The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-07-20
GOSSIP.


Justify it.
Breyity may be the soul OF wit, but the
thing needs body.
M. Q. Kerr, says the Columbus Journal
wants TO be 5. p. Kerr.
The market price of grasshoppers In
Meeker county, Minn., is $5 a bushel.
The Pennsylvania oil trade is reporte d
as light this season, and that is what oil
| is for.
What good thing that the weather
| never complains, no matter how much it
| is abused. a4
August will be the favorite month for
lovers this year. There will be two
| moons In it.
The axiom says every tail should have
| moral end in view. What is the moral
end oil dogs tailP
A young English lady, residing in
Paris, has received over fifty lashes.
She was born with them-on her eve.
| lids.
A celebrated wit once said of his debts
that it was neither his interest to pay
the principal nor his principal to pay
the interest.
Your high toned reporter can't bring
commonplace as dinner. It's ''gus-
tatory affair" with him.
During the past year one million dol.
lars worm OF coral was tished UP out of
the depth of the Mediterranean by the
coral gatherers of Naples.
The grasshoppers are sitting on fences
in Nebraska, splitting tobacco juice"
and begging the farmers, with tears in
nj "a N
The great West, having abandoned all
hope OF relief from other sources, has at
last resolved to retain Mr.. Eyarts to
come out and talk at the grasshoppers.
The Crown Princess OF Germany is
tbirty-tiye years old and very dat, but
there il a correspondent who says she
looks ''hke snow-drop just burst into
full beauty"
A young man in California began to
read paragraph about mine to his
sweetheart, commencing ~Yuba Mine-,'
when she interrupted him with: 81 don't
care if do, Johh."
Mrs. I. Whitman, Of ofMunfordvilie, KY,
exhibits u common sewing needle which
has this history: Fifty years ago she
swallowed a needle, and TWO weeks ago
it was extracted from her arm.
When man in Syria has the hydro
phobia they keep him in dark room
awhile and then drop him from an emf
nence into the sea. The authorities are
silent as 10 what becomes OF Fido.
A Burlington lass gave wordy, ego
tistical gentleman strong hint the other
evening. She took advantage of a pause
N his talk to say: There is leakage
in the gas-pipe somewhere, am sure"
When a boy tails and peels the skin of
his nose, the first thing he does Is to get
up aud yell. When a girl tumbles and
hurts herself badly the first thing she
does is to get up and look at her dress.
A certain Minis trel manager advertises
in one of the sporting papers for tenor
singer "whose vocal abilities are first
class, and who knows how to work up a
laugh when the end man is getting on a
joke"
A story is told OF a colored girl in Ten
nessee who has been kept in slavery ever
since the war. She has been allowed no
means of learning anything, and only re-
Gently learned that slavery had been
abolished.
A town in Hungary has been taxed as
follows by contractor ioI debt due him
for payements: Each of it's 1000 inhab-
itants is TO give him an egg daily during
six years, paying him in all 4,l61, 900
eggs.
We clip the following from the Boston
Post: Five bodies were picked up of
Brooklyn last week and taken TO the
morgue. All were middle-aged men, and
each had copy OF Eyarts' speech in his
pocket.
An Illinois girl refused to be engaged
until her lover first insured his life IN her
favor, and then Travelled two years
abroad to improve his manners. 'slf he
survives, shs sighed, IL shall keep nay
engagement"
p Great curiosity was felt in Washing
ton circles to see Treasurer News auto
graph. Several of the clerks found it on
each of their desks, the other morning,
with polite note, and then they d.dn'L
like 1t SO well.
Adolph Storoskemodrachofskey, was
lodged in New Haven station house
the other night for drunkenness. When
they had shut him up in his cell the
further END OF his name was still trailing
out upon the street.
A certain young gentleman of Evans
tou, H., recently accompanied a lady to
a train to see her safely started ON her
Journey. He carried her railroad ticket
ia his pocket for safety, and found it
there when he reached home, some hours
after the train lett.
One of the peculiarities OF the paper
ON which the Bank OF England Aotes are
printed is its strength. A bank note
will support thirty-six pounds before
being size l.--Exchange. Andlif it is Of
the large sized species, 1t will support a
whole family foran indefinite period.
There is a masked political society in
Charleston which calls Itself the ''Uniled
5. c. Avengers" The name is split up
in this way SO that the ilIiterate can
spell i'll; but outside OF the State the let
ters are run together, and the company
is known as the "United Scavengers."
The Omaha Bee charges that "citizens
of Omaha" have organized what might
be called hook and ladder sneak-thiet
company. Inc industrious citizen, 1t
appears, goes up ladder to an open
window and fishes for clothes on the in-
side OF the room with a regular fsh-hook
and line.
Professor w. Stanley Jevons, in a
treatise on scientific method, ASSERTS
that '.if the whole population OF the
world, say millions OF persons, were TO
deal cards day and night for a hundred
millions OF years, they would not have
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