The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-08
GOSSIP. 80.
He blushed q fiery red,
Hcr heart went pit.a-pat;
She gently hung her head
And looked down at the mat.
He Jrembled in his speech:
He rose from where he sat,
And shouted with ascreech,
oYou,re sitting on my hatv
GOSSIP.

lie rose from Wneft ne bdt1
And shouted with screech, /
"You,re sitting on my hatv'
Domestic ''sauce'' is kept in family
Give q boy q piece Of chalk and he will
make his mark in the world.
Mrs. Hen edits a paper in Iowa,
and cackleates that she knows how.
Telegraph wires have been objected to
because they interfere with the Tying OF
kites.
A trifer speaks of the room from which
marriage certificates are issued as
match-tactory.
A young man called at this Office last
week and asked to be directed TO the i'm
position room. He was sent up.
The law OF Minnesota Won't allow
father to thrash child over 16 years old,
but he can maui his dear wife from morn
till night.
"Bnry me in q Pompadour waist cut
bias" were the dying words Of an unfor-
tunate female Yotary Of this world Of
fashion and folly.
Nothing recalls to the mind Of the mar
ried man the joys Of his single life so viv-
idly as to find that the baby has been eat
ing crackers ip the bed.
The good man putteth ashes on his
sidewalk, but not so the wicked, who
stitch at his front window and chuck
leth when his fellow man goes ker-fop..
A Chicago shirt dealer has given up
coaxing, and taken to bullying the pub
lie to trade with Him. A big placard in
front OF his store reads, "Buy, OF ! will
bustp
The average Bostonian still feels pride
in Plymouth Rock, but New York wants
it pounded up into fragments TO drown
cats with. There are dissensions in this
great republic.
This world would be sandy desert of
lonesomeness If women were not privi-
legged to attend auction sales and pay
more for an old bureau than new cham
ber set would cost.
Mt. Auburn girls are getting their backs
up. A dozen OF them met in convention
lately and resolved if the fellers wOuld
not come and see them they would go
and see the fellers.
"A charitable Glendale man keeps
pair OF dogs chained at his front door, 80
that poor people who stop to ''get bite"
can be accommodated without taking the
trouble to 60 in the house,
1t is generally believed in some. Of the
counties Of Michigan that men will do
more plotting and planning 20 rob hem
| coop, than Would be necessary to insure
| a successful bank burglary.
An Indiana man bet $40 that he could
ride The ty-wheel In saw-mill, and as his
| widow paid the bet she remarked: "Wil-
liam was kind husband, but he didn't
know much about fy-wheels."
IL can't say as he went to Heaven"
| remarked Fort Scott citizen Of de-
ceased townsman, ''but he paid bill Of
eleven years. standing only the day be-
lore he died, and you can judge for your
self"
A clergyman at Kansas City said il
there was any one within hearing OF his
voice who would try to put a stop TO Sun
day dog fighting he'd like. TO have 'em
rise up. A small boy and an old women
| rose up.
A Connecticut boy swallowed three
marbles and four bullets recently, and
being somewhat Of a bony structure, is
now utiilzed by the neighDors, who bor-
row him as a rattle-bOX to amuse their
| babies.
"Here's to the vine that grew the
grapes that made this wine," said Spiv-
ems, as he swallowed glass OF milk.
'Wnat vine was thatp asked Smith.
Bovine was the prompt reply.
| There is small boy at Haverhill
Massachusetts, who claims to have trad.
ed horses thirty-seven times and cheat.
ed the other man every time, and yet
when his wife died the other day, he
promised to meet her in heaven.
| Talk about STAN ma in female charac.
ter! But there is u mother i'll Detr0iJ VINO
| will SIT OH the corner OF The bureau and
read dime novel half through before
she becomes aware that her baby has
been bowling for thirty-tive minutes.
| A Chicago boy OF ten says that when
| his parents get into a fight. ana his moth.
er calls for u flat-iron and his father yells
tor the stoye-handle, he is placed in a
most embarrassing position, us he is
sure to get licked, no matter who he
| minds.
| A young lady clerk of this city who
resides at the West End, has SO much
false pride that she rides u square be.
lyond ner home lest people will see that
she dwells in a little duck OF u cottage,
then walks back and enters as opportu.
nifty offers.
There was once sea-captain who de-
clared thas, in all his expei ience,he never
failed to meet with bad weather when be
had ON board his ship u man VINO parted
ms hair in the middle. Il don't know
how it is," said the ancient mariner;
but the elements can't seem to tolerate
the habit"
Come mere my little man." said gen.
tleman to a youngster OF four years Of
age, when sitting in pariOr where q
Harge company we're assembled; "Do you
know meT "Yes, sir, / think l do" w ne
am then-let me hearY" You are the
man VINO kissed sister Jessie last nighl
III the parlor!' Jessie tainted.
A countryman took his seat at hote
table opposite a gentleman who was IN
j dulging III u bottle OF wine. Supposins
the wine to be common property, our un
sophisticated country friend helped him
self TO IT with the gentieman's glass
"rhat's cooiv' exclaimed the owner o
the wine, indignantly. "Yes," repliet
the other,'I should think there was ie'
] in it,"
j There is q dog residing near Oleopolls
that races with the trans every day OF
the o. q. u A, h. X. He has never bea
them yet. The engineer has orders no
to let him ii it bursts every tiue in t6,
tboiler, but yesterday he attempted &
head the engine oil again, and slipped
and the cowcatcher shaved one side OF
. lhim as smooth as sausage machin
: Iwould have done it. 1t took the bark al
lotf nim."
An eccentric old dog-fancier remarked
to the reporter a few Gays ago, ~ wa
lbofn poet, and am by instinct natur
talist, and by profession philosopher
f"Pvodies," continued the Wise man, ''ar'
fplaved out, and terriers are all Lne rage
A good, fashionable terrieris worth from
| x3 to xH anu d0ge range now all the Wal