Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-10
THE WEEKLY STAR.
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS

YOUTHFUL INSANITY.-There are now
about two hundred inmates in the New
Jersey lunatic asylum. One of the most
interesting, and at the same time afflict-
ing cases, is that Of little boy about
seven years of age. Upon the entrance
INTO the ward of little girl, about the
same age, with company of sisters. the
little patient became all life and anima-
ton. Tie took the little girl by the hand
and ran with her to and fro, anxious to
SHOW her every little article of taste or
utility In the room. The ladies, and in
deed all the visiters, were deeply affected
with this melancholy incident. He is
the youngest patient the institution ever
had, and is exhibiting favorable signs of
improvement.
U The Dardanelles are two strong
castles, opposite to each other, one ON
the European, the other on the Asiatic
shore of the Hellespont, or the narrow
strait which leads from the Mediterra.
mean sea to the sea of Marmora. Those
castles give its modern name to the pas.
sage: which is called from them the
Strait of the Dardanelles. These castles
command the Strait, and are considered
as the key of Constantinople. The power
that possesses them has command of the
Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Their
Importance, therefore, TO the Gar nav
be easily understood as also the value
set upon them by Turkey and the anx.
lety manifested by France and England
to prevent the Gar obtaining possession
of them. They avow their resolution TO
go to war rather than see the Dardanelles
fall into his hands. At present they
belong to Turkey.
FREAKS OF INsANITY.-There is o
patient in the asylum at Utica who has
been at work for the last two years in
getting up a Steamboat, the engine of
which shall be worked with epson salts.
Another gentlemen in an adjoining room
proposed to put elliptic springs under
Niagara. to lease the water when il
Jumps. While third is busily engaged
IN getting out the timber ola " Six-bladed
horse" and leather frying pam" The
philosopher who said that the only reason
why crazy people differed from other peo.
pie. was because they were more largely
imaginative than other folks, was not so
far out of his reasonings as some folks
imagine.
COMFORT FOR GIN-DRINKERs. A med
lcal gentlemen in London met an old
woman, who asked him whether he liked
Gin, Rum, or Brandy best He replied
that he was not in the habit of taking
either. 4" WHAT aaid the astonished
querist-" What 70 not take Gin! |
like gin best of anything for have been
in the hospital and know all about it.
Tin only eats off the skin of the liver rum
Hills 1t up like sponge but brandy eats
holes into it that could put my finger in.
q Madame Grisi and Signor Mario.
the Opera singers, are not to come to
America before the first week in Sep
tember, 1854, as appears by a card pub.
lished by MIR. Hackett, TO whom they are
both legally engaged for their tour.
IRISH GENEROSITY.-For the mere pur.
poses OF emigration, there has come to
the knowledge of the English CommiS.
sloners of Emigration that. from this
country there wele sent in lS48, f4GO,-
700: in lS49, f540.OG0: in 1850, fq57,-
600: in 1851, f997 ,0O0-f2, ,947 600:
nearly equal to $l5,000,000.
THE TARTARS SUMMONED TO THE DE-.
FENCE OF CHINA.-Among other matters
mentioned in the late China news, is the
fact that the Emperor has, for the first
time summoned the Princes of Mongolia
to his assistance. There is large num-
Der of Tartar troops in the Imperial CHI
nese armies, but they have been a long
time in the country and have become
enervated.
OTexas beef finds ready market at
New Orleans. The beef cattle feed on
the prairie grass, and are shipped in good
condition.
MACHINE FOR SHAvING.-The Gates
head tEngland) ObSerrer says that Join
er at North Shields has invented ma
chime for shaving, consisting of chair,
with an arrangement of razor blades,
which is set In motion by the weight of
the sitter. Experiments, it is said, have
been tried and found satisfactory.
A school census of Cincinnati, lust ia
ken, states that there are now IN that city
SO POS white youths between the ages of
four and twenty-one years, being an in
crease of 427 over last year, when the
total was 37,777s.
UCol Fremont and lady were in In
dependence, Mo-, on the 25th ult., and
would leave in few days for the Plains.
UCassius NJ. Clay arrived at Cincin-
natl on the I'd with 5000 hogs.
q An acre in Iowa yielded two hun
dred and ninety bushels of potatoes
Pinkeye and Neshanock varieties.
A KING SAVED BY STAGE WHISPER
THIS feat was accomplished by Elizabeth