The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-18
GOSSIP.
"Come into the garden, Maud"
With brIckbat and stone;
Here's the biggest cat you ever sawed
Run like the mischief, Maud,

Here's the biggest cat you ever sawed,
Gnawing q chicken bone:
Run like the mischief Maud,
Pm here with the beast alonel
Criticism and SANDER are widely diE
ferent.
Sentiment for a census taker-Many
happy returns.
ELI Perkins is writing up his travels.
He can go further and see less than
even Mohammedan.
Brooklyn has q judge named Judge
Mott, and despite the plain injunction
he keeps right on judging.
"Heap good for hoss blanketW was the
exclamation of one Of the Indian dele
CATION as he danced around on velvet
carpet.
D Be careful Of your diet. A Georgian
held strawberry In his teeth for
young lady TO bite at, and she bit half
his nose OF.
A Baltimore man nearly died OF
apoplexy, Saturday night. He tried to
read one OF Mr.. Evarts sentences with
out taking breath.
If this kind Of thing goes ON a little
longer the American infant will learn to
count At, AZ, 40, semi-oentennial; 81, 9S
SO, centennial.
An Iowa woman gave her husband
morphine to cure him Of chewing to-
bacco. IL CURED him but she is doing her
own spring ploughing.
A woman In love is a somnam bulist,
who walks on steep roofs and narrow
walls, without fear OF falling or con-
sciousness Of danger. =.
These are the days that give birth to
the mel0dious mosquito, the mystery OF
|xxvkA L. Iur t<Ss I'M
Providence and entomologlstss O
Old King Kofee's no fool after all. II
the English did whip the hide of him, he
isn't too proud to send his oldest boy
back to England to be educated.
A young lady in Alabama said she
guessed she knew how to shoot q pistol.
brothers. leg said he guessed so too.
The scandal has had its sh1ndred
days." but 1t is discouraging to lovers
still uncertain as to whether there is 60
ing 10 be Waterloo.
An Ohio girl got mp the other morning
cut off one Of her fingers on an old scythe
hidden in the grass. There Is always
some drawback TO sentiment.
One million two hundred thousand
pounds of honey from single county
seems prodigious for an industry only
about three years old. Yet this Is what
San Diego county, California, claims.
When Detroit sign painter gets to
work there is no stopping him. He
says: "Groceries provisions sugars- teas
oils Goldfish starch the nimble sixpence
is our motto we can't be undersold 1t
you don't see what you want ask for
T. II Vol, see a young. man, about dusk
Isneaking home through the back streets,
keeping close to the house walls and
wearing pair Of IMMACULATE white
trousers with a CHASTITY clot OF green on
each knee, you can bet he has just got
In from picnic.
| 1t would appear from the front Of the
present style or dress worn by the fair
sex that about four yards would make
them skirt, they are pinned back SO
tight, but then they manage to get the
other fifteen yards in behind in trim
mlngs.
There Is to be department. In The
ments OF war, and Mr. Robbins, who is
married but not mated. says If it doesn't
contain common stove poker and
flat-iron, the show will be very inoom-
plete.
The man who drops o poker because
the handle Is warm, and then carelessly
picks 1t up again by the end that is red
hot, generally gets about as much SYM
pathy as the man who rushes to the
newspaper effice to have an explanation
published, and finds when the correction
comes out that IT'S ten times as bad as
the original.
The house of q gentleman of Gardner,
Me-, was visited last Sunday by flock
of chimney swallows estimated to num-
Der five hundred. They formed In the
shape OF funnel, and the whole flock
entered his chimney. so completely I'LL
stove was forced back into one of the
rooms OF the house. They left their re-
treat the following morning.
Tobe was once stricken with what
everybody supposed to be his last sick
ness. He called his son John to his bed
side and said in a husky voice: s'John,
when am gone wish my death to be
published in the papers. Oh, John, will
you put in the words tell your 'sOh,
yes, father" said the mourning son.
swell, John, put in the papers that
was the sickest man that ever died."
A Broad street, Newark, physician
was called upon last week TO attend
seamstress who felt indisposed. He in
quired as to her health, and she re-
sponded, very appropriately, swell, it's
about sew, sew, Doctor, but seams
worse to-day, and / have frequent
stitches in the side." The Doctor
hemmed soon, Us he felt her pulse, said
she would mend soon, and left pre-
scription. f
A young lady at Davenport, Iowa,
made narrow escape from shipwreck.
With ticket secured, and band-boxes and
Saratoga packed, she found herself at
the depot a few minutes too late for the
train which was to carry her with
party OF friends, to sail on the Schiller.
Accepting this as an omen OF evil, she
refused to go on the next train, which
would have brought her to New York in
time, and thus probably escaped drown
ing.
About the fret thing woman does In
a moving is to cut herfngers, aud every
object she wishes to call your attention
to is pointed out with hand that is COW
cred by half pound Of carpetrags and