The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

SOME people feel very bad because
kerosene is so high; they don't seem to
consider that without this great bless
ing we would still bt snufing tallow
candle with our fingers and rubbing the
black off on our hair.
A YOUNG Milwaukee clergyman, who
received thirty-two dozen pairs of misfit
slippers from the young lady members
of his flock last Christmas, has sold
every last slipper to the Hudson Bay
Company for fish traps.
A KIND gentleman prevented some
boys from stOning pigeon fastened by
the leg. Extricating it with much trou-
BILE he put it tenderly into his bosom.
The next day he remarked that it made
much nicer pie than he. expected.
MATURE.
As fond mother when the day Is Ger,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthiDgs on the fttr,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and comforted
BY promises Of others in their stead
Which though more splendid, may not please
SO Nature deals with us, and takes away.
Our play things one by one, and by the hand
Leads us TO rest 80 gently that We go
Scarcely knowing II we wish to go or stay,
Being too full Of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we
H. w. LOnqtellow in the Atlantic.
A BRIDGET, evidently new to the mys-
teries of marketing, seeing pet owl in
front of a pOulterer,s stand, said to the
owner, "What wad ye be askin' for that
broad-faced goose?' "Goose? That's
an OWL" was the contemptuous reply.
"Owld, is it you're sayin'! Sure it's me.
self that can bile the bird till its tinder."
NORRIsTowN Herald: A man in Anso.
MIA, Conn.,, had tooth drawn. The
charge was fifty cents, and he rendered
two-dOllar bill. The dentist having only
one dollar in change, the Obliging GUS
toner deliberately sat down and had a
sound molar extracted to make the change
even. Here is chance for some one to
say that this tooth-out story is too thin.
AN eminent physician, writing to the
London Times, says he is so impressed
with the benefit of pictures, brOnzes, art
decorations, sculpture, etc., in medical
point of view, that he is ready to give
one hundred pounds sterling toward a
fund to cover the naked walls of the Lon
don hospitals, as he is confident that the
contemplation of works of art is beneficial
to the recovery of all classes of patients.
SENTIMENTAL suicides are becoming
very common in the United States.
About a fortnight ago a young lady who
was engaged TO be married and apparently
happy, committed suicide in Marion,
Iowa. A few mornings after the funeral
her lover called a young lady cousin into
his room, and remarking hastily that he
was going to his sweetheart, shot himself
in the heart. A brother of the dead girl
went to the house to see her lover s re-
mains, and catching sight of the pistol,
seized it, and did his best to shoot him
self, but did not succeed.
A CANADA "speculator has been
reaping harvest in this wise: He stole
six hogs at Owen Sound, and sold them at
Clifford; stole them again, and sold them
at Brussels; stole them again, together
with few bags of wheat, and sold them
to a pork-packing establishment in Lis
towel, where they were Immediately
slaughtered and cut up, and thus rem
dered 30 inconvenient for transportation
that they were left alone. He made a
net profit of about three hundred and
fifty dollars on all these operations.
LOUISVILLE Courier-yournal: Fashions
that would speak for themselves-For
grass widows, lawn; for elderly women,
moir antique; for Democratic bellies,
nything but rep; for women inclined
to badness, mohair; for women with
poodles, muslin; for shippers wives, al
paca for the misses Neverready, delainei
for sailors wives, serge; for dairy-women.
calico; for soldiers wives, bombazine
for debtors wives, ticking for women
with profane husbands, kersey; for care
less servants, crash; for Mrs. Sitting
Bull, whOopskirts.