Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-04-24

DR.. Houck, of Baltimore, is dead
The Boston papers laud Miss Sinclair to the
skies.
Miss Davenport is drawing crowded houses in
Boston, her old favorite city.
Miss Cushman, the actress, is going to the
Holy Land.
Hackett, the actor, is in Paris, procuring
drtistes for this country.
Mr.. Potter, the Democrat just elected a repre-
sentative in Providence, is the same gentleman
who was styled " DORIS Major General"
The National Guard" of Harrisburg, para
ded on Saturday, and looked we'll Crack com
pany, that.
Louis NApoLEoN's salary is So 400, 600 per
annum Very fair for "A man with no family ex-
penses.
BY the death of Prince Schwartzenberg, Kos
suth has one enemy less, but there are plenty
more of such men in Austria.
The three steamers which have been blown up
on the western rivers within week or two past
carrying desolation in many families, were all old
worn-out boats
The cost of patent-right in England is about
G100 or $500. This high fee operates as n re-
striction upon the number of inventions seeking
prOteCllon III ullS why.
The difficulty in England between the ma
chinists and their employers is ended-the en-
ployes having been obliged by starvation to cave
in
The Harrisburg Union mounts rooster
upon q rum barrel, by way of growing over the
recent election returns from Connecticut. The
emblem is most appropriate.
PoETRY-A wishey- washey kind of food that
young people live on while troubled with the
palpitation of the heart. Mixed with moonlight
it is very apt to make your young ladies feel as
they would lean against white vest.
The man that invented the plaster-of- paris
shirt-collars has turned his attention to the in
rention of a substitute for the shirt This he
hopes to accomplish by a fney-polshed, self
adjusting marble dickey."
WHO HAS THE BEST OF IT The only difference
between the French Chamber and the English
House Of Commons is this In the one, minis
tiers will not allow the members TO say anything
and in the other, members cannot get the minis
tiers to say anything.
ARIsTocRATIo WiT-To ridicule the secret
ballot law, in the late Rhode Island election one
hundred Of the nabobs Of Newport turned out in
uhite kid gloves, and put the envelopes containing
their votes into the box with saUer ,ugar-tongs.
Who Is SHE Among the persons who figure
ut the balls of Prince Torlonia-prince and
banker--at Rome, is " Madame Burr, widow Of
the late President of the United States" as her
name and designation appear on her visiting
cards
The Providence Journal states that there is a
man in that city who has the wonderful power Of
unlocking "box with n button !" and what
makes tho mystery greater is, that be can do it
in the presence Of room full Of men, and no
one detects the wonderful art Good bye, Hobs!
A SECRET WORTH KNOWING. Boil three or
four onions with pint Of water; then, with
gliding brush, go over your glasses and frames,
and rest assured that the flies will not light OH
the article washed. This may be used without
apprehension, and it will not do the least injury
TO the frames.
While they were trying some experiments with
the fire annihilator at Newark, few days ago.
the flames got the start Of the machines, and, no
water being handy, the whole building was con-
sumed. -Four or FIVE annihilators were thrown in
at the windows, but il was no go--hame was too
much for steam.
Jinks says that, in his walk yesterday, in the
storm, his new silk umbrella turned inside out
three times; and in. trying to dodge an omnibus
he cut pigeon-wng in the mud, got spattered
from head TO foot by the operation, and then cut
for home, after upsetting an apple-stand, running
against lamp-post and narrowly escaped fall
in the mud gutter.