The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-25
FACTS AND FUN.


A woman of graceful reserve is de-
scribed as a monument of frozen i'm
pulse.
camden, N. j, has now a population
of forty thousand; in 1870 it W as twenty
thousand.
Turks pronounce the modern tez a su
perior Aeadgear in all respects to the
old-tlme turDan.
1t must make General Howard's eyes
open wide with astOnlsument TO read
now the! tignt at PleVna.
BoX-toed boots and shoes are going
out OF style, ana are being replaced by
| the WIDE round "French toe"
We have secured the Centennial tro-
ply by expert shooting, and it's now
| about time to snoot the straw hats.
A carpenter doesn't appear to be much
| big ser than a cur-lOad OF ireigut, but he
Is, Tor the freight is only billed, and the
carpenter is buuder.
Oh churches DON'T get very good treat.
mGnL in New York city, but are either
pulled down and N tde to bite The dust,
or turned into LAeater or stable.
| The Inhabitants of Kalamazoo.
Micnlg II, pride themselves un It's beng
| The largest village in the State, and viii
not hear of municipal government.
| If resident OF Il city is ciliz IL, and
he who lives III The country is II country-
| man, does Ii necessarily follow that the
man who lives in Du & is II burglar?
The fair and fes iyal season will soon
be with us, aud we can soon again have
| the pleasure OF buying Il ptn -cusuion full
| oi plus and plate .! ice cream for So
I The chestnut tree, which furnishes a
great deal OF food in Southern EurOpe, is
widely threatened there Win destruc-
ton by little Insect whicu g,rLles and
kills 1t.
The farmers in Carter County, Kv.,
are Offering board, gun and ammunition
| to hunters who Will come aud xiii the
squlrreis that are demOlishlng their
cOtnheldS.
Every barber in Denmark must pass
| all Examination in surgery. Fly young
BARRIERS Of Copenhagen nave just been
appointed medical assistants in the
Russian army.
What is the difference between a
school boy studying his lessons ana
ftImer watching his COWS? Ans.-Oue
Is stocking his mind and the other is
mInutng his stock.
In Russian school the spelling class
wears out new alphabet every week.
Some of the most kuOtty words are
smoothed o1 wIth a jack-plane before
given 10 the Class.
A train on the Canada Southern Rail-
road recently made the run from st.
Thomas to Amherstburg, one hundred
and eleven miles, III one hundred and
nine mlnutes-tne fastest time on
record.
cat Niagara the season has been
complete failure" We suppose some
hackman in moment OF SANITY charged
only SlO lor driving man around tle
Diock, or some man gave u boy only IS
VINO asked him what time il was.
We are informed by a London society
paper that the EX-Enpress Eugenle 'sIs
enjoying the society of Cowes." The
IacL that we long ago swore of indul.
ing in slang prevents us from obserylns
that Sue must nave ''bully" time.
"Have yez any wufruk?' asked one
hlbernian OF another in front OF the
Court House, yesterday. IL have not"
the times do be 30 hard that l think
PHI 90 over to Turkey and list as a
Pasner," said No. l, as he lighted his
dnudeen.
He got loaded up to the muzzIe, and in
attempting 10 reach up stars he fell
through the coal-hole into the cellar,
He stayed there all night, and when he
turned up III the morning and his wife
asked him where he had been, he said
he'd "only been layin' in coal"
Brigham's tombstone, it is said. will
bear the simple but appropriate inycrip-
uon "Our uusbandn Anu years hence.
when all the Mrs. Young sleep beside
her husband, the row OF headstones will
be mistaken, i'll the dim distance, Tor AL
acre panel OF board fence, Wnitewashed.
There is treat in store for thousands
OF newspaper readers. In Il few more
weeks certain papers will print an orig
NAL poem, entItled "Beautitul Snow.1
and call the opp s!tion candidates per-
Jured villains, AlgDwaymen, sale rob-
Ders, emOczzlers, and other pet names.
An old married woman is running
against young girl 1or superintendent
o. Schools i'll SHASTA County, CALIFORNIA;.
and shasta just fly around ana howl to
get tAe men 10 listen TO u word sne SAYS,
and it is thought that even her own hus-
pahd ID going TO vote Tor the opposition
candidate.
"Man's inhumanlty to man makes
countless thousands mourn" Just as
DflGolnarCe was Jeillng Augustine what
tlmld appetite she had, she was dis
turbed by the inuuman cook, who
wanted to know If she'd bring up dem
corn beet am cabbage, or wait until her
Deau was went."
A musical instrument, called a "dac-
tylomOnOcDrdO," OF one string. and
played with one finger, has been invent
ed in Naples. But IL it had name four
times as long, aud was played with sew
enteen fingers, it could create no more
i'll feeling and misery and crime than an
accordion in the hands Of u LWelye.year-
old boy.
The Hindoos have so many gods that
"a good Hindoo has to pray seventy five
Times day in order to get in single
mention OF every deity during an ordi- F.!
nary lifetime. Now, in America, when
a man has to get up in the night and
chase his neighbor's COW out OF The gar
uen, he could use up the entire system
oi hlndoo theology in ten minutes, and
then not be through. And ne wouldn't
pray very extrayagantly, either.
"One extreme leads to another.o That
is the reason young man who begins
by treadlny on young lady's foot often
ends by kissing her lips. And, VIZ may
add, the same rule applies on the other
side, when girl, who has wasted hours
nj time and Hkains nj phanilla am n al Aar