The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-12
FACTS AND FUN.

ore.
A woman is director in a Peoria
bank.
The kindergarten system is in opera
tion in China.
Eternal spring can be found only in
rubber factory.
The weather no sooner begins to suit
people than u change comes.
Men are so desirous OF being deceived
that they deceive themselves.
Drawing classes-The ancient hewers
of wood and drawers OF water.
The Detroiters enjoyed forty-three
days of uninterrupted sleighing.
1t is astonishing how much fellow
will remember to forget sometimes.
There has been an extraordinary NOR
tality among bees in England this win
ter.
An improved idol In Chinese temple,
with pump attachment, is able to shed
tears.
Ash Wednesday is the 14th OF Febru-
fary tnis year, ana Easter falls on
April l.
Didn't want his heirs to starve to
death-Tle man who LETT provisions in
his will.
The bonded debt of New York city is
$149, ,357,557. They also have a sinking
lund o. $2S, 179, l02 70.
A local has found out that it is fash
ionable in Canada 10 come down the
front steps on your back.
Some of the Virginia girls say Alexis
makes himself 'realy quite too tar more
than aWlully, agreeable"
There is talk of Corliss for Governor
OF Rlode Island. But are we to have no
end Of machine politicians?
"GloYes with twenty-five buttons are
worn for bali toilets in Paris" They
must button down the back.
A parrot is said to live to be two hun
| dred years old. A barber does not live
so long, but he talks more.
What would Nevada be without pis-
tolls? Yet her Legislature has passed
law against carrying weapons.
A Connecticut clergyman, who was
promised more than ne couid collect, has
asked for reduction OF salary.
"What did you geL?' she asked as he
returned from q two days. deer hunt.
| SCOT back !" was the coot reply.
We can generally tell what a mans
|
ed end of cigar in his mouth by mis-
| take.
There are hundreds of splendid blocks
| in Chicago that are bringing their own
ers less than four per cent. on the orig
NAL cost.
1t may be force of habit, but the man
who swore off goes out between the acts
Of pay and comes in chewing cloves,
the same as in 1876.
| A donkey carrying load of books is
as respectable an animal as the person
| whose head is crammed with learnin &
| that he does not understand.
The asylum for worn-out railroad en-
ployes will be erected by VIM. Ii. Van
derbilt on the late Commodore's farm,
at Lew Point, about twelve miles below
Poughkeepsie.
| 1t won't be long before some long
haired poet will break into impa ssioned
song about "Gentle Spring." The pub
lie is hereby cautioned against any act
Of violence; treat him gently, but firmly.
The San Francisco Alta says that, from
causes not easily explained, California,
aud perhaps San Francisco in particular,
| lurn shes more cases of paralysis than
does any otner section of the country, ii
not Oh Inc WORLD
Among the latest novelties sold ON the
streets in New YORK, is miniature
hatchet which bears The legend, II can
not tell a lie." The inventor has missed
the food tide to fortune by failing to
bring out this toy during the centennial
year.
| A Rhode Island man has written a
lecture entitled "WAom Shall l Marry ?"
1t is a. fine work, but, SO tar as we are
able to see, holds to the old opinion that
alter all there is nothing better than u
woman for man 10 marry.
"Smoky JONES'" known throughout
the Black Hills as vagabond, has be-
come suddenly wealthy by discovering
and selling gold veins. He gained his
nickname by long disuse of soap; ana
wealth makes no change in his habits.
Some curious compiler of statist tics
and genealOgIes has discovered that
eighty mine descendants Of the Hugue-
. nOts banished from France by the revO-
cation of the Edict of Nantes, returned
10 that country in 1870 as officers in the
German army. t.
In England the average temperature
of last December was not many degre es
below that of The preceding June, while
J on several days the minimum tempera.
, ture was higher in December than in
June. In London, last month, six inches
of rain fell.
The iron trade of England; especially
that branch OF it which is most interested
2 in the manufacture of rails, is in q very
low state, with the probability of itt
continuing so indefinitely, unless 6
= means OF producing a better quality oi
: iron can be devised.
The Court of Appeals of Naples has
, declared against the abolition OF the
, death penalty by vote Of 40 to 10. o.
, the other hand, the Council OF Order, al
association OF lawyers in Leghorn, re
3 spending to call made upon them by
the Minister OF Grace and Justice, pro
. nounced in favor Of the abolition OF cap
ital punishment by vote oil 8 against /