The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-08
FRESH FLASHES OF FUN.


A 'schooner" OF beor carries many a
man half seas over.
Blue glass Is becoming alm )st a.
popular rs beer glass.
A little boys first pair Of trousers
always tit, il the pockets are deep
enough.
"llive by my pen," said poet, Wish
ing to impress young lady. "You look
as II you lived in IT," was the reply.
A Western paper describes a man wh0
"started fol-" another, but stumbled be-
fore he got there, as the Fell destroyef.
The mild weather inspires the duietul
reflection that YCu1g Indications y
getting ready for game Of 'treez ont"
Times are getting little easier. Fer
Is cents you can now buy genuine i'm
ported Havana cigar that tastes oil to-
bacco.
Accidents are punishable with death
in Turkey. The government whipped
an editor to death there recently for tel.
ing the truth.
Ischicowsky Is the sad sweet name Of
an emient Russian musician, who can
SIT down to piano and paw ivory till
TschikosIy'm nome.
A thin person may succeed as q leo
turer, but when fat muu gets through
speaking and sits down he always leaves
u deeper impression.
An exchange sagely remarks that
every few people know how to grow
od." Yes, but most Of them learn boR,
if they i've long enough.
A pbrenoogist says the principal
bump OH George WashiDgton's head IL
a IA 40. .un H. olT ~
head on postage stamp.
A little boy came to his mother re-
GENTLY and said, "Mamma, | should
think If was made of dust would ge:
muddy inside when drink coffee"
What a silent old world it would be II
men talked only as much as they think.
A fellow would have to carry a rattle
around with him to make a noise with.
All Oregon boy, who got to school the
other day before the master and his rel.
lows, declared vacancy, and cast The
whole vote oil the school in favor OF u
holiday.
A harassed husband thinks il the
dressmaker would trim his wife'a
dresses less and the butcher would trim
his meat more he could meet his ObiigS-
tiOnS better.
An Italian has invented torpedo
which will not only blow up hundred.
ton gun, but will shatter the ship, kill
all the crew, and break all the dishes ON
the nearest land.
Miss May, it is said, is heart-brokeu.
And Mr.. Bennetps head was broken,
and Mr.. May broke and run at the FIRST
fire. A general breaking up indicative
OF an early spring.
A dilapidated tramp was heard re-
Gently nyeighing against people who ae IL
n -isan OIL the niho or,-iI-- exp sct
every miuute," ne said, "to fall dOwa
and break ny watch"
"What are you fencing in that lot, for,
Pat? A herd of cattle would starVe to
death on that land" 'FAnl sure, Your
honor, wasn't fencin' IL in to kape tho
poor bastes out Of it7"
Since the good sleighing set ia, the
lonesomest man in Iowa is the man
who hasn't been knocked down on q
crossing and run over by a fast horse, y
red cutter and two young men.
When a school officer INFORMS teach
er that "them boys dOesn;t know
nothih'; they can't even conjugaI
werb," we feel that our foretatners did
not fight in vain, and thar our taxes are
not too great. al e-
EThey must have very feeble consti.
tuition in Congress- said Mrs. Parting
ton, 'if they have't got power enough
among 'em TO count a few votes. Why,
Isaac would do it in five minutes by sina-
pie admOnition."