The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-26
GOSSIP

way he should not go.
Andrew Johnson's estate is estimated
at from $15O,000 to 100000.
Bret Harte is down in Maine, hunt
ing, it 10 said, ideas for play.
Japan has coins so small that it takes
q thousand OF them to make dollar.
Live beyond your means and you Will
| soon lind it beyond your means to live.
His name has been changed, and hore,
after he will be known as Uli Perkins.
"Garters of cerise satin, costing $5, are
worn at Saratoga" How do you know
The man who can invent a lazier
amusement than croquet will make his
fortune.
Sandy Hill, N. Y, proposes to cele-
brate the centennial oil the murder OF
Jane McCrea.
Except in very low situations, tobacco
every where gives promise of an abund-
ant and excellent crop.
West Troy has boat club OF young
women, but they usually take young men
along to do the rowing.
A Chicago widow had her lap-dog col
ored gorgeous crimson by way of COM
pliment to her lovers nose.
constructed at his own expense from
Constantinople to BagGad.
Sir Wiltrid Lawson recently spoke of
Mars and Bacchus ''as the god Of Bat
ties and the god OF bottles"
Edmond About calls France O sick
soldier OF God needing TO be cured
through the lapse OF time.
Shades of Ben Franklin, forbid It'll
There is penalty of five dollars tor
kite-flying in Philadelphia.
What CITY does kiss resemble? Nice.
why Is kiss like sewing machine
Because 1t seems so good.
Women's temper is growing worse ey-
cry year. 1t Is almost Impossible to tnd
an unruttled lady now-a-days.
The present outlook is favorable for
larger corn and potato crop than was
ever grown in the United States.
Said a wag, pointing to blind wood
sawyer, Nobody ever saw that man see,
but nundreds have seen MIN saw"
win striped stockings lead to striped
suits! asks fashion writer. Not il you
behave yoarself and keep out of jail.
A canoe twenty feet long, made out of
a single mahogany tree, is among the Gu
riosities of the Paris Maritime Exhibit
Lion.
A matter OF fact man, who went to
count tine thousand ISLANDS, has returned
with a report that there are only 400 and
odd.
1t is good sign for the crops that the
first bale OF new cotton received at
Charleston comes eight days earlier than
Last year.
And now Bessie Turner Is writing a
novel, and Joseph Howard, Jr., reyises
the his. MIR. Howard Is the editor of the
New YORK Star.
To prevent a lover from 'tgoing back"
on his promisea Detroit girl always in-
PRODUCES him to her friends as "my in
tended. husband"
A murderer in Nevada refused to es-
cape when the jail door was accidental
iy lett open, "Decause he didn't have a
clean SHIRT TO 60 ln."
We do not know what the row was be-
tween them, but Biifkins has looked
very meek for "a week past and his wife
has new grenadine dress.
Between the missionaries and com.
missioners is it any wonder that y oor
Los shortcomings include sins OF COM
mission and omission alike?
Col. Sellers denies the report that he
lost anything by the Duncan Sherman
failure; 80 You needn't waste any ''eye
water" on hin.-Boston Post.
1t was his first baby, aud he acted just
like man who had been suspected OF
stealing his neighbours tooth brush, and
WAS trying to avoid observation.
Ruskin says man should learn three
things: WHAT kind OF world he lives
in. n
knowledge OF the way TO get out OF it.
He who uses three-cent stamp where
TWO would suffice, does something To-
ward wiping out the national debt, and
is emitted TO his country's gratitude.
Advertising pays, A Chicago man ad-
vertised for servant girl. and one Of
mis- divorced wives Knocked at the door
| in less than live hours after The paper was
| out.
Wendell Phillips oration in Boston
| last week was not the id article, but a
| fresh coinage. Some OF the old material
| was used again, but the oraLiOn is essen-
TALLY new.
| Edwin Booth is engaged for the Wash
| ingLon stage this la 1. de Will be the
| first memuer OF the Booth family on the
| Wa shingtJn boarus since Lincoln was
| iassasslnated.
1 The French army, it is announced, on
the authority oil General De Cissey, is to
reorganize ON peace footing. This is
wise. WHAT France most needs at this
Tine is peace.
Simmons was clerk in Wholesale
store, and has been unjustly DISCHARGED
because his employers disliked 10 SET
their letters, bIIis, ETC., signed ID Jones,
Brown & Co., per Simmons"
| The Scotch NAL makes 337 miles, from
! Edinburgh to London, in nine and a hall
4 hours, The actual running time being a
little inside OF eight hours, or an average
speed OF fifty miles an hour.
A young lady at spelling match fin
ished the word education with u "shun."
| They asked her to sat down, which she
did, after explaining quite needIessly
that she always stunned edueation.
skate, understand you have accept.
4 ed u situation as a goyerness. Rather
\ than that, 1 would marry widoweI
with six children" "Yes, Sophie; SO
would l, but where is the widowerW
Miss susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper,
daughter OF the novelist, is at the hea(
OF an orphanage ON Otsego Lake, near
lCooperstown. She devotes her life tt
the support and training OF the inmates
Fourteen thousand dollars have beer
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