The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-05


Is the fodder of his eountry.-Ch Chattd-
nooga Times.
General Babcock's best friends advise
him to go West and take dose of that
Siouxthing Syrup.-N. Y. Dispatch.
See here, wife, you indulge that boy
too much. He is perfect mule
'Oh, husband, please don't accuse our
boy of having an ass for a father
The old man was silent.
Men, says Adam Smith, are generally
unsentimental. A man will scoop the in
side out of an egg without thinking that
the mother of that egg is perhaps hun
dred miles away, in the rain.
At the laying of the corner stone Of
the new capitol of Iowa, no speeches
made except few remarks by workman
who got his fingers pinched, and they
were brief and to the point.
1t is the intention of General Sherman
tr fight the indians in the future with
none but bald head soldiers, and for
that purpose bounty is to be offered to
married men.-N Y Dispatch.
A eotemporary says that "Tilden will
enter the coming war with yigor that
will startle his opponents" But what
does Tilden know about war? He never
was married !-NorTiSt0lon Herald.
al could kill him for two cents,' shou-
ted an enraged man to an offending
neighbor. 1t was an ugly threat but it
sounded good. 1t shows that we are
getting down to ante 6eLtltm prices.
'Ts that friend of yours?" asked gen.
tleman pointing toward party who was
sailing rapidly down the street. Cant
tell you till next Saturday" returned the
individual addressed. "l've just loaned
him five dollars"
The massacre of the gallant Custer and
his band threatens to be fatal to the last
philanthropic project of our old maids in
pantaloons, which was to furnish the
poor red men with find-tooth combs.-
Brooklyn argus.
The army of Greece is tremendous
thing. The cavalry branch of it is said
to consist of eleven men, nine horses and
q 'bus-not a blunderbus,b but an omnibus.
When Greece takes up gun Europe lies
down behind log.-LOeisUille Courier
| Journal.
\ A woman writes that "a man can hold
his ace much better than he can hold his
youth" To which man might add that
a woman can hold her age much better
than she can hold her mouth, but re-
spect for our hair prevents US from max
ing the remark. Herald.
An old deacon went to a circus and
took his grandchild, remarking to every
acquaintance he met that the boy wanted
TO see the sacred animals,and he couldn't
find it in his heart to refuse him. Arriving
at the tent, he cried to go home, and the
: deacon spanked him to make him go in.
The quack doctor has hard time among
= the Utes. He poisoned two Indians and
a squaw lately while pursuing his prac-
tice among the Middle Park Utes and the
chief put nine seperate and distinct rifle
balls into him whereof he perished and
was know as a medicine man" NO more
on earth.
Somebody asked man who was troub-
led with boils, yesterday, what he was
taking for them. He said he had been
taking a dollar apiece, but he was willing
to let a friend have one for seventy-five
cents True friendship is far above
$ mercenary considerations. - NOrWich
, Bulletin.
A Western editors acco Mt of a trans
fusion of blood into rival: :" An enor-
, mons iackass was procured from the
! country and taken up into the editorial
, rooms. Tbs surgeon opened its femoral
t artery near the neck, and carefully In
3 serted an old piece of gas pipe. This
was connected with Mr.. Browns Juguial
S vein, and about four buckets OF blood
were tranfused into him.
The latest story of brave though
: childlike form, faithful at the post Of
duty. comes from Ohio. He was the sor
of a village editor, and, having discovered
broken rail just outside of the town, sal
/ for five hours on fence near by waiting
r for the train, so that he might be thu
z first to carry the particulars of the acci
$ dent to his father. Such devotion to thu
. paternal interest is very affecting.
Friend (agent for an insurance com
9 pany) "Ah, by -the-by, Mr.. Bloggs., 60
> your life insured p Farmer Bloggs Nc
: not now: i" Friend: "Ah, capita
u u chance for you, then: let me put you
V -" Farmer Bloggs: "Oh, | was in
( cured, you know'" Friend: Dear me
r why ever did you let your policy lapse ?
d Farmer "Well you sse, / dunno: didn'
h see much the good of it-erl didn't die.
0 The Texas legislature recently passed
bill which makes it misdemeanor, pun
ishable by fine of 500, for person t
use profane language within hearing c
If any private dwelling. A mans mule &c
:, baulky in Texan town the other day
q and the man got mad. The animal wouI
p start off suddenly, run about twenty yard
e { and then stop fifteen minutes to surve
a q the neighborhood, and before the ma
" " got out of, town he owed the authorize