The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-23
GOSSIP.

Poet,
Ere Nature had finished him of 70 It.
The height of man is equal to the
measure of his extended arms from tip
to tip OF finger.
Young women are advised to set good
examples, because young men are al
ways following them.
That writer does the most who gives
his reader the most knowledge and takes
from him the least time.
The consumption of crabs is SO great
in France that there Is danger Of the
supply becoming extinct.
He put the enemy into his mouth to
steal away his brains. but the enemy,
after a protracted search, returned with
out anything.
Several English noblehen who have
Joined Sir Wilfred Lawson's temperance
party have closed all the public houses
on their estates.
This is not bad definition of baby:
A palpitating touch OF nothing rolled up
in flannel, with the one faculty OF almost
AUTOMATIC SUCTION.
Farmers are tarring their fences, in
anticipation OF raids on their premises
by city sportsmen, now that the cunning
season has set in.
At the Meriden Conn. fair, last week,
II was discovered that the barley which
took the premium had been swollen un.
naturally by soaking it.
California hunters say that grizzly
bears, when captured alive, though not
wounded, sc on die Of broken heart, In
duced by excessive rage.
The aggregate length of the railroads
in operation in Brazil is S36 miles, or
about forty miles less than that of the
little Stale of Connecticut.
There is a man In this city who has
never been known to refuse beggar.
The beggar takes two or three squints
at him and never asks him.
Brete Harte has just completed an
original play, which his admirers claim
will prove, on its representation, to be
. the long looked for American comedy.
Now is the time to inspect the musk
rats, the beavers, the bark of the trees,
and the squirrels nests, to find out what
sort OF a winter we are going TO have.
A little Whitewater, gazing upon an
old picture of his mother, taken in low
dress, remarked, "Mamma, you was
mos ready tor bed when yat picter Was
TOKEN" tE
Thnu nr tprripo Eaatnrp farnfp =.
sionals for "conduct unbecoming a gen
tleman and baseball player."' The mind
revolts at the thought OF what such con
duct must be.
Mr.. Edwin Booth, having almost com
pletely recovered from his recent acci
dent, will appear at the Fifth Avenue
+, Theatre, New York, or Monday, October
25th; in "Hamlet."
Emperor William has written to de
scendent OF Handel that new quartz
is tobe added to the city OF Berlin, il
which all the streets are to be nance
after Germany's musical celebrities.
tI'm two years older than you" said,
little eight-year-old girl to New Bed
ford boy, the other day. "Weli, dom
care" was tine reply; sssPm going 4
wear trousers soon, and that YOU'LL neye
do"
Said a pompous fellow, browbeatin;
his auditors: II have Travelled round tn
world.n .Replied wit of the Addiso
. nian school: $50 has the caBe hold II
my hand, but il Is only slick Tor al
that"
Gift is all the sane to You, daughter,
said an old gentleman to one Of his MAJ
ried children, Il " i'll not dine with yo
to-day" And the daughter said, "Ver
well, you may 60, father, and far
worse"
A Dubuque youngster, learning tina
tannin could be used to make the skin s.
hard and tough in exposed places tina
chatting and blistefing Would not occur
acted accordingly; and now any atloun
of the aternal nand and shingle mas ~
terrors for him.
The cranberry crop this year Is esli
mated at $4,000 bushels, ayainst It an a,
erage of about 2150)0. Cape Cod an
New England produce 1000 bushels
New Jersey $1,000, New York 5000, an
the Northwestern States 10000. In
fruit is'said to be of nice quality.
st. Peters Church, at Rome, is aboy
500 feet high, aud covers nearly eigl
acres of ground. Its cost has been owe
E6O, ,0O0. 900. Such buildings as TINS an
the Vatican, and the vast expenses {
the Papal Church, nave SO exDauste
Italy that half its people are lazzaroi
and banditti.
A French colonel cured his regimen
Of duelling by compelling couple
belligerents to fight until they kllle
eaen other. What a quantity of ammu
milton would be wasted If those St. Lou
journalists were compelled to shoot
each other until they were both ktlle
and how the Tree tops would suferi
Dickens and Thackeray were eiwalkin
in Coyent Market one day, when the
came to place where there were tw
piles OF oy sters in window, one pj
being marked ninepence a dozen, IN
the other sixpence dozen. Tnaekera
stood with his hands behind him an
said to Dickens; slow they wdst hal
each other"