The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-07
FACTS AND FUN.

To keep house-DOnt put mortgage
| thereon.
The poor mans summer resort-A
palmleaf fan.
Williamsport, Pa, is credited with a
female baseball club.
An artesian we'll in Ventura County,
Cal, spouts up fish.
At Carbonate, Pa, they are now
using naptha instead OF gas.
The only things that go best when they
are thoroughly tired are wheels.
The lsthmus OF Panama is seventy
miles wide and three hundred and fly
long.
Florida corn-shuck hats surmount
picturesque bellies at some country re-
sorts.
The higher the temper of the players
the more fun to be had out OF a game Of
croquet.
The first printing by steam was on the
Issue Of the London Times tor Noyem-
Der 90 1914.
What is wanted is a silver dollar that
can be used for turning pancakes.-[ IN.
Y. Herald.
Many man. could buy his wife q
pony phaeton with the money he spends
Ior pony brandy.
"Gracious me' exclaimed lady in a
witness box, "how should know any,
tnlng about anything | don't know any
thing aboutp'
A saw tiity-four feet long and eight
inches wide, Intended for use on big
trees IN California, has just been turned
our at the Beaver Falls (Pa.) Steel
Works.
A stroke of lightning the other day
tore boys boot all 70 pieces and didn't
harm the boy. the reason was that he
had placed the boot under u tree and
gone in swimming.
"Mamma, know why papa calls you
money" trlumphantly cried a young
ster. because he thinks | am sweet,
dear~ "No; it is because YOU have SO
much comb III your hair"
| En- one State of New Grenada the
right OF asking is promiscutously ex-
erteu by both sexes; who, when they
feel the passion of love, declare it with
out the least embarrassment.
| Give the boy of the period a pair OF
low cut shoes and fancy stockings. a
large seal ring and a revolver, aud The
happiness and priue of new-made
bride Will be as nothing compared TO his.
The foolish man rusheth out to see
he mob and is shot through the lungs,
| Out the wise man huggeth the ConsIiLu-
! ton OF the UniLed States TO his bosom.
and aOldeth i'll the cellar until the evil
days be over.
/ Thomas Edgar, OF Warsaw, Ind.
| thouSht the whisky he found secrete i
in bottle in his haymow had a bitt er
taste. The doctor who saved him by an
emetlc informed him that stryChuine al.
ways tastes bitter.
| grocer being solicited to contribute
TO The building OF church promu Iy .ub.
| scrlDeu his name TO tue paper in the lol.
lowing eccentric manner: John Jones
| ( n only place In town where YOU can yet
eleven pounds OF sugar Ior u dollur) 25
cents"
Concerning the word ''lady" a woman
writes as lOlloms: I'll belonged tu lh4
medical persuasion and an editor called d
me lady doctor, l would prescribe iur
mat literary lIghL gratultously, and ad-
mlDiSter u"se Wnlcn would purify him
VI his vulgar gehtIlty.'"
| Among some of the Iadian tribes when
a VIE ules the LusUand is Obliged &c
marry the sister, or in her sCeau the
woman whom the family otlhe deceas ed
| wife snail choose for him. ~ widow Is aIsc
OIL ged to marly one OF LHe b. oCuers o.
tue deceased husband, if he has dice
| without children.
FIVE years ago a Door girl of eighteen
llVl"g as serVent with wealthy lar.
mer OF Pleasant Valley, Pa, was SEM
10 jail for SIX months, being an incuruble
th!el. The people o Pleasant Valley
neard nothing more of ner till she re.
turned the otner day richly dressed and
bought the farm for cash, " their i'm
mense astonisument.