The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-31
THE BRIGHT SIDE
As Our Good HumOred Exchanges See 1t.

Blue fishing-to sit on a log all day
with line in hand and never get bite
New Haven Register.
An inventor calls his new engine
Mexico" because it makes so many
revolutions Cory (Pa.) Herald.
Lydia Thompson calls the bald-headed
row of old men in the front seat "klnd
Words" because they never dye Elk.
Matrimonial Mem-It is strange fact
that although many married folks always
go to bed quarreling, yet they never fall
out.-[Judy.
All the girls have to do to keep up
with the present style of summer hats Is
to sit down on them once or twice.
Waterloo Observer.
Now is the time when the wise country
cousin writes to his city relations that a
neighbor across the way is stricken with
the small-pox.-[Har ford Journal.
Young Robin was inexcusable, per-
haps, in stealing kiss from Mary while
walking through the tall corn, but she
was in maize, and of course was not
responsible Boston Transcript.
The Adventists propose soaring up
ward on August 1lth. We shall not at
tempt to cast ridicule upon their inten-
tions, as this is soar point with them.
Il New York Commercial Advert er.
The Cory (Pa.) Herald makes use of
the following head lines for its selected
funny paragraphs: Emotional Insanity
Brought on by the Prevailing Fashion
of Starting Funny (D Department."
A perspiring young American lady at
London ball observed to her partner
81 feel little dewy." Her partner was
mist soon after that. He thought it was
a marriage proposal.--[ Norristown Her
aid.
If Atlantic City or Cape May could
but manage to get up a respectable ses
serpent story, what rush there woulo
be to the place fortunate enough to have
liar with ingenuity and capacity cqua
to the occasion.-[ Philadelphia Star.
A young lady being taken to task fol
tight lacing, said that she resorted to the
practice on purely economical grounds
GLOW is that?" asked her reprover
"Why," she replied, 81 lace tightly sim
ply to prevent waistfulness. ."-[ st. Loui
Times-Journal.
'That land ought to be used as a ceme
terry" remarked gentleman as tht
train glided by a field in which sand anc
stones were the principal productions
Excellent idea," returned his friend
nothing but the dead could ever b.
raised there. p Boston Post.
An exchange says: Saratoga in tn
Indian language means the region of tn
big hills" The Journal guesses tha
the "h" in "hills' must be misprint
1t certainly would be nearer the trutl
to say that the famed watering place i
the synonym for big bills.-[Flushin!
Journal.
Julius, yo' young wagrum, hez We
bin ter chu'ch dis mornin'?". "Deedy,
haz, ole man." "Who proach?" "D
parson, I spect." "You'm spicy, youn,
un; but does yer member wha' de parsol
said?' "Sartin l does member h
said dar'd be a Election TUX up, and da
scared me, an | skup out to borry
loan."- Yonkers Gazette.
When a city gent attempts to row il
a "home-made" boat and glides gentl,
overheard, there is nothing that vii
bring out the high-toned conversation
that he has picked up among the elite O
the metropolis so thoroughly as to hav
an unsophisticated native shout from tn
shore, "How do you like swimming wit
your boots on?"-[ New Haven Regi
ter.
Wayfarer "Can I get through th
way to the agricultural show, my man
Farm servant: "Oh, 'ees-nicely, SUI
straight on till yer comes ter der mcddt
where Stiles bulls KEEP what killed
man last week; 60 acrost there throug
the plantation, only take keer of tf
mantraps an spring guns; then yer com,
to field where they are burnin' rubb
and siftin' cinders; t'other side yer
find rickyard, on'y mind IL
bloodhound wot's KEEP theer, COS un bite
then yer'll see yer way quite easy
i Fun.