The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-05
FACTS AND Fun.


merrilY since II woman broke her arm
try DG TO XIII him.
Two clergymen are in the midst of a
tTelve-day public discussion in Dixon,
Ky. Each talks five hours a day.
| A female at eighteen wants five
trunks when she travels. At fifty she
can get along with bottle OF cold tea.
| Napkin rings made of Russia leather
are the latest novelty on dining tables.
Beefsteaks Of American leather are no t
new.
Frank Davis was acquitted on charge
Of murder by jury III Carson, New. A
mob then tried, convicted and hanged
| him.
Two infants were killed by being
stamped and rolled on by shouting wo-
men In negro camp-meetIng al Ian
caster, Ga.
| Two grandnieees of Daniel Webster,
in Government employ IN Washington,
are pretty giIls and graceful, with eyes
like gazelles, and dancing feet"
Southern Callfornians lynch man by
| riding him on mustang to tree, where
| they attach the rope aud drive the ami
mai away. And there the man mustang
high.
There are 209 Freshmen at Yale, 1872 at
Princeton, 105 at Amherst, SO at Will
liams, 10 at Dartmouth, SO at Wesleyan,
90 at the University of New York and 90
at tufts.
| Experiments in mine I'm Cornwall,
England, with the telephone, point to
the probability of Its DeIng employed in
conveying Signals from deep mines to
| The surface.
1t is asserted that many of the barrels
OF flour shipped from Boston 10 Maine
contain demijohns Of whisky, and that
it is to carry the liquor that the ship.
ments are made.
An old white horse, which has been
limping around the streets at Marble
| head, ass, went TO one of the Wharyes
and walked overheard with an appear
ance OF deliberatlon.
The finest crop of raisins ever pro-
duced i'll California is promised this TALL.
| The grapes are not growing so large as
in previous years, owing to dryness, but
their quality is better.
A cat i'll Allegheny, Pa, sprang upon
a young man as ne entered u room and
attempted 30 scratch his eyes out. His
brother came to his assistance and she
bit off the end of his finger.
"Home's the place for boys" said a
stern parent to his son, who was fond of
going out at night. "Ihars just what l
think when you drive me Off TO school
feyery morning." said the son.
| Oxford University has about the same
llumber of undergraduates as Harvard,
| thirteen hundred; but her income is 81
OOO,OO0 and her library contains over
five hundred thousand volumes.
Two Turkophiles are discussing the
Eastern war. "The trouble" says one.
''Is that the Turks are short of NUM-
lions" "PsAawP replies the other,
"the Turks are short OF nothing except
Russians to KILL"
| A Superior City saloon keeper has
named his resort "Nowhere," SO that
when men 60 home late at night, and
their wives want to know where they
have been, they can safely tell the
| truth.
"Bob, can you tell me why Pm like the
moon when It's twenty three days oldw
| Bob couldn't tell, and the questioner ex-
planned: 'Because PYe passed my last
quarter" A small loan was advanced
Immediately.
The fact comes out in st. Louis di-
vorce case that Joseph Sieman COM
PEELED his family to dine every day
l
bone, aud habitually skinned out all
| the meat for himself.
Vassar students hand the notes which
unknown romantic Freshmen of Har-
ward, Yale and Trinity send them to the
college edltresses for comment and ridi.
cule. Vassar smiles at the young mems
| lmpudence and rhe etoric.
! A correspondent says: "Lithographs
OF Lydia Thompson in the character OF
RoUlnson Crusoe now desecrate shop
| windows. Where did Robinson get the
| slX-button kids? All, Lydia, thou art
Defoe OF truthful conceptionF'
The father of a tall family living in
Kentucky is six feet tour inches in
height; the mother is six feet one inch,
| tbe sixteen sons range from six feet
three TO six leet eleven, and the ten
daughters average six ieet two.
A Pottsville woman, thinking she
heard an unusual noise in her parlor.
stepped into the room and there discoy-
cred her cow, contentedly chewing her
cud and complacently looking at herself
in the mirror. She "shoO-ed" that cow
out.
She was Massachusetts woman, and
she mad been to the Museum iu Boston,
| TO see the performance OF "Evangeline.''
Returning home IN the cars, she made
one criticism, and 1t was an intelligent
one. 1t was: 81 think that heifer ought
to be repaired"
A Baltimore lawyer sued his minister
tor fee Of 500 for legal services, and the
jury found That he was worthy of his
nire. Tne clergyman testified that he
| consulted him as friend and a member
of his congregation, and that he did not
expect 10 De charged for it.
| A man and wife In the eastern part OF
Lebanon County, Pa, aged about seven
| live years each, VINO have lived to.
gether in married life for more than fifty
years, have divided their property anu
viii live separate, because They can no
longer live peaceably together. Another
case of "Betsey and | are Out"
A Polish association of Chicago has
purchased an extensive tract OF land in
Arkansas tor the purpose of there es-
tatlishing a colony OF their own couu-
Lrymen. Fifty Polish families from the
vicinity Of Chicago nave already settled
there, and two hundred mUle are ex-
pected before the close of this month.
London paper: Out in California they
do things just as We do them here, and
in one way they are extremely peculiar
they put tax on growing crops. This
means double taxation, for the land is
already taxed; and, as the farmer is