The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-28
FACTS AND FUN.

the Russian Emperor.
The Kansas City Times says that .
young man can not dress q doll.
Nasty asks: "Can't they get up
Peter Cooper legislature, too, at Colula
biaW
They have a happy farmer at Sussex
N. b. He has a One-thousand-pOnnf
piggy.
1t is very we'll for little children to bf
lambs, but a very bad thing for them to
grow up sheep.
Pray for the poor with all your might
and now and then throw in LOAF G1
bread, basket OF potatoes or barrow 0i
coal.
Two Western New York girls, during
the absence of matertamilias, sawed "a
the tops OF their bedposts for crOQaet
balls.
Spilkins always insists on spelling
needle, niedIe. He says every Reehl
should have an eye in it. SewPIN. x
Com. ADV.
Miss Stagg was married at Hornells-
vile, N. T., recently. The bridegroom
had engraved on the wedding riDgs
Name ever deer to me-"
Ii an analogy from feline life is in oE-
der i'll Louisiana politics, there mua
Dave been good many voters "On the
fence" in Cat-;-houla.
They were talking of an actress. Said
one: "Yes. she mas great talent. Whni
age is sheT IL don'J know, but sn6
looks every day ofItp'
Out of one thousand three hundred
and thirty-three physicians who minis.
ter 10 the diseased minds and bodies Of
Paris, only fity-eight are foreigners.
Railway porter (wbO has had tho
lighted end OF Il cigar thrown into his
eye): "Beg pardon, sir, but that eyes
iull; the other is quite at your serFa
ice.'
London has cheerful weekly called
the Obituary. 1t is devoted TO the in-
terests of undertak ers, cremationIsts.
graVe-diggers, ana sculpCors OF toml.
stones.
The man who manages a hand-oar can
not be called chiel engineer, and il
you style him u hand-car chief he might
be cOniounded with the wipers vi lhs
locomotives.
The peanut crop for this year is eight
huudrel thousand bushels; and no pep-
pie with eight hundred thousand bn sh-
els OF peanuts b5!ore them ever plunged
mauly lnlO clFll Stflte.
Frank Moore, in his "Record of the
Year," says that although Worcester Is
pronounced Wooster, small boy got
spanked at school the other day Tor
spelling rooster, rOrcester.
The roof Of the Palmer House, Chica-
go, (Weighing about four thousand tons;
is being raised by means OF numerous
Jack-screws, to give an additional heignS
OF thirty 1ncoes to the rooms below.
Yes, lePs nave another war, advocates
the Fulton Times. The stock OF Old
army oYercoats is played out, ana how
would man look coming into town 90 a
load OF wood without one of those OnP
Next to throwing kitteps into mia
pond (says the New York Heralul tue
saddest SIGHT is that OF a lady ata
church far drowning two or three poor
llttle oysters III gallon OF thin milk.
A man who advertised for au s,amiabIe
wife, and has had the supposed treas.
ure for one week, expresses himself thus
oDscurely: "ohe hadu't been in tue
house tSenty-four hours before the milk
soured."
81 guess dad wishes we'd all die ana
20 10 neaven," SAID a misers son to his
maternal parent. "Why sU?' she asked.
"Oh, cause heavens such cheap pIacs
10 live in."
From Punch: s'Bctting man to his
partner: Look 'ere, Joe! [ 'ear you've
ueeu gamblin' Oh the Stock Excnapxrl
NOW, u man muet draw tbs Hae some
where; and if that kind of thing gogs
on, you and ME viii ave to parG CON-
pan! P'
Stephen Hall, queer but weak genius.
haH, maue ireq qLenI gracious promises 70
his troubled Trends That he would put
himself ou5 OF their way. One stingins
coId nIghs le vowed he would go out aad
freeze 10 death. About II O'Clock pa
returned, shiVering and slapping his
fingers. "Why don't you treeze?" asked
loving relative. "GoilyV" said Ihe
pseudo suicide, "%hen lreeze L nena
TO Take warmer night than this for i'm
Some gentlemen from Connections
have been down 10 the Pine Tree State
hunting. The Rlleigh IN. C.) Nawa
party OF Northern gentleman, headed
by the President oil the Hartford 4 New
Haven Railroad, have been huannY
along The line of the Raleigh & Gaslon
Railroad for the past wees, and dr.
parted yesterday for their Norlb-
ern home. They came Dn
au elegant Pullman car with
kitchen department. attached, and la
this car ate and slept. They brought their
own guns and dogs, and seemed to en-
JOY their recreation aud sport very
greatly. They and their car stovped
three days at Manson, on the line OF IN.
road, and here they found citizen who
agreed to go hunting with them. He
stuffed his breeches down i'll his boots.
all old muzzle-;oaIing shol-
gun, and started out, ana that night il
was found, on "fair count" that thu
man with the boots had killed tiity-cigh;
birds. while the Northern gentlemen had
killed three.
The following description of Princa
Napoleon IS taken from Les Dr0itS dt
! H0nnae: "The top OF lie uea uala.
slgnGI here and there with comma ol
stray hairs; the temples garnished with
black tufts, glued down in u straight
line; eve sunken; eagle enosed; large
mouth, with thin lips; prominent cnin:
the face putfed out with yellow fat; No
beard; having the air OF restaurant
waiter separated from his napkin.
Furthermore, his cour, education has lc 1
him deplorab;e habits. He stands in th,,
tr. bune as in front oi Miss Cora Pearl's
wasE-5owl. And when one listens TO
him and aDalySes his ell, rel r.
hold him pulling his tnumDs ;a Sd