The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

How beautiful, great and pure good
ness is. 1t plants heaven on the lace tnat
has it; it awakens the sleeping. sous
that meet 1t.
THERE is an innate delicacy which re-
spects the feelings of child, and with
out which no man is fit to wear the
name of gentleman.
ALEXANDER BARTON, cashier of the
Fishkill, New York National Bank is
defaulter to an unknown amount, es.i-
mated at from $50, 900 to $60, 900.
Ii YOU have no cold victuals for the
poor, hungry tramp, don't send him
away without anything. Give him your
mothers recipe for making oyster dress
ing.
BRISK takers are usually slow
thinkers. There is indeed no wild beast
more to be dreaded than communica-
tive man having nothing to communi-
cate.
The great question of the present is
whether it il better to carry two pounds
of dried apples or bar Of ten-cent soap
to the annual donation at the minister's
house.
"Ir has been the problem of my life,
said Potter, "to know how they get
soda water into these fountains. When
Won omen the faucet it flies out tremen-
dously, but how it was poured in stum-
bles me-"
ANOTHER idiot has turned up in Mis-
souri,, who is making local wonder OF
himself by eating thirty quails in thirty
days. Why doesn't some fellow agree 10
do it In thirty minutes? That would be
a feat worth talking about.
THE YEARS.
WHY do we heap huge mounds Of years
Before us and behind,
Aud scorn the little days that pass
Like angels on the wind
Each turning round small, sweet face,
| As beautiful as near,
Because Ii Is so small race
We will not see II clear.
And so it turns from us, and goes
Away in sad disdain;
Though we could give our lives Tor 1t,
1t never comes again.
The criterion of true beauty is that
II increases on examination; If false, 1T
lessons. There is something, therefore,
in true beauty that corresponds with
right reason, and is not merely the crea'
tion of fancy.
LIVES there man with soul so dead,
who never 70 himself hath said, Ill pay
before l 90 to bed the debt owe the
printer? Yes, there are some we know
full we'll, who never such tale could
tell, but they, l fear, will 60 lowell,
the place there is no winter.
|; New YORK Commercial: A Fond du
, Lac girl recently lost two fingers in a
, clothes wringer. This must be one OF
:. the cases to which Charles Kingsley re-
; ferred when he remarked:
3 "The women are weeping and wrinsins their
I hands,"
, ADVERTISING is good thing, but
4 when a prominent grocer recently car
y ried to a funeral an umbrella on whlcf
: was painted conspicuously the business
of his house, and held it over TIT
preachers head while he read his pray
ers, the bystanGers thought he was run
ming the thing into the ground.
u The most innocent things are becom
- ing engines of destruction. A splra
- shirt stud in California nearly gouget
,1' it's owners eye out, and a feather bed IL
i Ohio exploded and plastered its occu
;. pant up against the ceiling. Men mus
y now keep away from the kindling WOOD
h for there is no telling when, in momen
! of emotional insanity, the seemingl
"a docile saw-horse may rise UP and kic
"a the stuffing out of its owner.
n JOHN ADAMS wrote prophetically
a "But let us take warning and give it
rs our children. Whenever vanity an
er gayety, a love of pomp and dress, farn
X ture, equipage, buildings, great con
q pany, expensive diversions, ana eiega, =,
I'd entertainments, get the better OF u
m principles and judgments of men an
as women, there is no knowing where the
al will stop, nor into what evils, nat9ra
lr. moral or political, they will lead us"