The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-13
SUNBEA.MS.

An open letter--O.
An eat thing-A mosquito.
Headquarters-The hatter's stor8,
Signs of peace. patchwork quilt.
The man who knuckles to you-The
pugilist.
Never stop to argue the point with an
excited hornet.
Drinking men, like soldiers, frequently
give the counter-sign.
Detroit has an "Applepie street." and
the upper crust doesn't live on it, either.
An advertisement in Scotch country
paper reads:-"Two sisters want washing.
Apply"
Pastime-W When the other fellow has the
the two bowers and ace of trumps. .-Keo-
kuk Constitution.
''The parting gives me pain," sighed the
man who was combing his hair for the first
time after two weeks spree.
Two twin brothers are said to be so
much alike that they frequently borrow
money of each other without knowing it.
A barefoot Syracuse girl kicked a bur-
glar out of a house, and an observing mule
went behind the barn and wept. Camden
Post.
''The nearest ever came to cannibal-
ISM said old Lord George Bentinck, was
when l swallowed little London por-
ter"
The difference between a COW and a milk
man is that the former gives pure milk.
This may be cAalked down as fact
Puck.
Elizabeth Allen, in q poem, asks, 30,
willow, why forever weepP Elizabeth is
little mistaken rs to the facts. 1t isn't
the willow that weeps, it is the boy who
dances under the Timber end of it.
1t has been discovered that the sun is
about five hundred thousand miles nearer
| the earth than has been supposed. Per-
| Aaps, after while the man who IS sun
struck will get chance to strike back.
The Rochester Etpress wants Edison to
| invent something to take the squeak out OF
shoes. Better turn his attention to the
confounded stairs which gives fellow
away when he comes home from the lodge.
-Heokuk Constitution.
Mrs. McLuckie-Why, Donald, you told
me yesterday that you We're going to sign
the temperance pledge. Donald - Yes,
ma'am, l went TO the temperance hail. and
found there was no vacancy till the end Of
the year.
'Papa," said bright boy who had JUS
come home from slight-of-hand enter
tainment, Il wish | was cOnjuror.
"Why, my SOM" Il would turn you into
a rat, Call up the cat, and wouldn't l l@Vt
fun?"
In China parents do not call their girls
by given names, but by numbers, l, 2, 3
and SO on. III that country young mai
doesn't always look out for 'No. l." with
out she's good-looking Turner's FatLS Re
porter
The HQWkeye reports that several Ameri
cans have been guilIotined in Paris fo
persisting in speaking the French language
, The French government justities its cours'
by saying the people of France can't stau'
everything.
Mater $50 you enjoyed your walk
Kate? Did you go all that distanc
alone?" Daughter: ooh, yes, mamma
quite alone" Beastly Brother: "rhel
bow is it, Kit, you took an umbrella AM
brought home walking-stick ?"
A sharp little girl in Chicago got out o
patience with her bashful lovers back
wardness, and SO brought matters to ia
vorable climax by saying to him.
really believe you are afraid to ask me t.
marry you, for you know would sd.
yes"
A Render" asks: "How many World
Fairs have there been since 1901" Whew
what voluminous question. Norristowl
alone has had thousands of the world
fair, and they appear to grow fairer ever
year. We don't know. - No,riStow
Herald.
"Never marry for wealth." says con
: temporary, "but remember that it is jus
as easy to love gal who has brick hous
with a Mansard- roof and silyer-plate
: door, bell; as one who hasn't anything bu
an auburn-head and an amiable disposi
tion."
A fiat iron with thermometer on t
regulate the heat is invented, but we don
think it will be popular. What is to be
come of the thermometer when the iron
+ thrown at husbands head2 1t is doubt
! less the invention of some short sighte
: bachelor.-O City Derrick.
\ celebrated actress, whose fresh smile