The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-15
GOSSIP.

tory which, measured by the standard oil
1.-THE principle, is inglori0us. SIRIUS.
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One firm in California win ship Sot
tons OF pears to the Eastern market this
season. e ils
Contentment Is said to be better than
riches, but the latter is good enough FOL
the writer.
The cook wants to know why the sun
tis like good loaf OF bread? Because
| it's light whom it rises.
/ Tilton's audiences hare all been very
large thus tar in his lecture course. In
Boston the concourse was perfect Jam.
The Brooklyn bridge tower will be fin.
ished June /, and temporary bridge
will be immediately slung over as sort
OF scaf6ld. r.
Ex-Minister Bancroft, the historian, il
detained at his cottage in Newport, r.
l., by slight illness, but hopes to 60 to
| Washington next week.
The holiday season Is coming. when il
will be in order to present bald-headed
man with q hair brush, and poor man
with an expensive poeket.b0ok.
II you're mailing any printed matter
| abroad, remember that 1t must not weigh
over two pounds and three ounces ;
otherwise it goes to the d. l.. ..
A Chicago woman says of the sleeping
cars: "Irs so nice for one to lie there
and wonder where the smashHp will take
place and how many will be killed."
The probabilities for miserable old
Boss Tweed are that ne Will soon DRIFT
from the Ludlow-street Jail back to his
old quarters on Blackwelps Island.
In 1861, the late Hans Christian An
dersen received from Mrs. Browning, on
her death-bed, the last stanzas she ever
| wrote--tMo verses on the Danish story
teller.
1 The Louvre, when invited to send fac
SMILES of Michael Angeio's sketches to
Florence at the celebration Of the birth
day of the great painter, generously
sent the original sketches.
An Arab chief at the Marseilles opera
especially admired the trombone player,
depressing his wonder ITO see that
Christian swallow 50 much brass. can
| not yet comprehend whore he puts it,"
The Khedive has recently paid the
last ins sLallment for 900 cast-steel cannon
ordered OF Krupp, aud made contract
1 for quantity Of ammunition for them.
The guns cost X, 900 each, and the shells
500.
| Garibaldi, although he has ostensibly
accepted it, has never drawn adoilar OF
| the pension of $20,000 year recently
| given MN by the Italian Government,
| and IL is said to De doubtful whether he
| ever will.
"Sayp said the city youth to the mod
4 not n VIM IN shaV-Gpad
| " your hair yet", "Wall," was The de.
liberate reply, II jedgs not from the
| way the calves run arter me."-Roches-
ter Democrat.
| For recent CONCESSIONS made by Brig
ham Young to the Union and PacIti rail
read companies, they have agreed to
lobby bill through the next congress
| for the admission into the Union OF the
Stale OF Deseret.
The American Girl was worth S25, 600.
But it is because she was s.fast," and not
because she WAS worth 5000, that it is
proposed to give her monument. 1t III
quite different with other ''tasp' Ameri-
can girls, however.
"Eniant Terrible" CATER contemplat-
Ing visitor for some time 30, Mr..
Brown, let's have q camel We've got q
whacking big sponge up stairsl I wish
you'd sponge on Pa now; it'd be such
| funl He says you always do at the club ~
Tableaui-Punch.
Travellers in Brittany find q queer
II item in their hotel bilis--'sbed- bug poi :
son." II they Erumble, the landlord
shrugs his shouldecs and regrets that he
did not know that Monsieur would pre-
| fer that the insects should not be poi
soned al his expense.
In the Abbey Of Grotta- Ferratti, near
Fraseati, Italy, palimpsest has just
been discovered which contains, under
the Gospels, an Invaluable manuscript
OF Strabc, that supplies . large number
OF deficiencies found In ali previous
manuseripts Of the geography.
1t is suggested in France that brim-
stone should be carried on board OF
every ship, for use In case Of fire. Fifty.
six pounds of birthstone would be suffi-
tcient to abstract the whole Of the oxygen
| from more than 100 cubic yards Of dir,
thus rendering it unit to sSpport com.
bustion.
The fountain presented by Miss Lotta
| to San Francisco has become popular
institution. Says local paper: ssAs
Il the pearly drops fall insO the elegant
lbasin the Frisco thinks he hears th :,
far-of tinklHgs Of her banjo, and ..,oee
and fires stones n . Chinamap 20 Slow Slow
music"
The ignorance Of foreigners 10 some.
tbiag superb. DnnSs has written IN
American novel; An which = coon chases
o couple OF young United States lovers
Iup q tree and vlen tries to get them BY
fgnawing Through the trunk. Dumas
says, the Virginia coon is as large as .
yeariing eaM.
"Whsncs come our aboriginesi ~
eterniy demands the Baltimore Sun
l"Ws 9on't know anything about it,
faays yne st, Louis Republican, "bat ips
SasY enough to tell where they are going.
TFsy are padding Into the yast M
kocsau Of cheap whisky" h