The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-18
FACTS AND FUN.

"Wristlet parties" are a new scran-
ton dissipation.
These times tend to encourage respect
for the cash system.
The English talk Of abating Indian
famines by irrigation.
Kangaroos are destroying the verdure !
o Queensland, Australia.
Down East detectives have never |
given up the search lof Winslow.
With Victor Emanuel perished the
biggest musts che in all Christendom.
The next centennial celebration-Val
ley Forge, February p.
An Evansville tramp can repeat two
hundred chapters of the Bible.
The Penobscot Indians in Maine now
number four hundred and forty-hve.
What two letters would destroy all
the others, if allowed to do SO! ID H.
A baby-jumper, accompanied by a
poem, has been presented to Phil. Sher-
idar.
Humberts mustache looks like roll
of hair from the padding OF venerable
easy chair.
Certain officials in Chicago are called
cares of the circle" instead OF members
OF the ring.
Did you ever reckon up the number of
people you would like 10 kick II they
were not rich!
The Atlanta Constitution thinks Mark
Twain and Charles Dudley Warner "the
Princes OF humorists."
The man who swore off Is beginning to
observe, with great feeling: "We'ye
got but one life 10 i've, anyway"
Emerson says: GAN eye can threaten
| like a loaded and leVeied gum" We
! suppose that is when it is cooked.
IL Cleopatra really wore nothing but
necklace tor her ordinary costume, why
did she need such prodlgious needle?
The New Orleans Picayune says that
SpSniards are asked to leave France
when they get too Don Carlos in their
habits.
"Yes, my child, your French teacher
| ia right III saying that stove is Of the
masculine gender' You know ii Is a
he-ter."
| A person who had been listening to
| a very dull address remarked that
| everything went of well-especially the
audience.
| W. I. Knott, OF Lebanon, has present
ed the museum of Central Kentucky
| University with three hundred geolog-
zeal specimens.
Why may foolish fellow reckon on
having the sympathy of halter? Be-
cause halter has felt for q fellow in
want OF q headpiece.
"Whavs in name," again? Longfel-
lows eldest son OnsloW Is not getting
on slow, at all. Rather the reverse. He
is a successful business man in Boston.
Simpkins piayfuliy remarked to his
wife that he hau four fools: Beautif0ol.
dutifool, youthiool and delightfool
"POor meP' said she, II have but one."
II Donn Piatt says that "a true inter.
viewer is a man WHO puts his own views
In the mouth of the interviewed, and
trusts to God and good luck to escape
DEATH"
An eccentric burglar at Memphis
Tenn, Is in the habit Of leaving note
signed IN cessity," in which he says he
will restore the stolen articles il u suit
able reward is offered.
A facetious writer in the New York
Times says that weak men and coarse
men may snore, but no great and good
man ever Knocked the calm midnight
with The howllng of a brutal nose.
A resident of Hanover, N. H., has
sued young townsnau for $500 Tor room
rent, fuel and light during the defend
ants courtship Of the plaintiffs step
daughter-a period Of over iour years.
5000 is the average Chinaman's darling
desire. The sum acquired In hard silver
he returns to the Ceiestia country, mar
res a wife with feet 80 small as to bt
usefully useless, and lives and dies 8
millionaire.
"That gun you sold me bursled the
1rst time [ fired it off," said all irate
sportsman to MIR. Shoot. "Thaps very
strange" said the latter, "it never die
SO before; you must have been putting
powder i'll it,"
: "a young girl recently employed in 6
sealskin estabiishment" is mentioned II
an exchange. Most girls who can afford
it swing out in sealskin establishment
: nowadays, but few, very few, are eysl
, known to have any employment.
They do say that when Santa Claus
, saw Senator David Davis stocking
hanging up against the side OF the house
he remarked with u sigh that he couldP
, favor David to the exclusion of all the
| boys and girls in Ameriea.-[St. Louis
Journal.
Ayouug bride who had been fashlona
bly, educated was asked by her fond hus
: band to attend TO the ordering of the
, dinner, as he shouldn't have time TO q
to market. 1t 10 q tact that she blandly
requested the butcher to send home
leg Of tongue.
Maria is such a common name IL
! Grass Valley that when q. cat climbs
the back ience OF yard on Churci
street, and calls out Mar-i-arH ten Of
twenty windows are thrown up, from
whloh protrude ten or twenty temal,
: heads wildly answering "Whatp
A correspondent OF q Virginia pape
Z credits Gen. Lee with saying, not loDi
before his DEAN: I'll had had Stone
wall jackson at Getty ysburg l sboul'
0 nave won that battle, and il l had won
: Egrsat vict CRY there, / should nave estab
a tilshed ths independence OF the south."