The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-27
FACTS AND FUN.

1t takes pickpocket to dis-purse a
crowd.
The saffron crop is short and butter
| turns pale. ...
Curtain lectures are sometimes called
sheet music.
OF the future the Japanese think little
and care less.
Daniel Boone was good shot, but he
used 10 spell people "pepeI."
Tramps beat their way to Texas in
| freight cars, and then beat Texans.
The Jubilee Singers earned, it is said,
$4,000 by their concerts III England dur
ing 1875.
Diphtheria is raging in Lehigh County,
Pa, and proves more fatal than the
smallpox.
The damage to property in London by
the overflow of the Thames ON the I'd inst.
is estimated at &500,000.
| Spurgeon says the worst scene he ever
witnessed was half congrega tion
asleep, and the preacher snoring elo-
quently.
| The Chinese gold mines, which are
| fast getting under the control of the bar
barians, are beginning TO "pan QUIZ i'm
mensely.
An Iowa editor announces that the
| singlng-schoOl in his town will shortly
produce Haydu's divine oratorio of
| "The CremaLIon."
| The statue of Juarez was cast in San
Francisco on Saturday-the first work OF
| the KIND ever undertaken in California,
and therefore memorable.
| A reporter says that he has seen what
appeared to be an admirable bridal
trousseau sold at an "old clio" establish
ment in New York tor 81 90.
The Philadelphia Bulletin tells of a
long haired stranger VINO Went to the
Academy of Fine Arts and wanted to
see the celebrated Statue Quo.
Six Creek Indians are at a college in
Georgia preparing for theological
course in order to become Baptist mis-
sionaries. They are refined in their
manners.
A great panic has been caused at
| WoolWicn Arsenal, England, by re-
port that the eighty ton gun had
cracked, probably due to the gun having
been bored rather too fine.
The contemp. alton OF several hundred
feet Of sidewalk to shovel off in the win
ter will strike dismay to the heart of a
man who in summer glOries in the pos
session OI q corner lOLs- EX.
''Down feet!' roared the manager.
"Lhe performance can not 20 OH while
The chandelier is in danger" This was
III 81. Louis, and the managers nave to
speak that way only too frequently.
A curious spectacle this, remarks the
n. Y. Com. Adv. While Russia and
| Turkey are shaking their lists in each
others faces, Brolner Jonathan is fur
| nj Ch n : T. n mr. mr.
them.
After the death of lunatic at an asy-
] lum In Italy, recently, needle was
found in the left Ventricle of the heart.
He hai forced it into the heart two
years before his deaLD, and it, apparent
ly, had caused him no Inconvenience.
Il have lived for TWENTY-FIVE wears.
and in all that period neVaw expert
enced such awful wethaw as this" was
the remark of dandy assisted TO his
feet from full length position on the
Academy's pavement in Philadelphia.
The Story farm, on Oil Creek, Venan-
90 County, Pa, has produced IN the last
| fifteen years two million, one hundred
| ana twenty -elght thousand, two hundred
and seven barrels OF oil, and yielded div
idends amounting in the aggregate to
vs., 794,60O.
| Danbury's nt-minded man at
tended church Wednesday evening, and
placing his hat on The stove backed up
to the cabinet organ to warm himself
The sexton discovered the mistake, and
fastened to the rescue of the hat and
organ.
Sunday-school newspapers have be-
come fashionable at the antipodes. One
of these in China has three thousand
subscribers, twenty-five OF whom are
mandarins in the city of Nankin. and it
is supposed The paper is read by tiity Of
that class.
x. lights cigar, then to his valet,
with a horrible grimace: "Jeane Bap-
tiste, where did you get that cigar?'
"ln the blue porcelain box, sirl" "You
illimitable idiot! How often have told
you that the cigars III the blue box are
ior my friendsW
A vast quantity of butter has recently
been shipped to England from this coun-
try, and it Is reported that the exports
have more than doubled within year.
In round numbers, twelve million pounds
were sent to foreign ports-an increase
OF seven millions over the export in 1875.
People talk about the "dear old
school house." and the "dear old oaken
bucket" and all that-but il we remem-
Der Alright, says the N. Y. Evening Mail
man, in our boyhood days it was the
"dear old bridge" under which we used
to hide away from school, and the 'dear
old mill ponG where we used to fish,