The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-01
SUNBEAMS,
Are false curls deadlocks 2

An ex-spurt-A dilapidated public foun-
tain. '-.-
Speaking of lamp posts, is a whipping
post lam post?
Those we shall Miss-Our daughters till
they are married.
A vessel resembles reptile when its
toad into port.
Design for polieeman's monumental
jack of clubs.
No first class hotel will let guest wash
his Shirt in the china pitcher.
| When business is good, carpenters are
always sure to come plane the most.
| Have a care, girls, have II carel French
maiden has been hugged to death.
| A Minnesota woman has lost two hus-
bands by lightning. She ought to marry a
| conductor.
"Take away women and what would fol-
low 7? asks wriIer. Stag nation of,
course.
Patience on a monument is all we'll
enough for poets, but doctors plant their
| patients beneath.
Wendell Phillips advises 'Never call
man liar" We never do. 1t is more
polite TO call him gas-metre. .-Norrtst0lua
Heraid.
What was the most honest bet that
ever was made? The alphabet Its
maker was evidently man of letters,
too.
| An elderly lady, head nurse in an insti-
tuition for children, is disposed to magnify
her office. she calls herself queen of
the bawl ROOM"
A Minnesota inventor produces sugar
from cornstaIks, and it is thought that his
machinery will prove great benefit to the
agricultural interest.
New York has Just discovered that one
of her acknowledgement is baron, and
his nose doesn't look half so red as it did
when he was supposed to be simply q
loafer.
At a recent barbecue in Kentucky two
men were killed, but the Kentucky papers
say the most distressing feature of the
ahray was the woundiug of valuable
horse.
A housewife gives information that
ground cayenne pepper will kill bedbugs,
if applied with liberality. She don't nean
though, that it must be jammed down their
throuts with u whitewash brush.
A subscriber wrote to journal to make
some inquiries about the next Worlds
fair, whereupon the wicked editor replied
that he was under the impression that the
next world wouldn't huve any fair.
A Ridgefeld man has invented chair
, which can be ad justed to 5000 different
positions. 1t is designed for boy te
, sit in when having his hair cut.-Danbn!
News.
: The woman--and all of the sex, do
a who giances under the the bed at~night be
fore retiring, evidently has in mind TIM
: proverb Look before you Sleep.-Phita
deiphta Bulletin.
f Here is the worst pun we have seen il
r six months:-'In Alabama they chew tn
r tassrls of the fir tree as Il substitute for to
bacco, which reminds US of the adage
BE tir chewers and you'll be huppy. ~
r E1
n Clocks with Photographic attachment
r instead of striking the hour, will call GU
e in the morning, Hello, John time to ge
1 up;" or may politely invite Dear Charles
a or Henry to go home when ten o'clocI
u P. N. arrives.
r 1t is a terrible gye-way when temper
e ance lecturer, pausing in his speech to tax
I, a drink of water, sets the glass dow
If and lazily reaches out toward the end G
the table for couple of coffee grains.
A. "What fine dark hair you have got, Mis-
10 M! My wife, who is much younge
er than you, has her hair quite gray" I'll
k deed, replied Miss M, ''if l had bee
Y. your wife my hair no doubt had been gra
!; too"
o. little boy was one day asked by
al clergyman if he knew what an implici
r childlike faith was. He thought he dl
IS =, Being asked to describe it, after thinking
h. h. moment, he said, when my mother sa.
h. thing is SO, must believe it is So if
amt So"
o Here is a bit of conversation betwec
IN two friend on their way from the club
six IN unheavenly hour:-A-Bless me he
he will the wife receive me? B-What
le the lady's usual frame of mind on SUI
re occasions-co couleu de rose? Aim, II
ei not quite. A kind Of night-blooming ce
"a eousnesS.
Ist
An old lady who was wont to sit ne
the door of a certain church, recent
went, says contemporary, to the vic
N, and asked leave to take more promine
en- sitting. "Why?" he asked. '"lhe ia
ed of the matter is, she replied, your cura
Il breaches such rubb. h that by the tir
n it gets down to me it's worth nothing
% alL."