The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-11
THE BEST OF THE BARGAIN?
GOSSIP.

| You occasionally meet man in this
| world whose word is as good US his bond,
and both are worthless.
| A limbless body has been seen in the
| water near Milwaukee, and it is sur
missed that 1T may be DJnaldson's.
Sleep is deaths younger brother, and
SO like him that never dare trust him
without my prayerS.-Sir Il. Brown.
Brother Shearman has arrived home
| from Europe. A committee OF clergy
| men ought to tender him warm rece D.
| ton at once.
Subject for discussion by debating
! clubs, "Was Noah justified I'm taking
| with him into the ark the two parent
mosquitoesW
s'Where do men go who deceive their
fellow-men?" asked Sunday-school
teacher OF a pupil. "To Europe" was
the prompt reply.
A Peekskill boy who went to hear
| Theodore Tilton lecture, went home dis
| gusted. go pshaw," said he, 81 thous t
luton was eleven teet tall"
| A lieutenant in the navy, who was on
his way to Chicago, tried TO commit sui.
eide by jumping into the Hudson. OF
| two evils he chose the least.
Cardinal McCloskey will leave Rome
for America about the 10th of the present
month, little earlier than he antici-
pated on his arrival in the Holy City.
Sixty-three -milliards Of francs-sl2.
500, 00O, ,00O-were spent by the combined
nations Of Europe in the effort to put
down France between 1871 and 1915.
Twenty cigars head is the number
annually manufactured for every man
woman and child in the United States,
Forty years ago two was the allowance.
Pull back dresses are on their last
pull. Paris fashion rules them out of
order, and it won't be long before the
women will begin to wear clothes again.
An Indiana man said to Bible agent:
ssl'm Christian, but PIl be blamed if l
don't have to grit my teeth when the
Onio river is on level with the top OF
my corn"
There are two times In mans life
when he eagerly scans the newspaper
once, when he has been in an awful
serape, and, again, when he is looking
for puff.
IL doesn't hurt to be branded with an
iron raised to white heat, but it excites
the imagination good deal, and some
people are SO weak they can imagine
most anything.
The New York World paragrapber
sighs: ''Oh, for a plainly dressed
womanw He should be around when a
conflagration turns people out of doors
at midnightin hurry.
When Mrs. Selkreg complained that he
occupied too much time in looking at the
pln-back dresses, he piously replied that
he was absent minded and thought that
he was in the Garden of Eden.
A Dubuque clergyman is charged with
throwing kisses across pasture halr a
mile wide to a woman sixty-eight years
oldl "Whither," asks commentator on
this event, "are we driftingW
What's become OF the great scandal?
Mr.. Tilton and Mr.. Beecher have each
talked to crowded Brooklyn audiences
on successive nights, and each received
perfect ovation. A queer world, this.
A double marriage took place in an
Iowa corntield few days ago between a
couple of young fellows who stalked
from home with their girls ostensiDiy to
go to the circus. They were in love up
Lo the ears.
The rumor that G. L. Fox, the famous
Humpty-Dumpty clown, had suffered
from paralysis of the facial nerves,
proves to have been untrue, and he will
appear at the head Of his company as
funny as ever.
Sixty-seven journals are now pub.
lisDed in Rome, of which only five are re-
ligious. Before 1870 only two were pub
lished-the ODservatore and the Gior-
nale, which were exceedingly pious, but
not very pewsy.
Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the
grandson of Thomas Jefferson, 10 now
dangerously Ill at his residence, Edge
Hill, Virginia. Col. Randolph, who Is
now eighty-three years old, was tempo
rarily chairman Of the National Demo-
cratic Convention which met In Balti-
more In 1871.