The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
ODDS AND ENDS.

A yoIJNG man in San Francisco put
out one of his eyes while taking OIL
shirt. a spiral stud doing the mischief.
Moral: Never wear shirt.
TALENT is power; tact is skill. Talent
makes a man respectable; tact makes
him respected. Talent conyinces; tact
converts. Talent commands; tact Is
obeyed. Talent is something; tact Is
everything.
They tell of a New England family
burial ground, in the four corners OF
which sleep the four successive wivesof
one man, while a marble tombstone In
the center of the plot is afectionately In
scribed, "Our Husband"
BURLINGTON Haaok-Eye: They tell OF
a Burlington editor, very explicit and
conscientious man, always given to ex-
plain himself very clearly, who began
his prayer the other night, "ParadoSicai .;
as it may appear to Thee, o Lord +
PEOPLE make a great mistake about
heaven. They think it begins up yon,,
der. but it really begins down here. 1t
YOU can be happy in the basement story,
Won are fitted to enjoy the happiness OF
the upper stories. But if you whine and
moan here, heaven itself can't change
your mood. ~
BROOKLYN Argus: Ruskin thinks that
nobody on earth has any right TO go
about in a Celestial uniform. 1t Is as
uncomfortable for Ruskin as 1t Is Tor any
man to come home late at night ana nnd
a woman with sheet wrapped around
her. balancing chunk of kindlipg-wood
on the stair banisters.
MOUNTAIN TOP.
stand on high,
Close to the sky,
Kissed by unsuled lips OF nght
Famed by soft airs
That seem like prayers
Floating TO God through ether bright
The emerald lands,
With love-clasped hands,
In smiling peace below outspread
The amber skies,
A dome OF glory DER my head.
Wind-swept and bare,
The fields, Of air
Give the weaned eagles room to play;
| On mightier wingI
| NV soul doth spring
10 u'''e'" Charles g. Ames.
Con purifies the soul very much as we
air orr rooms. He throws open all the
w;ndows-the windows of feeling, OF i'm.
pulse. of imagination, of purpose-and
sends strong current of vitalizing grace
sweeping through them, until every ele.
ment of our nature is reOxypenized ana
made healthy and bracing.
TuIs Is one of those fashioned, or
tbodox winters, when the cOal-yard men
saunter along the streets with oig ulstel
overcoats, trimmed with iur, putVoheo
up to their ears, while the ice-cream men
shin along the streets in linen busters,
with their gloveless hands rammed into
their trowsers pockets up to the elbow
ANY human being who has never
sawed of slice Of homemade bread,
and spread that bread with sweet country
butter. and that butter with soft white
sugar. with LAYER Of rich yellow cream
from The top of a pan in the dairy, and
has never opened and shut down his teeth
on n mouthful of this same compound
that miserable wretch who has never
done this. we say, has missed the deares
sensation of childhood's happiness, ant
, must 90 through the wilderness OF lit
without knowing what it is TO taste O
its mama. Ill
A HUMANE countryman, while chop
r ming fapots in wood, discovered an un
: fortunate adder chilled and apparently
t lifeless. Moved with compassion n
placed the miserable reptile in his bosor
4 and carried it home to his cottage, wher
e the grateful warmth of the fire soon rt
8 yiyed it. But the adder had no soone
t regained consciousness than IL stung tn
e countrymen's mother-in-law and wiz
e and was about to kill his yellow doi
when crying, "Softly, softly, now ! u
It seized an Ak and destroyed 1t. Morde.-
Thus we see that we may have too muc
of a good thing.