The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-20
FRESH FLASHES OF FrN.

selves.
The Rochester Democrat is moved to
remark: 1--WE think Osman Pasha is
twins"
Why doesn't President Hayes appoint
a Commissioner to decide who Osman
Pasha is?
1t is not impolite to eat corn off the
cob, but it is impolite TO watch any one
el-e doing it.
Another moon discovered in Mars, eh?
1t looks as il Mars was laying up moons
Ior rainy day.
The American Indians, who are fight
ing the United States troops, are being
rapidly killed otf--Dy old age.
Dobson thinks his wife has got relig-
ion, because she is always singing
"SWeet, Buy and Buy" to him.
Euglishmen are painting cockroaches
in stripes, and selling them to their
c0untrymen for genuine potato-bugs.
Men who can't tell q rutabaya from an
old tin pail are now at the country fairs,
and begin their oralions with "Fellow-
| farmers"
When the industrious farmer makes
souse out OF pigs ears and ham out Of
| MS hind legs, he is literally making both
| ends meat.
shi-Bazouk to Mortified correspond
ent viewing mutiiated bodies: "We
didn't do it. Work badly done, you see,
1t shows want OF practice"
| Polceman-"Now, then, move on!
| there's nothing the matter" Boy in the
crowd-"1 er needW tell us that; you
wouIdl'C be mere il there was
Sharks won't bite a swimmer who
keeps MS legs in motion. u you can
keep kicking longer than a shark can
keep waiting, you'll be all right.
During a thunder storm two dogs that
howled dismally at ght were struck
by lightning. HoWllng dogs should Cut
this out ana paste it i'll their hats.
| Minnie, the colored cadet, has ar
rived at West Point. 1t is TO be honeJ
he Will be tavorubly heard from there
and viii not be the minimum OF cadets
Isn't it violation Of the Fifteenth
Amendment - this dIscriminatin.
against sugars on account OF color
They may be just as refined for all that
The usual ball was given at Wes
Point this week. We are not Informed
whether colOred cadet Minnie was there
or not; possibly it was not a Minnie bali
1t is said that the Columbus, Ohio
girls are so thin, that one can luol
through them and see their Murphy
badges IN their back button holes Of the il
dresses.
The telegraph SAYS, "Osman Pasha il
in an awkward position" lie has prob
ably got two-tnrds into lis shirt before
he has asCertained that it is buLtOneu a
the neck.
!, Query-Was the Boston man who re
cenLly poisoned his family by puLLIn
alum in his milk to keep 1t from souring
a HaI ward alumnus?-L y. Y. Com. ADV
No; he was lummuX.
A man out in Western Iowa has JUS
been sentenced to the PenlLentiary To-
InineJy-nine years. He thinks it is the
longest sentence on record since Mr.
Evarts lost his breath.
The early CLOSING movement is abou
over for the season, and you can drol
into retail store now in the afternoon
without being regarded by the CLERKS a
an enemy to the human race.
= When you are tired of twirlng your
I thumb sit down and see how fast yo,
= can say, "Shoes and socks shock Susa
in an ineXplicable manner, and inexor
ably she ceaseth sheathing ner Shoes"
The wide columns OF the New Yor
| IllDuhO ulC GCiI uuIlIl
the European war. They can, once IN
while, get in Il Russian Generals nam
without overrunning into the next line
The reason for the day laborer drol
ping his tools with such accuracy whe
, the clock strikes y, and his rapid spec
: toward dinner, is tuat he may make u
+ the time he Will lose in getting back t
work.
Gen. Howard got near enough t
Joseph the other day to shake tract 9
= uim, but that agile warrior immediatel
T. shook about five hundred tracks in tn
. lace Of his pursuer, and once more he
as seldom as ever.
A Roman who recently returned fror
y Philadelphia informs Us that the Keel
motor consists 0! a pound of boarding
house butter shut up III an iron boz
! IhiS statement will do much to rest0r
o confidence i'll the power OF the motor.
The cable informs US that Gen. Gran
, has received the freedom Of Inverness
4 If the General remains in Europe mu c
e longer, and receives many more free
t doms, it won't cost him II cent to go any
where, all the same as an editor AT til
circus.
A passionate and reyengeful tempe
renders man unfit for advice, deprive
him OF his reason, RODS MIN Ut all that
great and noble in his nature, and Oc2f
d sionallY sends him home with blac
Il eye when he attempts W try it on u ma
~ who WON'T have il.
y The popularity OF the fly is that b
always returns to the same spot; but
l. Is the characteristic OF the mOsquit
e that lie always returns to another spo
y Thus he differs from the leopard, whic
does not change his spots. This is u
Important tact in natural history.
At the breaking up of a dinner part!
e two OF the company Tell down stairs, th
II one tumbling on the first laIdIns-plac'
Il the other rolling TO the bottom. 1t Wa
- observed that the first seemed dea
u drunk. "Yes," SAID Wag; "but he
n not So far gone as the gentleman below.
e "Tough fellows, these Turkish Gene
n ais" remarked Mr.. Middlerib, in I'll
South Hill street car the other day. "(
= course" replied his friend, "Lhey are a
|" pacDadermata" Then tue driver cam
!, in and told the gentlemen there wei
ladies aboard and ne couldn't perm
d any more such language.
II Good old Uncle Jabez said, one col
morning, rs he was hunting Tor I'll
) matches: "W nen | die l hope PHI {
'e wneTe l won't nave TO make the fl
6, every morning." "IVu needn't tr
n about hut," snapped his wife, from u
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