The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-15
FACTS AND FUN.

The farther of all horse cars is step
farther forward.
Motto for the Great Central-This is
the road that Vanderbilt.
An independent editor in Texas must
write well and shoot butter.
Fasiidious Mjchiganders now call
livery stables "norse hotels.n
Farm laborers in California receive
from S25 to 500 per month, with board.
A Virginia Congressman wears low
necked shoes through all the cold win
ter.
Many Texas people are induleine in
sleigh rides for the first time in their
lives.
The man who loves children and
flowers is not likely to become q bull
dOzer.
1t is not good for man to be alone. He
should buy dog, adds the Franklin
(Ky.) Patriot.
A new style is to tie the boa at the
back of the neck. Some of the beaux
we know were tied in front of the altar,
There are 72S oranges in Pennsyl-
me membership aggregates about
10000.
First inebriate-"I alters keep posted
about everything" Second inebr ate
jocosely- Yes, Oh yes; lamp.posted, as
1T Were."
TO Indianapolis belongs the honor of
having invented a comb which can also
be used as stoye-handle and u tack
hammer.
A magnificent vase. four feet high, and
f11t frn
been sent to the Mikado by the Emperor
OF Russia.
Mexican editors don't care about an
extended circulation. The fewer SUBJ
scribers they have the fewer times they
are shot at.
The boy who tries to see how near to
an alrhole he can safely skate will soon
er or later take a deep interest in Polar
expeditions.
He asked her how she felt; and she
answered: "Happy! Happy! o, SO very
happyW She had begun the year with a
new set of teeth.
The man who wears boots will never
know how much worse than the pangs
of disappointed love it is to be in a hurry
TO tie shoe-jtring that is too short
to tie.
A little boy in Stockton, Cal, stuck
rec-hot poker into the bunguole or key
that c"ntaint a pound OF gtnpowder,
The result Was all that he could have
expected.
shoemakers' children 60 badly shod;
and Mr.. Hutton, the famous English
bone.setter, has just had a tall from MS
horse, broken his collar-bone and dislo.
Gated his shoulder.
The Indianapolis statistics fail to
show how many through passengers
missed connection in the Union Depot
i'll 1876. Give us a fair count.
After the death of hermit at Port
Byron, Iowa, recently, $4,000 in green
backs and bonds were found in his
trunk. He is not known to have a rela-
tive in the world, and was supposed to
have been destitute.
An exasperated politician, who had
been called upon to define his position
once more than patience could endure,
exclaimed: Define my position? New
er! Ii define il, the next thing PHI be
called upon to do will be to spellit."
Public funerals OF persons dying of
Scarlet fever, diptheria, measles or
whooping cough, the Eittsburg Com
merclal argues, are out OF place. They
are dangerous to the lives of such as
may attend who have not had the dis
ease.
A gentleman having given goose to
his servant Patrick as Christmas pres
ent, meeting him short time alterwaru,
asked him how he Ikea the goose.
"Och, y'r honor, sure it was a tine bird.
nlver see goose OF u ganther l don't
think OF y'r honor.
After little girl had attended her
first Sunday-scbool session she asked
her mother what kind of bear was
"consecrated cross-eyed beaY?' Her
mother could impart no information
until she happened to glance into the
5. S. Song Book, when sue told her of. |
spring that tue animal in question was
"A consecrated cross l bear"
The employees OF the middle division,
Pennsylvania Railroad, are forming
themselves into u society whereby they
agree that at the death or accident that
may belaIl any member, disabling SO as
TO prevent him following his occupation,
10 contribute one dollar each for every
member. So lar two hundred and fl "
names have been added TO the roll ol
membership.
The new uniforms of the Pennsylvan-
Ia Railroad conductors ami train agents
are being distributed to them at their
own eXpense-S26 apiece. The cloth is a
little thicker than that used in the uni-