The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

ALL the passions seek that which
nourishes them; fear loves the idea ot
danger.
PASSION is universal humanity. With
out it religion, history, romance, and art
would be useless.
Now drink your hard cider, eat your
apples, and 60 to bed and see star-spangled
elephants with gilt tails all night.
The newest article made of iron is a
cast-iron grandmother" not term of
reproach, but machine for darniDg
hose.
FULTON Times The man with the
wooden leg has one advantage over most
of us. He don't have to take but one
fat.iron up to bed with him.
AN old editor of Morse's geography
SAYS that Albany has five hundred houses
and three thousand Inhabitants, all
standing with the gable ends to the street.
A STOVE manufacturer out West, after
trying several methods, gives it as his
opinion that the best way to create
draft is to go out in the yard and siit
ashes.
WATER, though well warmed. would
quench, nevertheless, the fire that
warmed it. Thus may the character OF
treacherous person be described
Sdnskrit.
DYNAsTIEs may crumble, planets may
be blotted out, George Washington.s
body servant may eventually die, but 1t
is feared the idiots who make wheelbar-
row bets on the election will exist for
ever.
Boston Traveller: " Fridthjob's Saga
"A Morse Romance" is one of the new
books of the season. But the sport who
buvs it with the idea that it contains the
record of Goldsmith Maid, or any other
equine celebrity, is going to be. egregl-
ously hornswOggled.
NoRRIsTowN Herald: The para
graphist of the future will write such
items as this: A strong wind came
through a window and overturned Mrs.
Wceper's crematOry jar the other fore
noon, and her husbands urniDgs were
swept away in twinkling."
"Now is the time," wrote religious
weekly editor, "when every Christian
should feel it his duty to cut down his
expenses to the lowest possible figure"
Accordingly, next week, eighty sub
scribers took him at his word, and sent
in orders to stop their papers forthwith.
RoNDEAU.
You bid me try, Blue Eyes, to write ..,
| A rondeau.. What forthwith 2-to-nightf
| Reflect. Some skill have, tits true;
| But thirteen lines and rhymed ON two !
| "Imust," you say, All, luckless piight!
| still. there are fiye-and ranged aright
| u,t.u naIls bond oar
| You bid me try!
That makes them nine. The ports in sight;
'Tis all because your eyes are bright
Now just one line to end in g on
| When maids command, what can we 90
| Behold 1.-THE Rondeau, tasteful, light,
London Spectator.
DANBURY Me,os: The Graphic gives
history of John B. Dennis who figures in
Louisiana. Much of the mans eccen-
tricity is due, without doubt, to an
episode in his life which the Graphic
gives in feeling manner. it says" " he
married the adopted daughter of Gov.
English; escaped; was recaptured, but
capped again, travelling several hund-
red miles in circuitOus route"
ITmay be all very we'll for person
whose instincts are so refined that dis
honorable act would be an impossibility
to talk about anpihilation, but the doc
trine of future life is restraint which
we can't we'll do without. The practical
operation of the general belief in i'm
mortality on the moral life of the com
munity is greater than we think. To
die like a dog is an incentive to live like
one. To be nothing hereafter is to be
nothing here.