The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-23
GOSSIP.

cologne.
Baseball playing is more of pastim
than sport.
A sad-eyed young man said, "Yes,
lass, l love-"
"Josh Billings is sick" He has had
"bad spelp for years.
When a man winds up his clock he ex
poets it to go; but it is different will
business affairs.
The Marquis OF Lorne is to publish
volume OF poems. Title (probably
"Lays Forlorn."
i Annie Thomas, the novelist, is no
only fine pen driver, but drives horse
like Die Vernon.
Harriet Hosmer- is at work upon the
largest group in marble she ever worked
ON lor the Centennial.
The Graphic reminds Messrs. Moody
and Sankey that the ''revival most
needed is a revival Of business"
New bonnets are made to be worn both
ways. Unhappy woman! Called upon
to bear her reYerses in the weakest spot
A st. Louis woman knows twenty
two fashionable ladies who have become
bald from wearing such masses OF false
hair.
Queen Victoria's income is over s. 600.
GOV year, but when she goes to buy a
black alpaca dress she Jews down" Like
the rest OF 'em.
The Boston Post is answerable for the
assertion that partridges are sold as
"0wls" in Connecticut until the law
allows shooting 'em.
The English language is more spoken
than any other OF the civilized tongues
Even in Paris there are few shops where
English Is not spoken.
| II man could be convinced that there
was any thing in Paradise loyelier than
a pair of striped hose, the world woul d
be evangelical before night.
A Kentucky editor defends the "pull.
back" skirt as ''the prettiest thing in
dress since Eve left EQen." That is fg-
uratiyely speaking, isn't it?
Byron was a hard-money man. In
"Don Juan" he says; ooh gold! still
prefer thee unto paper, which makes
bank credit like bank OF vapor."
! There is Scotch looking-glass maker
who heads his advertisements with a
| quotation from Burns: "The giftie gle
US to see oursels as ithers see u.s."
The new Encyclopaedia BRITANNICA
deYotes two pages TO ''angels" and
twenty to "apes," and that is about the
way they average in the human Iamily.
The Fitch-sherman necklace, pre-
| sented by the Viceroy of Egypt, is said
to remain in the New York Custom.
house, awaiting the payment Of duties.
None but the wealthy suffer from over.
| work. Ii poor devil gets sick it IL be.
| fan nah
his business to run about in the even.
ings.
"Pull-back, shawl Give me the kind
you pull on" says Pantaloons Mary
| Walker. BY the way-they call those
umbrellas ''narrow-yauge" skirts out
West.
Bismarck has two vicious boys who
cause their father unceasing anxiety
| That was why he was SO thankful tor
that cane which the Philadelphia gentle.
man sent him.
Conductor Garrison, Of the Erie Rail
road, is lucky man. He has been d
| conductor thirty years, and never killed
man with his train nor had a passen-
ger SO much as scratched.
If you give Kentucky woman her
choice between twelve red table napkins
and pull-back dress, she'll crook her
finger aud whisper: "Come here, thou
napkins ns!-Cour. journal.
| They are kin nd-hearted people in Wy.
omlng. A man will threaten to shoot il
you don't drink with him, and then
| leave the bartender to pop you over il
you don't pay for the fluid.
James Wharton, for the first time,
| laced Mrs. Wharton's corset, and she,
bursting ints tears, said, "Jimmy, if you
hadn't laced a thousand you couldn't
nave done it so well as tnat.''
An old bachelor, upon reading that
"two lovers Will sit up half the night
with one chair in the room," said: "L0y-
Ing must be inc0nvenient, tor 1t could
not be done unless one OF them sat on
the tloor."
Sharkey, the murderer, is in San Fran
cisco, but the police OF New York are
busy hunting up Il tact or two about the
Nathan muruer, of which they have lust
got wind, and must leave Sharkey alone
for a year or two.
A sentimental young lady, remarking
that LongiellOw did not LOOK like a poet,
learned with disgust from her uncle That
'real poets never do" She concluded
to eat like common folks, however, and
is beginning to ''pick up"
An old woman in Bridgeport, who has
pasted nearly 5000 medical Receipts in a
book during the past forty years, has
never been sicksa day in her life, and she
is growing discouraged. Some people
are born to ill-luck, she says.
1t is generally conceded that Lots
wife wouldn't have looked back, but a
woman with a primitive pull.back dress
ON passed her, and the temptation 10 see
now 1t was made overcame her fears OF
impending doom and she was salted.
Mrs. j. e. B. Stuart, the widow of the
noted Confederate General OF Cavalry.
has become an instructor in the Southern
Female College, Richmond, Va. II Mrs.
Jebs has Inherited her husband's sling
OF the sabre, those children will suffer.
The daughter of Count Bismarck is 60
ing to be married before long to young
sprig OF German nobility, who has such
a heavy name that we don't wonder he
wants some one to help him carry it.
Count Wendlzunlarberge is his nomina-
tive burden.
Down in the Ohio Valley they are hav-
ing an unusual amount OF rain, and the
Louisville Courier Journal is thereby
led TO remark: "There is plenty of rain.
But this is "a sort Of plenty that does not
make blooming fields and fat kline. Even
tho old muius are Cryi inV for Il little