The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-08
FACTS AND Fun.
India shaWls never 60 out.
Patterson Is going to lecture.

| FACTS AND FUN
| India shaWls never 60 out.
Patterson is going to lecture.
Horses love lump of sugar.
| The latest 1urDelows are fur anklets.
Stoves have been inserted in Easton's IS
passenger cars.
Nebraska has a lawyer who rejoices in
the name of GAost.
Tress your hair and treasure heir
looms, young ladies!
| Handy little girls are darning their
sock, for the 25,n prox.
| Anne-M Mosity is not near as handsome
a glrl as Mag-N
The Dover, Del, banks have pur-
| chased fierce watch dogs.
Small boys successful cope with the
stoutest built mince-pies.
| Ale ia sold in Burlington, W., under
the name OF lager beer No.2
Short round skirts are gradually max
ing their way Ito popularity.
| Variegated pnks will supersede the
red shades now i'll floral style.
Milan is going to have an internationl
exhibition in 1879. They all do it.
postage stamp is just big enough to
borrow but too small to pay back.
An Allentown, Pa, barber finds his
bonanza III silent 5-cent sbaves."
The N. Y. News says poisoning
from head-cheese is not uncommon,
Small white "button" Artemesiasu
are in style to stick in brunette hair,
AS boy, Benedict Arnold was note d
for cribbing ash barrels tor bontires.
The public debt only dwindled S13 900.
00Oin November, but it was somelhin
The chap who "drew sigh OF relief,
has taken another chance in the lottery
of lie.
Carving g-knives will soon be off "the
ragged edge" If there be any virtue tu
grind-stones.
AS Unite makes right" the poor
Widows donation was the right thing at
The right time.
1t was a great Boone to Kentucky
when Daniel first went into its "howi-
Ing Wilderness"
The reason ''she never told her love"
was because she was belle, but not
able to ring a bell.
What was the first thing Columbus
saw the morning he discovered Ameri-
ca: DayllSnt, OF course.
When Gustavus told his pretty cousin
that "she was all the world to him." was
he trying to get around her?
Hate is a hideous monster without
head or tail. 1t is all claws, like the
constitution OF asoup society.
A miller's daughter may be "tbe
flour oil the flock," but she often sacks
the young farmers who come to the mill.
When Tom Moore wrote, "And then
arose so wild yell," he possibly had a
yellow rose In his "mlnQs eye, Hora-
to-"
The poet Byron was educated at Har-
row, hence the narrowing descriptions
IT shipWreck and warfare in Childe
Harold.
Why is the draught regulator OF a
patent range worse than wet day? Be-
cause the latter is damp and the former
ID q damper.
city paper heads an editorial thus:
"The Week Abroad" We hope the
weak will stay abroad, for we have too
many invalIds now.
A fast man behind a fast horse. with A
drunken companion fast asleep on Fast
Day, Is about the loosest lapse OF NOR Is
upon which the fas L-idiUus can moral
Z5.
Nothing SO units a man for a tough
tusse with hard luck us to have the
butcher give him the cold shoulder.
wuen he asks for leg OF mutton on
credit.
when the charms Of spring
awaken" we will once again become III,
Lerested in camphor aud eedAr-chests
which just now are dismally dis
counted.
The darkest hour is said to be just be-
fore dawn, but although it is always
mO(u )fning with some people, their ex-
lstence is one eternal night OF dark
despair.
"When the sentinel stars set their
watch in the sky" were they on a sky.
lark? Possibly THAT'S no business OF
'ours, as il was not the first watch that
has Oeen pu up.
"Had we only been there how brayelv
and discreet!y we would have acted" is
The common and concerted commentary
OF mankind wneu reading about calam-
ity on sea Or shore.
During October the Patent Office re-
ceipts were larger, with two exceptions.
than ever before. This is good showing
for hard times. How true that "neces-
sity Is the mother OF invention"
The women teachers Of Bo6ton are still
unreconciled to the idea of having mem
bers of tneir. own sex supervise them on
the School Committee, and there is q
growing opposition 10 the system among
voters.
Give the man who was not elected half
an hour to sit down and refeok,Said het
Will present tWenty-four lnpiaaI raaaons n
why he vas lett out in the cold. He will
also assure you that this earth won t!
stand much longer.
The gay grass widow, who figured In
a late divorce suit, is now counting thei
cost. Her calculations are not satfs-
factory, but connubial arithmetic isl
very complex anu full OF such vulgar
lrRotions, you know,