The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-17
FACTS AND FUN.

Old maids may come, and old maidt
may go, but weddings will 60 on Tor
ever.
|, Berlin is now the fourth city in Eu
rope in point OF population, and the
ninth in the world.
Imitation butter is decided nuisance
in New York City, and is said to have
caused much sickness.
The best baseball catcher in Minneap.
oils, Minn., has outdone himself and
caught-the smallpox.
An Iowa court has decided that rail.
way companies are responsible for lar.
cenies committed in sleeping cars.
A recent hail-storm at Dexter, Texas.
seriously damaged the crops. Some OF
the stones were as large as hens eggs.
A new violet, called the sRussian,' -
has been 'propagated by florists. 1t is a
dark purple, fragile as the wild violet,
and very fragrant.
All the young men who attend church
on the sidewalk in front of the edifice.
practice time in common meet-her. They
meet her as she rolls out.
A philosopher who went to a church
where the people came in late said it
was "the fashion there for nobody to 90
| GiAi efeIypouy got tnere."
The general public will rejoice to know
that organdies will be '.quite the thing''
This season-lt is SO seldom tnat an itin-
Grant organ dies or resigns.
| While workmen were cleaning out n
hall In warren, Pa, the other day. thew
found rats nest containing more than
S1S in bills and scrip, all In good condi-
tOn.
Joughnes saw placard on the wall.
| vi you don't see what you want ask for
| H." and asked the storekeeper for S.,
put the proprietor "couIdn't see it,"
either.
AT an amateur theatrical performance
| In the Chinese Tbeater, San Francisco.
| recently, An Sam shot An Ling, inflict.
ing, probably, fatal wound. The play
was not interrupted, however.
A New Haven frog company uses n
steam manner and anvil weighing thir-
ty-nye thousand pounda This NAV be
!un for the company, but the Courier.
journal thinks IL must be death to the
| frogs"
do you think your father is going to
move out soonW inquired q Dan6ury
| owner OF a rented house of the son of his
tenant. "Reckon So" was the reply,
| We've begun using the winder flames
| for trewood."
Recently they found on the battlefield
| at Cnlckamauga brass eagle from the
| tip OF U. S. Flagstaff, and within a few
feet OF IT seven skulls were found, show
| ing that the .color-guard around that
staff. Jared badly.
little girl went with her mother to
ooluene concert. When that lady and
the lall chorus appeared, the little girl
III tne audience looked at them a mo-
ment, then said: "Mamma, are those
women ready for bed now?
When at the Boston Musical JubiIee
PRESIDENT Grant was asked how he liked
the music, he replied: ~ don't care
much about music, but l should like to
nave this building, deprived OF half it's
helgnt, on my farm, ior barn to train
horses in."
Well-schooled Policeman-s'Nowt then.
young man, you ought to be iu schooI.1
small boy-"School? UghI There
amt no more school for me! Pye|
passed all my examinations and took NV
uegree; got IL framed and Jung up in our
best dror-in' room.
You can utilize your cake of mamie
sugar, you nnd there is too much sand
in ~ 10 make moiasses Of, by putting il
AZ ~ "a Aeat frame Oh cardboard, or some
hlno Oh fancy work, in bright colors, anu
hanging 1t up. against the wall to liht
matches on. 1t never wears out,
Ine question arising in a Sunday
sonVoi as TO why TOD created all the an
thlais VI we neIds, and sea, and air be-
loie man, no one gave solution to it,
until little boy said: 81 know: it's he,
cause he didn't want the man hanging
around Whlle lie Was a making 'em."
If you pass through the hep-roost with
careful eye, just now, you will notice
sadness creeping over the connte.
nances OF the old hens. 1t is not simnIv
the knowledge that they must die. 6ut
Ghe thought that they must be sold tnr
spring chickens after they're ''laid" out,
Trey say that one of the Brattleboro
W., congregations was disturbed the
other sunday during the momentary
stlllness following the opening prayer
ny voice from tue adjoining dwelling |
eXcIalmlng; "Mary, where's Ihe nails ?S |
soon the answer Came, 'ln tue coffee |
pot, you fool!'
The new Secretary OF the NAVY. bav-
ing been informed that there were puovs
belonging to his department in Nav |
1 ork haiDor, immediately issued an or |
der commanding them 10 report to their |
SHIPS without delay. ''DIsclpline is dis
cipune," says the old salt, 81 nave to
skin every boy in the navy.n
The stories about the orange trees in
Los Angeles County, California, are
greatly exaggerated. One report was
that an acre would bear six hundred
ana eighty trees, with net value on
their yielu OF $4,000. A correspondent
states that seventy trees and $40 per
acre would be nearer the mark.
doN, When man jumps out of bed in the
GflA at midnight 10 fling a boot at an
hiectoral Commission of cats in tho
uaoA yard, and places his bare foot on
an ets '-cornered piece of coal. his wife
~ usU sss lex her fingers tightly in her ears
~ sue would escape hearing several
", PAGES ofproiane history in less than two
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The Test o. Worth-Artist-"W do
you do in this lonely place, Donald, when
any one is sick and the doctor ten miles
off" Donald--"Oh, we shust give her
DRAM" Artist--"But surprising that
has no effecti" Donald--s'We shust gle
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