The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-31

mau streets. MIR. Daniel P. Dean and
other speakers Will be present.
81 give and bequeath to Mary, my wife,
| the sum. O. one hunder pounds year,"
said an old farmer. ''Is that written
down, master? "Yes," replied the law :
yer, ''but she Is not SO old; she may
marry again. Won't you make change
in that casef Most people do" SAY,
do they ~ said the farmer. "Well, write
again, will give and bequeath to her
the sum Of two hunder, pounds year:
That will do, won't it master?"
"Why, its just doubling the sum she
would have If she remained unmarried"
said the lawyer, "iL's generally the other
way-the Legacy is lessened if the widow
marries agaiu." CAV" said the farmer,
"but him as gets he.ll deserve it,"
When a Delaware Indian woman's
house near Cana River, Indian Terri
tory, was surrounded by the late flood,
she tied two children to her body, and
from ner heusetop mounted a tree.
When out OF reacn of tho water she tied
her babes to the limbs and saved them.
The splritualist lecturer who noticed a
lady in deep mourning taking her de-
parture from the hall, prophesied better
than he knew when he told her that the
spirit Other husband desired to commu-
nlcate with her. Il know it," said she (;
''he's waiting at the door,"
A captain caught an Irish boy in the
middle watch frying some pork and
eggs, which he had stolen from the ships
stores, to whom the captain called out
"You lubber, you'll PHI have none OF
thatP '.Faith, captain, Pve none for
ye," replied The lad.
A traveller staying over night with
Texan farmer, whose estate was miles
and miles in extent, said to him, s.Ycu
must have begun life very early to &C
cumulate such an estate as this" eyes,
replied the farmer, 81 began when was
a mere baby"
Baggs got up too early one morning,
His little six-year-old, who had been
listening attentiyely during the CONVEX
sation, broke in with "Father, stop
scolding; you needn't think James your
wife,"
There was coined In the San Francisco
mint during the year ending June 30,
$35, ,9S9, 800, Of which $27, ,033, 100 was in
gold coin. This is the largest annual
coinage Of any mint in the United
States.
"Did you think OF me while you were
gomez Ienderly asked an uptown wo-
man Of her husband, who had just got
back from Florida. He said he did
once. 1twas when he saw an alligator's
jaw.
That everybody's energy has not been
exhausted by the heated term seems
clear from the remark of a bootblack
yesterday, who expressed his willing.
nsss to kick q hole through the sky and
let in some fresh air.
Clergyman to Tommy: "What shall l
give you for present| Tommy, who
respects the cloth, also truth-hesi-
tatingly: 81 think / should like
testament, and 1 know I should like
pop-gunp
Running Ante eiope, Sioux chief, says
that when he learned that the white
men had killed their Savior he was as
tonished, but he changed his mind
when he got better acquainted with
them.
Chicago has q public benefactor-a
notion peddler, VINO goes through the
country in fancy wagon and makes it
his religion to shoot every dog that runs
out and barks at his team.
"Well, my boys" asked gentleman of
a little eight-year-old boy at the Exposi-
tion, swat are you crying forf' ",Uause
/ can't find my dad. told the old TOOL
if he went of too far I'd lose him."
ssTOm," said a countryman on the
Fitchburg Railroad the other day, "1hy
Is the time keard of this burned road
like your shirtp "Give il up. Jake.D
'.Because tits changed once week.n
A Methodist journal says that there
are four million, one hundred and sew
enty-three thousand and forty seven
members Of the Methodist Churcn in the
world.
Money continues scarce, and hard
times are severely felt in some places.
An old woman arrested in Newark, N.
j., for begging, had only $4,000 in her
pocket.
The young man who advertised for a
mother-in-law lives in Milwaukee. and
hires his ears out for Tilden and Hen.
bricks bulletin boards.
Gentiles declare that the Church of
Jesus Christof Latter Day Saints, w hich
has millions Of property In Salt Lake
City, only pays 80 tax.
Recently a young Englishman, Tom
Walker, swan from Whitby to Scar
borough, Q distance Of twenty miles, In
twenty-one hours. =.
A popular writer, speaking OF the
ocean telegraph, wonders whether the
news transmitted through the salt water
will be fresh.
Mrs. Tyner, the wife Of the new Post
master General. wac, before her marriage
about three years ago, Treasury clerk.