The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-07-16

Customer--Mother wants nice, plum,
fchickeH, please. Shepman - Trussed
Castomer-Oh, no; am going to pay fol
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II. Rimmel, the rerfumer, who was lately
burnt out in London, is going to rebuild
Ton the old Strand site on a very grand
scale.
"Are angels playing croquet, mamma ?'I
tasked o little four-year old, the Other
evening, when she saw the meteors
shoot.
| How to prevent the hair from becom.
ing gray. Cut it off, do it up neatly In
tissue-paper and put it away in a
ldrawer.
| Fools are necessary to show wise men
by cOntnast; but 1t appears in fact that
the supply Of fools is greater than the
demand.
The young man who lived in the top Of
. four-story building said he had for
many years suffered from climb-attic in
| huences.
The Worcester Women's Temperance
Praying Baud provides coffee for firemet
at fires, and counsels them not to drink
anythiny stronger. 'i'i3
Paris has 1890 Duvals in its city d.
rectory. That isn't enough, and thew
are trying to make an even 5000 They
want to raise the Duval some more.
A member of the New York Legisla-
! ture paid journalist fifty dollars TO
write him q speech, and then broke
down before he had delivered sixteenth
of it.
1t is reasonably to be supposed, when
a gentleman moves the ''quevious pres
tion, Misser Pres erzent," that he has
made some progress in III investigating the
whisky ring
A Brown county editor bought his ink
by the jug full, because he could get il
cheaper, but mis- vile went to ii Il the ink
stand one morning and found it wasn't
Ink by a jug iull.
Som ladies Of Texas have announced
their intention to make home for Jeff
Davis in that State, and the expression
Of Mrs. Davis face when she heard it, is
what haunts him still.
Mamma {stern1y ptNow, Miriam. saw
grace" Miriam. Who for the previous
misconduct, has been deprived of pud-.
uIng )-"For all they have received let
them be truly thankful"
The surest way to spoil q first-class
public man is to pat him on the back
and tell him he would make good Pres
ldeht. Unless he is proof against fiat
terry, his usefulness is ended.
Tine hurry, imDatience and headlong
spirit OF American life are well illus.
trated by the fact that our most active
men wear boots, believing that life is too
short to stop to tie shoe-strings.
A man died somewhere recently who
was principally Known as the first Fourth
OF July orator, lps Of no consequence.
however. What we want to see il the
death OF the last Fourth Of July orator,
A reporter who had been bank clerk
thus insured accuracy in reporting a
hymn sung at a funeral:
'Ten thousand Thousand 10000, ,0OO) are their
But all their joys are one ~"
~ wasn't so very late-only a quarter
of twelve" GLOW dare YOU All thera
and tell me that lie? | was awake when
you came in and looked at my watch-it
was three o'clock!' swell, isn't three
a quarter OF twelye~
A man has been arrested in Baltimora
for stealing gravestones and cofiins. II
is supposed that he intended TO steal
several acres of ground, and take ali his
plunder out west aud start Gem stery
ION the European plan.
"Old age is to be respected.v said
gentleman, recently examining and lec-
turing country town school, but seeing
the son OF his poulterer there added to
him In particular, ''The moral Is applied
10 the human race, not to poultry"
There is Granger in a certain town
IN Georgia VINO Is SO "close," that he
throws "imitalion" hambones to his
dogs, and the animals, after gnawiug the
the paint off, retire, deluded into the
belief that. they have partaken Of.
square meal.
or $50 bodies exhibited at the Par;e
Morgue in 1872 555 were the bodies of
French persons. In 1873 there were 5O7
bodies, OF which 460 were French. There
were no Americans. They can find oth-
'er amusement in Paris than iumpinp
into the river.
One thing that staggers the New Or.
leans Bulletins belief In the hard times
is the elegant dressing OF the New az.
leans ladies. The costumes seen m
Canal street are as expensive as ever
and the prices Of dressmakins are AZ
atrociOus as ever.
The following notice recently appeared
in one of the London papers "Mr. Peter
Tate has left his home. His vile and
children would be thankful to anv one
vino can give information Of his where.
abouts. lie is subject to fits, and re.
sembles the German Emperor"
A good old lady, who improved every |
opportunity to teach by preeept and ex.
ample, once remarked at a prayer-me + |
ing: "My friends, as came along / saw.
COW. a switching Of her taiIEin This
wicked world of strife she was peaceful
and contented, switching of her tail
and said to myself: Go thou and al
hkewise." A" w
A poor abused and deserted Detroit
wife Killed herself the other day. LEAVING
the following proof Of the great love she
bore the man who was really her muir.
derer: "My dear Richard, for love / got
married, for love l die, and God bless
you,. and l freely forgive you. Pray tie
same, and we Will meet in Heaven above.
1 got the 10 cents OF Mrs. Rutridge to get
What is Labor? Eng ~Avoring TO MAKE
your husband understand that you ought
to have new dress every week. WHAT
Is Trader The means whereby husbands
are enabled t. obtain the cash REQUIRED
by their wives. What is Credit? Rnn-
ming up bill at the draper's. What is
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