The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-15
FRESH FLASHES OF:FUN.


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The Rome Sentinel remarks that al 1.
though "man wants but little here be-
low" he don't get that.
The N. Y. Com. Adv. urges that an
auctIoneer takes morbid Interest, as
it were, In what he sells.
An Iowa paper speaks of a man bav-
ing been lynched "for burning the barn
and contents Of his son-in-laW."
Wackeen Muller has written poem,
"Love me, love, but breathe 1t low. 4"
That is, "Love me. love, but draw it
mild"
Talmage says "the tendency of clubs
Is to demOralize society,"" They are a
discouraging thing to hold, il red trump
is turned.
Pound parties for the benefit of the
poor ale now in order. Fifteen of the
ounces 30 to the party and the other
ounce to the poor.
"! am having myself taken In oil, +"
said well-known physician, COM
placently looking around. "Cod-iver,
suppose" growled an experienced pa
tlent.
And now when balG-headed man
stops, and taking off his hat, rubs his
pate refectiyely, it may be known that
he had blue light in the crown of his
tile, and wants to know how the old
thing works.
The Welsh language contains only
eighty thousand words, but alter YOU
have tried to pronounce four or i've of
the easiest and shortest, you wonder
how Welshman ever Keeps mis- feet
while talking.
A lawyer was noticed at recent con-
concert enthusiastically applauding one
OF the singers. Fond OF music, isn't
he," said one acquaintance to another,
"No,"' was the reply; sits mere profes :
sionai instinct He ls moving Tor new
trial."
This is the season of the year when a
man steps ON loose brick in o spongy
sidewalk, and has quart OF mud
squirted up the legs of his best panta-
looms as a gentle reminder of the fact
that gentle Spring is fas chucking Win
ter out of Its lap.
The news from Europe is so depress- :
ing and uncertain That man on North
HIil has ielt comp elled to reduce his
pew rent and sell one of his dogs, in
order to pave the way to a sale and
steady resumption OF a new suit Of
cioIueS III Cne spring.
In recent scandal case in Smith
County, Kansas, a lady witness declined
TO answer question, and the attorney
demanded her reason. because it Is
not fit TO tell decent people," "Oh, WELL"
SAID the lawyer, Gust walk up here and
whisper it to the judge"
There is paragraph going the round
that "Mr. Moody bears strong resem-
blance to President Grant" We are
ever so glad to hear it. We were be-
ginning TO be dreadlully afraid that Mr.,
Moody might actually resemble the wood
cut OF himself that is published with his
sermons.
A man named James l.. Wykof. of
Boston, fell from the platform OF a
passenger car on the Chicago g. Rock
Island Road, last Wednesday, and man
gled and broke his chin dreadiully on
tne corner of tie. 1t makes him awful
mad now, to hear any one say "Wykotf
your Chin"
A citizen who returned home rather
caught a gentleman ac-
quainCance in the act OF kissing his wife.
On relating the circumstance to friend.
he was asked II he punished the guilty
couple, and replied: "No, not exactly:
but they must have seen from tne way
l slammed The door that 1 was not salts
fed"
A writer in the Universalist SAYS
Holland wlnd-mllls have arms OF an
enormous length, and carry three thous-
ana yards OF canvas. American wind
mills have only arms of an ordinary
size, but when they are sent to Congress
they can stand up and tire out the Hol-
landest windmill that ever spread its
bellying sails to the rising gale. cloud
s
A coach passing along a country road
had nearly run over servant girl, when
the cOachman called out, "Take care,
SallyV The girl, without attempting 10
escape the danger, looked up at the
coachman with an air of offended pride,
and said, SIT isn't Sally, or any such
low, vulgar, and common stutf-ips
Amelia Ann"
A daring Brooklyn man who ventured
to kiss Boston girl thus tersely depicts
the resulting phenomena: "She rose in
awful, sublime-toW-
cred, Medusa like-fxed her stony stare
r moment on nothlngness, then tele-
scoped, collapsed, scooted, and I,saw
ner no more"
lnreo uuuufeu years ago lOrKS were
in England, and man could
scoop up all the green peas he could
carry on the fiat of his knife and shovel
them into his mouth, without having his
wife stamp on his corns, or nudge his
slbow and spill the peas ali over where
his napkin ought to be and never is, and
say, i'll a hoarse, reproachful whisper,
''Why, Bartholomew
"Couldn't you give me something to
doW asked a poor boy at a Michigan
shingle factory the other day. "No,"
said the owner; 1--WE are all full now"
The boy looked sad anu was about to 20
away when a bright thought seized upon
him, and turning to the .owner he in
Qulred, "D0Rt you need a boy to test
shingles onT But even then the lad
could get no position, for the man had
boy OF his own.
"Why doesn't this fire keep upW
asked Chicago husband pettishly, as
le pranced around half dressed, and lur-
lively poked the stove CRATE, late one
bitter morning. 'Ips SO much like youp
piped out his wife, from her warm bed.
''Like mew exclaimed he, stopping
in his work. GLOW sow "Because,"
said she, roguishly, '.it will 60 out
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