe, out
of which nothing fades.
The latest thing in funerals is at Alton,
Illinois, where young lady recently
buried was attended by pall-bearers OF
her own sex and age.
IT is pleasant to shake hands with a
girl whose fingers are covered with dia-
monds, for you feel that you have for
tune within your grasp.
In 1876, according to the excise re-
turns, Great Britain and Ireland con-
sumed wine, beer and liquors valued at
$736, ,443,796. The cost of drinking was
$3.50, 100000 more last year than in
1870.
DANBURY Neaos: Fast day was gen.
orally observed in Danbury by our bus
iness men who closed up their places and
went home to clean up their cellars,
leaving the clerks in the rear of the
stores playing cribbage and drinking
egg-nog.
TRADITION says that years ago, when
the headwaters of the Chesapeake
swarmed with wild fowl, the hands en-
ployed at an iron forge at Havre de
Grace once upon time refused to work
because they we're fed upon canvasback
ducks instead of bacon.
WHEN Mr.. Joughnes entered a store
and observed on the wall behind the
counter the legend, eff you don't see
what you want, ask for it," his eyes
quickly roved all over the establish
ment, and not seeing what he wanted he
asked for it. The proprietor Couldn't
see it," either. Joughnes wanted five
dollars worth of credit.
INSTRUCTOR in astronomy:" And now,
young gentlemen, which of you can tell
me the name of the greatest planet-the
champion planet, so to speak-of our
solar systemW Student: 81 can, sir;
it's Saturn" Instructor, hesitatingly:
"And how's that, prayp Student:
"Why, because he carries the belt" IN
structor dismisses the class without fur
ther comment.
THERE is nothing new under the sun.
A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press
writes that in the Laurentian Library,
in Florence. he saw a map of the world,
drawn in 1410, showing clearly the
course of the Nile, its division into two
streams, and its connection with the two
great lakes, solving the question long ago
which Speke, and Burton, and Living
stone have been working at 80 diligently
in the present age"
FREDERIKA BREMER When the first
of love is over, there comes a something
better still. Then that other love; that
faithful friendship which never changes,
and which will accompany you with its
calm light through the whole of life. 1t
is only needful to place yourself so that
it may come, and then it comes of itself.
And then everything turns and changes
itself to the last.
AN immense African lion, about sixty
years old, escaped from its cage in
menagerie at Augusta, Ga, into crowd
of people. Great CONSERVATION and a
thorough stampede resulted. emperor"
went to work on a $4,000 Tartary yak,
and " finished it," then tasting gently of
the calf Of mans leg, sat down to rest,
when a rome was secured around his
neck, and he was checked into his cage.