Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-06
Varieties.

iiP'' nIilihS from watering
place in Maine, gives rather an unfayor.
able account of the liquor law in that
State, to wit:
After the talk we had heard about the
enforcement of the "Maine LIQUOR law"
we are surprised to witness the public
sale of liquor at the hotels in Maine, and
to see what little comment was caused by
the loud report of the champagne corks
at the public tables of the Portland ho-
tells. In social life there is a return 10
the sldeboard customs, and the parlor
cupboard ornaments Of former genera
tons. a few years have made quite q
change In the domestic customs of many
OF the residents Of the State, and if pub.
lie bar-rooms are closed, it is quite eyi-
dent many private ones have been opened.
U An Irishman in distress asked q
gentleman for relief He was, however.
repulsed with "go to h-llr Pat
looked at him in such way as to fix his
attention, and then replied: " God bless
your honor for your civilty, for ye're the
first gintleman that's invited me to his
fathers house since | cum to Ameriky."
70 Some idea of the liberal suppor
extended to the schools of Wisconsin
may be gathered from the fact that the
amount of the school fund of the State.
and the estimated value of the public
lands appropriated for schools and col.
legeS, is little less than ten millions of
dollars, the interest Of which is to be for.
ever appropriated for educational pur-
poses.
A MODEL SHoENAKER'S BuL.-The fol-
lowing is said to be true copy of shoe
makers bill, received by a gentleman in
a neighboring town, whose family con.
sists of four or five daughters:
Mr.. -Dr to J. s.
To souling Miss Mary, & %
To stamping and weting Susan. a5
To binding and closing Ellcn, II
To putting 4 few stitches in Jane g
HE SORROwFUL TREE.-At Goa. near
bombay, there is a singular vegetable
the sorrowful .tree-cslled thus because il
only tiourishes in the night. At sunset,
no flowers are to be seen, and vet. half
an hour after, it is quite full cf them.
They yield sweet smell, but the sun no
sooner shines upon them than some of
them fall off, and others close I'D: and
thus it continues Towering in the night
all the year.
u "Dld you ever go to a military
ball :" asked lisping maid the other
night OF an old veteran ofJackson's army
of Is.
'No, my dear" growled the old SOL
dler, Gin those days had military ball
come to me. and what d We think it took
my leg off,"
u A Russian common soldier, after
the various deductions made from bis
nominal wages, receives less than six
cents monthly in cash. The paw of the
officers of all grades is proportionablv
small. Yet the maintenance of the army
absorbs more than half the revenue of the
empire.
q When certain young lady, who
had been charmed with his writings, but
never seen his person, wrote to Mirabeau,
and begged that he would describe HIM
self to her, he complied with the wish of
the fair enthusiast, in these brief and self
aduiatory terms Figure to yourself q
tiger that has had the smallpox"
A SCHooLMAsTER ABRoAD.-A free-soil
schoolmaster, named Garland. delivered
speech at the Woltboro' Free-so;l Con-
vention, in which he stated she had hung
copy of the Fugitive Slave Law in his
school-room, and taught his boys to curse
1t every time they went out"
- The New York Dau Book saws the
Sewing Machines are a failure. Their
sewing rips out and goes to pieces. The
best sewing machine in the world is one
about seventeen years old, that wears
gaiter boots and p-pocket to put her
wages in.
,O8A Western editor copying story
about drowning man who had a won
derful memory Of every event of his life.
advises some of his subscribers to prac.
tice bathing in deep water.
O-Two men were conversing about
the i'll humor of their wives. "Ah :" said
one, with sorrowful expression, emine
isa Tartar" "Well," replied the other.
''mlne is worse than all that, mine is the
Cream Of Tartar 2"
lCAn exchange paper says, "the farm.
ers in Iowa are unable to sleep at night,
on account of the racket made by the
growth of corn.
q Roast beef, serenity of mind, a
pretty wife, and cold water baths, will
make most any man healthy, wealthy
and wise"
" The genius who discovered the
remedy for all in-curable diseases, has
been riding round the "shores of time"
with the nightmare.
NSome exchange paper illustrates the