The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-05
GOSSIP.

An affecting sight-Barrels in tears.
RemarkaDle natural curiosity-A wo-
mans.
The voice of spring is heard in the pass
ing sneeze.
Lavender says his wife is always ready
to tell her age. "''-
Array that always lights up woman's
spair-Rai-ment.
Bad signs-Those which are likely to
fall on the heads of passers by.
They call Lotta s'the peerless" because
she Is said to pear less every season.
An admiring reader of the Inter-Ocean
writes: keep your old quill foppin'."
Bashtulness is often like the plating
on spoons-when it wears off it shows
the brass. '-
Dan. Voorhees, son is a book agent.
"The sins OF the father shall be yis-
ited," &c.
Men who are born great are much rarer
than those who have greatness thrust
upon them. 49,
Richmond's Chief of Police is Parater,
| but he isn't at all such man as Iom
Murphy in New York. ''
An enraged woman lately scratched
the face of a Maine editor. He Is fond
of jeweiry, but didn't Inns M nef lingering.
HShe never billed 'taters with skins
on" was the eulogy pronounced ON
Wisconsin woman. What more need be
said?
The letter of little boy in Maine, who
objects to compulsory education, alludes
to a servant in the family as "plghara
girl"
Ambitious young gentlemen are con-
lmepc..".,s, .ue study Of law, in hopes Of
coming in as reserved counsel IN the
Beecher case.
You da1en't 60 into bar-room at Kan.
sas CITY and call out, Judge, you lieV
Every man in the room would know that
you meant him.
They have discovered Michael Ange-
los private correspondence; and it's
good thing for poor Mike that he was
never in Brooklyn.
The latest theory in regard to the cold
| weather is that the earth has somehow
got "shied OFF, three or four hundred
miles further north.
A Cass county, Iowa, minister mas
presented a bill OF five dollars to the
board of Supervisors for preaching the
d funeral of a pauper.
The st, Louis Republican asks: "W bich
is the detendantr' Marry! There is no
defendant in the case, so please you;
they are both plaintiffs. ,,.
81 dreamed Twas spelling at spelling
J match and never missed a WOrd," Is Wha'
lvoung ladies say now when they recover
from the effects OF ether.
IL Pleasant-taced people are generally
the most welcome, but the auctioneer is
always pleased to see man whose
countenance is for bidding.
When Beecher prayed last Sunday, ac
,, cording to weeping Jenkins, ''all abou
him from the bowed heads there was thu
J faint, low murmur of falling tears"
II A young man writing to young lady
whom he had never seen, asked: "Art
=. your eyes dark or azurep' And sne re
piled: sAzure fancy is, azure YOU"
During the recent flood in the Tennes-
see river, cornteld, with man work
, ingln it, dritted down for considerable
distance.
An English duke, it is said, is driving
< a hack in Philadelphia. He is TO be con
s graduated, for it is seldom that an Eng
= fish duke finds such useful employment
d Hammond endeav vored to establs
l. women prayer-meetings but as he IN
l. sisted on limiting the fair oratrlXes !
J. three minutes each the effort was fal
ure.
we'll, we'll, letter can make grea
J. | difference; though, to confess the truth
J Don Pardee does look little more arls
!. tocratic than the proot-readers Da
l. Pardee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson will lectur
. i again. His subject is not announced
but it will be something like ''Tt
lOpaque Perspective OF the Deep Unfatl
y. OmaDle." D.,
" gentleman visiting farm house az
ol mired some very strong oaken chair
y ayes" said the farmer, ''them's fu'
~ ~ rate articles, specially in the summ'
y, ior piazzery purposes"
IA A young lady while out walking near
III x 81 Of har tpnthaJs intn
ton to marry again, and she was obllg'
IS to sit right down and cry about 1T. 81
NJ could not 60 a step-farther.
90 A wealthy Philadelphian, who die
or recently, stipulated in his will that b
or nearest relative should assassinate t.
Ia obituary editor of the Ledger if he ma
on any remarks on the subject.
vn x French paper thus lucidly commen
re- on the great trial: "It is sad blow
American morals when great tempe
ay ance orator like Mr.. Beecher is charg
Or, with stealing seven hogs ana call.
nd Ii YOU want to see man struggling
,ly do several things at once, just Watch d
ut irving to put on his overcoat and rubbe
nd and vet Keep his head bowed While
yn minister is pronouncing the benedIctlo
he Sioux City still sits facing the Es
with tish-pole in hand, ever and an
IA casting her hook--baited with ire
mr. Black Hills gold rumors-and ironing
70 along over the Mississippi river staI
in. The suckers are being taken IN at a 1V'
,n W Quiet place for an invalid or student
an Garner, Hancock county, Iowa.
c,, people count that day lost whose ie
;ff declining sun sees not score OF .
1A' fights lost and won. Everybody "
stops at Garner must be tarryer.
A Webster county man, seeing
'ys name among the advertised letters IN
ms Lumpkin Independent, walked eightt
ION miles only to find that it was a prln'
is circular from Columbus merchant.
In was the maddesJ man in the county.
1as After last weeks developments OF b
ose life in Brooklyn, what honest, ha
:. working laborer, though he lives 0
ing diet of oat meal and wears patches
, OF his pants, will sigh to exchange his hi
ow ble lot for life in a brown-stone front.
set.j When a man has spent halt night
hey writing up the revenue bill, it see
cry hard that his "watches and ornamen
rhe should come out in the paper as "matc
at and ornaments;" but what is to be d.
dol when the proofreader is tan, broad
OF unscrupulous?
In last years. directory one man ha
md notice inserted alter his name-'s'
h;e move soon somewhere" If the stril