The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-18
FRESH FLASHES OF FUN.

A knight of the BatA--Saturday night. |
The polite English term tor DedbuG is |
"B fiat"
1t is funny how singers cast sIurs at |
other sharps.
A Kansas paper referred to tie innoc-
ulalion OF Yenus.
Things that 90 into mince pie are now
called "inGidentals."
Pole Cat Ranch is a Wyoming town.
| A sort OF one-scent place.
The two Buffers in Congress can be
distinguished by their eyes.
BY a wife--All men are not homeless,
| but some are home less than others.
| Money that bank officers get away
with Is charged to running expenses.
| Whenever you have ten minutes to
spare 60 and bother some one who
Naspt.
| Texas newspapers allude to Chicago
| drummers us crosses between clock ped
oilers and lightning rod men.
The Easton Free Press chap says "it
| discounts a MANS thankfulness to come
down again from turkey to liver and
onions"
1.-TWO Years Behind the rlown has
lust been published in Philau elpnia.
The plow-share is the greatest part OF
The story.
We are prone to quiz the ladies' for
loquaciousness, but, alter all, true
wOman's heart is oftener opened than
her mouth.
An old bachelor explains the courage
of the Turks by saying that man with
more tnan one wife ought TO De willing
to face death at any time.
In 11S5, the ancient English city OF
Lincoln was considerably Tossed anu
tumbled by an earthquake, but at the
present time the place is "no greaV
SHAKES"
"Just my luck" said waitng-maid, :,
sadly. "uere | am i'll a family whele
every one has u love affair ON hand, al d
leaves letters lying about opened, and l
can't read"
An Indian said, when he first heard it
he was surprised that the white men
killed their Savior, but since ne knew
them, ue wondered that they didn't steal
his clothes.
At this seas on the woman of the house
gets down twenty-seYen OLD bottles from
the chimney closet and becomes mild
maniac trying to tell which Of Them is
the Group syrup.
A newspaper biograDher, trying to say
t his subject "Was scarcely able to bear
, the demise Of his wife," was made by
I the inexorable printer TO say: "Wear
the cuemlse Of his VILE"
: Young ladies who are expecting $2s
Christmas gifts from their gentlemau
!, friends will be rejoiced to learn thai
= "an appropriate present tor a gentle
:, man, only 10 cents" has just been intro
duced.
}, "The funeral was elegant" wrote the
e waitingmaid of a lady whose husband
e had just been buried, 20 her sweetheart
e 81 was dressed in black silk, the flow.
II ers were lovely, and mistress wept like
9 a born angel"
y Two gentlemen were debating thu
& character of mutual acquaintance
SAID one, You must admit he has lot
i OF moral principle" "Well," retortet
2, the other, che ought to have, for b,
II never uses any"
Aman was killed by circular saw
: and IN mis- obituary notice 1T was state(
4 that he ''was good citizen, an up
" right Christian, aud an ardent patriot
t but Of limited information with regart
to circular saws"
q 1t was gusty, dusty day. elbow hor
=, lribly disa9reedDIe," she exclaimed
u "this awful dust is positively terrible
J. IL fills ones eyes, ears, nose am
q moutuw "Yes," said he, sit is rath
o unpleasant Tor those who can not keel
+. Lnelr mouths shut"
O 1T has been decided by Massa
+ chusetts court that mechanic can no
d nave lien Gu building Tor labor pei
y formed IN moving 1T. Now, when W
take lien on building we nave no dis
I,... liant n rN1N n II,,it ~
n Lude?
IS The coming dress for ladies' doesn'
Il touch the pavement by about thre
u inches. This will obYiate the necessit
OF ladies' wishing they mad three hand
/, when out promenaulng; but some ueN
u method Will nave TO be devised to kee
the sidewalk swept clean.
10 There is place in California wher
oysters grow on trees, and the wood
: are made musical by tue Clalter OF til
II | shells as they are shut together to kee
" the sun out: This California story i
# repeated from memory, and We are No
n sure but we have slightly enlarged upt
it.
IS II you dream OF a Patagonan with tn
e. chills and fever, paying assiduous coul
= to rheumatic lion with pink p0Io
d naise draped gracefully over a pom
10 al2ullle Lunlc, cut Dla5, In dark might
< it ls sign that you'u better wake uI
n for you are dreaming like three-pl
n ljacka5s.
5, The season of donation parties is rap
j. idly approaching, and the country min
's ister, especially in New England, i
3 earnestly hoping that his frequent, an,
apparently casual remarks as to the III
y whUlesomeness Of beans may guide tn
ell thoughts of his generous parIshIoner
Il into other channels.
~ Said an uptown politician to his son
Va "Look at me! l began as an inspecto
~ OF election, and here am al Aide man
~ at-large; and what is my rewaru2 Why
- when l die, my son will be the creates
Va rascal in the city" 10 which tue youn
40 hopeful replied: eyes, dad, when 20
~ debut not till then"
IN Mrs. Warren, of Sacramento, is a RI
er former of the dress OF her sex. She Ut
vocates the discardlng OF cOrsets, an
to the wearing OF comprehensive undergo
w ments. she made II "chemiioon" on 1t
IS, plan, comprising the usua, TWO article