The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-11
FACTS AND FUN.

ATCIlc eAPeulIlous'
Seven men married for the fourth time
IN New York last year.
Mittens may now be knitted by indus
trious lasses Tor their sweetheart lad
dies.
The chronological Journal advises
young men to be governed by the chin
| in picking out wife.
A Colorado backwoodsman' dog
nearly barked itself into fits on its
first sight Of woman. m
The new hair nets are not received
with favor by ladies possessing fine
heads oil hair, "all their own"
Mr.. Edwin Booth has ducats most hon
orably earned. 1t ls pleasant to state
that he has just paid $l43, 800 for a block
OF buildings in Chicago.
An English Court has just decided
that railway company is bound to sup
ply tirst-class carriage, Tree from to-
bacco smoke, If passenger demands 1T.
Where there's a Will-Judge (unde-
cided): Humph! the Court must be clear
on this point, brother Jenkins. Anxious
Usher: Clear the Court. Us repri.
manded ior excess of zeal
Pray, Mr.. Professor, what is peri
phrasis?" "Madame, 1t is simply cir
cumlocutory cycle of oratorical souoros-
| ity, CircumScribing an atom of ideality
| lost III verbal protunuity." "Hhank you,
sfr."
| Flowers of Northumberland How
would you ike the dress made? Cook:
| The latest fashion, of course. Dress
maker: A pocket, L suppose? Cook:
| No! everybody wears pockets now-a-
| days; even Missis and young Miss has
| 'em.
Spades are trumps again in Paris. just
as much as in the days of Hausmann
under the empire. The shovel and the
| pickaxe are seen everywhere clearing
away rubbish, to charm the eyes OF WIS.,
itors to the great Exhibition of 1878,
which, the French hope, will eclipse all
It's predecessors.
They had been engaged long time,
and one evening were reading the paper
| together. "LoOk, love-" he exclaimed,
"only $l5 for "a SUIT of clothes!" "Is it a
wedding suit?" she asked, looking
naively at her lover. "OhI no." he re-
piled, ''its business suit" swell, |
meant business" she answered.
The Boston Transcript says that Mr..
Bret Harte'S "Two Men OF Sandy Bar"
a pretty little volume, lies under lock
and key with nine hundred and ninety
nine companions in Mr.. Osgood's store
room. The trouble is about the copy
right. Mr.. Harte and Mr.. Osgood want
to publish the thousand little volumes,
and MIR. Stuart Robson doesn't want
Them TO do anything of the kind.
One of the attractions of Berlin is
Prauscher's Museum of wax figures.
The most striking Of these is an illustra-
tion of the last operation performed upon
Louis Napoleon. The sick man, naked
to the waist, is stretched upon bed.
The chest rises and tails, the eyes open
and shut, the lips separate, as il to give
vent to groans, and the head turns te-
verishly upon its pillow. The repre-
sentation is spoken OF as startling, and
so painfully realistic as to draw i'm
menSe numbers daily.
The disturbance in the Senior Glass at
Wesleyan College, Middletnwn, Conn.,.
over the election OF woman to the po-
sition of class-poet, seems to have been
much more diScreditable to the young
men than was at first supposed. The
opponents OF cO-education, Oy threats of
Withdrawing from the observance of the
day, finally obliged the women to with
draw, Whereupon the vacancy was filed
by the election OF a young man. The
prominent leader OF the opposition to
,
The Bishop has always advocated coed
ucation.
At the monthly meeting OF the Century
!, Club in New York, Saturday, much in
terest was shown in two landscapes oil
Philip Gilbert Hamerton, loaned for the
occasion by DR.. Powers, oil Bridgeport,
Conn. The Tribune says that the I'M
preston which they created was one OF
severe disappointment. "It is almost
Incredible" says the critic, "that a man
of mature years, VINO has studied art SO
4 faithfully, and written about it SO intel
4 ligently and delightfully."-, should mani
lest such cold, mecnanical, imperfect
apprehension OF Nature"
They were sitting near the window
last Friday afternoon, enjoying the long
hidden, bright autumn sunshine and blue
sky. "Ah. said she, with little sIgu,
: "dun't you think this the Ioyellest
weather in the world for wedding
George?' George was startled for d
second, but ne quickly pulled himself
together ana briskIy said: ~ tell you
Alice, you ought TO go down and see the
Moody and Sankey tabernacle. They
will roof il in before long, and it's going
to be big thing" Alice looked sad anU
made no reply Sunday Courier.
There is humor in suicides. Miss Pix
ley, of South Lee, Mass, jumped into a
river to dro oWn herself, and then pulled
herself out by the bough OF tree under
, which she toated. SHe writes an ac-
: count for the newspapers, saying: II
there is any one who reads this foolish
enough to want to die before G1d's
chosen time, don't jump iuto the river
where there are trees with limbs hang
ing in the water, for if you do, no matter
how determined you are to leave this
world, you will either have to make uI
your mind to stay little longer, or else
try it again, which latter you will no t b.
likely to do" Lawyer Bancroft, of Sar
Francisco, before killing himself with
Mudanum, wrote in u letter TO II Coro
ner IL beg to inform you that this is d
case OF Iaudanum taken with sulclda
intent. R.usuns concern no one bu
myself, still II any one should insis
upon having U reason, you may say
was driven TO desperation by the Presl
Dental muddle, and seeing no prospec
of ascertaning III this world who was tt
be next President, went TO the next
where all things are supposed to VI
known, for the intornlation."
Aristocratio Paupers.