Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-01
Yartaties.

IL When you see man and woman
walking the streets, leaning against each
other like pair of badly matched oxen,
be assured that they are bent on consoli-
dation.
U Mr.. R. Langton, Of Manchester,
England, has invented q mode of taking
Photographic pictures on wood. Its gem
eral adoption will greatly improve wood
engravingS, while saving all the labor of
the draughtsman.
A PREvENTIvE.-The best thing to re-
sist vice with, is love. The man who
worShlpS vIrtuouS woman, is an i'm
pregnable to the allurements of a wanton,
as Gibraltar is to apple dumplings.
U A woman residing at Brandon, Vt,
not yet thirteen years old, has recently
become mother. She was married be-
fore she was eleven.
u The POughkeepsie DAILY Press says
that couple of workmen in Finch's sip
yard, of that place, while engaged yester-
day in saving locust log, came across a
large toad, snugly secreted in the centre,
which was alive, and weighed se1en and u
half pounds. The log was perfectly sound,
and is supposed to be one hundred years
old. How his toadship got there, or how
long he occupied his snug quarters, is
mystery, of course.
U An exchange says that oil of Spear
mint diluted and rubbed on a horse Or
human will keep off mosquitoes. A
few drops upon the pillow at night will
give mosquitoes dislike to your society.
UTThe ten hour system has been
adopted in the manufactures in Delaware
county, Delaware, and Cecil county, Md,
by mutual agreement between the opera
tives and their employers.
PROGRESS OF HoMEoPATHr.-The Lon
don Loacet states that in 1910 only $50
lbs. of nUx vomica were imported into
England, whereas in 1852 nearly as many
tons reached our market.
The New York Tribune says We learn
from Vermont that the grasshoppers are
very destructive all over the State. In
some parts they have swept off every
green thing. We have seen in this State
within few days where they were eating
the apples from the trees as well as those
which had dropped, SO that all hope was
lost of saving any of the yield of the trees.
"THEY SAY."-Whenever anybody comes
to you with story concerning somebody
or anything, prefaces it with stereotype
phrase, "they say" you may rest assured
that nine times out of ten, that report.
remark or story is lie. When the au-.s
thor of a report must be suppressed, there
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story, true in all its parts, need be pre-
faced with "they say" Let those who
know it report boldly, or keep it in an en-
tire secret.
UAt Chicago you can buy house in
all its parts, framing timber, shingles,
doors, window sashes, shutter, flooring,
all planed, tongued grooved, and ready
to be put up upon the prairies, to which
the many railroads will convey it, so that
the farmer from those wide extended
plains may come in one day, buy house
complete, and take it out next, and with
the assistance of his neighbors put it up
in week.
A DUEL AMONG THE WoMRN.-The
Buffalo Republic says, "Oficer Harris
aseertained to-day, that girl named Jane
Hall, who had come from Rochester for
the purpose, and Catharine Hurley, were
to have regular duel, having chosen Sec
onds and repaired to the toll bridge on
Ohio street, for the engagement. A large
crowd assembled to witness the scene.
AS soon as possible, Harris was on the
spot, and took the belligerents to the watch
house to wait the attentions of Justice
Vanderpool. From ell accounts It was
the most extensive tracas that has been
gotten up recently" =, a,,.,o