The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-01
FACTS AND FUN.

A Minnesota editor offers his paper
at half price to widows. Anything to
revive 'em.--
The judges of Persia receive no SAX
aries, and have nothing but bribes to
depend upon for living.
| Second sight, but not according tn
| Heller-The return OF silk umbrella
| the day after rain storm.
A man with a night-key may be said
to DE stylish fellow, for he is gen.
orally the "latest thing out"
The wealthiest lady in Washington ia
Miss Coleman. She is not engaged, her
father Is dead, and she has no big
| brother.
Speaking OF fre-escapes, the Buffalo
! Express says the oldest Que on record 10
The fond. husband who lies abed IN the
morning.
Probabilities: "When you see a man
going home at2 O'Clock IN the morning
and know his wife is waiting for him, il
is likely to be stormy"
SHOW does the world wag with your
asked A. $50, So" replied B. How
does 1t wag with youw swell )" said A,
81 wait for the wagyin."
Prof. Proctor says the sun is burning
up. 1t may be, but 1t it costs 50 50 q
cord, you can just gamble t won't burn
| a day longer than IL has to.
A gent eman observed TO another that
| an OFF ter in the army had lelt mis- house
without paying The rent. con" ex-
claimed'the otHer,. "you mean the ieIt-
tenant"
A novel slelghing party started from
Scranton Pr.) the other day. It WINS
composed OF ladies, who, in order 70
he eligible, had to tip the beam ut two
hundred pounds.
The Boston Traveller says that the
biggest sail IN the worlI has just been
made at Dublin. Not SO. Esau made
bigger Que When he swapped off his
birthrlght for pla'e OF grlts.
A Chester (Pa.) exchange says q
large hawk was lately captured i'll the
woods near that place, the BIRDS feet.
being frozen to the LIMB OF tree so that
it could not fly. What whnpperl
A Pittsburg man had "seven sons'
Ijust before the break of the ice gorges
III the MonoBgahell, and now he is try
ing to raise Lnem from the bed of the
OAIo. "Tney We're" a steamboat of that
name.
The Oregon Penitentiary was recently
entered by some thieves while tho
guards on duty were asleep, and muoh
valuable property carried of, including
! The loaded guns OF the slumberin&
! guards.
Mrs. Partngton is in Washington, the
vile of a very wealthy contractor. Sac
had been explaining why she had NOT
been able to receive calls. 'EWe are
building an eXtenuatiOn to our house."
said she.
The New York ice companies have not
| yet decided upon the prices TO be
charged next summer. DuG the President
OF the principal one has stated that il
| would be much lower than it has been
for the past three years.
ETERNITY, past and luture, flashed be-
fore my eyes," he said, ''and L saw
Wnere The crack o. doom began and end
ed" This was bis experience the frsi
| time a baseball struck him in the ston-
ach.-l udrews' Bazaar.
Even The consciousness of pair OF
| Arctic shoes and clean striped stock
| lugs affords very weak consolation to
| Il WomAn who gets out over the back of a
| cutter when it strikes crossing, aud
stands on her head i'll a snowdrift.
| This has thus far been a winter of un-
paralIuled severity. There would duuUi-
| less have been the most intense suffsrlng
I'M ing the ladies who are compelled 10
attend concerts and things, were it net
tor the warm lace scarfs they wear.
Surprise is the essence of wit, ba,
somehow when man is climbing down
| Il ladder in an awful hurry, and never
nnds out that one OF the rounds is gone
until he tries to step on it with b0th
| leet, ii never seems very funny to Aia,