The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-20
THE SILVER LINING
Which Our GeOd-hum0red Writers
Give to Journalistic Work.

A soft winter turneth away the boys
hand-sled.-[Cincinnat Saturday Night.
Flattery is like Cologne water, to be
shifted at, not swallOwed.- Boston Tray
eller. I
Gracefully arched eyebrows, says the
Boston Courier, are beauty's triumphal
arches.
"Two heads are better than one," es-
pecially on the penny you "snap up
Boston Post.
The Whitehall Times truthfully says:
"a wise town is known by the fire COM
pany it keeps"
Problem in logic: If God made the
country and man made the town, who
made New Jersey?- Puck.
"Wsnted--A plain cook" reads an ad-
vertisement. Wonder whose wife put
that in the paper?-[ Boston Post.
The trouble with the midnight cat Is
not 30 much that it can not sing as that
it firmly believes it CAM Inter-O Ocean.
Mrs. Youngwoman wants to know
chow to tell fresh egg from a stale
oneT' Taste 1t, goosey; taste it Bur-
lington Hawkeye.
The prisoner, being asked whether he
struck the man in the heat of passion, re-
piled: "No, l struck him in the pit Of the
stomach. p Boston Courier.
A boy recently hanged himself because
somebody found fault with him." That
boy was certainly not born to be an ed
itor.- Turner'S Falls Reporter.
With one hand he held her beautiful
golden head above the chilling wave, and
with the other called loudly for assist
ance.- Extract from Romance.
At Montreal last week a locomotive
crossed the river on the ice. We prefer
quail on toast, but still a locomotive on
ice is food for reflection Troy Press.
The Rev. Louis Wazawacanayana is a
Dakota clergymen. He has one satisfac-
ton, however. Nobody opens his letters
by mistake.-LTurner's Falls Reporter.
John-"The philosophy Of dogs run
ming when can is tied to his tail instead
of biting the string off is not very
clearly understood" ."-[syracuse Times.
The word "bone" is commonly used as
q substitute for ''steal," which accounts
for its being the invariable custom in
Ohio to call cemeteries "bone-yards."-
Boston Post.
Young man, if it is II o'clock and she
goes to the piano aud plays few bars Of
the "The Sweet By and By" you may
consider the seance over for the night
Philadelphia Item.
"Shall hereafter darn your stock
ingsT is said to be the fashionable
language for young lady to use when
making a leap-year PROPOSAL Phila-
delphia Chronicle-Herald.
But few men can handle a hot lamp
chimney and say there is no place like
home at the same time Detroit Free
Press. A man isn't expected to say two
different things at the same time Bos
ton Post. s... ....
Teacher In high School at -: care
pro and con synonymous or opposite
terms? Scholar-"Opposite." Teach
ere Give an example," Schoar-"P Pro-
gress and Congress- Norfolk County
Gazette.
The Joneses had just left the house
"Ma," asked little Miss Smith, "does Mrs
Jones buy things Of papaH'' II dom
know, DEAR" replied her mother, "why
do you askY' "Cause he was so polite
you know, ma. p Boston Transcript.
"When was young" said Mrs. Scold
we'll to her little girl, II used to love my
dear mamma too we'll to act as you do.
"And did your mamma" replied Bertha
quickly, "used to be all the time tellin.
YOU what she did when she was a littl,
girl"
Weprotest against the folly of thi
senseless demand that the money Of tb,
land should be kept in circulation
That's Just the trouble with it; it circu
lates too fast. What we are trying to d,
is to stop a little of it. Burlington
Hawkeye. e-. -
eyes," said Jones, melodramatically
"my home is little heaven ON earth.
81 never knew anybody who was reall,
in hurry to enter heaven" was all tina
Robinson answered; but it was notice,
that Jones started homeward an hou
earlier that night.
Jones says his wife is the most thrift,
woman he ever knew. "Why, sir" h
says, "she has made ten bedspreads dun
ing the last two years; made them her
, self, sir, out Of the patterns she collects
in her shopping tours during that time.
Il Boston Transcript. .,-.5 '.
"Why am made a sandwich" sal,
young Snobson, plaintively, as a lady sa
down on either side Of him in the hors
car. Because we are better bred thai
you are" said one of the damsels sweet
! ly, and Snobson mustered courage t
squeeze out to the platform.
An army officer is retired when he zoe
out of service, and wheel is retired t
go into service again. When sheri
releases prisoner he loses possession O
him, and when he releases house he RI
gains possession of it; and this is a how
| ino Md lam U11aop of oura ain,t it7.--T philt