The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-24
FACTS AND FUN.

point lace this summer, reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
Toothache and cats are two things
which nature has provided to prevent
mans sleeping too much.
Second sight at the theater--meeting
your wife at the matinee wnen she
thinks you are down town.
The old smooth-bore eleyen-inch guns
Of the navy are being converted into
eight-inch rif1ed guns by lining them
with steel tubes.
1t is a solemn thing for penniless
young man to lead blushing bride up
to the altar and promise to endoW her
with all his worldly goods.
millionaire in San Francisco has
paid $500 for kissing the family seam
stress; yet people viii persist i'll saying
that prices are going down.
The crops Of Lombardy, including the
silk crop, have been seriously damaged
| by severe snow storm. The losses are
estimated at several millions.
Good advice before Neutrality-suspicious.
ever undertakes a long journey, if he
be wise, makes it his business to find
good and agreeable companion"
The Hawkeye attributes the higher
price Of whisky to the opening OF the
baseball season, and the great number
| Of sprained wrists in the country.
Three persons were killed by one flash
OF lightning few nights ago at New
bern, N. G. They were walking under
a steel-handled umbrella at the time.
There are certain schools where chill
dren are taught like parrots. They are
called preparatory schools. The pupils
are exercised in pretty polly-sy tables.
| Twenty years ago a young man in
Auburn, N. Y, stamped his name upon
a silver quarter. Last Friday it came
back to nIm at his place OF business in
F, Utica.
| A Wall-street man who went to church
last Sunday remarked afterward that
he preferred the organ to the preacher.
He said there seemed to be stop to the
organ.
| This is the season when the Young
man with finances to cover just two
plates of ice cream awaits breathlessIy
the answer to, "Wiu you have some
cakeW
| There are several ways of killing
grasshoppers, but none more reliable
than that OF tying their tails together
and permitting them 10 jump themselves
in two.
A Georgia negro twisted mules tail
to urge it over y tence. The small at
| tendance at tue funeral next day showed
that the people didn't care ii he did twist
the mules tail.
A stylishly young lady stood
Icomplacently on broadway, near Four
teenth street, New York, recently, hay
ing "shne" at the hands Of profess
siOnal bootblack.
| At one OF the prayer meetings out
| West against the grasshoppers, a man
who began with go Lord, Thou knowest
that wheat at its present price"-was
interrupted by hymn.
Tadpole (to the class photographer J:
Look at this proof Do you call that a
good likeness? Why it makes me look
IKE baboon. Photographer: My dear
sir, our camera never Lies.
70 the cultivated and naturally deli.
cate musical ear there is nothing more
disagreeable than TO have hand-organ
woman pause in the middle of a bar to
let go Of the crank and replace hair.
Ipin.
A young lady sent poem to British
newspaper, entitled 81 Can Not Make
Him Smile" II he had seen her with q
tight tie-back on, trying to run away
= from mouse, he would probably have
smiled.
Not grasshoppers, but rats are now
bolhering the Illinois farmers. At one
place near Bloomington two hundred
aud twenty-five were killed in one day
Hedges, fences and foundations are SAID
to be full OF them.
} A Frenchman, writing a letter In Eng
: lish TO friend, and looking in the die.
tionary for the word "preserve," anC
! finding It's definition was pickle, wrote
as follows: 'May you and your family
De picked to all eternity"
i is asserted that in recent divorce
case in California, the husband exhib
) tied broken arm, a torn ear, q lame
leg and thirteen scars to prove that hi
vile hadn't tried to make home happy
Just imagine how sweet this creature
was.
ii Some extraordinary births have beef
, reported at Hartford recently. a
twenty-pound Child came into the worlt
the other day, and now we are asked t,
believe that a German woman CAV,
. birth to live children last week, all 0
( whom are SILL living.
A promising young prima donna WHIT
2 sang at "a Chicago concert the other eve
4 ming was introduced to the audience b,
! a Mr.. Chew. Now, If the young lad,
; had any regard tor herself or her nearer
she would never have made her appear
lance on the stage with a Chew to bac
. her.
An indignant plaintiff short tim
!, since threw an egg at the head OF Lon
d don Juuse, to snow his disgust at som
1 remarks that had been made. The eg
~ was examined and found to be sounu
, nevertheless the young man was CON
o mitted for contempt. NO precedent 70
!. pelting with sound eggs.
= Noticing the fact that scientists ar
e CONSTANTLY running down blue glass, til
i Bridgeport Standard asks: "Why dom
e Lhey take somebody Of their size, lie
L blue glass alone aud tell us why nott
n ing on earth will keep IA ca3s lail frol
!, doubling in size every time she get
9 mad, except cutting it off close up to th
Y cal?"
And now comes the San Francisc
Mail showing what an Interesting trial
>, gular fight is going OH in the Wester
y States. IL says: "A Congressional Con
3 mission are gathering grasshopper dali
. the farmers are gathering grasshopper