The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-03
GOSSIP.

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adieu TO winters sovereignty;
o, bitesome breeze! o, quakesome waves.
and all conglomerate elements OF gelid
things!
Red heads-Those examined by phre-
nologists.
Bacon's works-Biliousnes and sick
headache.
Vested interest-Money in the waist
coat pocket.
Pickpockets gather crowds only 70 dis
purse them.
Tilton, New Hampshire, wants its
name changed.
It's warmer; but don't mind about your
linen busters yet.
lf "there's a place for everything"
where is the place for boil?
People who are always wanting some
thing new should try neuralgia.
A hard-working man of9S is living near
Norfolk, Va, with his 7th wife.
A Florida railroad has declared an an
nual dividend OF nineteen cents.
A man in Missouri has passed forty
four years In trying to count 1000, 200, ,000
Five men of the name of John Smith
are members of the Kansas Legislature.
lfall things are for the best, where do
the ratlons for the second best come
from2
An Oregon editor announces the birth
OF boy weighing $40 pounds Fahren-
heit."
The factory girls of Lewiston, Me-,
consume one ton of snuff annually.
'S'nough.
All the prisoners in the Fort Wayne
calaboose are expected to break out
with smallpox.
A boy was expelled from Cleveland
public school for not knowing who John
b. Cough was.
When cat sings, does she not do it
ON pur-pussf She simply does it to
a-mews herself.
Hereafter, when man wants to run
for Congress he must tell us how long
he can keep awake.
The sidewalks are so slippery In BoS-
ton that some of the papers advocate
bustles for gentlemen.
Rev. Talmage ought to speak to those
New Orleans women. They take their
babies to the matinees.
The church sexton at Watertown, N.
Y, has ot1iciated at 1888 funerals, and
| cried at every one of them.
The Chinese throughout the United
States observed the 22d of February by
Washingtons of clothing on that day.
st. Louis.has ten thousand dogs. The
natives wear section of stove-pipe on
each leg during the mad-dog season.
When Florida Indian is likely to die
| his friends place him where an alligator
| can take him, and thus save burial eX.
| penses.
A West End doctor, whenever he wants
to put patient to sleep, reads him a
| few extracts from the editorial page of
| the Gazette.
A plumber conveys unnecessary In
formation to the public when he puts on
his sign the legend "Cast Iron Sinks.''
Everybody knows that.
| A Chicago burglar didn't want to &c
on trial until he could borrow diamond
pin, and the police ran around for twt
hours to get him one.
| A solitary dog was rescued while float
ing down the East river Oh cake of ice
| yesterday A little more and his bark
would have been on the sea.
"Shingle weddings" are coming rap
idly in style now, 1t is said. This novel
wedding takes place when the ''frst
born" is old enough to spank.
There are two reasons why some peo-
pie don't mind their own business. One
is that they have no business, and the
other is that they have no mind.
In Brooklyn, they celebrate Washing
er trial. Here Is another advantage thai
great man bestowed ON posterity.
A decided decrease in the patronage
of Yale College is expected, now that the
fact that 200 congressman have gradu
ated from it has been made public.
In the midst of the political confusion
i'll New Orleans it does one good to read
that that city has a resident who has
patented eighteen different rat-traps.
The city editor of the Jacksonville
Journal says the only fault he has to find
with his girl is, that she insists ON using
''black navy" instead of fne-cut to-
bacco.
First Girl of the Period-What has be.
come of Julia Ware? Second ditto-Oh
she is doing tirst-rate. She has been de.
ceived by timid old fellow with lots oi
ImOney.
Bismarck will no longer partake Of
american potatoes. He prefers his with
out bugs. Thus persistently do foreign
iers refuse to recognize American insti
ltutions.
"Sunthin's wrong" mused Tennes
see farmer when he visited his smoke
house, the other morning, after setting a
spring gun and failing to lind dead
negro in front of it.
Butler should be prosecuted under the
civil rights law. He says that all the
Associated Press dispatches from the
them on that account.
One day last week young girl, whose
parents reside in this county, swallowed
forty percussion caps. She really de.
served spanking, but her mother re-
trained for lear OF an explosion.
A female lawyer in Wyoming was re-
Gently obliged TO suspend her argument
before a justice in order to administer tC
the wants of her baby, who was arguing
for its dinner in an adjoining room.
| Greatness of station always brings alb
|Sence of mind as penalty. Congress
men who now forget all about $50, ,00(
checks, would have hunted over mile
and half of door-yard to lind los
penny.
1t is said that the Spiritualists recent
| ly found In Italy tirst-olass medium il
the person of q baby nine days old. Thai
Italian infant has embarked in the frauds
and frolics Of the world at quite toe
early an age.
Stone fences are no longer to be regar
| ded as Yankee notion. They have jus
dug up one in Rome-built who knows
wheny and composed wholly of broken
busts, shattered sculptures and frag
ments OF superb marble vases. There's
luxury Tor you.
Machinery has reached great state
of perfection. An exchange remarks