The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-15
FACTS AND FUN.

lin, Pa, aged fifteen Years, is over six
feet high.
A Brooklyn, N. Y, man has just paid
$40 for the ''lun" OF lifting boy up by
the ears.
Competition has brought the price of
peanuts down to 3 cents a quart at Beth
lehem, Pa.
1t is nearly time for thunder storms
50 make milk sour. Lightning doesn't
tour water.
BARRIERS say that razors get tired of
shaving, but If laid by'1or twenty days
they Will shave well.
A barrel OF -four weighs 1866 pounds; a
barrel of pork 200; a barrel OF powder 20;
u tirkin Of butter Sc.
At a Georgia fair there was boquet
containing three hundred and nifty
flowers, each OF a different kind.
Some one says that the test of true
love in Wisconsin is permitting young
man with measles to kiss his sweet
heart.
There are two counties in the State of
Pennsylvania which have not a rod of
railroad within their limits-Forest and
Greene.
The farmers are anticipating a very
small hay crop in the vicinity ot North
Ferrisburs, W., on account ot the
dr0uLh.
Four and half yards of cashmere
will make a woman dress. But it takes
eleven and half yards to build The
pocket.
There are but one or two relics of the
Revolutionary war remaining on the
V.rn q at mi
The number OF the veterans OF 1S12 is di-
mlnlshlng RAPIDLY.
DR.. Schliemann has just detected a
London trademark on one of the wrist
lets OF Agamemnon, and he is halt
tempted to malt believe tuat sumo body
has sailed his claim.
An indisc inmate slaughter OF dogs is
threatening. All right, but remember,
adds the Danbury News, tnat every Dog
killed leaves several hundred Il 4as TO be
cared Tor and amused.
A livery-stable horse fell dead in Bal
tlmore While going to Iuneral. The
n NorrlstoWn man presumes that The
driver nver.eXerted the animal in trying
to keep up With the nearse.
Now bring out your old razors-Mrs,
o. ummins, OF Harrison County, Ky,,
slxty-four years old. L. was used by her
great, great, great grandfather.
Would-be Beau Brummells in New
YORK now wear the coaching scarf,
whlch Is white and OF the Stanley pat
tern. 1t Will not be long before they
nave the groom's costume TO perfection,
A reporter, in describing the turning
OF dog out OF court, says: "Ihe elected
canine, dragged from the room, cast a
glance at the judge tor the purpose OF
being able 10 luenLliy INN at some Iulure
time y"
An Englishman swallowed one hun
dred and nifty Blue Point oysters in New
YORK last Wednesday, and then de-
cIlned 10 pay tor them because the deal
er would not continue opening. $40 was
the fine.
Some one has calculated that il the
salt III the ocean should be spread over
The land IL would cover 1T to The depth of
nine hundred Ieet, but it would XIII
business. SO it is just as well, perhaps.
to leave 1t where IL is.
Somebody has written an article on
the subject, 'HOw to keep boys at home -
10 tie Them to a gaLe-post would be a
good way, but shoot them and pack them
III salt, with a little sprInkung OF salt.
petre, would be more effective.
Apropos OF the recent successful in
trouucLIon of willow-basket making in
the State, Georgia exchange perti-
nently asks, ''Why can not Georgia fur
nish baskets to the Yankees, instead OF
The Yankees furnishing baskets TO &c.
orgiap
Dialogue between the Sultan and an
old omcer, privileged by his age ana
long service. "Slre, | am eXnau, ted by
the laDors which my position eXacts Of
me-" "Very we'll; l am going to give
you place in winch you will have
nothing W do-Paymaster."
An agent, soliciting subscriptions for
book, showed the prospectus TO man,
who, alter reading, "O1e dollar in
boards, and one dollar and twenty-five
cents in Sheep" declined subscribing.
as he migut not have boards or sheep on
hand when called upon for payment.
A reverend sportsman was once
boasting of his intallIble skill in finding
hare. ''If l were a hare" said a Quaker
VINO was pl esent, 81 would take mv Sc at
in place where | should be sure of not
being disturbed by thee from The first OF
January to the last day of December"
why, where would you go?' ''Into thy
study"
The Marquis of Lorne keeps right on
writing poetry. In his last ehuslon he
made ''smile" rhyme with boil" and
Mr.. Tennyson, when he read it, said,
"At last another poet is born in Eng
land" And he was so distracted with
delight that he almost comDed his hair
before he thought what he was doing.
spa" said Miss spicer, after yainly
importunihg her parent tor set OF
bangles, "What is the difference be-
tween you and Pullman coach P"
About dollar and half,n said The
lnterrogated, thinking of mis- last trip to
New York. "No. 1he Pullman is a
palace car and you are callous pa"
BLESS you, me cheyld," gasped the
old man, ''you shall nave free pass
20 lhe next concert on the Common"
"Did you never" asked transcen-
dental young lady just three weeks from
Vassar, of the West Hill young man,
"Did you never feel a vague, unresttui
yearning after the beyond? a wild,
strange, impulsive longing and reaching
out alter the unattainablew And the
West Hill man said he often had, last
summer, at such times as he was trying
TO scratch square inch full OF hives,
right between mis- shoulder blades, and
Just out OF reach OF anything,