The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-21
GOSSIP.
"How doth the busy city girl
Improve each shining hour.
And gather dry goods all the day

From every opening store"
The best kind of wagon for moving
your furniture--a gentle Spring wagon,
oysters are only sixty dollars bushei
In London, or fifteen dollars for small
stew.
The inventor OF butter stamps was
Cadmus. He first brought letters into
Greece.
At Saxton's River, Vermont, they are
giving Patent-office Reports as prizes in
spelling matches. .4
Maine folks complain of having TO pay
$4,000 for q murder trial when rope is only
ten cents yard.
We notice that ss25e,Oo Poles have en-
braced the Greek Church." 1t must be
embracing for the Church.
A whole spelling-school In Indianapo-
lis was foored with "ipecacuanha."
They made retched work of it. sss
They've sent us game minister from
Russia. Baron Schickens is his name,
and they do say he's rooster.
Ate Quakertown, Bucks county, Pa,
spelling bee, irreconcilable was spelled
wreckonsileabil." The speller still
lives.
Notwithstanding the Indians fond
ness for gew-gaws, it begins 10 be pretty
evident tnat his fancy don't run much
on Rings.
Sir Glllery Piggott, the English Judge
who just died, is said to have been
very able man, but he leaves very bad
name behind him.
Ladies who attend public performances
should do so without bonnets, or else
modify the capillary structures with
which they distigure themselves.
An Oakland, Cal, young lady. entered
a drug store lately and wanted to see the
papers for week back, and the intelli-
gent clerk showed her roll of sticking
plaster. LII.
A Washington correspondent says:
DIR. Mary Walker looks like d mission
ary's wife, That is a base attempt to
manufacture public sympathy for mis-
sionaries.
Young Englishmen who are coming
rover to The Centennial anticipate much
excitement in shooting wild indians on
Staten Island, and killing butfaloes in
Jersey City.
Whales are increasing so rapidly in
number since the decline OF the fishery,
that it won't be long before every re-
spectacle family can have its own Ievia-
than Of the deep.
Irish gosue-"Johnny Bull, how
do you spell saloon" Johnny Bull
with a ness, hay, q hell, two hoes
and hem" Irish pedagogue-"Right,
The New York saloonists, arrested for
keeping open on Sundays, claim to open
now '.just to feed The caiiaries." Those
canaries are. five feet odd inches high,
and mostly take whisky. q. .s-.s .lt.
These are the days when. you put your
foot down on tacks, and when the
painter, the kalsominer, and the carpetl
beater, unmolested, hold high carnival
among your household goods.
Goethe and Schiller lie side by side in
+ the royal vaults at W eimar, untroubled
| by the sad reflection that there really
sn't anything our great and good Childs
can do to render their situation more
comfortable.
The citizens Of Alta, Utah, no longer
trouble themselves about going down
stairs. 1t is only necessary for them to
throw open their second-story windows
and tread Enthusiastically over ten feet OF
beautiful snow.
A Boston woman gazing at MeaRs
statue OF Ethan Allen, on the portico
| of the State-house, at Montpelier, eX-
claimed: "W all, L declare, that's about
the meanest picture oil George w ashing.
| ton ever see."
| Our American team intending to
shoot at the International Rife Match
will please note the explicit declaration
that they are not to be interiered with
by the existing laws against the carry.
ing OF arms in Ireland.
First and last, rather more than 60C
survivors of the famous "Charge OF the
Light Brigade" book have died IN this
country, anu now another OF the oraye
troopers has Just stepped down and ou
i'll trenton, New Jersey. .e.
| A writer Oh aress says .snort aho !,
p0agy women oughI noI oo wear Deits.
WHAT'S the use OF giving aovi &c In ina
way! Ihere isn,ta woman IN .ne "orit o.
VINO wosu bart au,, NJ esen nodav " hefseii ina
sn9 WIS snol' anu pousf'p
There was once FennsyivaMa
tlegisiator VINO ialo Dy tn1rty Thousand
dollafS IN one Session. Wnen ne WA
asked now ne manageu unis WIN saiar.
ioi one tnousano aoiiafs, ne sald ne saVet
lit Dy aoins MitnouC,a hiiea eln.
Ine coiored hotei Waltefs at oaratog'
are UNDERSTOOD 10 De nrmiy opposed 10
Production OF wages. hathef tnan ac
tcept a scent Tess thah Iast seasons rates
they'll stay down III New York ana ca
catfish and cabbage all summer.
When mother cuts her sons hal
with such @sthetic precision and art
Iistic neatness that the boy Is ashame!
10 take OIL his hat when ne goes to bed
IL is about time our domestic INSTITUTION