The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-27
GOSSIP.

In Nebraska 12,0uO,000 forest trees
were planted last year.
There are fifty millions of idle dollars
in Wall street.-Pniladeiphia Star.
| . There is one town in Connecticut that
is not afraid OF the measles. It's Had
dam.
"Pay Up" is the title of a new town in
Oregon. We suppose it's destined to be
a tull settlement.
Gilmore proposes to celebrate the Cen.
tennial by having 100000 persons sing the
one hundredLn psalm.
The best way to deal with sstramps.''
Arrest them, give them something w DO,
and make them earn their board.
A man just from the country says he
has tree Lnat bears six kinds OF fruit
He means an axle-tree we suppose.
1t is now announced that MIR. Booth
| will probably be abe to ill his engage.
ment at the Fifth Avenue In October.
Just think Of it'll 1t costs 81, ,25O, ,5S9 10
to KEGS the ladies' of this country III i'm.
ported corsets Tor one year. WHAT a
wasIe.-Exchange.
Nj iss Charlotte Cushman lis confined
to her bed at Newport, and her physi-
clans have forbidden all visitors. Her
agents have Cancelled all her engage.
menus.
They were seated at a. late dinner,
when the door-bell rung and the servant
handed a card to Jones' wife. ssGoou
gracious! it's our minister, and Pye been
eating onlonsP she exclaimed.
Since the Egyptians have allowed their
ladies to appear in puDllc without veIfs,
a stranger walking the streets or any of
their cities might imagine himself in St..
Louis--ne sees SO many hOnely women.
'.Let US lay our bones together,o said
a young lady sMeetly to her companion
at u picnic: and she held up a druinstick
in a dainty way. But he said: mo, let
u, rather be one flesh. h."-Chicago Trib-
une.
We are surprised to dearn that Gen .
Sherman had no better discretion than
to kiss all the little girls at a Minnesota
picnic the otner day, when he might just
as well have kissed all The big ones In
stead.
To many men the habit Of profane lam
guage is a safety-yalve to- the passions.
When they are angry, II they did not
swear they would burst; and, barring
the '.muss" their explosion would make,
ought to.
1uc pull-UdCh bhlb 40 w kO lOub VI
fashion 10 give place to something less
anatomical, and Mr.. Jefferson Davis
thinks that there have been many
cnanges in style since he was in the
business.
Sixteen Chinese women were sold at
auction in California, the other day, only
Chinese being allowed to bid. Eight
dollars was the highest price, and one
sold for sixty-tiye cents, her nose icing
out Of plumb.
A Somerset county woman, rs years of
age, became tired of life the other aay
and hung herself to a bedpost with COR
set. e:always thought corsets were
unhealthy, especially when worn about
the neck.-N0rr Herald.
A lady being asked by gentleman
to become mis- wire, wrote the word
'.stripes," and stated that the letters of
the word could be trapsposed into the
answer. He finally studied out the word
''persisp'-what every woman wishes
her lover to do.
1t is said that the head OF Jenny. Lind's
husband is as bald, smooth aud shiny as
q billiard ball, and that Jenny does up
her hair just as she used to when. in this
country. Now that tho world is In pos