The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-13
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| UebLoEs
| Civilization is at last established In
the X il Islands. The lawyers have hung
out their shingles there.
The grand war maneuvers OF the
French army are to begin September Il,
unless Prussia should veto them.
The Barrons, proprietors OF the Twin
Mountain House, have been paying Mr..
Beecher $50 week for boarding and
preaching AT their house.
English ivy growing on wall does not
promote dampness, as has been so long
supposed; ON the contrary, IL is said to
produce the opposite effect.
"Postpone nothing you can do now,''
and many think it is good one, 80 far
as taking drink is concerned.
There are several roads TO the divorce
courts, but there is none more Travelled
than the one via the fashionable dress
and bonnet-making establishments.
The coming boot is called the Pompei-
ian. 1t is OF black velvet and very nigh;
the Logging in front all Venetian cut
work, embroidered with tiny silver
cord.
| A correspondent desires to know If
glycerine is good for sore throats. Pre-
pared with nitric acid, and touched with
match, it would prove an efectual
cure.
In the days of james the First, the
garters were broad, with gold tringes
and point-lace ends, and these are now
fashionable we see-or rather we are
told.
Josh Billings remarks, "The only way
to git thru tuls world and escape Gen.
sure and abuse is TO take sum back road.
You kant travel the main turnpike and
do it,"
The eldest son of Marshal Mer .bon
has just lett st. Cyr, and vii! enter the
infantry, "that modest ? IN of the ser-
vice hieh is good ~. nothing but to win
batlles."
WF'~c people should know-Thar II
!. s-ey spoil Il stamped envelope when ad-
dressing it they can get the value in
Stamps by presenting IL at the post
office.
| A niece OF President Van Buren, sew
enty mine years OF age, is u public CHAR
acter, like her uncle. She is an inmate
OF the Hudson County On. d. Aims
house.
| When the father of family comes
home late now-a-days she is no longer
asked to say "truly rural" he is invited
to converse on the supjeeJ OF the Herze-
goyinlan rebellion.
The proof-reader will never conde-
scend to note the difference between tue
words affect and elect. Vixen told of
his errors he never effects change for
the better, only affects it.
Rough on the New Haven Union. It
! published on Wednesday a thrilling ac-
count OF a kite-boat regatta, when, it
turned out afterwards, had been post
poned Tor want Of u breeze.
| A summer hotel in New Jersey has
been broken up by mosquiLoes.-boston
Post. They beat the proprietors at put
ting in their bills, we suppUso.-New
York commercial Advertiser.
Aleck Stephens, they say, is growing
young again. lie Indignantly denies,
however, the rumor that he has engaged
TO add spice to the Centennial by run
ming toot-race with Parson Brownlow.
Not to be sneezsd at. A London sur
geon has invented "nose machine"
| When applet for an hour daily, it $50
| directs the soft cartilage that an ILL
formed nose is quickly SNAPPED 10 pertec-
tion."
/ The local paper of Columbia, KY, says
| that the baseball mania ragJs w such
\
game OF marbles can not he played sat-
llsfactoriiy without an umpire anu
| scorer.
| A mother and father are trying to
| force their daughter to marry. Daugh-
ter (loquitur) )-"'Phere are many reasons
why DON'T want to- marry MIN; in the
first place he is too hideous and stupid"
I( Mother with dignity )--"Ste phanie, did
/ not marry your fatnerW'
1t is worth while to remember the pro-
found saying 0l Herder in answer to the
vulgar aphorism, "No man is hero to
his valet DE chambre;" viz: "Ths is not
because the hero is not IL hero, but be-
Fcause the valet is a valet"
Just before marrying an old man for
his money!, Louisville girl called her
father ASIDE, and ihrowing herself upon
his neck, exclaimed, amid smiles and
tears, 90, father! Your poor, miserable
daughter will have a new bonnet every
week."
| A New York ''blood" at a country hotel
lin New Hampshire, desiring the milk
passed to him, said: "Waiter, send
Your cow this way,o at which spright.
ly Boston lady remarked: "Waiter,
take the COW down TO wnere the cali is
beating"
The celebrated boiling spring of Pa
gosa, at De Norte, Rio Grande county,
Colorado, is an immense cauluron ol
water sixty by eighty ieet. The water
Is remarkably clear, and of unknown
depth. II is probably the largest spring
in the world.
| A young fellow, writing to his gov.
[ernor for money, said he was now really
fpenitent for his tOllles, he had suffered
SO much. 81 have drunk the cup OF bit
terness to the very dregsp said he. 1t
was perfectly true; he had just finished
a tankard OF bitters. '' '7F
There were only two drawbacks to the
lenjoyment oil the Goethe celebration Il
tGnmore's Garden. One was that "the
bust Of Goethe" was not to be seen, and
the other that the speaker could not be
heard. Otherwise the affair Was great
success. Y. Mail.
The Mrs. Cleveland who took a con.
Ispicuous part in the Eddy nlaterlaliza.
tion performances at Spirit Vale, Yer
mont, has seeded from the party, iii
consequence Of quarrel. she declare 8
tnat tue exhibition was trickery, and
that the profit was enormous. '-f'
| A little boy accosted gentleman on