The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-11

Inc ODl0H1naHb Wouh 6pOt 10 WhlJo pu~
gar. He'll pass over jewelry to steal ont
loaf.
One mans Ash is another mans poisson.
Boston Post. Some cast the net and
others flet
How is it engineers havea weigh Of
complaining about the scale on their
boilers1
"Beauty and booty" was the cry Of tho
young man, who kissed the young girl and
was kicked by her father.
The geese of Maine are so well trained
that no two of them ever grab at the same
kernel of corn at once. One takes the cob
and the other the kernels.
A st. Louis man will bet $500 that no
human bel has a soul. He imagines that
o persons soul should be as visible as a red
nose, and he has always resided in st.
Louis.
Two little girls were comparing progress
in catechism study. 81 have got to original
sin," said one. How far have you got r.
"Oh, I'm beyond redemption" said the
other.
The editor of the Bangor Commercial
says the word ''girP' is not found in the
Bible, which seems to show that he never
read that blessed book.-Boston Post.
An old Methodist preacher going around
among the members of his congregation,
came across an old lady in spectacles. ''Do
you love the Lord p he, asked, "Well,
Parson, amt got nothin' agin him!"
In Swedish Lapland the mosquitoes are
the more voracious the further north you
go, and traveller says that they bit him
Ton the the verge of the snow" In New
Jersey they generally bite you on the nap
of the neck.
Mishaps will happen. A pious deacon of
Newburg was recently praying when his
elbows and head went through the bottom
of the chair, and he was extricated with
| some difficulty. 1t must have been rush
bottom chair.
A Nebraka saloon keeper became SO af-
fected by the temperance agitation that he
| promised to reform; 80 he put out sign,
lowing to the cause of reform all fifteen
cent drinks will hereafter be sold for ten
cents"
"Oh here's q red earl" exclaimed q
southern Illinois youth at q recent corn
husking bee, land there's another!" re-
piled the pretty girl at his side as she gave
him stinglng box along side his head
when he tried to kiss her.
An exchange says that stoves are mod
ern invention and that Franklin was one of
their earliest advocates; he evidently does
not know that one hundred and fifty years
before that the Pilgrims had ship stove
on rock at Monhegan. -Lo1uell Courier.
The rising youth feels the need of an
invention that will instantaneously alb
sorb lighted cigar, and save him the
trouble and danger of putting it in his coat
pocket when he unexpectedly meets
either of his parents. - London Ad0er-
| tiSer.
A shoemaker with one eye complained
that one of his lamps did not burn One
| VI Lib buOpuldUCbJ WIZ 10 SChuluO Dull VI
the Emerald Isle, with astonishment ex-
claimed, ''Faith what do you want of two
lampsP Ye haven't but one eye!"
"You must cultivate decision of charac-
ter and learn to say No." said father. TO
his son. Soon afterward, when the father
said to his son. Chop wood" the boy said
''No," with an emphasis that showed a re-
membrance OF the lesson.
eyes, gentlemen, certainly, of course
said polite clothier; eff you want pair OF
pants, step right into my pantry; if vest,
walk right into my vestry; and if a coat
here Jacob, show these gentlemen in the
coterie. This way, this way, gentle
men,"
Paul April of New York was arrested
) for obtaining valuable clock from
Lizzie Kratzky, under false pretences.
1t was rather an unreasonable spectacle
to see April March to a police court
under the care of an August police
man.
At dinner the host introduced to the fa-
vorable notice of the company a splendid
truttied pheasant, amid murmurs of ad.
miration. Isn't it a beauty 7" he says.
CDR. So and-so gave it to me-killed il
himself" "Aw, what was he treating il
for?" says one of the guests.
: He appeared to be almost gone. Rolling
) his eyes toward the partner of his bosom
he gasped: BURY me meath the weeping
, willow, and plant simple white rose above
my head" "Oh, it's no use," she snapped
out. Your nose would scoreh the roots +
He got well.
His wife caught him with his arml
around the hired girls neck, but his cour
age, even in this trying extremity, never
forsook him. II suspected some one o.
stealing the whisky on the preserves, Jane
for some time, and you know her breath
would have told if she was the guilty
party.
Madame x. the other day instructed hel
maid to put few hsndfuls of salt in hel
bath. ETkese baths, Madame" said tht
servant, will do you much good. 1t vii
he like sea-bathing." 'tNot exactly