The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-07

Vi IlG OCcdH. IdJClo SlouiN Wv OAANANN
in Massachusetts, the waves.-[Chi-
cago Inter-Ocean.
Gray, who shot Edwin Booth, is the
pitcher for base ball nine in the Elgin
Lunatic Asylum. It's funny how crazy
people like base ball!-[ Exchange.
Judging from the large number of
young physicians being ground out by
our medical colleges, we can no longer
sing "This world is but an M. d. void"
Il Yonkers Statesman.
Always help those who are able to help
themselves. Lightning can reach the
earth without any assistance, and yet men
put up lightning-rods for lightning to
Slide down on.-[Chicago Tribune.
The Boston Traveller has an article on
"Gas in Boston," This is the first time
since the founding of the city that
Transcendentalism was ever spoken of in
that vulgar way.-[Albany Evening
Journal.
A Pittsburg policeman wants his rank
and pay raised because his wife had trip
lets. If that isn't the cheek of man.
Hel He have his pay raised? BY Jove,
promote the woman; that's what Bur-
lington Hawkeye.
The fellow who was told that another
drink would kill him, said, 'If | haf to
die, lem me, but l will take two horns
first" This is the correct origin of the
expression, "two horns to a dilemma. -
Cincinnati Saturday Night
Said Jones, refectively, "Why is it
that everybody laughs at a donkey|
still gazing after a representative of that
tribe Replied that dullard Smith, ooh,
YOU are too sensitive, Jones; altogether
too sensitivew- Boston Transcript.
A young Roxbury lady was asking her
newly married friend how she liked her
husband. "Oh," replied the bride, 'he's
charming fellow, and talkslike a book" -"
''Like book! Well, let me have vol
ume second when you find it, Boston
Herald.
Cincinnati has society for the pro-
motion of marriages. They are so en-
tirely devoted to pigs, beer, and music
down there that without such an organ
ization trifing thing like marrying
would never occur to anybody Chica'
60 Times.
A Chester County (Pa.) woman was
burned to death in her carriage. This
explains why our young men don't take
the girls out riding oftener 1t isn't be
cause they haven't the money to spare
it's the dear girls lives they are thinking
Of Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.
S "And how does Charlie like going tt
I SCHOOL," kindly inquired good man O
the little six -ycar-old boy, who wa
waiting with tin can in hand thu
q advent of another dog. 81 like goin' vel
4 'nough," replied the embryo statesman
+ ingeniously, "but / don't like stayin
a after git there."- Rockland Courier
As he sat upon the steps On Sunda,
G evening he claimed the right to kis
n for every shooting star. She at hrs
demurred, as became a modest maiden
y but finally yielded. She was even $
n accommodating as to call his attention t
:; the flying meteors that were about t
@ escape his observation and then 60 t
# "calling" him on lightning bugs and a
e last got him down to steady work on tn
light of lantern that a man wa
/: swinging about a depot in the distanc
If where trains were switching Funn
u Exchange.
e Midnight on the Doorstep-say
Augustus to Arabella:
7. Ere this, beloved, didst thou ever
S, Give sweet kiss to any fellerf
s. "Neverw
l. "NeverY
G. "Well, hardly ever"
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