The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-16

Be not their cry raised in vain.
AS ye mete out unto others,
| 1t shall be meted again.
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BeJting is lively in Gotham as to
whether Vanderbilt Will live until
July 4.
| Nothing is prettier in life than five-
year old gill trying to carry blue COT
ton umbrella.
The catcher of the Chicago baseball
nine acquired his skill by practicin 4
with a mules hind leg.
Niagara Falls are the only obs tacle
TO navigation between Chicago anu Lly-
lerpool." A mere tribe.
Said he, "Fannie, do you love me?''
Said she, Johnny, get on your tip-toes
to look over your collar and hear me say
yes"
| While man was singing "There's a
Good Time Coming" another man rose
and said "Wourd you kindly fix the
date w ''.-'. ..-.'..,..' '..,'..''.
Every man can make himself useful in
this world, II only by holding a sunshade
over young lady who is playing Gro.
Iquet. 8s
| Cinnamon who cut off their pig-tails
sell them TO shopkeepers who supply
san Francisco young ladies with
switches.
"Tnat was very greedy of you, Tommy,
to eat your little sisters share oi cake."
"You told me. ma, / was always to take
her part" SAID Tommy.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says "the
shortest cut through the Back Hills lul
round just above The ears" And you
make nair breadth escape If you miss it.
lyil
shouted an enraged man to an offending
neignbor. It, was an ugiy threat, but il
sounded good. 1t shuWs that we are
getting down to antebellum prices.
"What size do you wear, sir?" bandl Y
customer, t.about--" Justlhen, In back
ing toward the mirror, he stepped on a
piece Of orange-peel and sat down sud
ueniy-'abouL a cap-sizt, l think"
That was a sharp reply of the old
Scutch woman who mad a asLanding quar-
rel with her minister, but was Always
in her place at church. The minister
expressed surprise that she should come
to near him preacn, when she excl4lmeu
"My quarrePs VII you, mon, IT'S not WI
the gospel"
A bashtul admirer made an afternoon
call on 4 Brooklyn girl. sac rushed into
The parlor equipped for the street, ana
4 said, hastily: II am in a great bury
have an engagement with lady friend,
and If you came I0r the purpose Of pro-
posing marriage you will have to be
quick about it." Wedding early in the
4 Iau. =
The Boston Globe announces the rule
that "a beautiful female loot should be
4 one-seyenth the Wear0r's heigut.p Ii
the "Wearer" is five feet lour inches
II high, then the foot should be nine inche s
\ times as long as high, which would give
IL a length OF twenty -seyen inches. But
Il tnis is IN Bost0n--WnIch makes all tns
n difference.
4 A Dutchman lately attended the law
court in Boston to get EXCUSED from tue
4 jury box. III can't uudershtand goot
\ Englese," he SAID. NV WAT did he say ?'
asked the Judge. 81 can't undershLand
4 goot Englese," repeated the Dutcninan.
"fake your seat" cried the Juuge
4 "tha,,s no excuse; You need not be
alarmed, as you are not likely to hear
/ any at.lhis Bar.o
/ The Boston & Providence Railroad
/ Company is trying an experiment for
/ laying Tue dust on tue road, wuich, as
far AS tried, is a success... Between the
| Canton and SHARON stations, for short
distance, oyster shells have been strewn
along the road bed to the deptn of Two
Or three inches. This is the first effort
OF the kind on'a New England road, and
.it will doubtless be appreciated.
A simple mode of roughing horses.
lipracttoed In Russia, CONSISTS IN punrn- :
! ing d square gIote in seach heel of the
shoe, awh.cu in ordinary weather may BE-
l L. nj Ia al. ~
the ground is slippery the cork is re.
moved and steel spike inserted, Ii
| Lnis steel rough be maue to fit the hole
exactly, it remains firm in its place aud
| IS not liable TO break off short at the
| neck, like some oil the screwed spikes.
THE GOLD MEDAL aCAsE.- About 8
o'ciock one evening stranger entered
"a Broadway hotel, and, waking directly
| up tosthe CLERK, SAID: "Three years apo
| tonight left my umbrella here. Where
| is that umbrella now p' "Three years
ago to-nigut l put an umbrella under
| The desk here" replied the clerk; .shere.
sir, is your umb. ella." The stranger
received it, looked 1t over, ard he would
have said something or other ii tears
mad MOI prevented He tried TO smile.
wiped his eyes, and PASSED out as he
came in, Unknown TO any one.
The London Court journal denies that
|the American custom Oh " earring gcitfzens'
clothes at court had any better origin
han accident. 1t says thar the fact tnatE
the American Minister always appears
at court in plain clothes ins tead of Ia
the usual regulation costume 10 due, NOT
to the Republican squeamishness OF BEN
jamin Franklin, as fs generally sup.
posed, but TO the iaziness OF Bepjamin
FrankliHs tailor. Safd tailor uisap-i
pointed Franklin OF the very gorgeous
court dress he mad ordered. anu he had
no alternative but TO appear In ordinary
clothes. Ne was shrewd enough to make
a very great merit OF what was to him a
very unpleasant necessity. The fame olI
the Republicans courage rang out
through the world, and from that time
downward American Ministers have
GAINED as q privilege what was origi-!
natIy a disagteeaDle accident.