The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-20
FACTS AND FUN.

| non, Ia.
Wild cat hunts are lending piquancy
| to Albany, Ga.
A Mr.. Grief is president of the Padu-
cah [Ky.) Brass Band.
| The Washington Star fears we are be-
coming spectacled people.
| There was good sIeighing in parts of
Iowa and Minnesota al the close Of last
week.
A New York boy has been sentenced
to eigh. years imprisonment for play ing
truant.
| The Danbury News says that when
you are thirsty for alcohol drink water
cOpiousIy.
One of the greatest wonders in this
world is what becomes of all the smart
children.
A grocery bill, twenty We feet long,
| was the subject OF a recent suit in Pater-
son, N. j.
| When woman starts out to navigate
an umbrella she shouldn't look one way
| and row another.
BY and by kid gloves will have as
many buttons as the front vi sold
Gi imes'' ulster.
A wri er says that DR.. Holmes weighs
as mnch as hundred pounds in JHe
height OF The bean season.
In these days of literary piracy IRE.
marks the Turner's Falls Reporter) it is
a wise pun that knows its own lather.
In some portions Of Indiana it is the
| custom OF physicians to attend the FAM
Lies OF ministers without compensation.
a quack has been sentenced in Rich
mond, Va, TO five days imprisonment
and Ten lAshes we'll laid on for swindnng.
The Washington (ky.) herald relates
that the vile Of Elias Backman, colored.
in that county, is the mother OF thirty
| four children.
| or one hundred and twenty-seven
deaths in Baltimore last week, twenty
four were caused by consumption and
eleven by dlphtheria.
| Master at home?" mo, sir. he's
! out" "Mistress nomep mo, sir, she's
ou >" "Then Pll step IN and sit by the
tire" "Ina2s out too, Sir"
Now the sugar-coated peanut comes
| to the front among American Iuxurles
Rome lell stepped in luxury. Let us
lake warning from her example.
You don't get any money out OF me-"
said he, as the man presented his bill.
'Pm a savings bahk-thaps what am.n
And the creditor Went disconsolateIy
away.
An American tourist says that a San
Dumingo revolution consists OF ga few
yelIs, three or lour boots, some one ac-
cldentally wounded, and Come home,
darling-all is forgiven"
Distance has only a relative value.
w men man sits down on a carpet-tuck
only quarter OF an inch long, IL is hard
nI M Ia
come out at the back of his neck,
An exchange wants to know how the
turks happened to learn to fight SO
well. Whereupon another exchange ex-
claims: why, man, most OF the turkish
officers have over hail Il doz n wives
Among lot of unmailabte mattor at
the Wllilamsport Pa PosL-ofiue is an
unslamped newspaper wrapper directed
to Pnlladelpnia Lady, and bearing the
inscription, &c. y. u. haint got no
postage stamp"
A little girl who had often heard her
mother speak OF her father, who was
somewhat bald, as being seIl-made
man, asked her one day II father was a
sclt-mauo man, why diun't he put more
uair ON his head.
"Father," said boy who got kicked
in the face by mule that he was annoy
ing, shall L ever be AS good looking as
l was ~ mo, my son." answered the
parent. II don't think you'lI be as
handsome as you were. but you'lI know
Il great deal more"
"Ma," said a thoughtful boy, II don't
think solomon was SO rich as tbey saw
ne was" "Why, my dear, wnat cour1
nave put that INTO your neadY "\yhy.
tue Bible says he slept with MS fathers;
and think If he had been 80 rIcn, he
would have had bed OF his own"
Woman has achieved an entrance into
many Of the professions and fields once
the exclusive prOVlnces OF man, and she
may IN Clme even get the ballot, but one
h"zdfds no.hlng III the prediction that
woman will never be able 10 throw a
stone at an exotic chicken without ex-
citing awe and c0nsteruat tion in the be-
holder.
Some few years ago q noble defend
ant, who WAS compel led to listen, in
court, to feeling panegyric of his wite's
virtues, cut the eloquent counsel short
by springIng up and saying: II ADMIT
ali That. My vile Is an angel; anu trust
1t may be your fate to find auotherAucu
angel, ana to 1--we with her Tor hve
years"
At the theater-Husband: "My dear.
hand me your opera-gIass." Vie hands
over the glass, and husband takes Ion.
look at pretty girl on the Stage, observed
Wy better half. Ten minutes later. Hus.
band: Let me have that glass again, my
dear" WIFE: sit is in the pocket OF nv |
dress, sir, and l shnWt take it cut az ain |
this evening" Husband whistles softly. |
i ST. Louis Times.
A reunion OF five aged brothers, some
oil whom had not met lor iorty years OF
more, took place at Paris, H., few
day since. The eldest, InsIgn Mitchell,
Is Is W years Oh agei the second, Ulaudius,
"a, The third, Ira, rs; the fourth, A bizer,
II; The tiflh and youngest, 6S. Four oi |
Luem are fathers OF ten children each. |
The reunion was Il joyful one Tor the |
brothers, and excited much interest IN |
the neIgnDorhoOd.
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