The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-07
THE DAILY STAR
THE SILVER LINING
Which Good Humor Gives to Journal.
istie Work.

To the sluggard every year is sleep
year Hackensack Republican.
Highway men-elevated railway COM
panies.-[ Philadelphia Bulletin.
The druggists song-"A light in the
window for thee."-[N. Y. Herald.
"When the tied comes in"-When
man and wife arrive at home New
York Express.
When farmer puts ring in hogs
nose he strikes at the root of the thing.
-[Keokuk Gate City.
Philadelphia has the bulge on Chicago
in one respect. 1t is named in the Bible.
-[Brooklyn Union-Argus.
The New York Commercial is authori-
ty for the statement that "the ulster cov-
sreth multitude of shins."
Love laughs at locksmiths, but we defy
anybody or anything to laugh at a
plumber New York Mail.
What struck you most in ItalyT' a
newly returned traveller is asked. "The
san," says he.-[ N. Y. Herald.
A tree may be downcast and not chop
fallen. 1t may be blown down, for in
stance Philadelphia Bulletin.
The tea that was not thrown overheard
in Boston harbor in the good old days
was MISUNDERSTANDING Herald.
When man gets the Rheumatism in
his knees he knows the beauty Of gate
without hinges.-[N New Haven Register.
Strange, but true. A word in season
is scarcely ever spoken by man in a
peppery frame of mind Stanford Ad-
vocate.
There are pianists SO expert in varia-
tions that they can play all around a
melody or an old air without ever hitting
it once.-[New Orleans Picayune.
No matter how low down q man gets
IN the world there are two things he can
get, somehow or other: good advice and
bad whisky.-[ Newark Sunday Call.
Paper bricks are made in Wisconsin.
The man with the hod can now dignity
himself with the appellation of paper
carrier Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Men are naturally poor cooks. This
was demonstrated in army days, when
officers going to housekeeping always
made mess Of it Boston Transcript.
The remark of Mrs. Malaprop at the
table when she gave tea party, that the
butter offered her guests was fresh from
the crematory, was not very relishing.-
Lowell Courier.
The Wall-street bulls haven't been
turned loose for some time. and there is
a faint suspicion that the lambs have
stopped carrying red silk handkerchiefs.
IN. Y. Express.
'How nicely this corn pops," said a
young man who was sitting with his
sweetheart before the fire. "Yes," she
responded, demurely, otis got over being
green."- New York Star.
Phelim Ito tourist, who has taken
shelter in leaky shebeen): "Dade, and
It's soaked to the bone you'll be gittin'
wild the strames through the roof. Come
outside, sorr; it's drier in the wet!"
Professor: "Can you multiply con-
crete numbers togetherw The class are
uncertain. Professor: "What will be
the product Of five apples multiplied by
six potaAoesT Pupil (triumphantly);
"HashV
Some philanthropists are of opinion
that dogs 20 to Heaven. We are not
prepared to argue this point, but upor
the question Of cats our mind is thor
oughly made up.--[New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
At the Cattle Show: Young farmer
care you fond of beasts, Miss Gusher
tonT Miss Gusherton-"Oh, really
Mr.. Pawker, if you mean that as de
claration, you must speak to mama. -
London Punch.
A man who had $65 stolen from hin
received a note with $25, saying: I"
stoled your money. Remorse naws a
my ecnshens, and send some Of it back
When rcmorse naws again I'll send yov
some more Buffalo Express.
When Naomi stood up to get married
and the clergyman asked her If she wa
sure she was fourteen years old, it mus
have been terrible twist for her to at
NIT that she was five hundred and eight,
Livingston Freeman.
The doctors say that sealskin is III
healthy. Bless them! Now if they ca
be induced to say the same of six-butto
kids, point lace and few such trife
coming generations of married men wi
rise up and call them blessed Boste
Transcript.
4 great many boys and girls fall Dc
perately in love with each other, az
rave over disappointed hopes before thu
are old enough to tell the difference /
tween the heartache and the collie. We
few such cases prove fatal.-[Steube
vile Herald.
An Englishman happened to be pr
at the Yorktown celebration, and aft
surveying the situation and surroun
inas said, II can well understand NJ
why Lord CORVALLIS surrendered Yol
town. If I owned such place ! wou
~;vo II IN m vself Richmond Baton.