Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-30


Who drank with delight whenever they met,
And always went drunk 10 bed
In the old grave yard, in the edge Of the town,
I'm corners obscure and alone,
They have gone TO rest, but the gay young spnS
Have dropped off one by one
USenator Borland, has taken formal
leave of the people of Arkansas in fare
well address, in which he resigns his
position as United States Senator.
OFWe understand, says the Camden
Democrat, that q newly-married lady,
residing with her husband in Cooper
street, is about applying for divorce, ON
the grounds that her husband persists in
washing his feet in the frying pm!
TIA pretty woman is like a great
truth or great happiness, and has no
more right to bundle herself under pum-
kin-coiored veil or any other similar
abomination, than the sun has to put ON
Spectacles. s--a,
UOnc-half of the unhappiness we
have in this life exists because of too much
sensitiveness, and morbid disposition
which allows triAes to weigh heavily on
our minds, A trif1ing loss or inconveni-
ence often causes more annoyance than q
much greater sorrow.
DTIn Paris, man was recently i'm
prisoned for term of three wears for
vending quack medicines; Should such
rule be adopted with us, the cost for new
jails would impoverish the nation.
U A good mans heaven commences
here. The same may be said of wicked
mans hell. To taste of paradise, all
that S necessary is to taste Of virtue
There's more sunshine in one good act
than in all the solar systems ever invented.
U The Fair of the Maryland Institute.
which will commence on the Sd day of
October next, promises to be of unusual
interest, both in the quality and variety
of the articles to be exhibited.
UThe'master house-painters in New
York on Monday reduced the wages ofthe
iourneymen from 50 to Sl.75 per day.
The employees demurred, and struck for
the old rates.
CAPE ANN FIsHERMBN.- 100 sail
of vessels have left Cape Ann, this season,
for the North East fishing grounds,
manned by l200 men.
1.-THE Humane Magnanimity Society
of Troy, offers reward of fifty dollars
for the best method of preventing sea-
sickness on the canal. Jacobs recon-
mends walking on the tow-path.
USome one, we know not who, very
shrewdly defines money to be an article
admirably adapted for taking stains out
Of character.
1.-THE second nuptials Of the widow
Canter to Mr.. Frederick Rush, were for
tunately chronicled -
''When Cupid did this maiden banter
On Hymen's course TO take a brush,
AT first she went il with CGnfeT,
But now she goes il with a Rush !"
0F The Methodist Book Concern, at
Cincinnati, finding the present bounda-
ries too limited, has commenced to enlarge
its building.
U A Masonic Lodge in Michigan has
passed resolutions calling upon the Ma
sonic Lodges throughout the country to
unite in raising a fund for the purchase
of Mount Vernon, in order to save it from
anticipated degradation.
EM Mr.. Marsh, Minister to Constanti-
nople, is said to be finishing book, and
this is given as reason why no appoint
ment has been made in his place.
E A terrible accident took place at
the Chinese theatre in Whampoa, on the
18th of March, when no fewer than sixty
females were burnt to death, many others
being severely injured 1t is supposed
that spark from one of the crackers set
fire to the mat roof, and from the COM
bustible nature of the materials the flames
spread SO rapidly that in little more than
quarter of an hour the whole theatre
was in blaze.
Co." La me-" sighed Mrs. Partington,
% here | have been suffering the bigamies
of death for three mortal weeks. First, /
was seized with bleeding phrenology in
the left hampshire of the brain, which was
exceeded by a stoppage of the left ventil-
ator of the heart. This gave me an in
fammation in the borax, and now I'm
sick with the chloroform morbus. There
is no blessing like that of health, particu-
larly when your sick"
BREEDING FIsH,-A company has been
formed in London for stocking the Thames
with salmon, after the mode! practised
with so much success in France. There
is great reason to think that the expert
ment of breeding fish in the rivers of this
country would be attended with the best
results, and now, when animal food is so
extremely high, it is to be hoped the at
tempt will be made.
JUST LIKE HERB.-There is a lawyer in
Dearborn county, Ia, known no less for