The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-04
FACTS AND FUN.

without oyster sauce.
In the State Prison at Trenton, N. j.,
there are now eight hundred and thirty
cOnvicts.
Baltimore has two hundred and thirty
three churches, Of which sixty-eight are
Methodist.
The saddest moment Of boys life is
when the circus music strikes up and he
hasn't any ticket to 90 in.
A self.styled doctor has been fined
$500 IN Sacramento for having practiced
m dicine without authority.
In Central Georgia the annual average
cost per head of Keeping sheep is Sd
cents; average COST of raising a pound
Of wool cents.
Cards OF invitation in Utah, issued by
a young lady and her mother, always
present the compliments of "Miss Smith
and the Mrs. Smiths"
A new scientific course, requiring
more history and philosophy aud less
mathematics than the present one, is to
be instituted at Cornell.
In planting potatoes, this spring, it
will be well to tie brick to each potato,
or ballast them in some wav SO that the
bugs can not carry them off.
In confidential conversation with a
HaWkeye reporter the other day, the
Car said, Il am going to fight 1t out on
this line ii it Turks all summer"
A bullet-proot passenger-car, weigh.
ing six thousand five hundred pounds,
has been built at York, Pa, ior the
Spanish government for use in Cuba.
Mayor Latrobe, OF Baltimore, thinks
that it would be a good thing for the city
TO expend a small amount in ornament
ing school-rooms with artistic objects.
4Maltatn in Pdrvo' Iowa tramp TO lady
of the house: Please, mssus, WON'T
you give me something TO drlnkP Pm so
hungry don't know where Pll stay to-
night"
1t is said that upwards Oftwenty-s ven
thousand bushel, Of potatoes have been
shipped TO the United States from The
district around Quebec since the 1st of
January.
A rising young tenor of Burlington
has neck eight inches long, and it
gives him an Immense power over his
voice-enables him to throat long way s.
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In most places "a stones throw" "fiVe
ures for snort distances. In Dubuque,
however, they speak of a place as being
within the bawl of a mule"
According to the N. Y. Sun the prac-
tice OF stealing hymnb0Oks prevails to
an alarming extent in some of the fash
iOnabIe churches which are most ire
quented by strangers in that city.
The mild weather in February was
terribly destructive to the bees in Wis
consin. One man lost torty-three OUT OF
one hundred and four swarms, caused,
1t is supposed, by the dampness OF his
cellar.
Now let some of US fellows (says a
New York editor) who can get off for
half a day, hunt around and see if we
can find d man VINO returns the eggs
that neighbOrs hens lay under his
wood shed.
vOn account of the Turco-R Russian war,
and the failure of the American cabbage
crop last year, nearly all the genuine
imported Turkish tobacco used III this
country this summer will have to be
made out OF plaIntain-Weed.
A Burlington baseball man, while out
the other day, threw a bali
ninety-fVe yards into kitchen window.
over a pot of soup, scalded the
cook, put out the fire, spoiled the din
ner. and killed a cat. He is, without
dispute, "Lhe noblest throw man of the
ball"
IT is now feared that if Abdel PheIim
Pasna moves from Rougt.
schak by way of KltcheneGender to-
wards BIakdr, the RUSSIAN auxiliar,
force under Prince VlumrantchlkIpoh
AZ WrmLkpchaki will be cut off aud CON
cilIated.
A distressed night editor, when he saw
The reports OF a lurco-Russian war, took
down the map, glanced calmly over The
iela, saw what manner OF names he
would have to read proof of this sum-
ner, and went out and shot himself dead
IN The neck.
Perhaps the happest moment in a
mans lie, says The Oil City Derrick, is
when he wakes up from a life-and-death
struggle with collar that wOn'G stay
Outtoned behind, to lind that it is only
lream, and remembers that he kicked
The collar under The bed when he re-
tired.
An old mill site in Nevada was recent
~ purchased Tor $1,000, and the seller
that ne had the best OF the
bargain. Since then the purchaser has
Iaken out $4,000 worth Of gold and Sill
YER, and the place was being worked at
last accounts.
Mrs. l.. Nj. Follett, of Richmond, Wis,
alleging that gunpoWder was cure for
salt-rheum in The hands, applied eight
bandages to her as many
fingers, and then incautiously pokeu the
ire. Result-her finger-coyerings went
)tf one alter the other like bunch OF
ire-crackers-and she was burned 80
badly that she will nave to lose several
llgits.
Last Sabbath, just as the last rays OF
the setting sun were crawling up out of
sight, worthy tramp came climbing
Dut of the kitcneu window oHt on West
Hill, with his hands full OF bread and
meat, and his pockets full of napkin
rings and spoons, and as he gazeu
around upon the peaceful, holy scene,
his heart melted, better feelings cam,
over him, and as he merged in the ui-
rection of the nearest pawn shop, he
sang, softly and tend .rly, "Sweet Sab
bath tlieye,0