The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-15

| A clergyman went to a livery stable
one hot day recently TO get team
| While waiting for it to be harnessed, he
pulled off has coat and sat down in q
lconVenient chair. A doctor came for his
horse, and seeing the parson in his shirt
sleeves, remarked, tacetlOusly: "IOu
are the man I want. l should like to
get you TO help me about my haying."
| The parson said, with twinkle in his
eye: 81 can't pitch, and can't NOW;
but perhaps can rake after you-l AIN
just going TO attend luneral." AT last
accounts The doctor was wondering
whether the clergy man was in any way
related to Douglas Jerrold.
''rhe feet of girl are light, SO is heI
head" sententIously remarked the
Young mans %" Things are not now as they
were in the days OF our fathers. Biomll-
lah, new the maiden is like wasp al
her waist and just below like a camel
and she knows no more how to boss the
slaves orto COOK the pilatf. For me
want none but wife OF the good old
SORT" concluded this representative oI
Young Turkey.
hfAh-aw-ah," said a fair, lisping crea
lure to Chicago milliner, one day this
week, Il want something thatll make
me look lnpGcenL-so Innocent, you
know" And 50 the milliner tried on
her head one of those neW-iangled bon
nets that sprangle all owe the female
neck, and make woman look not only
innocent, hut crazy.
According to q calculation published
n French financial journal, the pOpu-
Iaton of France at the present rate ill
only double in 1880 years. Germany
requires only SO years to doub le its pop
ulaCion; Austria, 62; DEM uark, I3;
Great Britain, 50; Sweden, 80, and Nor
way 81.
A San Francisco paper is pleasant
reading while one is enjoying post
pl andial cigar. Here is para Igrapn;
ga Chihaman died OF smallpox while
lying on heap OF tobacco that was at
terW ard used in making cigars"
A speaker at stump meeting, out
West declared that he knew no east,
no west, no north, no south. 18Th en-"
said bystander, "you ought to go 10
school and learn your geography"
A creeping vine on the Church of tlle
A Ascension, IN New York, has taken su eh
caps in growth this summer that it is
loW climbing The highest turret, OIL e
hundred feet III the air.
A prudent lady applied to free BibIef
distributor the other day Tor a large
,opy. Sac said it was handy to press
lowers IN, and it made a nice ornament
or the centre-table.
An exchange says Maggie Minot,, of
owa, is twenty-three years old, twenty
even inches high, and weighs thirty-one
pounds. Her name should be changed |
% Minnie Maggot.
Ladies now hang their fans by two
uch wide cardinal ribbon, caught at the |
waist on the left side. The bright color |
orms pretty contrast both with light |
md dark dresses.
A Saratoga girl writes home: "There |
Lre plenty vi males here-lisping, silly, |
air-parted In -the-middle swells-buJ o,
or the sight of one genuine manW
An Indian will love you as long as you
re good TO him. But you must not oD-
ect if he wants to use your scalp to
rim his leggins with.
A Salem Mass.) witch, soon to be
married, has provided herself for the oc-
aston with twenty-tour dresses at a
ost OF $4,000 (silyer).
The useless waste of money on we'd
ings and funerals calls for reform. Ex-
ravagance makes young men dread
carriage and death.
The Norwich Bulletin says; "A
Voman who makes practice 0f borrow
ng quart Of milk usually makes pint |
I returning it,"
A New York stationer has introduced |
lead pencil which is called the Demo- |
ratio pencil, ana is soft at one end and |
ard at the other.
The female students Of Wellesley Col
ege have organized a fire company. II
will be''reep' iun to see them run with
striped hose.
The Norwich Bulletin says: GA woman
Who makes a practice Of borrowing q
Iuart OF milk usually makes pint OF
it,"
A fashion authority says 'ssending of
Wedding cards is entirely out OF date"
Yes; we stopped senaing them some
IeaEs ago, J.