The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-23
SUNBGAMs,
Made or awl work-shoes.

A st. Louis woman tdied without medi.
| cal assistance"
All poets and painters take a hack al
Niagara Fails.
Who ever heard of a barber taking in a
silent purtner?- Worcester Press.
The time to buy a new hat-When the
bani begins to play.
The latest song out is entitled 'rThe Gas
Dill." 1t is sung long meter.
If I were in the sun and you were
out of it, what would the sun become ?
Sin.
Real Estate is higher in the Rocky
Mountain district than in any other part Of
the country.
No matter how careful boy may be of
his clothes, he will wear a pair of panta-
looms much longer when he is II man.
In reply to the question, GLOW did you
kill so many rats, Mike ?" the enthusiastic
Loster said: Il strycAniue of them at
waust, sir!'
Little boy at the opening of proposed
spelling match:-''Let's start for fair,
grandmother. You take Nebuchanezz
and I'll take cat"
We saw young man with two heads on
his shoulders the other day, but didn't con-
slider it much of a curiosity. Ono be-
longed to his girl.
Nevada politician was elected on the
merits of one single spe oh. All lie said
was: Fellow countrymen, follow me to
yonder saloon!"
"What docs Transatlantic mean, man.
ma 7" ''Across the Atlantic, child. Hold
your tongue, and ask no more questions. ;"
Then does transparent mean cross
mammal"
Frenchman says that Americans do
not have handsome chins. Foreigners ex-
p ct us to be wiping off our cIins all
the time, and yet to keep them land
some.
Hotel guest on retiring: -"I want
to get up at eight O'clock" Fee
tous night clerb-"uave not got one sir"
Guest, mot got what?" Clerk, "a potato
clock"
"What is the meaning of backbiter?"
asked a gentleman at a Sunday school exam
nation. This WIS II puzzler. 1t went down
the class until it came to simple urcAin,
WHO said, "Perhaps it is 1lea."
A poor actor with book under his arm
was entering pawnbroker's shop, VIII n
lie encountered q friend, who inquired
what he WIS going to do. "Only 60
ing to spout Shakespeare" was the
reply.
little girl who was spending few
days with farmer uncle, visited the barn
yard, aud while looking ut the well fed
cows, remarked "Why, uncle, just see
all the COWS are chewing gum, aren't
t1ey!"
A man has just died in Scotland aged one
hundred and seven years. He never
wore coat, and tnat fact encourages us
to hope that, with a poor one, we can
suffer along to about eiguty.-Brtdgeport
S,auddrd.
In an English court the other day, the
plaintiff would certainly have won his case
had he not lncideMtly remarked that he
wouldn't take tAe throne of England as a
gift. That speech foored hln in
minute.
"May trouble you to tell me the time? ?"
''Let me see. When l pawn, d my watch
it was just nine by it. Half an hours walk
from 'uucle's' here, two glasses of beer,
say seven and a half minutes each, that
would be-yes-a quarter to ten exactly"
Sunday school teacher was telling
her scholars the other Sunday about bad
boy who stole hundred dollars, when she
was interrupted by one of her auditors with
the query: And how the dickens did he
get such bully chauce:"
A young mother, explaining christening
to her tiye-year-oId boy, told HIM that
of Gods little lambs" Aud will | have
hind legs and 80 baa?" eagerly asked the
boy.
Professor: "And now, young gentle
men, which of you can tell NE tie name of
the greatest of the plunets-the champion
planet, so to speak, of our solar system 7"
Student: II can, Sir; it's Saturn" Pro-
fessor; "And how is that pray? Student:
, Why, because he carries the belt"
"What's de time O. day, ole oman" said
a colorod countryman to Aunt Mllly re-
Gently, trying to poke fun at the brass
chain that held her front door key around
that young lady's neck. "Look at the
town clock, chile. OATS built for POI
folks. - Vicks5ury Herald.
When reproved for failing to keep an
engagement with another gentleman re-
Gently, brave but devoted Utica husband
replied: my dear sir, my intentions were
excellent but a man with red haired wife
is liable to break many Engagements against
will
She stepped out of the cars few min
utes, leaving book in a seat, but on re-
turning went to the wrong seat and in
quired of placid old lady, care you sit
ting on That husband of Mine?" Good
! or,ciouci MOI" exnlaimed tba old ladv