The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-20
SSUNBEAMS.

1no ulhu WHO Ii alWhyS as icool as Gu
cpmber' is generally as green. ... a,1
, The Egyptian pyramids may be classed
under the head of sold mades.a ~"
An eminent actress speaks of stage wink.
ing as q suffering of the eyelids. .
Sound advice is that which you receive
through telephone.
Des Moines has four brass bands, and in
some parts of the city the cats have left.
In the editorial profession many are
CALLED but few are chosen. Cyn-
stitution.
Let me make the paragraphs of a nation
and care not who writes their editorials. -
Boston Irageler.
1t seems rather odd to see two men play
ing seyen-up for dinner that is to be
eight-up. IT,
4 1t is safe to indorse the supposition that
Adam expressly bit the apple because he
Lad no knife.
Show me the size of your chrome and
and l'l tell You how many pounds of tea
you bought
When man begins to take off his coat
and vest at you it is a sign that he is re-
sorting to the court of peels
When the contribution box comes round,
if you don't give cent you should nod,
and nodding is assent
't1s green wall paper healthy ?" asks a
medical journal. Not if it is eaten fried.
Nothing is healthy that is fried
1t is when a woman tries to whistle that
the great glory of her mouth is seen with
out being heard very much.
"Do fishes 20 crazy ?" is a conundrum
proposed by Seth Green. Sometimes they
get in seine, ,-Ne's Hqyep Register.
Provident Minister-'I wish to state that
have procured an alarm clock that will
wake up the congregation as soon as the
services are over"
| Every man is miserable sinner in
church, but out of church it is unsafe to
say much about it, except to small
4 man. u..... ....,
No matter how hard it is to find rock
! Ing chair during the day, man is sure to
fall over one when he is in search of a
match box after dark,
A St. Louis lady sues q reporter for
breach of promise, putting her damages at
| $l5, 600 We millionaires are never safe
from the rapacious
Confecioners are now making such
good imitation of cherries that there is no
further use for the fruit itself, and cherry
trees can now take rest
| Tourist docking closely at photograph
of q herd of deer) to photographers assist
ant "Are those real deer2" "No, sir,
they are only one shilling each.
There are ten shades of red this season
in women's toggery and 347 shades of blue
about the husband and father, who foots
the dry goods and millinery bills
He was twitted of his badness and re-
torted quite sharply, "Well, there are two
things you never saw in this world, red.
headed negro or q bald-headed fool"
"Are you not afraid your wife will get
married again when you die?" II hope
she may. as there will be>one man in the
world who viii know how to pity me-"
A courteous old gentleman being told a
very tough story, said, Since you were an
eye witness, I suppose I must believe you,
but l don't think I'd believed it if I'd seen
it myself"
The Hindoos have been figuring again,
and they now make out that the earth is
4, 600, 600 years old. What we most care is
to know if it is going to stand about fifty
years longer.
"What is the name of your dog, sonny ?''
inquired man of an urchin who was lead.
ing big Newfoundland by rope. "Tray
sir, replied the boy. "Ah! Isee," rejoined
the man. '"rhen he is led as Tray?"
Davis, who is something like eighty
inches round the waist, generally gives his
tailor three months notice when about to
order new pair of breeehes, and by this
means prevents o famine in the cloth
market.
Phrenology, as science, or as sensible
theory, has only one advocate now where
years ago it had score. When the wrink-
les on mans feet will tell his age, then
the bumps on his head will indicate his
talent.
i A cats eyes are said to be the largest at
midnight. We never made an examination,
but we are positive that its voice is about
seventeen times larger at that hour than
at any other period during the twenty
four.
Mrs. Monorama Mozoomdar, wife OF
Baboo Grish Chunder Mozoomdar, Minis
ter of the Braisal Brahmoo Somai, is the
| first female preacher IN India. We are
bound to print the news, if it twists and
ruins all the types in our Office.
= An editor wrote leading article on the
fair sex, in the course of which he said
Girls of seventeen or eighteen are fond OF
beaux" When the paper was issued, he
was rather shocked to discover that an un