The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-19
MINCEM EAT.

Juries hang oftener than murderers.
Nevada's latest mining camp is called
BACKBONE"
A lady now at Saratoga wears 800, 900
worth of diamonds.
The nose is the scenter Of civilization.
ii Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Moody will attempt the evangeli-
cation of Ohio next fall.
Ex-Governor Underwood, of Vermont,
has left the insane asylum.
A Bridgeport doctor mourns the theft
OF newly bought skeleton.
Columbia, S. c., has produced an ear
of corn seventeen inches long.
Huckleberry hops are popular with the
maids and swains of Michigan.
AnIndiana carpenter is so temperate
that he will not use spirit level.
A nephew of Ole Bull is professor
in the Wisconsin State University.
What is preferable to gas meter?
Meet her by electric light Fun.
Iowa has an exceedingly enterprsing
man. He has been married fifteen
times.
The one dog who hasn't had his day
this year-the blue skye London
Punch.
VIM. B. Astor the other day paid $475
for a table cover and two bedspreads for
his yacht Ambassadress.
1t was Jerseyman who asked why
Sankey was always running for Vice
President on the Moody ticket.
The present month of August has the
rather unusual honor of two full moons,
the last to occur on the 31st inst.
1t is a noticeable fact that every man
who has seen the sea serpent states that
its head is the size of beer cask.
What Jas. Parton doesn't believe is
more than man of ordinary credulity
can swallow.-[New York Express.
Parson Murray's failure dates from the
day when he abandoned the sounding
board for the buck-board.- N. Y. Ex-
press.
There are two places where the yellow
fever will never have show-the north
pole and where Charles Francis Adams
lives.
The American Minister to England,
unless he is an experienced poker-player,
finds it difficult to meet the expenses of
his establishment.
The Detroit Free Press tells of a man
who hugged a bear to death, and that pa
per is receiving many letters, written in a
feminine hand, asking his address.
Abuse is an indirect species of hon.
age.-[ Exchange. The party whose
chickens get into the profane mans gar
den should remember this.-[B Bailey.
Political parties are more inclined to
hate each other for points on which they
differ, than to love one another for points
on which they agree Yonkers Gazette.
The voice of the young man who got
away with three hundred and ninety-six
clans at clambake, is heard in the land,
and it calls for the Doctor Boston
Post.
A member brought down the House in
London lately by saying that "'e 'ad not
seen cat with is hown heyes, but e 'ad
'eard it from hoficer of 'er Majesty's
harmy."
A recent picnic was turned into
hollow mockery by every fellow remem-
bering to bring corkscrew and depend
ing on somebody else to furnish the
bottle.-[Des Moines Register.
The Oil City Derrick jumps up with
the ejaculation that every mans coat
fits a foolp' The question now in order
is, when did the editor of the Derrick
have an opportunity to try ON every
mans coat2[ Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
Our forefathers may not be to blame
for it, but some way or other the aver
age man Of to-day is burdened with an
insane desire to use his largest bank bill
for wrapper around his wad of wealth.
-[Wilton E. Williams.
One of our confreres of the press went
to church last Sunday to take notes of
the sermon. He had just been furnished
with tickets to 60 ON an excursion the
next morning. 1t was, of course, only
through error, therefore, that when the
collection plate came round he said: "Go
on: pye pOt a nass v-TPicay1ne