The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-14

hair" is the way the Indians put It,
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.
Fogs are mist before they are gone
Free Press. And are not to be eaten un-
less they have an r in them Richmond
Baton.
1t is good thing that the color of a
stove-pipe don't need buttons, else the
trouble would never end Fond du Lac
Reporter.
Yakoob Khan says he feels as though
he had just run for Governor of Iowa on
the Democratic ticket. -- Burlington
Hawkeye.
A dog frequently worries cat, but
man, who is nobler than the dog, wor-
ries himself New York Commercial
Advertiser.
1t is current bard who sings 81 sat
alone with my conscience" Two to one
be never had less fun in all his born days
/ Inter-Ocean.
Buffalo Express-I have now formally
entered upon the canvass for next year,
] trust my friends will begin to form
clubs at once B. f. Butler.
Shakespeare was married when he was
Is, Dante at %, and Brigham Young
when he was Is, 10, 20, 81, %, %, "a,
and so on Galveston News.
Tutor (dictating Greek prose compost
tion) Tell me, slave, where is thy horse9
Startled Soph.---It is under my chair,
sir; / wasn't using it'll Acta Columb-
ana.
The man with new tight shoes and an
ngrowing nail seems to be the one who
is always selected by fate to be COM
pelled to run for a train New York
Star
The rage for decorations has not yet
extended to buckwheat cakes. They are
still made plain and are seldom nailec
up on parlor walls.-- New Orleans Pi
cayune.
Why doth the little school-boy sweal
softly all the way home when he has been
kept after school? because too much
learning hath made him mad New
York World.
The President has signed the death
warrants of the turkeys, and the saugh
ter preparatory to the fatal November
9th will soon begin New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
"Py Schimminy, how dot boy studies
lie languages" is what delighted elderly
German said when his four-year-old sol
called him bleareyed son of saw
horse Inter-Ocean.
"Sngle man, sirT asked the lawyer
as the witness took his place. eyes
sir" was the reply. Lawyer: "Wif'
livingw Confusion and rapid explana
tions.- Inter-Ocean.
"Where do paragraphers go to wher
they die?" asks the Houston News, anc
the Philadelph Chronicle-Herald re
plies: "If it isn't from the humorous tt
the grave we give it up"
A Jersey man was once thrown 15(
feet by an express train, when he picket
himself up, looked around for his hat
and remarked "Well, if ! don't fine
that hat I'll make the company pay fo
it, Exchange.
"How far is it to Cub Creek?" asked
traveller of Dutch woman. "Only
shoost little ways" as it four, six
eight or ten miles?' impatiently asked
the stranger. "Yas, dinks it is" Sc
renely replied the unmoved gate-keeper
Il Exchange.
Professor-"What is a proposition? ?
SOPHOMORE" Something that we per
ceive by intuition, sir" ''Is every propo
s!tion something which we perceive b,
intuition that hog does not chew tn
cudY' "No, sir; I know that from ex
perience. y Albany Journal.
When a boy on his way to Sunday
school loses the nickel he has been carry
ing, for the missionary box, he is tor
with agonizing remorse because he didn'
spend it for peanuts before it was wasted
Ii sorrow for the defrauded heather fac
tors in his agony, he isn't aware of it,
Burlington Hawkeye.
At the assay office of the Consolidate
Virginia Company, in Virginia Cit,
New, General and Mrs. Grant and Uly,
ses Grant, Jr., were weighed on the fin
scales used in weighing bullion. Ger
eral Grant turned tie scales at 40
pounds, Mrs. Gran. at 100 pounds, an
young Ulysses Grant at 176 pounds
Inter-Ocean.
A young Irishman, whose remittance
from home had been stopped, wrote yer
urgent letters, telling Of his distress, an
promising to reform if the remittance
were continued. When he failed to q
what he wanted, he resorted to STRAIT,
gem, and wrote sad letter TO his fathe
telling him that he was dead, and wante
money for the funeral expenses Int
Ocean. .t.-,.... ..-.. ....l..e
We observe that new remedy ft
sleepIessness is now being extensively ci
cuIated in the newspapers. The be'
yo,nedv for sIeeplessness that we know