The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-16
FACTS AND FUN.

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him.
While Texas man was fighting a
prairie fire, near his house, his daugh-
ter's lover stole her away and married
her.
A Rockdale (Texas) man, after carry
ing bullet in his brain one year, died
suddenly from the effects few days
ago.
Hate is an active, envy a passive dis
pleasure; it need not surprise US, there
| fore, to see how quickly envy passes
into hate.
Four huntsmen in Grant County, KY,
killed i'll two days 1l3 partridges, 56
rabbits, 18 squirrels, A pheasants and 8
Woodcocks.
Over eight millions of people, nearly
one-ttth Of our entire population, have
| thus lar visited the great Exhibition at
| Philadelphia.
"Man," says Adam Smith, sis an ami
NAL that makes bargains. No other ami
NAL does thls-no dog exchanges bones
with another"
1t is a strange desire, to seek power
and to lose liberty; or to seek power
mans self.-[Bacon.
The consumption of petroleum has
fallen off considerably. Dealers would
| be pleased to have continuance of
torchlight professions.
One of the remarkable discoveries
made by the gallant Arctic explorers is
that the length Of a Polar night is one
hundred and forty-tWo days.
Abiding to tho release OF Stokes from
prison, the Christian Register uryly re-
,,,,Iya b,,t i,ly ,11tic h,,t
I he was not lawfully abated."
Isn't it about time we had some new
sensation from old Oshkosh? 1t used to
| tarn out tirst-class tragedy, scandal or
| fire every week when things were busy.
Most people are cross, and most peo-
pie are unusually hungry, on Sunday.
| No one can tell why it is, but if we OBJ
serve our acquaintances we shall find it
to be true.
at an auction of mis- scellaneous articles
out-of-doOrs it began 10 sprinkle, when a
bystandef advised the auctoneer that
be had better put up an umbrella as the
next article.
The Commercial Advertiser" Yale
man, accidentally Stru ck with a base
ball club the other day, did not even
sustain bruise from it. He must be an
unusually hard student"
81 meant to have told you of that
hole" said a gentleman to his friend,
who, walking in his garden, stumbled
into pit of water. mo matter" said
The friend, 81 have found it,"
Can you realize that it is only little
month to the time when you will sud
denly sit down on your head on the pave
ment and wave your feet imploringly
toward the starry skies aboVeT
"If you can't keep awake, ,"said par
son to one OF mis- hearers, "when you are
drowsy, why don't you take a pinch of
snuff" IL think" was the reply, "the
snud should be put into the sermon"
A Vermont legislator had a woman
arrested the other day for winking at
him from the gallery. This is a right
step in the right direction. Winking
from the gallery is one of the things that
ails this Nation.
"Deserted by all, except his bob
| tailed dog, his life went slowly out as
| the shadows of the setting sun crept
over the front step Of Darling's gro
cery," is the way they express them
selves in Georgia.
At Rockingham, Virginia, there is a
family of five persons who weigh re-
| spectively three hundred and fifteen,
two hundred and ninety-four, two hum
| dred and thirty-two, two hundred and
thirty and two hundred and ten pounds.
Edwin-'And now, darling, before we
part, how are we to keep our marriage a
profound secretW Angeline (promDt-
Iy)-"Nothing easier, Edwin dear. You
have only to behave to me as you have
always done, and nobody will suspect
it,"
A wicked elderly Don Juan showed a
friend two OF his alleged nieces the other
them, ehw "Well," said his friend
thoughttully, "when one can select his
nieces he ought to choose prettler cnes."
A Berks County farmer drove into
Philadel phia with load of turkeys, and
asked what all this excitement was
about. They told him IL was about the
election. "LecCion," he replied, inno-
cently-"What' lectionW They bounced
| him.
Uncle LeVi-"NOw, Sammy, tell me,
have you ever read the beautiful story
of Josephp SAMMY o, yes, uncle"
Uncle-"Well, then, wnat wrong did
they do when they sold their brother?"
Sammy-"They sold him too cheap, l
think"
The population of Peru is two million,
seven hundred and twenty thousand,
seven hundred and thirty five. This is
said to show large decrease, which is
attributed to earthquakes. diseases,
civil war, and brandy, especially the
latter.
Blinkson voted q straight ticket. His
wife, who is Ill good health, and red
headed, and a strict party woman, said
to him: "Whatever happens to your
ticket will happen to your face" He
saw that she meant what she said, and
didn't scratch his ticket.
Norwich Bulletin: He was a right
feeling man, and, speaking OF the Turks,
he remarked that these blasted infidels
had got TO be cleared out Of Chris tian
Europe. Then he sat down in u lager
beer saloon, and complained that the
choir in the church near by sang SO
loud that he couldn't concentrate his
mind on his evening game Of auction
pitch.
"Brutus Blinkenberry" said that gen.
tleman's vile, drawing a paper from her
pocket in the privacy OF the chamber on
Sunday morning, "Brutus Blinken.
| berry, I've counted, and out of the last
| thirty days you have come home intoxi-
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