The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-05
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more colored residents than whites.
The corrected census OF New Yorl
makes the population Of city and county
l056, ,l15.
A square of ground which was held
for $4,000 in Galveston, three weeks
ago, Is now sand heap, without house
| on it. !,
The first article which has reached
Philadelphia for the Centennial Expo
sitlon Is package of rum from ia
maica.
1t was observed of deceased lawyer
that he had left but few effects, to which
lady remarked that she had but few
causes.s
1t is now limited that the "rovine
noness" story in Indiana was got up by
the women to keep their husbandsshome
o. nights.
Horace White says the skilled work.
man has more comforts in England than
IN America; the unskilled about the
same as here.
Thomas Carlyle, aged 10, shuts him.
SELF up every evening to study, and that
Is the difference between first and sec.
ond ohildhoods. :.
Salvini has proposed to an English
lady and become engaged. OF course as
will marry her, for it costs toe much to
back out in England.
M. Theirs has expressed his disbelief
IN all supernatural things, so-called, and
| mas ssisken in condemnation Of the pill
g.Images now going on.
| An ear of corn one foos in length,
| weighing two pounds, and containing
l. 134 kernels, is exhibited at the New
York Gold Exchange from Missouri.
That book OF Eli Perkins, having lain
around our office for month, with none
SO mean as 20 carry it oil, now reposes
in the CRATE, and doesn't even burn
we'll.
A woman Is very like kettle, if you
come to think of it. She sings away so
| pleasantly-then she stops-and, W hen
you least expect it, she boils over!-
Judy.
Disraeli, the great English Israelite,
says he owes whatever reputation he
has very largely to the people of the
United States. Now, what Is he fishing
for over here?
Next time YOU'RE in Berlin and want
to 90 to the opera, just casually tell the
hackman to drive you around to the
Observation-Disclosures. He Will
know all about IT.
In reply to a young writer who wished
to know (which magazine will give me
the highest position quickestY cou-
temporary advises ga powder magazine,
ii you contribute fiery article"
A new scientific work just published
in England balances the authorities and
scientific facts as to consanguineous
marriages, and comes to the conclusion
that they are not generally injurious.
To remind OF favor is not kind; to
speak OF it otfensiveiy more than cancels
The obligation. Next TO energy, there is
no element SO essential to success in life
as vigorous, robust health.-W. w. Hall.
A Nevada bridegroom was only dis
suaded from the production of o double
headed clergyman by the assurance tnat
the kiss lie had attempted to imprint up
on the BRIDES brow was wholly unpar-
oXysmal.
The amount of coin in actual circula.
tion in Great Britain can only be estima-
Ted, but the total available stock of pa
per and coin in the United Kingdom, is
in round numbers, little over three
hundred million dollars.
The Marquese de Chambrun, the grand
daughter oi Lafayette, now resident in
Washington, has in her possession set OF
pearls, given her grandmother by Marie
Antoinette, at whose wedding tnat lady
acted as bridesmaid.
A Buffalo physician, who has under
gone the operation which was so accu-
rately described in the case OF Clara
Morris, says it is absolutely painless.
Iron at white heat produces merely a
tickling sensation on the flesh.
tieb 4
fcIent in judgment, was asked by pro-
how he would discover fool. "By the
questions he would ask" was the prompt
and highly suggestive reply.
An officer of the regular army laughed
at umid woman because she was
alarmed at the noise of a cannon when a
salute was fired. He subsequently mar
rled that timid woman, anu six months
afterward he took of his boots in the
hail when he came in late at night.
Rev. Sidney Smith being asked by
lady why 1t was reported that there were
more women in the world than men, he
replied: "lt is in conformity with the
arrangements OF nature, madam; we al
ways see more Of heaven than earth."
A Partisan gentleman who died re-
Gently, and whose name is unknown, LETT
$60,0D0 to the Minister Of Fine Arts on
condition that the sum be spent in the
erection OF a colossal statue OF France
on the summit of the Arc de Triomphe.
A project is on foot among the Euro
pean artIllerists to nave a Steel gun man.
ufactured Ban feet long, weighing 124
IONS, and firing q shell Of 2,27O pounds
weight with 44o POUNDS Of powder. Such
shot ought TO be heard round the
world.
The Good Templars Of San Francisco
have named lodge after Lotta, the lit
tie actress, calling it the "Lotta Lodge.n
They never saw Lotta between acts,
holding hard to q straw. with her pretty
self at one end and fated mint julep at
the other.
1t is coming election time, when the
weary, waiting wife sits before the
smouldering fire at O'Clock in the MORN
ing anu sobs and thinks of the sunny
days OF her childhood, and chalks the
handle Of the poker as soon as she hears
the click Of her husbands nightkey.
Slang is both strong and weak. Its
strength consists in the ability to ex-
press in 1t, sharp and nervous and full.
the idea intended to be conveyed. Its
weakness is in the fact that 1t is the lam
guage OF the unretfned, the uneducated,