The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

IT is an old remark that if you want
to have person on. time at the appointed
minute, make the time IL 80 o'clock,
and it is ten TO one he will meet you.
In ancient story we are told
That Midas touch turned anything to gold.
But We, to-day, stranger thing behold
Men turn to anything when touched Ssaa with gold gold
DANBURY BAILEY says there is
feeling in the West in favor of con.
ventiOn to be called this month of those
over the Ashtabula bridge in the train
just preceding the disaster, or left that
unfortunate train just previous to the
accident.
The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal tells
of man who resides on certain
Western railroad, and always pays his
fare to the conductor. "Why do you
never purchase tickets, like other peo-
pie ?' asked an acquaintance. "Pll tell
you," was the pointed reply. {" owe
this railroad company grudge, and so
long as / travel over their line they
shall never get a cent of my money"
BOSTON Journal: Mayor Ely, of New
York, having offered to have his salary
reduced as one method of reducing the
taxes, suggests to a correspondent the
kindly proposal of old Captain Barni-
coat, of the Boston Fire Department,
who, when the Brookline reservoir
broke and the Inhabitants were requested
to save their Cochituate, trudged down
to the City Hall and generously offered
to drink his brandy clear for week.
MARCH.
Month which the warning ancients strangely styled
The month of war,-as II 10 their fierce ways
Were any month OF peace lin thy rough days,
/ find no war in nature, though the wild
Winds clash and cang, and broken boushs are piled
Their heads without alright, or look of maze,
And sleep through all the din. as sleeps child.
ne in each living thps
Like pregnant mother, the sweet earth doth yearn;
In secret joy makes ready for iN the spring;
'"''>''''''' '' III H., In ScriDner for March.
Boston Traveller Somebody praised
kind of cake Jones brought down to his
office. He was asked for the recipe for
building the cake, and next day appeared
with the following, which he had taken
down in shorthand from his wife's dicta-
tion, after dinner: "Seven cups of mo-
lasses, three pinches of -four, two heap
ing quarts of salaratus, pint of sugar,
two pounds of milk, fruit to suit taste;
stir we'll and boil over a slow fire for
three hours, and then SET aside in cold
oven for a week." Somehow, Jones said
it didn't sound just right, but that was
the way his notes read.
A LOCAL physician thus describes the
genuine Wabash fever and ague: cit
comes creeping up a fellows back like
ton of wildcats, goes crawling through
his Joints like iron spikes, and is followed
by fever which prohibits the patient
from thinking of anything but Green
lands icy mountains. 1t isn't the
every other day kind, but gets up
with man at daylight, and sleeps in the
small of his back all night. His teeth
feel about six inches long, his joints
wabble like loose wagon wheel, and the
shakes are so steady that one can't hold
conversation except by putting in
dashes.'
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afraid to knuckle down to hard work OF
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highly developed, and brains TO hack it.
Penetration sharp as the busin, IS eI d of
a hornet, and cheek bigger than either
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search of such bonanza will strike oil
a regular spouting well-by addressing
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