The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-09
YREsH FLASHES OF FUN.


didn't know handmaids wOre-do they?
-[Puck.
Some one says the Russians sleep in
their clothes. We should think it would
spoil the nap.
1t hardly looks we'll for Alexis to be
buying 5000 dogs while his father is look
ing around to borrow money.
Says correspondent: "The Grand
Duke Nicholas Is ill. What makes Mic
sic just noww Has he been revictualed
too oitenr
The pay cf "a Russian Colonel is only
$4O0 year, but it costs the Government
considerable to keep book with his
name III it.
The story that Col. Valentine Baker
has become bashiul-BaZouk is denied
in England. They know he isn't that
kind Of a man.
A young man from Auburn, N. Y,
who went to Texas this spring, has tele-
graphed home to his father: "Fatted
calf tor one"
The Sun speaks Of an old lady who
died "aged So" Can this be? Per-
haps tie Sun means that she weighed
$40 Graphic.
beethoven sought inspiration in
walking the country" This explains
TO US why there are so many tranips
wandering through the country.
The old proberb says, "A man is what
his wife makes him." 1t should read, ga
| man is what his wife makes his Coffee"
II his coffee is bad the man will be bad.
The Rochester Democrat says: "The ere
is SO much talk about it that the truth
might as we'll come out at once-Gail
| Hamilton is James G. Blaine's grand
mother"
A lunar protuberance some 10000
| miles long has been discovered by the
astronomers. 1t is supposed thar the
man in the moon is growing wart On
lis nose.
A little boy startled a lady friend of
the family yesterday by remarking that
| he was sour years old with his clothes
oD."-[ Philadelphia Bulletin.
The humblest can do something to-
| wards making the local paper interest
| ing. If you can not be a defaulting
bank clerk, you can, at least, step on an
orange peel and sprain your ear.
A molh-proof barrel in which clothes
can be safely stored is late invention.
| But this leaves the moth at large. What
| Is wanted is a barrel iD which the moths
can be kept, anu thus leave the clothes
| at large.
The University of Edinburg announces
| in its list OF graduates "Mr. Aghornath
| Chotapadhyay." Why he did 1t is not
stated, but there must have been some
| terrible provocation on the part Of Celt.
| |-[Grapnic.
News appears to be dreadlully
"scarce' up in Maine. One OF the Pine
| tree papers, utterly desperate with en-
| nui, records the occurrence of the eighth
anniversary of the freezing to death OF a
litter OF pigs.
George Francis Train says he finds
Boston 'corroded with the midnlgut
livery of unutterable gloom" condi-
tion we have ourselves noted, but
| omitted to mention, having relatives
there.-[Danbury News.
A little girl, four years old, created a
ripple by remarklng TO the teacher Of
| her Suuday-school class, "Our dogs
dead. l bet the angels were scared
when they saw him coming up the walk.
He's cross to strangers"
"No, ,"she said. "Charles can never
be anything to me more. He came out
this spring in his last fall oyercoat; and,
OH! ma, if II had only matched my new
| dress l wouldn't care SO muon, but it
doesn't, and we've parted"
"Ah," he said, "another circus in
town. see the white tent in the dis
| lance" He was short-sighted, however,
and it provedto be nothing but fash
! Eionable young man wearing one of the
present style Of collars.-[ Norwich Bull
Ietln.
Remarkable effect of Moody in Bos.
| ton: A lady in Boston drygoods store
| asked Tor EUgllsh laces. The sales man
exhibited the artlcle. "Are these really
Englisn2' "Well," replied the salesman,
u little conlusediy, ''they were until Mr.
Moody came."
Consolation Is always soothing to the
bereaved. Here is what Western
journalist offers TO his readers: "Owing
70 the death Of our chiet editor, there
will be no editorial article OH Tuesday,
but look out for regular ripper on
Wednesday,"
A dog with a tin pan attached to his
tall is rarely willingto depend on the
s ow process OF evolution tor progress.
He Will usually take the middle OF the
| ROAD, and spread himself, no matter
| what happens to science or to the basin.
| i Rome sentinel.
This is about the time of year tha t
Eve used to examine the foliage of ii <
leaves, and pick out the pretIlest lor
her new spriug dress. She never relied
upon the fashion magazines for her
styles, but just cut the dress bias or
gored, as her simplicity dictated.
There was only one cigar left in the
box, and there were two young hopefuls
struggling Tor it. The first little boy
clutcued 1t, but he said consolingly to
MS brother, Never mind, Dick, Pll
smoke on IL till get sick, and then you
can finish it.' And the heart OF the
other little boy was comforled.
Much has been written against the
accordion, but the first evening after II
young man VINO practiced ON one moVeG
| into Lhe second floor OF u house on Un-
| ION street, u smile lit up the lace of the
aged cllIz.n VINO lay in sickness on the
Lhe floor ABOVE. lie said that he was
now recJnciled to death.-[NorwicN
Bulletin.