The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-05
FACTS AND FUN.


somewhere about Indianapolis.
And now they call the new yellow
trimmed bonnet the "omelette Uranium
decorator" and "sunfiower headgear."
Whisky advanced little in price last
week, but then the baseball season has
opened, and the country is full OF
sprained wrists.
Prof Proctor says the earth is grow
ing larger. We are glad 10 hear it, for
real estate has shrunk feartully in the
past three years.
A Chicago ohouse-painter accomplished
more work in day than he intended to,
and grief and modification caused him
to commit suicide.
The telephone would prove of capital
service during the hot summer months
If IL could be employed in bringing airs
from the Arctic regions.
One Of the inmates of the Maine In
sane Asylum is mere infant. 1t lost
its reason through chewing up piece
Of one OF Eyarts' sentences.
We are slowly but surely approach ng
| that season when girl will uninte u
tionally lead her fellow up the street
that is most thickly populated with ice
cream saloons.
The cat is not mentioned in the Bible,
| though the word 'ToOr' occurs eleven
| times, "tongs" five times, and "hurp'
tnree times. The bootjack had not then
been discovered.
| One can not be too careful Of this
weather. A swell exchanged mis- heavy
| wlnter-cane for u light bamboo, and the
consequence was severe cold that laid
MIN up for a week.
An ingenious gentleman has invented
| and is exhibiting in Chicago a poison
| sucker, by which the virus from wounds
made by mad dogs or other creatures
may be extracted.
Sweet and fragant are the amenities OF
chicago Journalism. The Times de-
| scribes MI. Joseph Medill as zone OF the
most canting OF Pecksuitis and dirtiest
of moral polecats."
Servant 10 Irish laborer )-"Here is
| some beer, Pat, if you Gaze 10 have it;
but Pm AFRAID it's quite dead" Pat
lon, uead Is 1t? Sure, then, darlint, iIs
Pm the by 10 burylt.
A train OF cars on Florida railroad
passed man on horseback, and there
was great hurraning among the pas
sensers until they discovered that the
| AVlbe was Lleu W Lle IelC6s
AT restaurant the guest called the
] waiter 10. him and remarked, GINS
goose with wine.sauce would be mos1
palatable but for u slight mistake-Lhe
age Is In the goose, and not in The wine.'
10 the cultivated and naturally deli
cate musical ear there is nothing more
dlsagreeaDle than TO have uunu-orgau
woman pause in the middle Of bar Il
let ~ oil The crank and replace u naIl.
Epin.
A Detroit girl refused to clean thu
parlor windows In tue daytime giyln1
as Il reason that her lover, a horse-cal
driver, would see her and break OF tht
match, as lie presumed she owned The
house.
The District School in Greene, Maine
witnessed a sad tragedy last Wednes
day, when Miss Olive Lane. the teacher
Lell dead just as sne was closing tn,
forenoon SESSION. She was only INVENT,
years Old.
The N. Y. Herald thinks that when ;
fond moLner can 60 InJo. schoOIroom
and whale sIX-loot teacher for wAip
ping her boy lt is not wise 70 say that i
she were IN politics she could not run ;
primary meeting.
An old woman crossing the street hat
a narrow escape from beng run over b,
a hearse. IL am not at all surpersti
Llous," she said TO her rescuer, sDut i
seemed to me that it would De uuIuck,
70 be Killed ny a hearse."
Now is the opportunity Of the cham
pions Of woman's rights. The UnIyer
sity of New York will accent lemaL
students as soon as the necessar,
means can be obtained, and SvrosiI
asks the public to open pocketbooks.
1t makes a man mad, and his wifi
madder, when he wakes up in the earl,
morn and finds he's gone to bed in. hi
boots and sLove-pipe hat. and recolIects
that 1t was lodge meeting that mad,
MIN forget to dlvest himself OF these ar
ticles.
| The metallurgist of an exchange say
"Amerlcan copper is entirely free from
iron and stronger" We don't object t,
having our copper free from iron; bu
when it comes 10 knocking out the
stronger, We weaken on American en-
Jerprlse.
The Philadelphia Saturday Evenip
Mirror has variety crltic;" and thi
is his elevated and original style. "W
| udu lutuCl uc q uubLOH Oh Jennie Satter
tees overskirt than dwell in the tents O
the wicked" And this he attributes t.
King David.
In Clinton, Can, there is young cir
who is at11lcted in an unusual manner
not being able to see in The dusk of th
evening. Her eyesignt is apparently a
good as any ones curing the day, bu
when darkness sets in she become
stone blind.
When you see newspaper articl
which promises in its beginning to b
an essay OF high merit, it Is well TO rea
it for the profit to accrue from so DOING
But, as matter OF precaution, it j
better TO glance first at the end TO see
anything is said about two sizes OF bot
tles-one for 90 cents and the othe
for 81.
An exchange Tells us that ga red vol
has been shot in Lehigh The first in sew
: enty years" Has LeLigh received
shot in seventy years-or. has the frs
year shot a red wolf in seventy-o
which first red wolf was it of the Lehig
seventy years shot-or has the red wol
been shot for seventy years in Lehigh-
or did Lehlgh shoot the seventy years i
the red wolf?
A Nashville bank-robber burrowe
, under the street for tive days, and a
length came up in the coal.vault OF