The Cincinnati Daily Star

Editorial Spinnings.

There is many a slip betwixt the heel and the banana peel.

West of England cloth with a dead finish are thought to be becoming as grave suits.

Baltimore is asking the Government for a new Post-office, and the Government is inclined to let her have it.

The people who attend National Conventions are generally a lot of dead-beats, anyway, and Chicago is welcome to them.

In this city the butter ranks next to the fertilizer, but it is difficult to know just where to place the Limburger cheese.

Somebody wants to know why we break an egg and crack a nut. For the same reason we break a head and crack a joke.

It is thought that if the price of beer can be raised $1 per barrel the tone of the Philadelphia young men will be proportionately elevated.

Advices from South America report that the Chilians have received a check, but do not state the amount nor the bank on which it is drawn.

The young man who seized an opportunity the other evening will be sent to the Workhouse as soon as the police can discover his whereabouts.

When Geo. W. Childs asked General Grant to take the third glass of egg-nog at Philadelphia, the other day, the General winked to Ex-Secretary Borie and remarked that he thought that Nicaragua was a more feasible route for a ship canal than the Isthmus of Panama.

It is evident from the annexed pronunciamento that the Society for the Suppression of Music is putting on its war paint. -[Ed. STAR.