The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-02
FACTS AND FUN,


A crying eVil-Taking the baby to the
| theater.
1t requires twelve large trunks to
contain Mrs. Florehce's theatrical ward.
robe.
Potatoes are so high in New Orleans
that many poor people can not see their
eyes.
"a man that studieth revenge keeps
his own wound green, which would 9TH
erwise heal and do WE'LL"
A Brooklyn candidate is described as
"bright as the sun, fair as the moon, and
terrible as an army with banners"
We believe we could have worried
along under the imbecile impression
that there was no northeast passage.
The man who pays more taxes than
anybody else in Brooklyn is a shoe
maker, and yet he keeps pegging away.
Bob Ingersol says that ''the colored
man raises everything that is raised in
the South except hell."-[Dayton Jour
nal.
The fall crop of tramps is unusually
full and promising. From every direc-
tion the newspapers chronicle the har-
vest.
"How long will my chop be, waiter ?'
asked hungry man in O restaurant.
"a bout five inches, Sir, was the prompt
reply.
wildcat, MurderkiIl Hundred, Kent
County" is mentioned in marriage
notice as the residence of recent Della
ware bride.
The best way to fight the battle OF life
is To get cool.headed woman and give
her the rank OF general, while you re-
main private.
What this country needs just at pres
ent is sure and speedy process of kill
ing the man who never thinks of Shut
Ting door behind him.
Snobby New YORK papers speak of
their scissors -wielders as "eXcAange
readers" instead Of ''editors," as those
great men would like to be ca led.
There are plenty of people in the
hand-organ districts of this city who
would like to preside at the funeral of
the author of "Pull Down the Bind.n
Altogether Stokes spent in prison, first
in the TomDs and aiterward in The Sing
Sing and Auburn STATE Prisons, four
years, nine months and tWenty-oue
days.
The American silver water or ice
pitcher is such u useful invention that
the Swedish Commissioner has bought
twenty-siX of them for as many home
friends.
Young ladies should not be deceived
by this moderate weather into leaving
off their belt buckles. There is q damp
ness in the air which should be guarded
against.
Conductors on Iowa railroads are in
to warn lnnocent-miDded girls
about flirting with commercial travellers,
They know the propensity Of drummers
Tor beating.
The latest instance of "married in
haste" was that Of the couple united in
ON an Erie express train
while it was running at the rate Of forty
miles an hour.
The Scientific American remarks: ssIt
is a very prevalent opinion that rats
will not stay where goats are kept, and
il this is TACT, we must say we respect
their Judgment"
A sick man in New Orleans was told
ny the doctor that nothing would save |
lin except quart OF catnlp tea. "Then:
must de-" said The poor man, "Ior /,
lon't hold but pint"
japanese Gus tom house officials tried
o open a case OF dynamite with ham.
ner and chisel. TIE Coroner is lookingl
or them now. He wants TO hold an in
luest on something, and can find nothing
nut hole In the ground where the case
TODD.
A London merchant recently com.
lained before a magistrate that in one
ay eleven organ-grinders played before
is house, three persons sang, and com
any OF negroes performed, which he
laimed was nuisance that ought to be
unished by law.
Not SO hopeless as it looks-Edith
that dreadful young flirt): DO you
now, coz, think l shall marryp Cous.
a (wlth designs in that quarter him
elD: "Really! you amaze me! Soon"
'ditn: Well, perhaps in month or
wo" Cousin: "And may l ask the
anne of the happy man~ Edith: "The
that? Cousin: "Ihe man, the-er-
hat is it?-the intended?" Edith:
All, by the way-yes-I must begin TO !
alnk OF that, too, mustn't lf
screen" desires to know what finger q
idy should wear an engagement ring r
Il. This is difficult problem to solve,
nd the question has been asked from @
Ie earliest ages. We would advise /
reen to begin with the thumb and wear 4
le ring on different finger every day. I.
y this means she will have dead sure