The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-20
SUNBn ANS.
True as a dye-lndigo.

Sheer nonsense-Trying to cut your own
hair.
Taking tea out Unloading ship from
Canton.
A grocer both sells his goods and gives
them weigh.
Early fruit catches the worm. This is
reliable.
The best race horse cannot run up
column of figures.
1t is said that an Indian often makes
an arrow escape.
A spirit wrapper-the paper around
bottle of whisky.
The scales of justice are for the weigh
of the transgressor.
1t is more blessed to give than receive,
but not SO popular.
Doctors sometimes give man up, but
!he undertaken is always hopeful.
When a man is reported ''missing" it is
because he has been seen with girl.
Some men are so awful slow that the
only time they get ahead is when they buy
. cabbage.
Irish advertisement: Purse lost by
poor woman who has a sick child contain
ing lbs. and letter.
Insanity is no cause for divorce in Wis
consin. They think person must be
crazy in the first place to marry.
The woman who maketh good pud-
ding in silence is better than she who
maketh tart reply Troy Wing.
The proposal to do away with the police
in an Ohio town is spoken of by local
paper as 'another blow at the criminal
classes"
When woman sighs for fame she
should let her husband cook his own meals
while she makes bed-quilt with l0,Ooo
blocks in it.
The Georgia fend who shot poor
fellow who owed him twenty-five cents
should have no quarter. - New York
NeWS.
One extra strong minded woman has re-
marked that an old bachelor is a man who,
through selfish motiv es, has refrained from
making some woman wretched.
A Chicago man had the jim jams the
l, ,.lt ,l ono olfas fOnnH
in one of his boots to start out seven new
circuses on the road. This is reliable.
A sharp-talking lady was reproved by
her husband, who requested her to keep
her tongue in her month. MY husband, ="
she said, ''it's against the law to carry con-
cealed weapons"
The number of innocent young girls who
marry men, believing they can break them
off their bad habits and tug them OFT to
church twice every Sunday; does not dl-
minish in the least.
Lady-"I hope your little grandson
took all that beef tea sent, MIR. Stubbles." "
Mr.. S.-'Ne'er a drop would he take,
mum, and the milk and sugar as l put in,
you wouldn't credit"
One of Boston's popular preachers has
led the BOYS in race to fire. This is a
new departure in the ministry. Hereto
fore the preachers task has been to lead
the boys in race from a fire. .-Norr'stopn
Herald.
An effort was made in New York City
| ,onn,tlxr m find ont how
sengers make full street car load. The
effort proved futile, as none OF the wit
nesses had seen an absolutely full street
Car.
1t may be true that hundred cancelled
postage stamps will Luy Chinese baby,
but the fellow who had an American baby
left on his door steps for nothing wants
to know what's the use of gathering
stamps?
els that a friend of yours?" asked 8
gentleman, pointing to party who was
sailing rapidly down the street Cant tel
YOU till next Saturday." returned the indi.
: yidual addressed-''I just lent him five
dollars"
A big Yankee from Maine on paying hi
bill in London restaurant, was told tina
the sum put down didn't include th'
! waiter. oval" he roared, II didn't ca
: any waiter, did l ?" He looked as though
! he could though, and there was no furthe
discussion.
5 A dry goods drummer, having an hour
leisure, went into Paterson foundry tn
r other morning, and, going too close to tn
, machinery, a ten-ton trip hammer hit hin
! in the cheek and broke itself all to pieces
t He Immediately left the town to avoid
. suit for damages.
An Alabama woman recently gasped he
e jaw out of joint. L.ter.-Seventeen hun
, dred applications have since been receives
, from married men, asking her how tn
: thing was accomplished, aud the mos
favorable circumstances for such an unde,
! taking ElmTa Gazette.
e A child was called as q witness in
: Charleston court. The opposing lawye
asked her if she knew whore liars wen
y when they died and objected to he