The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-23
GOSSIP.
Lay aside your long tailed Ulster,
Take your fur cap off your head;
Now call In your wraps and mufilerS,
For tha Wi IN ter has 0anA dead

"A bau udUlt w Bo1 luto-" oo"V oh"s -"
not paid Tor.
San Francisco is badly licked on those
monuments.
The proudest men at this season--The
haughty-culturists,
Judging from what it costs, house
painting in high art.
When sausages are five cents a pound
they are dog cheap.
Austria has a champion high priest;
he is eight teet high.
The latest DanDury news--only 1888
Democratic majority.
When married men smoke they should
smoke domestic cigars.
SO far Beecher's counsel have not been
hugged by their client.
Abram was the first sick man. He had
Hagar in the wilderness.
Boys see their palmy days when they
arrive at a spanking age.
Shooting editors is not limited by law
tO season, like other game.
Most courts have but one ''crierV The
Brooklyn Court is an exception.
Ata Wheeling (Va.) ''bee," Mr.. Day
spelt "pasnip" and was hooted out.
Madam Demorest, who is now in Mex
leo, will describe the country without
bias.
In Charleston hotel clerks take 'legal
adyioe' before registering the name of a
guest.
There is a town in Idaho named Sayne.
or course all the inhabitants are in
Sayne.
Andy johnson has showed his colors.
He carries bun silk handkerchief, with
bright red border.
There is secret society of BARRIERS in
Cleveland, and the password is conjec-
Jured to be 'NeXt!o
Tilton has not been retained by the
Hanging COMMITTEES of The National
Academy Of Design.
ElmoYe, W., has neither lawyer, doe
tor, town debt nor newspaper, but has
money in it's treasury.
1t is stated that in making kid glove
1t passes through 2l9 hands. No wonder
they wear out 50 soon.
THAT'S honest. When Calmuck has
inarriageable daughter he flies a flag
from the top of his house.
Milk punch is now recommended as a
cure for dipthera. 1t has always been
considered good for the throat.
Ii they get up any more political par
ties in Rhode Island, where will they
find room for the baliot-boXes?
The manager of a Brooklyn theaterhas
forbidden any allusion to the scandal on
his stage. Throw MIN bouquet.
You might know our country'sat peace,
for they're setting up several military
CON paDies at Harvard University.
A little girl thought she mad the quota
tion about right when she declareu that
ga thing Of beauty is a boy foreyer.n
A belle upon being asked her fathers
profession, said he embalmed pork,'
she believed. He was bacon curer.
A spruce-gum famine Is threatened in
.,.l,,, "A Fsrio "a
4 ing up their old India rubber shoes.
| No man was ever born to reform the
whole world. In most cases it is as much
as the world can do to reform the man.
The name OF Spanish officer now in
Madrid is Don Juan Nepoinunceno de
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Spell
that.
A Christmas isappointment-" It's a
lovely doll, dear grandpa and grandma
but-but-Pd been hoping it would ba
twins"
1t insults the native American to at.
tempt to buy his vote with money, bui
he is not always Indifferent to moreale.
suasion.
Six feet and seven inches Of snow have
fallen during the winter. If the cold
weather could be "piled up" it would be
about fifty feet thick.
A physician says ''hard boiled eggs
are healthy" And he is correct. Nc
one ever heard an egg complain of being
unWell alter it had been boiled hard.
HOW often one is disappointed in peo
pie. Now, here, the "hhirless man
over whom Troy has been so much agi
tated, turns out to be only a horse thief
A man Is said to be absent-mlnded
when he thinks he has left his watch at
home, and takes it out of his pocket to
see if he has time to return home and
get it.
indianapolis is the home of a young
couple whose future is likely to be
stormy. They have only been married q
month. and during that time have sepa
rated over dozen times.
If people would only get in the habit OF
carrying money about their clothes when
young, it would save them world Of in
convenience in maturer years.
1t you haven't bought your new hat
yet, young woman, shroud your old one
in a grenadine veil, look as distinguished
as you can, and nobody Will know the
difference.
Longfellow is engaged gin translating,
in verse, the "Nibetupgen Lied" These
are hard names to call book, but ii Nj.
belungen did it he should be brought out
while the great trial is is progress.
The mystery Of the canal frauds in
New York is not generally understood
in the West, but the general impression
seems to be that Connecticut shoe-pegs
were palmed off for oats upon the tow
path mules.
4 New Mexico editor, in forgetful
moment the other day, was so imprudent
as to venture into his sanctum without
having his revolver with him. The Cor
oners jury returned verdict of "delib-
crate suicide"
1t is bad enough for Max Strakosch to
see the announcement in every news
paper that he has lost $l00, 900 this sea-
son, but how much more distressing the
universal comment that he did not have
that much to lose.
A bashful Connecticut drug clerk was
puzzled the other day by having one OF
the female jubilee singers ask him for a
shesh-colored court plaster," but after
some thought he handed out black and
lodged under the counter for safety.
A paper in Southern Illinois regrets
that it went to press some day TOO early
to record the death of John Bates"
This is not quite as cool as the paper
which said: "JuSt as we are going to
press John Smith is being run over by
the cars"
The latest instance of snobbish vener-
alton for exalted rank was given by the
tea-drinker, who, as soon as he heard of
the Emperor Of China's death, restricted
himself to the consumption Of black tea