The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-14
GOSSIP.

They met, that Is, she went to the store,
And made him turn his department o'er
Till he vanished behind the goods, ana then
She pleasantly said she would call again.
; A German figure of speech-Nein.
They now callretired printers express
men.
We have had two winters of our dis
content.
The spelling bee is sort of perpetual
battle of Lexicon.
The time of house-cleaning has come,
and the voice Of the women is heard in
the land.
There are very few rich dentists.
Ihey all live sort of from-hand-to-
mouth life.
The classic plow is beginning to wind
its meandering passage under the green
surface of terra frma again.
One woman Of mental activity can. II
She has any ambition, keep ten families
miserable eleven months In the year.
| A fish dealer is puzzled to know how
the steamers can bring fresh Herring's
safe from New York In warm W Gather.
The moral people Of Brooklyn want
six Saturdays in week. Saturday is
dal.
A. physician writes, asking the renew
ing Of a note, and says:"W We are in hor-
rible crisis, there is not sick man in the
district" t.,.
Time is pictured with scythe, having
his regular hour glass. lie Is also bald
headed, and can not be taken by the
forelock.
| Mrs. Stanton says that every woman
has right to say "By Gosh" when she
stumbles over cat and shoots under
the table.
There is no place at this season Of the
year wherein dog can bounce around
so satisfactorily as newly laid out
garden-bed.
The naiI-feeders of wheeling are on
strike. In view of recent events, we
shouldn't think they'd be en-hammeNed
of the idea.
."shell jewelry," says. fashion writer,
s'is very fashionable" 1t is very fash
ionable to shell out literally for all kinds
Of jewelry, also.
Exciting news from Indianapolis: Bo-
logna sausage has advanced two cents
pound, and still going up, to the alarm of
all lunch fiends.
| A juryman, recently called for duty in
a Pottsyille (Pa:) court, gave his occu-
patton as ga fller." We suppose he
must keep restaurant.
Now that there is no longer any occa-
sion for secrecy, won't MI. Spinner be
Kind enough to tell us what the two ini-
tials to his name really are?
Being asked what made him so dirty,
an unWasned street Arabs reply was:
II was made, as they tell me, of dust,
and suppose 1t works out"
The lightning-rod man and the nursery
| tree agent are once more abroad in the
land, and the price of dogs has gone up
in the rural regions accordingly.
New Hampshire girls always read the
"weather probabilities" first to see how
the weather will be the coming Sunday
night. and they carry in wood accord
iDgly. =.
In the absence of commercial marine
of her own, Philadelphia clings with
pride and affection to Paul Boyton as
| her sole representative upon the high
seas.
NOW don't be rough" remarked a
cry the other night. spray don't say l
am a thiei. Be polite and call me a
canal contractor"
"A newspaper biographer trying to say
his subject "was hardly able to bear the
demise of his wife," was made by the
inexorable printer to say, swear the
chemise Of his wife,"
| To an ordinary Massachusetts, man,
his home is now as nothing unless he
has hanging behind the stove "the 'rigi-
nal flint.locK that grandfather fired the
| first shot o. the revolution with"
| 1t having been clearly shown that man
who was Shot in Chicago the other day,
had Just predicted another snow-storm,
/ the jury returned verdict OF ''juStiti-
able homicide" without leaving their
| seats.
ing to New York. and his full name is
Pedro Giovanni Carlo Leopoldo Saliva
dor Bidiauo Francois Xavier de Paul
Leocardio Michel Gabriel Raphael Con
An Atchison (Kassas) girl ate four
pounds OF wedding cake, in order that
she might dream of her future husband
And now she says that money wouldn't
hire her to marry the man she saw in
that dream.
A Michigan girl, weary of her lovers
in his cider to make him frisky. 1t was
the undertaken who did the dancing, and
even he thought the job could have been
) done more neatly.
A thorougn-going Brooklyn housewife
says that the best kind OF courage is that
shown by the man who can 60 into the
kitchen Monday morning and superin.
tend a clothes-boiler without lear of
hurting his complexion.
A party OF youthful Pennsylvanians
who started to 20 swimming in the Sus-
Quehanna on that warm Sunday we
: mad, were somewhat dismayed after dis
robfng to see an ice gorge tearing past.
1t don't pay to force the season.
Lee Richardson, of Vicksburg, adver-
!, tises lot Of 'half pint, pint, and quart
TASKS, with cOrks," Tor SAFE, which seems
to intimate tnat there are some men in
: Vicksburg who doRr go to the bottom OF
quart bottle at the first draught.
The heroic trmness with which wo.
man will persist in carrying a roll Of dry
goods as large as she can hold In her
arms, is only equaled by the poiiteness
with which she requests her grocer to
1 deliver pound OF butter at the house.
Tue Scientific American justly de-
: nounces the habit of visitors kissing the
baby. A strictly pathological view d
. the subject leads to the belief that the
best way is to kiss the mother, when she
: is young, and let ner give it to the baby
A man in digging load Of sand from
sand bank in Seneca Falls was buried
!, to his shoulders by an avalanche of the
y treacherous earth. When discovered by
. his friends he had been planted about
three hours, and was beginning to gro "
discouraged.
A town in Maine has a school board
composed entirely Of women. The first
l. resolution offered when thew aasemblaf