The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-19
GOSSIP.

If they want to pull 'em back all the
men in the land can't stop 'em.
How frequently it happens that the
experience of others is useless to our
selves.
When may two people be said to be
| half witted? When they have an under
standing between them.
Franklin Pierce was the only Presi- |
| dent who went out OF Oifice with CaDl- |
net as originally appointed.
Che English critics ale delighted to |
find that Mr.. Toole brought no "Ameri- |
canism" back to the London stage.
The wave on which many poor fell |
low has been carried away is the wave
Of a lace-edged cambric handkerchief.
There is man in Iowa who can hon
esty say that he never opened another
mans letter by mistake. His name is
John Piafaelkaeffingarr
look upon an able statesman out of
business like huge whale, that VIII en-
deavOr to oVerturn the ship unless he
has an empty cask to play with.-Stee,e.
Hypocrisy, the asfute Duke de la
ROchetoucauld tells us, is sort Of hom-
age which vice pays to virtue, and lmi-
TALON is the must delicate form of fat
tery.
Free love and easy divorce have made
such headway in Chicago that the pa
pers have actually undertaken to start
u revival movement in behalf OF matrl-
mony.
| Wnen we undertook to saythat 'Grant's
auction was not q success" the printer
substituted an KS" for the ga" in ''auc-
tiOn," and made us tell palpaDle 1alSe-
hood.
hoe enid aA
before long England will possess l60-
ton gun, firing a 1-ton shot. which at one
mile range can tear the strongest iroh-
/ clad all 10 pieces.
Buckle, the philosopher, says: ga
woman reaches her prime between 30
and 40; for, though her beauty has then
l lost the charm OF youth, it has acquired
: that of expression"
Weathersfeld, Ct., sometimes called
= Oniontown, derived its nickname from
- i the fact that a church-bel, nung in 17T5,
u Vas paid for by contributions Of onions
= from the parishioners.
!. advertising is the oil which the wise
i virgins put into their lamps, and there
| by Increased their business and chances
Of getting married one hundred per
d cent. daniel Drew. The old man
l. means well.
They have an eighteen-month-old old
u Jesse Pomeroy in Digby, N. H., who re-
e Gently nearly beat his baby sister to
5 death with curling iron. He had bet
ter be sLrangled at once and save trouble
g and expenses
e All the sovereigns OF Germany have
their private beer saloons; but hi:
,r Majesty of Wurtemberg keeps one fol
the public, and turns considerable
penny from it, as also from couple o.
Al restaurants.
., Where's our Plimsoll? Tne Chicago
of Inter-Ocean affirms that scarcely day
"a passes in which vessels unit to carry 6
N cargo OF cork across a mill-pond do no
10 | start out from the several lake porti
grain and coal laden.
"Pa, guess our man Ralph is goot
Christian" elbow SO, my boyp "Why
tPa, read In the Bible that the wicke,
shall not live out half his days; an,
re Ralph says he has lived OUT ever sine
ut he was little boy"
The chimney swallow comes from tn
ne South in the spring and leaves for th
ct South in the fall, but it is never seen i
On the South, and the question is, "Wher
vi does it 70 to or come fromW One theor
pt is that il hybernates in hollow trees, =
~ ~ Mrs. Case, of SHOALS, Indiana durin
~ the course OF single week, knocked on
=, tramp down, broke RIB for another
on shot a third, and kickeG fourth so Wig
~ orOusly that he had Is go to the nospita
al This is the liveIiest Case on record.
rd She sent her husband down town afte
ng some red aJ e-stutf, and he got cochinea
on whichwasn't what she wanted. She tol
as hip SO, and he got mad; and when sh
as insisted upon his going again he got mac
tt der-which was what she wanted in th
ct first place. ..
Ify |. Mr.. Geo. W. Childs has contribute
re S10, 900 Of what he has earned by writin
ce obituary poetry to the Centennial fund
In He hopes that there will be enoug
ie- deaths among the visitors to the Center
re nial TO make up his contribution an
leave a handsome margin Of profit.
he The taste and dress OF American l.
me dies travelling abroad, it is said, is b
ne coming a matter OF very general cor
ng ment among the French. IL is also r
10. ported to be fact that the averal
'at female tourist brings to Paris very lit
ld, clothing, and that shabby in the e.
Va treme.
na Ex-Treasurer Spinner is to be presen
oId ed with a clock and pair of mantef o
lew naments, made of nickel and gold, al
cs. elaborately chased, from those employ
MI in the TreasurePs ofice.-Exchang
They shouldn't have had it chased. ~
eIv old man will look upon 1t as q standil
ate reproach.
,al, A. correspondent of the Cecil, Nj
BIKE Wing, writing from Fredericktown,
ned that county, says: 81 know one farm
no who sent thirteen hundred baskets