The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-20


And the soft south breezes are brazing broze,
That thaws up the ice with remarkable those.
Two successes-Con the Shaughraun,
and Conn.,, the election.
Z A Sparta, Ca, bureau was borne nine
miles on the bosom Of the late tornado.
Brooklyn provides the strongest. kind
of hemlock and the weakest kind of we'd
lock.
A dispirited exchange remarks that
hfty years ago four cigars only came to
cent.
The Italians are very fond of snails for
food. That's because they can catch
them.
1t Is now announced that Mr.. Evarts'
fee Is TO be $4,000. That will be about
SIX shillings day at present prospects.
If you get hold of fresh greenback
with Ind g. Shad written on it, you may
know that the new Treasurer is at his
post.
Grant said that Butler was bottled up;
but II Butler had said that Grant was
bottled up it might have been deemed an
Extensively personal observation.
The principal sufferers by the new Ten
nessee dog law will be the heas; but they
are not going to desert the family to
weep over the grave Of the family dog.
swim the air, but they can't skim milk"
But we have seen them skim water, and
that is the next thing to milk, pretty
often.
A skunk has for three months been oc-
cupying the cold air box of q furnace in
Boston suburban dwelling, and every
effort is made to keep him in a good
humor.
A photographer, taking down one of
DR.. Mary Walkers lectures, made the
well known legend, "Honi soft qui NAL y
pense,'" read, "only see how Molly
pants"
An applicant for a pair of boots al {, a
shoe shop was asked what number he
wore, and replied, as soon as could re-
cover from his surprise, "Why, two, OF
course"
In Liverpool tthe Select Vestry" buys
port wine tor the Work-house Intirmary
at twenty-five cents bottle. II you
don't like to drink IL, don't go to the
Work-house.
"Falling Water" is the pretty name of
an Indian maiden up in Chippewa coun-
ty, but she cheWs tobacco and wears an
old pair OF army pants, with horn but
tons on them.
There is man in Montgomery county,
Penn, who can hold up his hand and say
that he never opened another mans let
ter by Mistake. We refer, OF course, to
Mr.. Jonn Pfafaelkaeffinga
No Irishman ever made a greater bull
than the English lawyer, who drew up
an Indictment charging that the prison
er killed man with a certain wooden
instrument called an iron pestle.
No wonder that the medical men were
afraid OF the competition of women in
the profession, lor here is one testifying
| that she .'attended a portion of a boy
who was cut up in o moving machine"
| An Industrious Spanish hen at San
Lorenzo, CAL, has laid an egg that Is six
inches in circumference and eight inches
| from end to end, and the Calif0rnis
newspapers are doing her cackling foi
her.
Juliana Macoy, a New York maiden,
| writes that she considers kissing "a sill
ly, meaningless, disgusting, loose thing"
She says that foryears she has "set her
face against them," which We do not
doubt.
A Missouri aspirant, to matrimony ad-
yertises that he,Will give three mules to
any maiden who will marry him; which
gives rise to the question, what respecta-
Bile married woman would want such a
four-in-hand?
The newest machine for grinding music
from door TO door has received the name
of the Mitrailleuse Pianotorte, it's con.
cord of sweet sounds being equal to forty
discharges of grape shot, and its effect
almost as deadly.
A Detroit editor has established bad
precedent by marrying a girl compostor
She will always know whether it il
necessary for him to stay down at the
office till two O'Clock in the morning sstC
make up the forms."
A country newspaper out West thus
heads its report OF a fire: "Feast OF the
Fire-Fiend-The Forked-T -Tongued De.
mon Licks With Its Lurid Breath a Lum-
Der Pile!-Are the Scenes OF Boston and
Chicago to be Repeated?-Loss $780,"
Here is another weary poet. He says:
"Bury me near the broad highway, in
the midst of the noisy town, where the
rattle of wheels, and the clatter of hoofs,
60 laundering up and down." And if
he has any friends they should immedi-
ately accommodate him.
A Boston baker doesn't want to be
considered as moving in the front rank
of philanthropists any longer. The
ously filling with broken bread all win.
ter turns out to be boarding house
keeper with ten Doarders.
A box marked for Iowa, to a grass
hopper relief committee, was broken
open at the Central depot the other day,
and the contents were found to consist
of old boots and frozen potatoes. On
the side of the box were the words: "The
Lord loyeth cheerful giver."
A Rockford man came home late one
night from the "club" and raved around
with shotgun because the servant
would not let him into his wite's cham.
ber, "because there was young man
there" The young man was two hours
old. /.
The people living around the Overlook
House at the Catskills were too smart
to be fooled by the alarm of fire in thai
hotel, coming as it did, on April 1, and
consequently it was not until the flames
were through the roof that they rallied
to extinguish them, and then 1t was toe
late.
A Sunday-school superintendent, fear.
| ing his younger scholars might not un
derstand the term "missionaries," ex
planned that they were men who went
about "to propagate the Gospel" Their
the whole thing was clear to the infant
class.
| He had jockey style Of cap on, q
leather band around his waist, his trow
ser legs tucked inside his boots, and was
aged l6. "Milk and spelling matches
for babies," he exclaimed, curling his
upper lip; "but as TOR me, gimme base
hall lU