The Lake County star., 1877-04-05
ODDS AND ENDS.

AN evergreen-A man who does not
learn by experience.
AN exchange warns fathers that boys
told to 60 make name, may turn up IN
due time with an alias.
He who with bold and skillfu hand sweeps DER
| The organ keys of some cathedral pile,
Flooding with music vault and nave and aisle,
| While on his ear falls but thunderous roar
In the composers lofty motive free,
Knows we'll that all tnat temple vast and dim,
Thrills 70 its base with anthem, psalm, or hymn'
| True to the changeless laws OF harmony.
SO he who on these clansing chords Of life,
With finn, sweet touch plays the Great Masters
OF Truth and Love and Duty, evermore,
| Knows too that far beyond this roar and STRIFE
| Though he may never hear, in the true time,
These notes must AL accord in symphonies sublime
| Anne Lynch, IN Scrfbner.
"MY dear DOCTOR" said an Irishman,
"it's no use your giving me an emetic.
tried it twice in Dublin, and it
would not stay on my stomach five min
utes."
BALDHEADED men are 80 numerous In
Chicago that an audience in that city is
said to look, when viewed from above,
like cobblestone pavement.
ONIONS in New Mexico grow to the
size of an ordinary water-pail, and one is
sufficient for several meals. Turnips
have been grown there weighing twenty
five pounds.
AND now the careful grocer brings
down his last years maple snger, and,
after thorough dusting, the stock is put
into the front window, bearing the label,
"New maple sugar, twenty-five centsper
pound"
A YOUNG woman with enlarged feet
was induced to havea blue glass window
pane 1Ox12, inserted in the uppers of
each OF her shoes, and in forty-eight
hours she was enabled to wear number
nine shoe with perfect ease.
SYDNEY SMITHS definition of mar
riage: cit requires pair of shears, SO
Joined that they cannot be separated,
often moving in opposite directions, yet
always Furnishing any one who comes be-
tween them"
Two brothers were walking together
down the street, and one of them, stop
ping at certain house, knocked at the
door, observing, "Ihave a niece here who
is ill.," "Thank heaven, observing the
other, 81 have got no niece" and he
walked away. Now, how could thatbe?
A MANSFIELD (Mass.) man recently
offered high-school prize for the best
essay Ofthe twenty-three responses re-
ceived large proportion proved to have
been stolen, and one, poem, was stolen
entire. The joke of tits that Honesty"
was the subject OH which the essays were
to be written.
A LETTER has been received from a
Toronto gentleman, at present solourn-
ing in Florida, stating that he recently
saw j. Smith, Toronto fruiterer, who
abscOnded with large amount OF his
creditors money, and who was supposed
to have been killed in the Ashtabula
disaster.
SERVANT answering door-bell rung
by little ragged boy)-Come, go right
away we have got nothing for you. Boy
-Hain't asked you for nothing yet, have
IH-Servant (banteringly)-Well, what
would you have asked for? Boy
Didn't know but this house was for sale,
and If it was wanted to buy it.
"I SHOULD like" said French med
cal charlatan, "to place, over the door
of my surgery an inscription, either in
Latin or Greek, borrowed from one of
the great authors" "Give Italian the
preference" remarked one of his
patients. Nothing can equal that
verse of Dante's, Abandon hope, all ye
who enter herel' ,"
STEPHEN HALL, a queer but weak
genius, has made frequent gracious
promises to his troubled friends that he
would put himself out of their way. One
stinging cold night he vowed he would
20 out and freeze to death. About eleven
O'clock he returned, shivering and slap
ping his fingers. "Why don't you
freeze 2" asked loving relative. Col
lyl" said the psuedo-suicide, "when l
freeze / mean to take warmer night
than this for it'll"
In Ruthenia, says traveller, shoot
ing star is looked upon as the track OF
an angel flying to receive departed
spirit, or of righteous soul going up to
heaven. In the latter case 1T Is be-
lieved that if wish is uttered at the
moment when the star shoots by it will
90 straight up with the rejoicing spirit
to the throne of God. So when star
falls the Servians cay, "Some ones light
has gone out" meaning some one 10
dead