The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-09
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%Unearthing frauds-Digging up dis
easad potatoes.
All dining-room servants should learn
to labor and to wait.
The Chinese make soup of caterpil-
lars boiled with onions.
The whisky fight is called general
'engangement. " might be termed a
knaevl battle.
August will be the favorite month for
lovers this year. There will be two
moons in it.
In Ireland they call the tory party
"ultra-marine," which should make them
teei awfully blue.
The public schools Of Baltimore, Md,
now have but one session a day, from
81 A. NJ. TO P. M. e !.
The Board Of Education of Troy, N.
Y, have decided that the Bible shall not
be read in the public schools.
The poet Schiller died May 8, 1905.
The steamship "Sohiller," named after
the poet, went down May g., 1875.
A Florida letter says the mosquitoes
are mastering in large numbers for their
usual summer campaign in the North.
Quilp1sWell, how did you like the
sermon, my dearW Mrs. Q.-s'Ohl per-
fectly, splsndidl Such loves OF hon-
netsW rsf
"Pigeongram" is the name suggested
by learned schOol-marm for bhc dis
patches sent by the means Of pigeons.
Carrier out.
At Millersburg, KY, few days ago. a
large walnut tree was cut down, inside
of which were found eleven coons, all of
which were captured.
There is very fierce lion in Paris,
who is made crazy with fear at the sight
of grasshopper. Which must be fun
for the insect.
"Dfgby will you take some of this but,
terW "Thank you, ma'am; Pm Good
Templar; can't take anything strong,7
replied Diyby.
A compositor in the Buffalo Express
office is rather too free With his cypher
box. He values Jay Cookies Phiiadel-
phia residence at $lO0,O00, ,o00.
Mark Twain is accused of removing
the cushion In his church pew at Hart-
ford, and putring 1t into q seat he has
purchased on the baseball grounds.
Nothing exhausts the mental fibre Like
the practice OF making puns. Ii per-
son follows it forten. years he is sure to
pass into. the ranks of decade punsters.
The great error of amateur fishermen
is to suppose that to catch fish makes
the enjoyment. Tnis Ii bosh. One does
not 20 out Tor tish but for pantaloons and
oXygeAs . ri
The New York Arcadian reveals to a
star tied world the tate of the once ad-
mired actress, Miss Agnes Ethel. 1t
saws ''matrimony has ingurgitaJed her
to all eternity"
The days are at hand when prudish
clergymen will swelter through Two SER
mons q Sunday IN dress coat for fear
OF offending somebody by wearing a
comfortable duster.
! There is a Frenchman on his travels
in England, who writes home that in
Liverpool the hearses stand at the cor.
ners in rows, waiting for customers, just
as cabs in other places.
All life is sacred, and therefore not to.
lightly taken, is reflection which oc-
ours to many humane persons. whe care
fully exricate the bugs from strawber4
sries before, eating them. ss4-s, d, 4
A literary ice cart driver, who has been
annoyed by children who have been in
the habit OF pilfering his ice, now dis
d hays as q warming, IN. b." He thinks
they will understand that that means
Is'TaKe Notice."
A crusty old gentleman, not liking the
ways his landlady's daughter had of
making free with his hair oil, flied the
bottle with liquid glue the day before a
ball to which the girl had been invited,
and she stayedat home.
The only way policeman who has
been chased by q burglar can redeem his
reputation fs to shoot a playful canine
pet while its masters back is turned,
and be gazetted in the newspapers for
having killed s'mad dog"
The petition against cenventual inst-
tutions, raised in England, is said to
\ have borne LII, ,008 'signatHres and to
Emeasure about three-quarters of mile
Hin length. Forty thousand signatures
were Obtained In London alone.
Considering hesquartersl they've been
fused to at home, arn't Red Cloud and
Spotted Fail a trifle particular about
their hotel accommodations at Washing
ton? How would the first floor of a lum-
ber yard suit their fastidious faneyf -
Kansas scientist is saving, for the
| benefit Of future generations, four mule
shoes, from which the former proprietor
| was eaten clean by the grass h0ppers last
Iseason. The hoppers must have been
[sick, or they wouldn't have left the
shoes.
/ ~Ahr' said Sunday-school teacher
Es.ah, Caroline Jones, what do you think
| YOU would have been without your good
\ Ifatber and pious motherW .sfl suppose,
Emum,', said Caroline, who was very
Imuch struck with soft appeal, 81 sup
pose, mum, as should h@ been a
herphing."s
1Thomas Towser. are you guilty or In
nocent. of this charge p said the Judge
Es.May it please your Honor" replied
Thomas, 81 don't want to commit my.
|iself.' ssAh.' said the judge. blandlY,
li.sthen TN save you the trouble and do il
Emyself. Sixty days"
"That ar patch of ground g mem'ff
lible,n - said an Omaha man. pointing TO q
Egrave all by itself outside the, town. u
Ireckon you'll know that stranger, when
Lyon see it agiH. Yhe ockypant,ef that
Ewas the tust' man Horrust Greeley ever
i told to get West--likewise he was hung
fsr stealing mewLD
II A paper mp I'M EASTERN Oregon has this
Eeenesous sannsuneement: HAll those who
Iare in arrearaas tor the paper, by calling
Hand settling the same, can have thf
marks and brands of their hogs Published
Earatuitausiy; otherwise they wilt be
Bplaced upon the black list and theil
lnames published"
l A Norwich business man riding on the