The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-12

A stitch in time frequently saves the
entire garment.-l Buffalo Express.
A late Paris paper says that Bartholdi
is now putting head Oh Liberty"
The owner of foul tongue is often
chicken-hearted.- Hackensack Repnbli-
can.
Adam should have no monument
Why, he didn't carry his own State
buffalo Express.
Those who put their money into tele'
phone stock made q sound investment
Lowell Courier.
Kisses by telephone taste like boiled
china egg on toast New York Com.
mercial Advertiser.
When a cat goes for the tail of rat
sticking out of a hole, she has an end in
view Boston Post.
More boys fell off chestnut trees this
fall than for several years past. Proba.
bly, because this is an off year Puck.
Before marriage girl frequently calls
her intended cher treasure" but when he
becomes her husband, she looks upon him
as cher treasurer. Elk.
1t is difficult to understand why a wife
never asks her husband "if the doors are
all locked' until he is snug,y covered
up in bed.-[Waterloo Observer.
We learn from the Chicago Daily News
that Mrs. Grant always looks under the
bed every night before getting in. For
burglar? Oh, no; for reporter.
1t is happy provision of nature that
people do not know when they lose their
senses, and fools do not miss the absence
of brains.-[New Orleans Picayune
Lawyer (to witness )-"Did you say that
an incompetent man could keep hotel
just as we'll as anybody~ Witness mo;
! said an inexperienced man could"
Trying to do business without adver-
tising is like winking at girl in the
dark. You may know what YOU are do
ing, but nobody else does.-[ Winchester
Sun.
A correspondent wishes to know the
best way to winter geraniums. The best
and cheapest way is to sling 'em over the
back fence and buy new lot in the
spring Boston Post.
1t is so in politics, religion and every
where else in life. The man whom you
boost up the tree not only forgets to toss
you down some of the fruit, but is IS
likely as not to pelt you with the chaw-
ings.- Jersey City Journal.
They are saying now that Diogenes
never lived in tub. Before long some
body will be claiming that Noah nev,r
lived in the ark, that George Washing
ton never lived in the hearts of his coun-
trymen, and that Daniel Pratt never
kept house in dry goods box Bangor
Commercial.
Mamma-"What's the matter, darling?
You don't seem pleased to see me-"
Precious Darling - "No, l am not,
mamma. find you have gone and en-
gagged yourself to be married again with
out my approval, when / had Already
promised you to one of Gerty's uncles."
1Exchange.
When you see man with a gun on
his shoulder, and three dogs at his heels,
making across the country, you needn't
feel bad for the rabbits. He'll miss
crow or two, find few frozen apples,
fall into creek, and return home be-
lieving be has had a laundering big
time Detroit Free Press.
A dentist in Bristol VT, recently re-
eeiyed by mail an order for set of teeth.
which read as follows: "My mouth is
three inches across, fve.rigbth inches
through jaw. Sum hummocky on the
edge. Shaped like horseshoe, toe for
rard. If you want me to be more par
tiklar, shall have to come thar"
The Philadelphia North American tells
.bat a cat recently swallowed rat alive.
At last accounts the cat looked SICK and
the rat could be heard squeaking inside
of her. We know that thousands of our
readers will yearn to get the conclusion
of this story; but they can't suffer any
more than we do Troy Times.
When our friend Numskull read what
A. Bronson Alcott says of Enerson-"ni
writings read just as well backward as
forward'-he Immediately exclaimed:
why, that's just how it is with me and
the Monday lectures They're just as
clear to me backward as forward. If
anything, little clearer." p Boston
Transcript.
A lady writes an indignant note to a
contemporary, in which, with true rustic
innocence, she expresses belief that
editors never 60 to heaven. We thought
even country people knew that jourpal-
lists never went anywhere. They don't
get the chance. They just set up nights
thinking how to do good, until the tops
of their heads wear holes through their
hair Binghampton Democrat.
His Reyerence-M was sorry not TO
see you at church this evening, John"
"Lor you fritens a body 10, sirw His
r verence-'My mission is to alarm the
unconverted, john" John - "'Tisn't
that, sir; you sed in your sarmint this
mornin' that twas no use trustin' to the
common taters, and l never plants no
other sort; 50 I've bin down to the ia