Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-24
EVENING STAR.
STAR TWINKLINGS.
Twinkle brightly, Erenins Star,
Shine for ali and shine afar.

One of the NJ. D.'s.-"Do you eat
we'll ?n asked one of our modern pill ven
ders, who was in the process OF manufac-
turing patient.
Eyes, very well" 80
"Do you sleep well {"
Eyes" sax.s.g
"Eh? you do. Ell! That's not exactly
the thing for one in your condition! I'll
do away all that for you. Take four OF
these every morning, and four after dim
ner. You'll soon see a change
IN Umbrella Story.-It was Punch, if
we remember rightly, who told the story
some years ago, of man who loaned an
umbrella to friend, tradesu.an in the
street, on wet, nasty day. 1t was not
returned, and on another wet disagreeable
day, he called for it, but found his friend
at the door, going out with it in his hand
81 have come for my umbrella" said
the lender.
"Can't help that" exclaimed the Dor
rover; .'don't you see that l am going
out with it9"
"Well-yes-" repIed the lender as
founded at such outrageous impudence;
ewes -but-but what am l to do"
DOG replied the other, as he threw
up the top, and walked off; :" do as | did
--borrOW one
Boy Logic Joseph" said a peda-
gogue to boy, who came too late one
day, "where have you been for the last
hour 2"
"Nowhere ~ meekly replied Joe.
"Nowhere 20 fiercely echoed the teach
or, who was wont to swagger about his
little kingdom like CULVER in Lilliput,
where is that z"
81 don't know" replied Joe, as he
scratched his head, and looked down
upon the foor-''I CUES it amt any
where.
"And what were you doing there Z"
demanded the pedagogue, again scowling
still more fercely.
Il want doing anything! had
nothing to do, and so went norhere."
This last piece oflogic was ten strike.
1t knocked away all the pedagogue's
gravity, and amid general tittering Of
''gals" and boys, Joe was told to take
his scat.
Too Honest.-An ignorant fellow, who
was about to be married, resolved to
make himself perfect in the responses of
the marriage service, but by mistake he
committed the Office of baptism for those
= -~---i.~.. .l,o clergyman
asked him, in the church, "Wilt thou
have this woman to be thy welded wife!"
ne answered, 81 renounce them ALL" The
astonished minister said, Il think YOU
are fool" to which he replied, "All this
steadfastly believe
Doing 1t Brown.-The courtship Of the
last Earl of Pomfret and the heiress he
afterwards married, was conducted after
the following fashion: A
do you like buttered toast?'
"Yes.''
6 Butbered on both sides?"
Eyes"
$50 do L; don't you think we had bet
ter be married !''
Eyes"
The lady's fourth eyes" was pro-
nounced before the altar.
Lay ana Night.-Married at st. Mar
tins, in the Fields, London. Valentine
knight, Esq, of Bentinck Terrace, Re-
gents Park, to Miss Julia Day, we'll
known in literary circles, and to all read
ers of fashionable novels:
Extremes will meet the poets saw
And darkness is absorbed by light;
But now the young and smiling Day
Is swallowed up in endless Knight.
Congressional There was a rule in an
old debating society of which we read,
which might be advantageously recon-
mended to some of our public bodies
q That any gentleman wishing to speak
the whole evening, should have a room to
himself"
High Faluin.-A Frenchman who pro-
posed to establish school in New Orleans,
having heard that High School would
be most respectfully patronised, took
room IN the garnet of four story house.
Hard Up.-It is but seldom that we
trouble our patrons by asking them to
fork over the small balance due us, but
we think if they knew how difficult task