The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-17
FACTS AND FUN.

Bridal bouquets are trimmed with silk
fringe.
They have had sleighing in Quebec,
Canada.
Cut flowers should be kept in cool
apartments.
A boast of strength is usually con-
! fessiOn Of weakness.
Catawba grapes, in perfection, are su-
perior to any foreign ones.
Stuff1d dates, once the rage with New
York women, don't sell now.
Arnold, the ink man, lives in white
house and drives white horses.
Bareback riders always choose gray
horses 80 that Lhe rosiR won't show.
Brooklyn's colored baby show disas-
trously collapsed for lack of infants.
The silver fox ranks high among sty-
lish furs; it is rich, but not SO durable.
BurdetJe has seen a small boy "not
much stronger than good resolution"
Glass cone candles that don't drop
grease are a novelty for Christmas
| trees.
Dom Pedro has begun sending ever
| presents. Keep watcn OF the express
office.
| IucJ d6bSt III oUuG pldCSS
by saying: "The smarJest thief out oil
Office"
Fur anklets are q late wrinkle and
hide all the others in the extra-length
Balbrlggans.
Nosegays of Yiolets should be edged
with violet leaves in preference to
other greens.
Pleris tremula, a Brazilian fern of
! lN,rIr Il f,,,
hanging baskets.
Painted baskets for flower hold ers are
superseded i'll favor by those OF rough
and-ready straw.
White grasses are the most fashion,
able comb nation tor wedding bouquets
with Nephetos rosebuds.
Mark it as rule that light-headed
people constantly complain of how
heavy the Lime hangs on their hands.
Somehow or other we don't hear any
| more about Niagara Falls wearing
away. Has science frozen up this early?
The woman who has hasn't learned
how to make coral jewelry out of rosin
and Venetian red is far behind the fash
| ion.
Nobody has yet found out why apple
trees have their "oh years." but their
nndiDg out won't reduce the price
cent.
Babies afghans are masses of worsted
| flowers, which, when tucked over in
lants, make them look like cupids among
| roses.
This is the season when man who
wants to remember the poor can Sit
down and think Of himself The whole
day long.
Brigham Young's hopeful son John
can't pay his debLs, and he hasn't got
NTH as many wives as his lamented
latner had.
The day has come when two o-thirds O.
an old twenty-five cent shinplaster
Won't pass for q quarter even when
buying Goldfish.
WHAT'S the use of carrying such bur-
den on your nina any longer? Why
don't you fetch out that dreSsing-gown
and give 1t to your husband now:
You can now get an umbrella with
"patent flexible RIBS and s0lutIon-cured,
waterproof. indestructibIe covering" tvr
5O cents. Come III out Of the wet.
: The Baltimore News says that it re-
quires considerable stratagem to find a
diamond. Yes, but did you ever try to
dig woodcnuck out of side hill?
The Scotch have found that seating
man on u box III public square Tor four
nours is a more bitter punishment to
MIN for being drunk than 1--WE weeks in
jail would be.
When the Rochester Chronicle asserts
that the great George Washington could
laugh IKE any oLner man it tells ma.
llcIous iaisehood and seeks to weaken
publc YeneratlOn.
Statistics show that the number of
idiots is increasing; and Yet some
, newspapers continue TO make war Oh
quack doctors. What is a quack doctor
= lor but TO kill off the fools?
The "Camp Kettle" is tie newest
straw design for holding flowers. A
wicker pot is swung between three
sticks, which are wound with flowers,
Phe pot Is heaped with roses.
Il The Morristown Herald man saws that
, during thunder storm two dogs thai
loWled d'snaily at night were struck BY
lightning and Killed. HowlIng dogs
snouId cut this out and paste it IN then
; hats.
Mexican journals say that in case ol
war Win Che United States every
patriot will be willing TO sAeu his blood
Iney'd shed tueir blood a good dea.
sooner than they'd wash up and change
> bheIf Shirts
There are few novelties in gentle
mems clothing. Slight changes arr
made in each seasons styles. For this
winter coats are u trl1l5 shorter than
those OF last year, and panCaloons arr
not quite as large.
: A parcel of about 4l80,OOO in Japanest
- coin mas been melted down into bar,
:, and sold to the Bank OF England. The
= Da4k will not receive the coin of all for
= elgn governments, and hence the neces
+ shy OF melting IL down.
i Rev. Mr.. Capel, an English clergyman
| Is man TO be p,tled. Alter getting one
i appointment he Was objected " because
i he could not sing, and, on recently re
celVlng another, was confronted by the
!. charge that he is no preacher.
A new objection to the use of paris
q green lor the destruction Of potato bugs
d mas been brought forward by Meridel
9 sportsman. He says that he has founG
J, quite number Of quail lying dead will
: tnelr crops lull of these beetles.
Forty San Francisco men have for.
y tunes exceedIn. tour millions of dollars
q :. each. Forty others have from one tc
-, three millions apiece, aud forty others
"naVeRt cent to bless themselves
with" Such is festive fnanciering OIL
i the Pacific coast.