The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-30
FACTS AND FUN.


Coming in--Peaches and tomatoes-in
cans.
Twenty hunming~ birds adorn a single
bonnet.
There are autumn steamers on Lake
George.
Lace insteps in silk stockings are just
introduced.
Sweet pea blossoms still brighten
some gardens.
Yellow roses are much in style for
Gotham bouquets.
All opinions should be respected, even
when they aie sincere.
Good little bootblacks are shining eX-
ampIes OF what boys can do.
The ice plant is nice for indoors, but
its leaves want busting weekly.
"They laugh that win." And they
pretty often "smile" Wien they don't
win.
What is twice as bad as drunken
man? Why two inebrialed individuals,
TO be sure.
Give your leisure hours to mental cul-
lure, and your loose change TO the de-
serving poor.
~ A'N " "IhGCl 1OuuCU VIII endDlG
woman 10 go bareheaded at an expense
of from $l5 to $25.
The baggage smasher signs as he re-
Iects that the bureau trunks have no
mirror attachment.
A blunder in manners is q blot, An
aPeIogy Is an attempt at erasure that
always makes it worse.
When young lady hens a handkor.
cnlet lor IlGh bacHelor, she probably
seWs Chat she may reap.
Ola minds are like old horses: Won
must exercise them il you wish TO keep
them IN working order.
a tinker named Todd publishes a tenn
perahce paper, and has sued a cotcm-
pofary lor calling nim Todd-y.
Wnat is the difference between n hill
ana pill One is bard to get up, and
me other is hard to get down.
"a Kind word spoken to a husband will
~ laItAef IMAM a brUOmstick or A t1irGa.
'4oh," says woman of experience,
II Is astonishing how soon a man
|cAHoWleuses his mistake when he put,
'ne llsnIeu enu OF cigar in his mouth. Z.
Never Dorro anything that yu are able
W puy. Borroing will demoraiize man
Almost az last az sLealing.-TJosh Bill
lngs.
When old Probabilities referred tn
squalls on the coast of New England he
hau no aIluslon to the Boston baby
show. Wv!
An exchange thinks that man with
new SILK nat, cigarette and nobby cane
represents culture of the nineteenth
century. VI
In Virginia, when q young lady de.
ellnes an offer to convoy her home, the
loVer asks permission to sit on a fence
and see her go by.
Public opinion in Iowa is BEGINNING IN
demand the re-enactmeut OF the uealh
penalty for murder; so states the Bur
llngton HaWkeye.
Clara Louisa Kellogg says it takes her
luIly year TO learn an opera. but then
she gives herself dead away by saving
she Knows and can sing forty operas.
People who talk during the perfor-
nance at the theaters are Worse than
corns on very tender foot. They NAV
De called the ill-Dred bunions of society.
A Gold Hill (Nev.) man recently
scaIped his wife, lor winch he was fined
SI00, anu she, woman-iIke, stepped for
ward, counted out the coin, ana released
ner savage lord from the clutches or the
law.
A man who has been travelling in the
Ear west says-but he probably mis-
represents the malter-that when an
ldaho girl is kissed she Indignantly ex-
clalms, NOW, put that right back
where you took ii fromp
Fashionable English women are inst
now agitated with a terrible sociaI
questlon-Whethe or not it is right to
wear iurs. Ii is not because fllrs are
| 100 dear, or not as warm and lasting as
ever, but because they are "common. -
Every woman has set.
| A Baltimore firm have Just compIeted
seVeial orders for wedding presents for
| Il New 1Ork belle. They are all of solid
silver, and comprise a dinner and des.
| serL sets and several other pieces. The
! intrinsic value i'll the aggregate being
several thousand dollars.
practical joker living near Danbury.
Conn.,, stole scarecr0W from farmer;s
cornheld last week and leaned it mn
against the owners door-yard fence.
ne owner saw 1t, and surprising il to be
burglar, sat up all night waiting for il
| TO attempt to enter his house.
In recent scandal case in Smith
County, Kansas, a lady witness de-
cIined 10 answer question:, and the at
IOrney demGlded her reason. "Because
1t is not I'll 10 tell decent people," son,
wel!," said the lawyer, 'just walk up
here and whisper 1t to the judge"
A detachment of artillery, while re-
Gently practicing among the Shropshire
Eng.) hills, mlscalculated the range
and threw thirteen cannon balls iuIo
the village of Minton. two miles away.
One building was knocked to pieces.
and the women and children fed scream
ing from the village.
Above all earthly gifts good mother
stands pre-emInent. She Is worth her
weight in gold-more than an army Of
acquaintances. Those who have pIayed
around lhe same doorsteps, basked in
the same mothers sml!e, in whose veins
The same blood flows, are bound by
sacred IIe that can never be broken.
A woman was dragging her trailing
skirt out OF a Memphis theater. A man
stepped on and tore the expensive fab
rlc' She did not turn and smile sweetly
When he begged for pardon. She struck
hlm stinging blow in the lace, and
aalu, take that, you awkward loaier."
Black clothes which are In constant
wear should be brushed every day thor
| ughIy but slightly, as hard brushing
VIII soon give them threadDare APP
pearance. Ii they are wet and spotted
Win art, they should be dried before