The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-17
SUNBEAMS.
A marrow escape--A fire ladder.


Phil. .Potz is the appropriate name of
a German beer seller in Philadelphia.
Lost at G: The schoolboy who gets stack
after and B.-Chicago Journal.
'Kiss, but never tell. II won't she said;
Pm as ashamed of it as you are.
How to lose fesh-Start meat market
and trust every one that comes along.
"When you cut, give me good deal
said the hungry euchre player.-New York
Null
Good advice is like brown bread It Is
very nourishing, but not always the most
welcome kind of food.
Burned at the steak-The fingers of the
hired girl who was cooking it.-DantctSon-
uiLLe Sentinel.
A Kentucky woman has married a Mr..
Calico-has welded prints, as it were.-
Neov Havea Courier.
Which is oddest the man who asks
question or the one who answers ?-The
one who asks, because he is the querist.
When boy becomes ashamed to sit on
his mothers lap he's probably in business
for himself-holding somebody else on his
lap.
1t is all the way up hill to success, but
it wouldn't be SO plaguey hard climbing up
if there were not SO many coming down all
the time.
A boarding house mistress like the rest
of US, has her weak and strong points, the
weak points being her coffee and her strong
pi,ints the butter.
Charitable lady.-'Poor man If it were
possible to procure work, what situation
would suit you best? ?" Tramp. Lady's
companion, mum"
Why is it that people boot dog and
shoe hen ?-Boston Transcript. And foot
a bill Philadelphia Bulletin. And slipper
round the corner when they see their tailor !?
A devoted husband says that the phono-
graph is simply machine that talks
back" and that he has had one of that
kind in his house ever since he was mar
ried
They were having snarl, and she asked
him if there was anything in the past he
would like to recall He heartily an
swered, Eyes, the day you first refused
me-"
We have been often told that there was
future in store for u.s. but we have never
found the store where it was kept. 1t
must be one of those establishments that do
not advertise -Keokuk Constitution.
A woman who had been hunting lodgings
found one almost to suit her. Talking to
the owner about them she asked, ''What
sort of staircase have yoY?" '"The stair
case? Why, Madam, it is SO easy of ascent
that when you go up it you'd swear you
were going down"
A student in geography having answered
that the world was round, was asked by the
professor if he could give some proof. He
said he thought nothing else but the cur
vature of the earth could account for peo-
pie so commonly and persistently running
down their shoes at the heel.
Little Lizzie Edward, the three -year-old
daughter of Mr. Edwards of this Office, was
baptized the other day. Yesterday visi-
tor was asking the young lady for particu
lars of the ceremony "Oh it wasn't
much, replied Lizzie; "a man just came
and advertised me-" - Reno (Neu.) Ga
zette
Nervous old gentleman to matchmaker
''No, none of them will do. l want 6
watch that won't go tick tack tick-tack !
all the night long. l hate to hear watcf
.. tick for it keeps me awake" MATCHMAKER
-"Ah, I see, sir; you want one of the
silent watches of the night. 1 don't keel
'em."
A clergyman, in speaking of one of hi
parishoners who was SO given to argumen
that it was difficult to converse with him OF
; any subject, said:-'Brother - is 81
. argumentative that he will dispute with
guide-post about the distance to the mex
: town, and argue with tombstone as II
4 the truth of its epitaph."
This is the season when the girl who's
i stern father has kicked her lover outdoor
q packs up few things, writes an eight-pag
# letter to her mother, drops clothes lin
It from her chamber window, and at midnight
}, when silence reigns, raises the sash, see
d how dark it is, and-jumps into bed as fas
if as she can.-Free Press.
g A young lady called at one of our musi
e stores the other day and asked for some
thing new in piano music. The clerk aske
v her if it made any difference how man
IS sharps or flats there was in the piece. "Ol
:. no, she replied mot in the least for
. there is more than two of either, 1 alway
y scratch them out with my penknife."
a Young America has beer. always notedfc
y its inquiring mind One of the many buc
ar ding Presidents now resident in Chicae
D. was told the other day by his ''scho
marin" the story of William Tells famo1
:. shooting feat. The only comment the be
~ made upon the story of the patriot
y parent was, "Who ate the apple afte
" ward ?"
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