The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-26
GOSSIP.

OH UHe 5nOTc, Un6 DeauUlIul SuOre,
Filling the chamber from ceiling to floor;
Over the coverlet, under the sheet,
From her dimpled chin, way down to her feet
Now rising aloft like bee in june,
Now sunk to the wall of a cracked bassoon;
Now fute-like, subsiding, then rising again,
Is the beautiful snore Of Elizabeth Jane.
A mut-A thing that holds young
lady's hand without squeezing 1t.
Elijah wilkins, of Hopkinsville,i is not
a surviving body-servant of George
Washington, but his razor is.
When girl deliberately selects the
muddiest crossing, you may be sure she
knows exactly the size of her foot.
1he cheerful Guinea fowl now files its
morning saw in rural back-yards, very
much to the discomfort of Sabbath
sleepers.
A colony of five hundred Bohemians
will locate in Nebraska this season.
About the time the Brooklyn trial ends,
we suppose.
In some parts of Louisiana, when a
girl sets the marriage day, she counts up
the ague days so as to have the ceremony
come on the off day.
A lively urchin accosted a drugstore
man the other day: "Mister, please
gimme a stick of liquorice, your clerk
goes with my sister,"
N 6s
anticipation of a fine run OF business,
propose to furnish the citizens with their
to-buy-hog-raphy.
1t is now MIR. Tilton's turn to wish he
were dead. And if he will start that
wish in good earnest, he will get mil
lion subscribers to it i'll a week.
Pleasure-seeking tourists will do well
to avoid Louisville for the present. The
newly organized brass band there has
just received it's instruments.
After Delaware girl had lowered
herself from the window to elope with u
young man he backed out because he
was afraid of the minister's dog.
Softly now the tender-nearted wife i'm
parJs to her searching hus band the INTEL
iigence that she sent mis- linen clothes to
the Kansas sufferers last winter,
A little boy returning from the SUM-
day school, said to his mother: "Ma,
alni't there a kitty-chism IN for little boys
This catecnism is to hard for me.n
rhe greatest feat in eating ever re-
corded is told of a man VINO commenced
by boiling a door, alter which he threw
up a window and swallowed a whole
story.
A Virginia farmer said that carpets
looked handsome on floor, but he
couldn't afford TO hire some one to carry
a carpet out door every time he. wanted
to spit.
Phey attempted to give out an eight
SYLLABLE word atone OF the Rhode Island
speIing matches the other night, but
found that there wasn't room for it in
the State.
Mrs. Lanner, OF Chicago, had fight
about her cat the other day with the
next door nelghbor, and the affair is gen.
erally characterized as a pussy-Lanner-
muss one.
A visitor engaged in angling at one of
the Florida resorts few days since,
was somewhat surprised to find a young
alligator crawling up his back, under
his shirt.
Spring hovers on balmy wings along
the Northwestern border, and the forests
resound with the music OF the grasshop-
per filing his scythe Tor the summer
In Connecticut town of about 1,20O
inhabitants there are from sixty to
seventy dentists. Upon an average,
,wo-thirds of the people have their jaws
the whole year round.
If Beecher and Tilton had had mus
,aches, how difficult the kissing process
would have been. Fortunately for both
here was nothing to interrupt the full,
luscious enjoyment OF their osculatlon.
The Coming bonnet is to have hurri-
zane deck and ball tower, and will also
laye signal light, birds of paradise,
quay and WEIGH rabbits. Architects are
higher doors for its accOmmo-
lation.
"No," said she, leaning out of the win
low and addressing herself to her back
loor neighbor, this morning, 1--WE don't
expect to do much at house-cleanln this
rear Until after the Brooklyn trial is
,ver."
At the trial of the Guicowar of Baroda
man testified that he was punka-
yallah. In all the hard names called in
Brooklyn no one has equaled this.
Jeither Beecher nor Tilton has called
he other punkawallah.
Several new German papers have
,een started in Indiana. This looks
ike thrift, but it is not. The last Legis-
ature authorized the publication of le-
raj advertisements in the German Ian
,uage. -.
When the spring poet begins to talk of
he smiling face oil nature, of budding
lowers, of tho carol of the birds in leaty
lells, Of striped stockings and heavenly
roquet, where the dainty feet of pretty
urls kiss the morning dew, they let him
% to grass.
Nobody will ever learn how to give the
,ity he deserves to the weary and over
worked editor who has got lob on hand
t making a great man out OF somebody |
Who hasn't got material in him fit for |
uccessfll driver fer gentle pair of old