The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-11
FACTS AND FUN.

All lonely men want something. A
lass, yes.
Kiss-me-i t-you-dare hats are worn w
tue ladies this season.
| Character is the diamond that
scratches every other stone.
1t was drunken carpenter who said
he could not carry his spirit level
Physicians think of adding "Centen.
nial feVsr to the list OF popular dis
eases.
A company Is being organic I'D in Rad
ing, Pa, to Insure buildings against
storms.
A hesitating, tardy or grum yielding
to the wishes OF another always CRATES
upon loving heart.
A lawyer at the bar was held to be In
contempt for simply making a motion In
court. IL was ascertained, however, that
he made motion to throw an inkstand
at the head Of the court.
A fellow In England who defended
himself against charge OF chicken
stealing by declaring that the chicksn
jumped upon him, and he was afraid Is
would kill him, and therefore wruuy
its neck in sel-defense, evidently be.
lieVed that poor excuse is better thRa
none.
A Chicago boy was asked by his father
"what that man was yelling ut in the
held!' "He's yelling aJ the top OF his
voice." responded the urchin. Thsn
that cold-blooded husbandmau placed
his violent hands on his irreverent or
spring, and laid him over gamg-pi0w
while he failed him with u tork-stale.
An Arkansas man, says the Burling-
In W.
spring guns in his poultry yard, and thu
next morning in the rising sun he rubbed
| his spectacles and stared in speechlssS
amazement at eighteen candidates Tor
Governor, sitting on the front leneD
picking bird shot out Of their thirty-six
logs.
| 1t appears from the number OF chairs
that Nv ashington sat in," now on exht-
| Dition at the Centennial, that the Father
OF his Country sat down twenty -eIxAt
| thousand eight hundred and seventy-Six
| times during the Revolutionary War,
and each time In different chair, many
Of them being patterns of 1875.
A distinguished politician, while con.
Versing with u lady the other evening.
became pIqued by her attention to a
beautiful Spitz dog that was resting its
head contidingy 10 her lap, and impa-
| tiently asked: why is it that a lady Of
your Intelligence can be so fond OF q
dogW because he never talks poll.
TICS" was the prompt reply.
Advertisement from a Black Huis
newspaper: alt having been quite rep.
orally given out that Captain Ben had
departed from this vale of tears, an op-
portunity is here offered to view his re-
mains and witness the urbane cOrDsa
deal out tea, -four, shoulders, bacon,
hams, coffee, shelf goods and complies
wholesale stock Of the finest LIQUORS ana
cigars ever brought into the Hills"
A correspondent wants to know TIM
best time to pick pears. Around hero
from to A. NJ. is usually considsrcf
the most favorable, though it depends
somewhat upon whether the owner
keeps dog. AS there ia no moon now.
there is no reason why any of our SUBJ
scribers who can climb should not haze
a full supply Of this delicious fruit.
A Genesee street fruiterer throws
pronouns about with incredible loose.
less. A lady recently inquired the
price of some pears. "Flve ceuts, num-
(which are five cents?' she asked,
"Them, and them, and these and those,"
replied the merchant. Whicn is why
we remark, and our language is plain,
that for grammar that's odd and for
ways that are vain, the Genesee boy in
peculiar, and the same we will eTrr
maintain.