The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-14
FACTS AND FUN.

They will line bonnets with velvet this
season.
The dry season is known as the UNI.
breIla's holiday.
1t is an item of dental interest that
| hickory nuts are most due.
snow take the hens' nests out of your
sleigh and get ready for snow"
| A California catfish, fourteen inches
long, wiggles in New York aquarium.
| We needn't be ashamed of Goldfish any
more. 1t is called "yiande de careme"
in French.
Wetumpka Nu-Joax is the euphonious
name of an Alabama paper, but its jokes
aren't all nu.
"No matter how often YOU fall into
the river" said an old topper, 'you won't
drown ii your head swims."
Rockport, Mass, appropria,es the pro-
ceeds OF ber tax on dogs to The purchase
of books for her public library.
"shut the door, now greets every body
just as they are smilingly about to make
some remark on entering the office.
A difference of opinion-When hotel
guest kicked waiter who served him
wrong, the proprietor said he served him
right.
A good many people who went to the
Centennial. are now buying their pota-
toes by the half peck and their butter by
the half pound.
What we like to see in an Illustrated
newspaper is a six-foot man standing
alongside two-inch bridge which spans
a three-lnch river.
Buffalo Bill says the reason Terry
didn't catch up with the Indians was be-
cause he had to move slowly to prevent
breaking his glass decanters.
When Republican woman refuses to
use copies OF the Cincinnati Enquirer
tor a,bustlel it is-time for the country to-
pause in its mad career Of political dis
cusSion.
This witticism, ascribel, to Robert
.Collyer, concerning the oyster plant, is
applicable. to other things; "ILs always.
just going, to taste like oysters, but it
never does"
An old minister once said 10 young
preacher who was complaining, of a
small congregation: "It's as large a con-
gregation, perhaps, as you will want to
account for at the day Of judgment"
See what it costs to have slanderous
tongue. A Buffalo lady has just had her
handsome residence sold over her head
by the sheriff, to satisfy a Judgment in
favor of young lady school teacher
whom she had maiigned.
The latest bulletin from the Seryian
war says the Turks have taken the Of
iensive. We wish that something would
take the offensive Turks, but we suppose
there isn't anything liyingica can get lear,
enough to them TO take anything but the
plague.
Information as to the portraits on post
age stamps: tThe bust on Une-cent,
stamp represents Franklin; twos, jack
SON; threes, Washington; lives, Taylor;
skies, Lincoln; sevens, stanton; tens,
Jefferson; twelves, Clay; tifteens, Web
ster; twenty-tours. Scott; thirties, Ham
alton; nineties, Perry. The seven,
twelve and twenty -four cent stamps are
not now issued, but many OF them are in
A gentleman travelling through one of
the rural precincts OF a county, few
days since. rode'upto to farm house, and
thus accosted a curly-headed urchin,
WHO was seated on the top OF gate
post: "Bub, where's your pap The
youngster replied, "He's just gone1 down
beyond the COW she'd to bury our old
dog TowseE Thedarned old fool killed
hisselta a barking at candidates for Sher-
itf. Be you one?'
Eddie, chap ofthree and half years,
was sent TO- the corner store 'toiget two
wicks, but he got into the store minus a.
knowledge of what his mother wanted.
The KIND keeper, to help out the little
fellow, who began to cry, began number
ing several articles, and at last men,
toned the herb thyme. "Thaps itv' ex-
claimed he, ''sometbfng about time. I
fink she told me to buy fortnightir
why, my little man, fortnight is two
weeks" THAT'S it!' calculated the lit
tie messenger, in hign glee, "mamma
told me TO. get two wioks--two FlamF
wicks"-[ Albany Journal.