The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02
shInk Of emigratIng to Alaska to paint

think Of emigrating to Alaska to paint
seals.
"My son, put away that ball. Do you
know where the wicked boys go who play
base ball on Sundayp, "Yes'm; they go
down by the tair grounds. ."-V Vieksburg
Herald.
"Ef county fairs Is goin' to do agri-
oultur emmy good" says a Long Island
farmer, s'keep out the wimmin. Them
are pull-backs gets mans eyes SO sot
that he can't see nothin' else."
When Rogers, in talking of Washing
ton Irving's sColumbus," said In his
dry, significant way. sIps rather long,p
Fennimore Cooper turned round to him,
and said sharply: "Thaps a short criti-
cism."
They knight man for almost any
thing in England. They propose now to
make Captain Webb baronet Cor swim
ming across the channel. The Oswego
Times supposes he will bo q Knight Of
the Bath, OF course.
John Henry's wife wrote to him, In
mosquito time, that she had '.fiteen
bites;" and, as she forgot to cross her t,
John went raving round like raving
lupatic. He didn't care 50 much about
her having "biles" as he did about her
spelling 'em SO.
Edmond About Is coming to this coun-
try to write up the Centennial. That is
about right. He Is one OF the few Eu-
rOpean writer's who even partially un-
derstand America, and one of the fewer
who have treated America with any,
thing like fairness. ss.-Inter-0cea
The lnmap steamer City of Berlin,
which arrived at New York on Saturday
last, made on that occasion the fastest
passage across the Atlantic o. which we
have any record. Her time from Queens
town to New York was only'7 days, I8
| hours and 2mihutes.-N. Y. Sun.
Action is the universal law of animal
life. There is not living thing, whether
insect or bird, or beast, that will not
pine and fall away and perish, under
bodily restraint. Man himself is no ex-
oeption to the worldwide ordinance.
This, from the Graphic, breaks upon
one like revelation: "rhe golden rule
Do undo others as they would undo you.
| THIS is the whole law and it profits"
Whew! Meier was dashed out as (our
friend Pope would say at one unlucky
hit, fool SO just q copy Of. a wit.-Inler-
| Ocean.
"What can l do to make you love me
Imore?" asked youth OF his girl the
other evening. "Buy me ring, stop
~ nj md IN,
back when you walk" was the immedi-
ate reply.
A three.yeaf old boy asked his mother
to let him have his building bricks to
play with; but she told her darling it
was Sunday, and therefore not proper
| Tor him to have them. .'But, mamma"
said the hopeful, "ril buiid a cnurcn."
He got the bricks.
Mrs. Hogan OF Baltimore has got S., 900
from railroad company for killing her
husband. The man may have been
worth 1t, but we are afraid that such
verdicts will lead some women to encour-
age their husbands In travelling by rail.
l-Buslon Traveller.
The British Royal Society has made
researches extending over a period of
more than two hundred years, and failed
to discover u single case OF sudden
change in tue color of human hair. This
spoils whole pages OF poems, novels and
newspaper items.
A woman dressed in mems clothes
visited variety snow in w ashington,
and was arrested. The policeman who
made the arrest is a married man with
several daughters, and the moment he
saw that woman draw her foot under her
and sit on 1t, ne penetrated her disguise.
A marriage ceremony was performed
at Sebec, Maine, the other evening,
uniting two who had previously been
divorced. The bride is reported to have
been married twice since her ulvorce
from her present husband. Husband
No. 2 was divorced and No. 3 died, ana
so MOL takes the place OF No. 4, and
concludes to try it again.
DR.. Kellogg, OF the Hudson River
State Hospital, has received letter
from Edwin Booth, the tragedian, in
which the latter says: ~ am getting
we'll rapidly; have been three times out
driving. can not use my arm, nor can
II yet initiate my lungs without pain. My
IenHhgeluSHlb must Do deferred TWO
weeks from October 4, for must be per-
fectly sound before l begin work."
| Able Richie has just told how ,Notre
Dame was saved from the heroes of the
Commune. Powder and petroleum
enough were stored in it TO blow it UP,
and Communist just caught and or
dered to be shot confessed the fact. BY
livery. energetic action the powder was
| got out alter the train had been lighted,
and the culprit was pardoaed by the IN
tercessi0n OF the abDe.
| Stammering is quite convenient for a
wit. One was mentioning in Lambs
presence the uncordial way in which the
Duke of Cumberland restrained the
duchess. from rushing up to embrace her
son, whom she had not seen for q con
siderable time, and insisted on her re-
ceiving him in state. "How horribly
cold it was" said the narrator "Yes,"
said Lamb, "but you know he is Duke OF
lCu-cumberland."
Damaged Wheat for Seed.
Nothing but absolute necessity would