The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-08-31


trust at salary of SO, 900 "A year. 1t is
as pitcher OF a professional baseball
club.
The Russian aristocracy are opposed
to their Government taking any part IN
the Centennial Exhibition. For all that
it will be held.
A correspondent wants to know by
what authority we yesterday SAID tnat
flies were OF the race or BeizeDup.
Doesn't everybody know that Belzebub
is the father of flies ?-Boston Adver-
tfser.
Paper tits said, will be cheaper with
the Introduction of the cactus leaf as
material. This Is all nonsense. They
have been introducing new materials for
the last twenty years, but paper don't
change worth cent.
/ A French lady sent her maid to buy
some he 5h-colored stockings. The SER
want soon returned with stockings jet
black. The anger of the mistress soon
| gave way to laughter when she recol-
lected that her mad was lady Of color.
For eNew samples look well in COM
parson with those OF last year'-in
cable report of Mark Lane Expres scro p
review-read ."New samples look poor in
comparison with that OF last year."
Who made something out of that blum
| der?
MIR. Beecher being introduced to a
| Quaker gentlemen at the White Noun
tains, SAID to him: ~ understand your
| belief deprives you of some of the pleas
ures of Jnis life." The other replied: sit
shields us from some of its temptations,
ALSO"
A musket which Aaron Burr captured
| while serving under Benedict Arnold at
| The attempted storming of Quebec on the
night Of December 81, 1775, Is on exhibi-
| tion in Us Nego. The gan is OF the Queen
Anne pattern, and weighs twenty-seyen
| pounds.
| A stranger put q fifty-dollar bill in the
plate at a Saratoga Church last Sunday.
| He is supposed to have been an umbrel-
la manufacturer, who was probably
taking that means Of showing his graft
tude for the recent physiological phe-
nomena,
| A very neat bit OF satire Is embodied
| in this clipping from the Danbury News
"a milk-pitcher, thrown at his wife by
a Nelson-street man, on Monday noon,
missed The aim and ruined a handsome
frame which enclosed the words, God
bless our home.'"
| Mrs. Jane g. Swisshelm AYERS that ele-
campape and fresh milk form a sure
re emedy for hydrophobia. Put the ele-
campane root into the milk, boil it and
glve it TO the patient, fasting, pint az a
| time. Three doses at intervals of forty
eight hours, she says will effect cure.
A young farmer living near town has
sent in after whisky six times this sea-
son TO cure snake bites, and some people
are uncharitable enough to express the
opinion that he keeps the snake on ice,
and thaws it into state OF ferocity
whenever he gets thirsty.-Brunswicker.
An Iowa girl has chest containing
| two feather beds, a dozen cotton sheets,
| TWO dozen pillow cases, six bed quilts
and comtorters, three dozen towels and
six table cloths, and her father has
gwen her two COWS and ten sheep. And
vet the young patrons around there hes
| ltate about marrying her because she Is
cross-eyed, and they can not tell which
she means when she smiles at the crowd
in. church.
Grant got off small joke on his Eng
lish son-in-law recently. AS they were
being serenaded one night, Grant turned
to Sartoris and asked "What tune is that
they are playing~ '"'kle to the Chief"
replied the national son-in-law. "Go oui
and stop 'em, then, if they mean nae.
prefer whisky straight. 'Ale don't &c
down with me-" Then the son-in-law o
the administration looked foolish anC
tried to explain, while the bystanderi
laughed boisterously at the first and only
Joke of the present administration.