The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-07
GOSSIP.

He gazes about as great millionaire
He don't care cuss for the seed in his hair,
| And he uses cob for pipe.
Material for kites-fy-paper.
self-made men aresvery aptto worship
their maker.
When lady makes you pair Of slip
pers, she wants you to put your foot
In it.
A female speller recently sat down
on "pantaloons," which was natural
enough.
Darwin makes q clean $780, year
by proving that his grandfather was a
monkey.
A collection on yesterday at the An
glioan Church, Clifton, England, amount
cd to $4,000.
A Grange Bank is to be established
this year by the Patrons Of Pawnee
county, Nebraska.
The scholar who fell into reverie last
week was Immediately taken out, and it
is said will recover.
A brown-stone New York girl doesn't
feel really married now unless Cardinal
McCloskey ties the knot.
A red-headed, unprincipled woman
has been selling the colored people of
Boston lotion warranted to make them
white.
The editors toast, always drank with
great enthusiasm: s'To the waste bas-
ket-the natural enemy of amateur
poets."
The Duluth ladies, in anticipation OF O
dry season, are having their panniers
coated with gutta percha so as to hold
rain water.
Asks an exchange "Did Vic really say,
Come, dear Dory, let's 60 to lunchp"
Don't know tor sure, but If she felt b un-
cry we think 1t very likely.
An ignorant matron who could not
read, when told by her clergyman that
the Bible before her was upside down,
replied, "Sir, l am left-handed."
The old maids of Athens, Georgia, are
ON the war-path. They've actually re.
quested the Legislature to make it a
penal ofense for any widow to marry
again.
"He left three disconsolate wives and
a gold-headed eane," is the feeling
, epitaph which the indianapolis Sentinel
.. pronounces over a deceased doctor OF
Indiana.
A person in Troy, before attempting
suicide, was polite enough to invite a
man to come to his funerals; but a
stomach pump arriving in time, the man
missed his hack-ride.
A careful observer, who has devoted
years to studying the phenomena OF in
temperance, says it Is curious fact that
an old topper always keeps his mouth
shut in rain-storm.
Lies tubers de cochons" sounds very
pretty as the title of recent painting
by Mlllet, but come to translate it into
English, "The Hog Killers" and it don't
sound quite so romantic.
The charm of military life! Accord
: Ing to a late report from army head
quarters, over 1,700 men have deserted
within the last ten months, being pro.
portion OF one in fourteen.
The departure of the Presidents fam
, lily for Long Branch, 1t is understood,
has been somewhat fastened to avoid
the birth OF British subject beneath the
roof of the Executive Mansion.
The Montana girl has a very nice sense
of propriely. When the old man fastens
the gate to keep her in nights, she'll
stop half an hour to chew the rope off,
rather than climb over the fence.
Gentlemen of the sold school," 1t is
naixely remarked, are becoming scarce,
and this is peculiarly sad, because the
new school doesn't seem to be snumer-
ously capable" of producing gentlemen.
Nothing tends so much to unsettle a
family's belief In spiritualistic develop
ments as, after hearing mysterious mid
night music on the parlor piano, to dis
cover the family cat daintily stepping
. over the keys.
i. A gratifying indication of the healthy
condition of Baltimore is found in the
fact that an undertaker's establishment
was sold the other day, because Of the
dullnesS OF the times. Six hundred cof-
fins were knocked of.
After Mecklenburg there are only fifty
three Revolutionary events to commemo-
rate. They extend over period OF six
lyears, ending with Yorktown in 1881.
Bunker Hill, on the 17th of June, will be
the next feature OF the Centennial pro-
igramme.
In Albany. the other day, a woman
committed suicide by hanging herself
with q "hair switch that she removed
from her head for the purpose" and now
all the husbands in that city are sug-
gesting to their wives that switches
would greatly become them.
Miss Georgiana Nourse, of Boston, was
Ievidently angling for widower when
she delivered her lecture on "The Step
mother" But Nemesis was near her, and
choked her OF with faint when she was
but half through. A pretty sort of q
nourse she'd be as stepmother.
One of the principal railroad problems
of the day is to find out what the initial
letters by which many roads are famil-
iarly quoted, actually stand for. When
one reads, for instance, of the z. @. &
U. X. r. R., or the b. & T. X. Line, how
the min d involuntariiy recoils before a
mystery which the stockholders only can
solve.
Miss Moody, daughter of the Ameri.
can reviyalist, who Is now preaching in
London, not sharing her fathers. views,
Went to the play, and coming down late
to breakfast next morning was greeted
by him with, "Well, child of Satanp' to
which she calmly responded, "Good
morning, papa"
A Fulton-street restaurant keeper
found his strawberry account short on
Saturday night. A searching inquiry
subsequently, developed the fact that one
of the colored walters, in, the hurry OF
business, had inadvertently allowed
thirteen instead Of twelve strawberries
to plate for one Of the guests.
The legal holidays Of New York are
the 1st OF January, 22d Of February, both
of May, 4th oil July, 25th OF December,
any general election daV and anV daV