The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-06
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Contentment is better than riches, but
it will not go so far when it comes to
travelling for pleasure. - N. o. Pic
ayune.
Business carried on without publici.
ty" must be the motto of the man that
doesn't ADVERTISE Albany Evening
journal.
1t is evident that the earth is feminine
from the persistcncy with which she re-
fuses to tell her age.-[Cincinnati Satur-
day Night.
No matter how great a philosopher a
man may be, he can never withstand the
temptation to kick an empty tomato can.
Il Uncle Sam.
Martin kanner and Jane Huckleberry
have just been married in Indiana. And
why shouldn't they? Isn't this the time
to Kanner Huckleberry crop?-[ Boston
Transcript.
We have shrewd suspicion that half
the planets recently discovered are mere
ly old fellows who have been off on a
starring tour New York Commercial
| Advertiser.
The swell who has nothing to do but
stand in front of hotel and ogle the
women is about as much use to the world
as last years birds nest Hackensack
Republican.
An Indiana paper tells of gandcr
that formed strange affection for man,
following him all about. Some old
goose of man, probably Cincinnati
Saturday Night,
Dignity becomes a man, but when
your hat and a gentle zephyr have about
4 rod the start of You dignity becomes
of as little account as last years calen-
dar.- Marathon Independent.
Has it occurred to Mr.. Field, who is
constructing memorial where Andre
was hung, that no monument marks the
spot where Judas Iscarriot hanged him
seIf?-[Cin. Saturday Night.
A Cheyenne Indian who was killed in
the recent fight was called Medicine
Stand. He wouldn't have been killed if
lie had hired himself out at drug store
ON Coney Island.--[ New York Mail.
A young man has been courting one
girl five years, and every time he has
called during the past six months she
has fed him on pop corn. But he doesn't
take the hint-and p0p.-LNorristown
Herald.
THERMOMETERS up to ninety, Mr..
Putnacall," " said visitor to a aState-street
broker. "Let 'em 90 up to par" said the
man of margins, abstractedly; "T am not
short on 'em."- Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
"Charles, aren't you going to bid good
by to your sisters% 'If they loved me
less, mamma; if their affection were less
sincere and unconventional. But must
positively put my foot down once fos all.
| can not be rumpled"-[ Puck.
He was disgusted boy He had ex-
ercised great caution, and had finally
succeeded in crawling, unobscrved, un-
der the canvas into the tent. And he
found it was not circus but n revival
meeting in progress Boston Post.
Gone hundred and sixty-seyen dogs 20
to the pound" was the heading Of an
article in the paper the other morning.
'Slkes alive" exclaimed Mrs de Flukey,
when she read this, "no wonder dogs can
swim, if they're as light as that!"-
Puck.
Johnny" said fond mother to her
boy, (Which would you rather do, speak
French or Spansh%' 81 would rather"
said Johnny, rubbing his waistband and
looking impressively at the table, 81
would rather talk Turkey Iowa State
Register.
"What are you doing there with that
basin of water? Don't you know you'll
wet your c,ean waist%' said his mother.
That's all right, said x-year-old, as he
threw a lucifer into the water. "Tm
only watching a swimming match. p
New York Commercial.
Fresh buttermilk, says the New Or
leans Picayune, is not intoxicating. 1t
is not intoxicating in itself, but when it
is handed to you by pair of dainty
hands, and there is a sweet face smiling
behind the pitcher, man is apt to lose
his presence of mind.-[New York Com
merciai.
"In your long absence have you
thought of me-" asked she, cody. "Yes,"
replied he, provokingly, "once." "Only
once" inquired she, rising as if to de-
part. "Only once" repeated he, holding
out his arms, "only once--all the time"
And she came right back New York
Express.
A young man seems to be nearer full
filling the law and the prophets when
he walks along the street helping his
wife trundle the baby wagon than when
he strolls out in bachelor freedom, grin
ming at the girls, and carrying a dog
headed cane ender his arm. [-Steuben-
vile Herald.
Seventeen persons were poisoned by
drinking lemonade at picnic at Lanes
borough, Mimi, the other day. Some
scoundrel must have put some lemons
and sugar in it. In making picnic lem
onade, care should be taken to have it
composed of only two ingredients--water
and bucket Norristown Herald.
How u Disaster in "a Mill Was Pre-
vented.
New Haven Journal
The fact that Mill No. of the Will
mantle Company was struck by Lightning
in last weeks great storm has already
been published, but the particulars of
the affair show presence of mind and
coolness that deserve record. The storm
was very severe and the lightning almost