The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-07-15
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One of the initiated says he supposes
that Masons are only a higher sort OF
hod-fellows.
A Boston mans second wife has had
him arrested for using ner money to buy
his first wife tombstone with poetry
on it.
| Fools die as certainly as bald headed
men, and it is an unsustained assertion,
the saying that ''death loves shining
mark"
When candidate puts himself into
| the hands of his friends you may be sure
he wants to keep from the hands of the
police.
Democrats say, sIf Grant should run
again he would notcarry single State"
Why, then, should they oppose his nom-
inatiOn2 r..
Compared with the quantities OF pi-
amos played every morning. the number
| of suicides Is very small at this season
of the year.
Brooklyn tailors are In trouble on ac-
They are ordering button-holes from
New York.
| A farmer in Charlton found way to
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a strange town and put him up at auction.
He went for $S5.
| No doubt the happiest dogs that ever
| lived were the two taken aboard OF
| lNoah's ark--for they had but one pair of
| ieas between them.
Elder Thurman now places the second
advent two years before the resumption
0f specie payment, but there may still
be some mistake in date.
When Smith went home full the other
night, he gave as an excuse that he was
In dilemma. eyes, and you've taken
both horns OF 1t" said Mrs. =.
"Mothers," says Rev. DR.. Hall, "are
the great primary educators. True.
Who, like mother, can point the way
through the slippery paths OF YOUTH
Rival hackmen at Niagara Falls now
issue chromos to passengers after the
manner OF religious newspapers. This
plan increases the circulation Of tray-
elers.
''Our inside. contains to-day, says q
country editor. "'Dyspepsia,' sCrooked
yarious other interesting selected ar
ticles."
Il 1t takes many years to make young
politician know how to be useful, and 1t
takes as many more to make an old one
understand when he has outlived his
usefulness.
Men should be honest in all things.
There are those who would not rob you
of five cents, yet they would borrow
your umbrella on rainy day and keep
it borrowed.
A new candy is called "Centennia
-
other kind, given by young men who
have not yet celebrated one quarter of a
centennial.
We don't believe the Baltimore News
likes Bowen. 1t asks: "Why don't the
people of Brooklyn duck Bowen in the
river or decorate him with coat OF tar
and feathersw
A poor and proud, but indolent young
lady, says striped stockings are much
more convenient than white ones. She
can wear pair three weeks before they
| require washing.
! "If Jones undertakes t0pull my ears"
| said loud-mouthed fellow on a street
corner, she will just have his hands lull,
now" The crowd looked at the mans
ears and thought SO too.
When the burglar who wounded Mr..
Shute heard that a. Brooklyn detective
was upon mis- track, he clasped his hands
and devoutly exclaimed. "Ihank
Heaven! Now am SAFE"
And now it turns out that Abelard and
Heloise were never buried In Pere-la-
4 Chaise Cemetery at all, and that thou.
sands of sentimentalists nave stirred up
their glands for some unknown bones.
"Do.s giant farming pay?" asks the
Chicago Tribune. Ii the Tribune really
wants information, it ought to 20 and
1 talk to the giants themselves. The az
ricultural papers can't know every thing.
Naturally enough, the New York Grape
smugglers are mounting their fate.
Theirs was grave otfense, and for long
time shrouded from The eye of the law.
such an undertaking seldom pays in the
END.
[ A visitor to the jail incidentally men.
toned that this Was a backward spring
II should say it was" proclaimed u dis.
couraged prisoner. ''Here is the 10th
!, of May and we hain't had green peas
: yet"
There are 80 many catastrophes oc-
curing just now which furnish grounds
for appeals to the charitable, that all
truly good men are exchanging rheil
ready Scash tor United States securi.
ties.
. They will have their little jokes. A
: Pennsylvania paper says: Boston, pop.
ulous Boston, may properly be described
, as the town III which hundreds OF thou.
sands daily ''iiye, move and have theii
BEANS"
One OF our editors dashed out on the
slander question, using the quotation
"Mind your own glass windows" His
smile was ghastly when it ran through
the whole lssue-"Aind your own grass
widows"
Little Johnny had pistol, which to
fire off was his joy, but he fired it once
too often. We have lost Our too patriotic.
and-oyer-eager- to-celebraLe- the Fourth
Old -Julyin-adyance boy. Gone to meet
Guy Fawkes.
i An old Colorado miner writes that all
man needs for "a complete summer cut.
lit in that country is one Iasso rope. olle
rifie with ammunition, and one sack OF
salt. ANY energetic man can kill and
steal whatever else he needs.
Each ship of the Arctic expedition was
, supplied with pigeons similar to those
used in the Franco-Prussian war. Par
Of these birds are to convey messages
from the siedge parties to the Alert. the
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