The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-07
FRESH FLASHES OFF FUN.

Smidgkins says: "Make your home
If you have to stay away
from IT,"
To keep moths out of old clothing, it
is recommended to give the clothing to
the poor.
Melancholy suicide-A little boy, on
being threatened with whipping, hung
his head.
why is a law-book like ram leaping
over fence? Because they're both
boundiT sheep.
They have "spirit drum" in New
York. 1t is probably operated by the
ghosts OF dead-0eats.
Eighteen thousand eight hundred and
sixty.two dogs keep the taxes up and
the price OF sausages down in Vermont.
The times are so hard that an Irish
man says he has parted with all his ele-
CANT wardrobe except the armholes oi
an old waistcoat.
There is a time for all things. The
time for an inE-botte to tip over on
your writing paper is just when you
have finish ed letter.
A lawyer says that no man can make
a will which will stand an attack from
another lawyer and two or three dissat-
isfed heirs. Leps all die bankrupt.
Seth Green says that "a No. mack
erel is netter temperance lecturer than
John B. Cough ever was. At least, it
Will make person drink more water"
The Emperor of Russia will be awful
cZarry ii Turkey backs down and cheats
nlm out oil u war. And nothing but
new quarrel will assuage his SuwarroW.
The first gold discovered in California,
it is SAID, was found at the root of a
wild onion. Yes, and it ls generally un-
derstood thai onion is good Tor u bad
gold.
Worried mothers may be interested in
learning that The shlugle cure is the best
remedy for boy whose tooth begins TO
ache about fifteen minutes before scnooi
time.
In the economy Of nature nothing is
lost. The inside of an orange may re.
fresh one man, while the outside of the
| same fruit may serve 70 break another
mans leg.
Scene-RecitatiOn-r in natural
history. Instructor: "Mr. X, nave you
ever put your head down on ones breast
and listened to the Deart-Oeats as Hux-
| ley describes themW Mr.. X. (blushIng.
ly): Yes, Sir" Class woous up.
Solomon said there was nothing new
under the sun. And yet here is Alex
ander Stevens, who has just escaped
| deaCn by hairs breadth, III prOtract-
| ed wrestle with pneumonia? Precious
little Solomon pneu about 1t.
Yesterday afternoon an uptown clerk.
while waiting on customer, iell across
| the counter III a spasm. the merchant
after the young man was restored to CON
seriousness, said il was The worst cOun.
ter fit he mad ever seen in tnat store.
Alter looking at the picture Of a
spouLing whale for long time, a little
| boy seemed to become more aud more
puzzled. At last he turned to his un-
Gle, and, pointing 10 The picture, SAID
so my! doesn'L he sneeZe Il goOd long
wayp
A kind gentleman prevented some
| boys from stoning pigeon fastened by
the leg. Extricating 1T with much
trouble, he puL 1T tenderly into his
bosom. The next day he remarked thai
1t made "a mucn nicer pie than he tx
| pected.
A guest at one OF our hotels yesterday
| requested the waiter so puC some ice in
| his glass OF milk" The waiter said he
'didn'C believe they had any, but the
boys had a rat they caught the night be.
| tol e, il it would do" The traYe.er took
mis- milk straight.
Mother is the necessity of invention
A young Milwaukee clergyman, VINO re
ceiveu LnirUy-twp dozen pairs OF mlsti
slippers from the young lady members
oI his flock last Christmas, mas sod eY-
cry last slipper 10 the Hudson Bay Com
pany tor tisn-traps.
New York Mail: "What does you
mother do tor living, little boy 2" jus
tlce Otterbourg inquired yesterday .
au eight-year-old uIcnin who mad beel
arrested ior begging in the streets. "S",
: gets drunk and mas the rheumatIZ," Wa
the culpriVs answer.
liza Michigan man is Michigandel
, then a Wisconsin man is w sconsiu
ner, is he not? anu IA Rhode Island ma
Rhode Islandiron? and the Yelmon
, man u Yermonstrosity and our south
ern nei hbOr a Connectlcutler! and 5
ON, dd lib Boston Advertiser.
About the sickest typographical erro
we have seen lof some time Is Tue recen
announcement that a certain gentIe
man would deliver lecture ION th
smallpox for the benefit OF the poor.
| Inc editor wrote ION Lne 6Ln prOx p
| anu OhS AiNNiAA6 ShU SoAhpODd'OA 'A'A o'
company a colony TO Texas next mouth
A young gentleman fell asleep in TIL
, bal ber's cnair The uJner evening. We
, the razurman finished his work an
shook up his Gus toner, he remarked, rt
specLfullJ: "rIreu, MIR. LoyeDerTy ?
5 Tired, snIr2 Tireup replied tne youn
! gentteman,, with dignity. mo, sDll
Can't you snee Pm drunk, you (nic) yo
ju~
An old lady living in Stratlord, Conn
= VINO had never been on the cars beIUr
| recently rode by rail to New Haven. 0
her return, being asked what sne thougl
vi it, she exclaimed: 81 IS The most lie
n-4-.-o-L- -l-s thlnsl Why, l Delley
| coming back they went through I'll
ri IDENTICAL places they did when the
, went down."
"lke," said Mrs. Partington, "who
. this Electoral BIll Lhat they're maxim
D such u locom0tIOh about i'll the House
prehensIDlesf / DON'T wonder thi
@ Lney DOUBT MS Voracity and have a trib'
latlon OF commlssIonarles set on him
: Ike replied tnaJ he run ior Congress
Y | against Buffalo Bill, whom he distance,
| Ihen the 0Id lazy went to sleep, an
| Ike gave The cat a sitz bath anu u spo0l
lul OF boneset.
THE FOREST OF BONDY.