The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-16
GOSSIP.
GOSSIP.
'Tis the back bone Of winter,
Still stiff as q stake: .-.
Backed uD by cold snow -StOrut1

OF course it won't break.
On March and on April
We We ceased to rely.
But we still depend on
The Fourth Of Julyl
The spelling beeswax old.
Clothes nnections-Buttons.
An athletic sport-A prize-fghter..
Ague without fever.is no great shakes.
Twenty-Five poets are crowded into
Rhode Island. =. i, !.
All the newsboys are in favor Of the
extra 'dition law. .,...... i,.., ,.....
The voice Of she speller completes with
that OF The turtle.
Straw bonnets made in a monastery
are called chip monk hats. .......yt
Arnica is good for a wrist sprained in
G arving a spring chicken. s....t.....
Tennessee has hog law which levieS
q tax OF So on each hogshead. o..
Now Is the time to. look up old garden
seeds and wonder what they are.
A Spencer, Ind, reporter talks OF a
sleeping citizens mouth being "burgled
OF false teeth"
Rhode Island is trying to make room
for a colossal equestrian statue OF Gen.
Nathaniel Greene.
Editing a Mississippi paper means
buckshot after the first month and q flu
neral after the second. -
Rhode Island bristles with spelling
matches. Some of the dictionary words
reach clear across the State.
A baby in Milwaukee has been chris
tened "Zero," in honor of the cold sun
day upon which he was born.
Papers not able to keep up with the
times, speak of the first President as
"the late George Washington" .,..
1t is said that when a female child is
born III Indiana, the unhappy father be-
gins to save money to buy piano.
In Indianapolis those who nave been
vaccinated are spelling just as well as
those who have had the smallpox.
Patti has made $4,000 worth of furs
out of the Emperor OF Russia. That
comes OF singing in ''furrin parts"
Physicians recommend the omission of
all words OF over sixteen syllables at the
spelling schools, for fear Of lockjaw.
Ii the first robin freezes to death,
Bergh is going to institute suit against
Gen. Myers, alias Old Probabilities.
A good many OF the so-called Havana
cigars would be good models for married
men-they are SO thoroughly domestic,
Mr.. Brown is the husband Of Miss Jane
Coombs, and when.she calls, in however
faint whisper, he Coombs with alacrity
Professor Of Rhetoric-''What import
ant change came over Burns in the lat
ter part OF his lifeW Senior-"He died,
A young lady out ON Plum street says
that whenever she sees that horrid
Jones girls blonde wig she wants to dye.
"The Thunder Bay Booming Company
is the portentous name of Detroit
lumber trm. 1t must do lightning busi-
ness. ......
Mr. Thomas, United States Minister
,Ptenipotentiary to Peru, is coming
home. He will take the first Peruvian
| bark. ....-...
The newspapers that have exhibited
| the most violent grief over the death O
John Mitchell have all spelled his namt
| wrong.
Newhern, North Carolina, has pa
per called the Nut She'll, aud it's editor
IS very appropriately known as "the
| Colonel,'
| The Japanese Minister at Washington
has had a daughter born in his house
hold in this country. lie will probably
call her Jap Ann.
A New Haven man confessed that he
married his wife because she was q
good carver. That's the kind of help.
meat every man wants.
| UP in Cleveland they are playing the
drama of Paradise Lost, and they think
that Adam did very well to lose Para
ulse ana gam CieVeland.
| Kossuth has been defeated again fol
| the Hungarian Diet. He has been Hun.
gary for that Diet for long time, but
the tates are against him.
| Two pair OF stairs are necessary tC
every printing Office in South Carolina
one ior the editor to 20 down as the
irate caller comes up the other.
/ An Evansville man was sold for twenty.
| five cents the other day. When people
! get into the excitement of bidding they
are sure to go fifteen cents too high.
The wine bill Of King Kalakaua and
party at the hotel in New York was only
| 81, ,5S2.10. The King and his party musi
have "sworn otn before leaving home.
A suburban builder, when returnin 9
thanks to those who drank his health
the other day, modestly observed that he
| was ''more fitted Tor the scatfold than
| public speaking"
| A witty pastor once remarked thai
there was just as much family govern.
ment as ever; but formerly parents gov
erned children, now children govern pa
| rents.
District Visitor (blandly "Well,
dame, and how do you find Things now p
Crusty Old Cottager-"How do find
things? Why, by looking arter 'em, te
be sure-drat youw
| Mark Twain says that with the poor
whites along the Mississippi "chills are
| a mercitul provision of an all wise Prov.
idence to enable them to take exercise
without eXertion."
A personal in New York journal in.
forms Mr.. Black that if he will stand on
the corner of Fulton street, on certain
day, he will see his uncle, to whom he
owes some money. -
"If save ten cents a day from my
drinks," ruminated a Caledonian, 'slt
will be $36 80 ayear, and in fifty years il
will be $l,S25, and then ! can marry
Mary. Dear Maryw
The catalogue of the "body servants
of the Father Of His Country has another
name added to it, as follows: No. 1860
Mary Smith, died at Baltimore, aged, III
years. Remembered Washington, etc.
"If there is anybody under the canis.
ter OF heaven that l have in utter ex.
crescence," says Mrs. Partington, sit is
the slanderer going about, like boy
constructor, circulating his calomel upon
honest folks"
From a young lady in town to her
friend in the country Ppm sitting on
the latest spring style, Mary" And
Judging by the number OF monstreus
buttons one sees in the fashion plates, a
very uncomfortable seat it must be,
Young man of Troy aHpd % yaars