The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-12
FACTS AND FUN.
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labIlc tor clOaks.
"Bulees of Billings" is the title OF
JosA'S new lecture.
Bethlehem, Pa, is to have an sold
time M0raVian ye5per."
Tough betting is being made of sleeps
entraIls at Oakland, Cal.
The Administration is very we'll
pleased at Massachusetts.
Connecticut joins the rest and will
eat her turkey ON the 20 II.
Christopher Columbus Cookendor fer
Is The name of kentuckian.
Music by Bismarck and Ingersoll-
"As we go B0bDins round"
A Vermont couple were married In a
boat On Lake Champlain the other day.
Denver, with twenty-five thousand
Inhabitants, has only three policemen.
SAND hlll cranes ate upa twenty-acre
! corn patch in Hamilton, La, last week.
The Safety Ballot-box Manufacturing
company is incorporated in Washing
ton.
A scientific journal asserts that light.
ming Is not ii tiuid. This Will pe news in
Jersey.
Gen. Forrest could not be induced to
lecture. Let us all speak we'll of his
memory.
The preiudices of great men seem to be
largely Influenced by The charms OF lit le
" omen.
The Canadians are sleighin9 in Toron-
TO, ana INC Russians are Staying III the
Balkans.
Two hundred and forty deserted farm
houses make Wlndham County, Ct.,
very lonesome.
The Boston Traveller writes bet, er DO.
etry on cats Jnan on any other editorial
stan in THIS country.
Ihey are retailing coal in Pittsburg at
I ceuts per bushel, and The miners say
lhls Is an all-hred shame,
How little we worry about the worlds
opinions when we have wit enough to
humble ourselves IN our own.
They say That crossing the East River
1901 bridge from New York to BrOukIyp
is as goou as going up IN a balloon.
A London patr0lman must not wear a
mustaChe. I"ls rule keeps the force
constantly on the run alter the shayers,
Trenton boasts of its candle factory.
ouLlt needn't be pr0ud-aImost eyery
uLher town has its scandal factory. too.
A baby has been born in Michigan
with three arms, anu the New YORK
Commercial thinks "its quarrel must be
just"
There was an eruption lately at Ma
Plies when young lady carried off tile
highest literary honors at the UuI-
YersIty.
The Princess of Wales has nearly a
barrel OF ham Ex. When she goes
travelling they transport 1t on an Alex
hand-drAy.
One day last week pIckpocket stole
Lyola IIompsons pOrte.monuaie, con-
tanning her entire change OF costumes
lor the season.
Locke has stepred out of the Toledo
Blade for good. 1t took $4,000 to buy
AIS interest. They speak OF Lue case IN
Toledo as LoCke-out.
LII seems strange, but we invariably
receive credit for what we should not
nave done, and no honor 1or the LrIhiDg
good we may have done.
Among the possibilities of the future
Is hlsslhg by telephone. The worst of it
Is That you can't always tell who is at
the other end vi the line,
A Missouri paper, which Its name ia
Ile oedalla BazoJ, published the ac.
count OF Edwin Adams' funeral under
the head ot "Iurf Notes."
Inere is nothing that will knock the
Srouhd-plnnlng from under mans Lheo.
iog lcal training quicker than TO Walk
against the edge ol door in The dark.
Japan is putting on the airs OF an ad-
Vanced civilization. 1t has lust in
dulYed In its first railroad accident and
killed three people with marked ayiditv.
Why Is beefsteak like locomotive
on long journey? 1t is not of much ac-
count Without It's tender. And WHY is
Deelsteak like freight train? You
rarely see 1t without its stuff.
Hannibal Hamlin-that is his renl
name, and not u nom de plume-is one
OIL lhe stralgntest and most tuouVnttul
or all the Senators. lie is known as the
PensIVe Poplar OF the PiscatAquis,
At the Boston baby show they had
green Invitation tickets, and a baby
sucked one of them and nearly died.
me fact Is that Boston shouldn't 90 10
meddlIng with anything IL knows 50 lit
tie about as babes.
The wagherwomen at Oxford. # is
said, were much scandalized the other
Gay at finding number OF teminJDe.In-
uergarments among the college linen
sent to the wash. But on investigation
the suspicious articles proved TO belong
TO the Chinese students, who, it ap-
pears, Affect the petticoats OF the softer
sex.
MIR. Alex. Ii. Stephens lives at the Ma
tlonal Hotel. Washington, and, despite
his desperate physical condition, is a
cneery invalid. He wears gloves on
hanLs as small as those of a ten-year- |
old child, rellsnes rich food, though but
ter and eggs are forbidden him; takes
an occasional whit. OF tobacco, anu
when in health has two ounces ol
WHISKY or brandy after dinner.
Sussex, Del, advices say: The oys-
ter packers are doing good busin'ss
IN spite of the uniayOrable weather. Or
uers are being received aud filed eyery
day. This business not onIy brings |
money to the pockets Of those engaged |
therein, but furnishes EN- pfoyment to |
many who otherwise would be iuie, and
Lhus materially helps all classes Of |
'rade IN oSatord. Business is good now.
OUT WIZ increase as the weather gets
colder.
Inc last sensational suicide In Europe
~ that Oh Marie Preur, pretty French |
niger oil twenty live, VINO ran away |
lr0m her home at toulouse with Count |
uugu6 Lamberg, an Austrian cavalry |
omcer' she had acquired a competency |
and retired from tue stage, young as she |