The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-11
THE BRIGHT SIDE
As Our Good Humored Exchanges See 1t.

Pies are now cut on the bias N. Y
Star.
Clubs are, to their members, meet and
drink Boston Post.
Somebody put cold towel around the
sum- McGregor News.
The wheelwright is of retiring dispo-
sition.- Yonkers Statesman.
A dying bequest is almost dead give
away Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald'
A great deal of singing is in chanting
and great deal is -LSteubenville
Herald.
We never could see anything of Lydia
Thompson's stage dress to object to-
Boston Post.
Kansas City girls love to talk. There
isn't pair of dumb bellies in the town.
III Kansas City Times.
A Seneca County lady asked if the
Taughannock image was putrefactlon.
Il Waterloo Observer.
We never heard of man so mean that
fly wouldn't become attached to him.
Fond du Lac Reporter.
It is said that "a boy baby never comes
a-miss," but when he grows up how he
goes for EN- 1nter-Ocean.
The indiscretion of our first parents
was a mighty good thing for tailors and
dressmakers.- New Haven Register.
The Admiral says that we do not want
the Panama route, and the people re-
spond, "Ammen."- New York Mail.
Tally one for Darwin. Monkeys swim
as men do, with the side stroke, not "dog
fashion. D Philadelphia Sunday Item.
Some of the most quiet old men in the
world are those who have made great
racket in their young days. Picayune.
1t is a pretty sight to see Davis
swinging in hammock these warm days,
but it is rather trying on the ham
mock [Ex.
"You are my precious pearl" he said,
as he drew her to his manly breast. "Oh,
John" she sighed, "you are my oyster"
-[Turners Falls Reporter
The country is so lonesome since Con-
gress adjourned that nothing but "Pin.
afore" and the walking matches keep
the public heart from breaking Howk-
eye.
eff you want a pug dog, madam, what
is pug" said a dog financier to would
be purchaser, "this here ones the dog;
why, his nose is just turnin' somersets
'atween his ears all the time. p Inter.
Ocean.
"The more shirtee the Mclean man
get washee, more money Chinaman
makee," is the way an almond-eyed Phil
adelphia laundryman translates "Clean-
illness is next to godliness. - Philadel,
phia Chronicle-Herald.
The st. Albans Advertiser has an edi.
torial about Vermont butter An enter.
prising churn-all. "There is an indefn'
able something in the manufacture OF
: Vermont butter, which," etc. We hope
it is not hair Boston Times.
Beneath many a sun-bonnet in the
t berry pasture there is a bright eye and &
rosy, tanned cheek that causes the farm
er's boy to drop his OK whip and scale
the stone wall, just to "help fill up the
basket" that's all,-[New Haven Regis
} ter.
, A bootblack said to-day he was going
to take his vacation calling on his rela
; tiyes "Well, how long do you intend tt
-, stay?" inquired some one. The repl.
/ was: Il will doubtless stay as long-a
!, long as staying is good."-[ Newburl
Journal.
y The tourist who went fishing in Ney
. Hampshire trout brook and brough
home a beautiful string of fish wants hi
+, friends to quit nagging at him, and lay
awake at nights planning revenge on tn
:. fellow who sold him those mackerel fo
+. brook trout Boston Post.
At Bangalore the clergyman consider
r atcly cuts down the church service tina
e his congregation may get to their crickc
i i betimes. 1t would seem from this tha
" the reverend gentleman regards til
o "Strait Gate" as being very much tn
t, same thing as the "wicket. t. Londo
st Figaro.
u At a party on Nelson street, the otht
e, evening, the conversation appeared to |
e, dying out when bilious man suddenl
observed to young lady on his right,
y don't think they make pills as large :
q they used to-" After that the convers
~ ton went out again. Danbury News.
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