Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-07

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! up. But the husband continued his career of
dissipation until at last fit of illness carried
| MIN OF, leaving his widow aud her daughter
without other resources than the deyotedness
OF the servant. But she worked for both, and
not only kept them from want, but sent the
little girl to school. She hoped that in the
end the daughter in receiving good educa-
ton would be able to assist the mother. But
misfortune again fell on the family, as the
! girl died, leaving the mother, whose health
then gave way, to the charge Of Etiennette.
This latter was now sixty years of age but her
heart was still young, and she set to work as
| if she were only twenty, to obtain employ
ment to support her mistress. She got soIne
| apartments in the town to clean every day
and so earned wherewithal to keep her mis-
| tress from want. Is it not time that these
| thirty years devotedness should receive q rec
| Ompense The Academy has undertaken to
do so, and a prize of 2,000fr. will give some
| alienation to this woman, who has evinced
SO much delicacy united to so much gene
rosity.'
A beadle was ringing bell in Cabzac,
in honor of the fetc of the Emperor, when
when one of the clappers detached itself
from the bell, and fell On mans shoul-
der. The unfortunate individual was ia
ken up senscless. The Emperor is said
to be exceedingly afflictedat this accident,
but he is making merry at Diebbe not
withstanding.
Widows, when they remarrv, should
never preserve relics of their first hus-
bands. for they are apt to lead to trouble.
Mrs. Biblot, who had two children by
the deceased Mr.. Biblot, when she
married Mr.. Chica1d, kept his wardrobe
with view to making it answer the
needs of the young Biblots, both boys,
when they should have attained the neces-
sary growth. But one day, as Mr.. Chi
card was going out of town upon fish
ing excursion, he packed up two pair of
Biblot's pantaloons. A scene and fight
ensued, but Mr.. Chicard won. Sometime
afterward, Chicard put on cravat which
the unlucky Biblot had often wore; Mrs.
Chicard attacked him, and threw shoe
at him: she then smashed looking-glass
over his head, and finally burst into tears.
Chlcard brought charge against his
wife for the affair of the looking glass,
and Mrs. Chicard brought suit against
her husband for the affair of the panta-
looms. The tribunal sentenced them both
to sixteen franks fine, and sent Mrs Chi
card to Jail for fortnight for assault and
| battery.
Some African potentate, OF some French
Consul. on the border of the White Nile.
has sent to the Garden of Plants, a very
rare and valuable specimen of the hippo
potamus. He has just arrived at Paris,
having come from Alexandria to Mar
seilles in the same steamer that brought
news from Constantinople. From Mar
sellles to Paris, he alternately travelled by
railroad and river steamboat. He had
Travelled, in all, about 5000 miles, for the
clrcumlocutions and roundabouts that he
has been forced to describe, are very con-
siderable. A Marseilles newspaper gives
rapid sketch of his personal appear
ance, Ill that transcendental language al
ways used by inhabitants of the South,
when they describe a hippopotamus.
From this, it appears that, although only
eleven months old, he is as large as a
small OK. His enormous throat presents
only the early signs of a rudimentary
dentition. He lives exclusively on goats
milk, of which he needs about forty quarts
day. He has a quick and intelligent
eye, which, combined with his energetic
corporeal activity, bespeaks excellent
health. lie manifests the most lively at
tschment for his keeper, Nubian by
birth, who caught him, and has superin-
tended his laborious education. When
the Nublan is away, as he sometimes ne
cessarily is, the hippo (the word is very
long, so you will excuse me for clipping
it, though, now that think of it, it would
have been shorter than this digreSSion)
gets upon his hind legs, and strives thus
to take in line of vision which was out
of his reach when on all fours. If the
Nubian does not quickly return, the beast
breaks his cage, however solid it may be,
so that the Nubian is obliged to eat his
meals in sight of his protege, and even
sleeps where the hippo may seen him, the
very moment he awakes from slumber.
This interesting beast takes bath every
day, and often stays under water for
minute at time. He might, perhaps,
be utilized as pearl diver, though his
existence is likely to be spent in learning
to like macarOonS, and eating a great
many day from the hands of nurses and
babies. The Garden Of Plants is not an
institution where the native and diStinc-
tive characteristics of wild animals are
preserved in all their primitive originali-
ty. On the contrary, they are molten,
drawn into level and homogeneous SINH
larity, and all their organic peculiarities
are lost in the love ofmacaroons and GIN
gerbread. That is, they seem to love
them, but Heaven only knows whether
they do. The giraffe. the gazelle, and the
rhinoceros are certainly very unlike in
their ways and their tastes, in state of
nature, but they all eat sponge cake at
the Garden of Plants, and they undoubt-