Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1852-12-16
SCISSORS And PASTE.
ct. 4n't paint but can drarr," as the
Spa Hall fly said to the artist.


fasa karns to nlistrust his instincts
1t has been discovered that where a let Of
boarders are fed upon sausages for some time,
they begin tc growl. sfaa
Gone of the rarities of life," says Eliza
Cook, % is a woman thoroughly satisfied with
her daughter-iu-law." =
'sCornelius, how do you define corn ?"
GA corn-why, it is something which troubles
man who gets tight in bis boots.
There is club in New York Called the
Unknown Club,'' whose being, end, and aim
is to have good time of it.
Why is man ascending Vesuyius like an
Irishman trying to kiss pretty girls Because
he wants to get at the crater's mouth.
If you wish to know how quick you can run
mile, tell read-headed woman that her
baby squints.
Youth may sometimes afford lesson to
maturity. Ali horse pistols have been super
seeded by the revolvers of a Colt.
A grave friend of ours tells US that he aud
his wife always 60 to bed quarreling. "And
yet" said he, with all our difference, We
never fall out"
AFFECTION, like spring flowers, breaks
through the most frozen ground at last: and
the heart that seeks but for another heart to
make it happy, viii not seek ia vain.
Definition: Snow, Winters dressing gown.
Ice, the sheet Of the rivers bed. Icicles, Ma
ture's pendants, manufactured from the geAs
OF the pgrest water.
A Southern editor in giving an account of
some rascals who stole two horses belonging
to preachers at camp meeting, says it should
teach elergymen TO - watch as well as pray"
The popularity in politics is to see your
name in large type posted to a fence. Some
body will inquire who you are, and when the
first ain comes you will disappear.
An Israelite in Boston was arrested for
working at his trade on Sunday. His defence
was that lie observed the seventh day, and it
was deemed sufficient.
4 member of the lazy society was complain
ed of last week, by another, for running. His
defence was, that he was going down hill, and
that it was more labor to walk than run.
They ''let him slide"
The Toledo Blade tells the story of q chap
on their road, who, apprehending a collision
of the cars, put his life preserver on, and
leaning back against the side of the Car, re-
signed himself to his fate.
A person meeting an old man with silver
hairs, and very black, bushy beard, asked
him chow it happened that his beard was not
so gray as the hair of his head?" because"
said the old gentleman, "it is twenty gears
younger.!''
"Gentlemen and ladies'" said the show
man, "here you have a magnificent picture
cf Daniel in the lions den. Daniel can easily
be distinguished from the lions by the green
cotton umbrella under Lis left arm
"Are you in fun or in earnest" said
fellow to one who Was giving him some smart
cuts with a skin.
'rm in earnest" replied the other, laying
it on somewhat harder.
"rm glad of it," said the first one, "for
don t like such fun"
A lady paying a visit to her daughter, who
was young widow, asked why she wore the
widows garb so long. Dear mamma, don't
you see" replied the daughter: - it saves me
the expense of advertising for husband, as
every one can see L am SC" sale by private
contract"
A dandy lawyer remarked, one summer day,
that the weather was so extensively hot that
when he put his head in a basin it fairly boil
ed. "Then, sir, was the reply, "you have
calfs head soup at very little expense"
A book was printed during the time Of
Cromwell, with the following title: Eggs
and Charity, laid by the Chickens Of the Cow
enant, and boiled with the Water of Divine
Loye-Take We and eat"
When the venerable Pebbles Worthy was
in New York, he asked a pipesmoking cid
Dutchman the origin of the name of Tamma-
ny Hall. "Vy, you see,'' said Hans, sven
the beebles has meeting in the Hall, it holds
tam many -
A prudent man advised his drunken servant
to put by his money for a rainy day. In q
few weeks the ma sfer manfred how much Of