The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-09
FACTS AND FUN.

They are having sleighing in Crescent,
Michigan.
Any two apples are alike il they are
pared. Encore.
The girls and boys of school in Vir-
ginia City have sworn of whispering.
| A fox got drunk all by himself, with
almost human aptitude, in Maine
cider mill.
| When man is about to make a per-
sonal appeal he commences by peeling
off his coat.
Mrs. Partington notices that very few
persons are suffering com suggestions
of the brain.
West Virginia boasts Of a tobacco leaf
thirty inches long, twenty wide, and
| weighing eight ounces.
What branches OF business and agri-
culture require the most water? The
lawn-dry and laundry.
A criminal being asked whether he
was guilty answered: ~ guess l am,
judge; but I'd like to be tried all the
same"
In London club of gentlemen Is form
ing for a tour of the world. They Will
| charter large steamer, and will start
in the spring.
"We must force business" said the
coal dealer, who packed his thermometer
in an ice cream freezer, and waited for
the few ill orders to come.
Boys take warning-Recently, Sut.
ton (West Viginia) boy threw a stone at
passing steer. The animal was struck
on the eye and dropped dead.
ALPS fair in love and war. BUS CON-
I6JntnV-eIWall II al Pnhhu hot
farew Police sergeant-"Bread and
water-same as you had before"
A man who never reads the news.
and who considers himself a sort of an
idiot, makes frst-class Juryman.
The London police have suppressed
all the matrimonial newspapers In that
city. They were an inducement for
good man to throw himself upon poor
woman.
sunday.school life is versatile. A boy
| in a Hartford school has been prose-
cuted in Police Court and 1ined SO for
reading some verses "refecting on the
teacher"
Probably one OF the most trying times
in mans life Is when he introduces his
| second wife, seventeen years cid, to his
eldest daughter, who is past twenty.
| So thinks the Hartford Times.
School girls are putting aside their
| thin-soled gaiters.- Ex. This is too
thin. N school girl ever got mother
| in-law by foundering around In pair
of arctic oVershoes.
An exchange says: Mr.. Lady, Of North
Carolina. has welded Miss Pharr. He
probably thought she was Pharr better
than any other girl, while she was satis-
fed to marry lady rather than be an
old maid.
"Pa, guess our Ralph is good Chris.
tian." "How so, my boyW "Why, pa,
l read in the Bible that the wicked shall
not live out half his days, and Ralph
says he has lived out ever since he was
boy"
Talking about the wonders Of agricul-
ture, an uptown saloonist raised three
beets In fifteen minutes, the three weigh
ing in the aggregate four hundred and
fifty pounds. They were dead-beats, and
he "ratsed" them with his boot.
The happiest moments in a woman's
life are when she is making her wedding
garments; the saddest, when her hus-
band comes home late at night and yells
to her from the front steps to throw him
out some key-holes, assorted sizes.
The New York World suggests that
the Sheriff, instead of making mis- annual
levy on the COWS Of the Misses Smith,
OF Glastonbury, should attach their con.
gratulatory letters from the women OF
American, now amounting to several
tons.
As the sewing circle season advances,
from week to week the deserving poor
are amazed into a state Of semi insanity
by receiving red flannel shirts, made of
the backs OF two shirts sewed together
with arms ingeniously attached 10 the
side slits in the tails. What wonder that
the poor complaint
II you have friend with a cough or