The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-22
SUNBTAMS.

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Hot weather has its advantages. For
instance, if fellow gets drunk-it's sum
stroke.
What riles country Postmistress is to
have postal card come to the Office writ
ten i'll French.
An air-tight trunk is. the latest novelty.
The key hole is hung on strap and fast
.ened to the handle.
A lady, joking about her nose, said:
~ had nothing to do in shaping it. 1t was
birthday present.
The young ladies at Vassar are not al
lowed to have pets within the college,
other than the regular. professors. Dan
bury Negs.
GLOW do you manage to live here ?" said
traveller in ante eucalyptus globuus days
to some dwelers in the Pontine marshes
1--WE die !" was the reply.
When boy bats ball through par
lor window, tue boy may not lose his Inn
ing, but the man who OWNS the window
is invariably put out.
The sixteen hundred young women of
Cleveland who are pledged not to associate
with the young men of consiVial habits are
getting very lonesome.
"Fine nainsook, embroidered, make
lovely little slips for children" says
fashion writer. Orange peel on sidewalk
continues to be good enough for men.
A Western editor remarks that he
wears no mans collar; SO we take 1t that
be has been borrowing his wife's again.
BGgalO Express.
When a man in St. Louis restaurant
wants to eat his beefsteak rare he moves
his plate into the shade and puts his fork
on iee.-New Orleans Picaytne.
"Fifty thousand dollars to the lawyer,
and So, 800 to the widow" is the way they
divide estates in New York City, accord.
ing to the Grdphc.
81 didn't know" said an old lady, as
she laid down her newspaper, THAT thieves
were so scarce that they had to advertise
for en-, and offer reward for their dis
covery.
The flying machine cannot success
fully wrestle with currents, and the same
may be said of the small boy, if the cur
rants happen to be green. -New Haven
Register.
"We all knows" saysa o cockney school
committeeman to new teacher he was
examining for her position, that A, and
G is WoWels; but what we wants to know
is Wy they Is so"
A japanese has taught bug to play
Oh flute, and will bring the insect
to this country for exhibition, to find
that bugs here are using bed cords for
telephones.
The Mormons are going back on poly
gamy. Hard times c0nvlnces them that
one wife fills the bin very well.-Free
Press. Fills the bill! We rather guess
SO. In fact, numerous of them.
Square umbrellas are reported rs the
--latest things in Paris. That's nothing. We
have been using square umbrellas long
time; at least they are never round-when
wanted. Rome Sentinel.
A clergyman of Bath created con-
sternaton at funerafby praying earnest
ly in behalf of ''the bereGved husband and
tne one TO come who shall fill the place
made vacant by the death of our deceased
sister"
. A political speaker accused rival OF
"unfathomable meanness," and then rls-
y ing TO the occasion, said: 81 warn him
1 not to persist in his diSgraceful course OF
a he'll find that two of US GIL play at that
a game.
/ "a wasps' nest contains fifteen thou.
i sand cells," and the greatest of these sells
t is to sit down on the nest under the mis-
d taken impression that all the wasps have
gone to the seaside or somewhere on a
t visit
e "If you were in the jungles and should
y meet "a royal Bengal tiger, with his eyer
e glaring fire on you, what would you dor
II inquired one cockney of another. 81
II don't know what 1 should do; but know
If if was in New York I'd Call cab !"
1t ( Every once in while we hear of Cali
1t fornia woman killing bear. That is al
1t right. But we challenge the world tc
e ransack the pages of history and SHOW
& us where II woman las ever got ava.
with mouse.-OI City Derrick.
A. We heard man complain about th
G. weight of his baby the other day, and tt
8 our certain knowledge that same nnn use'
o to hold the mother of that baby In hi
II arms cheerfully hour after hour, after tin
n fond parents of said girl had gone 10 thei
Or yirtuOuS couch.
Of College Professor Ito Junior who ha
IL been taking advantage of bis absent
or mndedness): Young man, find o.
ir looking over the records, that this make
* the fifth time in two years that you hay
s. been granted leave of absence to atten
IL your grandmother's funeral"
"a A simple-minded man having an attac
ldt of the gout, wanted to know why Ii
oi should be so afflicted, as lie had Away
lived temperate life. 1T is proOabl
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