Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-11
Varieties.

Varieties.
"Our country ,--is glorious land
With broad arms stretched from shore 20 shore,
The proud Pacific chafes her strands,
She rearS the dark Atlantic roar .-.-fr
n That wasn't a bad idea of Sam
Sticks, when suffering from intense heat,
he said he felt desire to take of his flesh
and sit in his bones awhile. to cool him
self.
UHow romantic young people are when
they court. Till girls get married, all
they think necessary TO happiness are
moonlight evenings, few holyhocks, and
a bird cage, surrounded by honeysuckles
and grapevineS.
n One of our exchanges tells of q
lazy genius up his way, who being asked.
is he lay summing himself on the grass.
what was the height of his ambition, re-
piled, " to marry rich widow that's got
coughm Cute chap, that,
u Mix ignorance with sudden wealth,
and we produce chucklehead whose in
science will be equal to hundred pounds
to a square inch. We can imagine no
greater nuisance than an ill-bred man
suddenly raised to the rank of mil
lionaire.
II The editor of a Vermont paper
being absent, his sub. POLITICALLY exclaims
The editors absent; his SCISSORS and quill
Are left with the devil to handle at Will;
This item given, kind reader, that YOU
May for once, you read give the devil mS due
~ The druggists of St. Louis, with
two exceptions, have agreed to abolish
the sale of soda on Sunday, and to close
their stores on that day, except from TO
10 in the morning, from , to 3 in the af
ternoon, and from Z to at night, leaving.
during the time the stores are so closed.
one competent person respectively to at
tend to all calls of immediate necessity.
SCARCITY OF LABoRERs. The progress
of several large buildings that are going
up in Trenton, the fmer1odn of that city
SAYS, is greatly retarded for want of la
boring men; the farmers in the neighbor-
hood offering as high as two dollars day
in some instances, for harvest hands, has
drawn off a large number TO the country.
n Grace Greenwood is now in Italy.
On asking a poor woman, who had placed
one candle at the image of the devil, and
another at the image of a saint, why she
placed one at each, she was told that she
knew not into whose hands she might
fall, so she thought she had better be
civil to both" What politician in pet
tlcoatS.
PROFITS OF A LAW SUT.-On the Sd
of December, 1852, the ship Georgia was
wrecked on Long Beach, \. j., and Il
belled for salvage we presumed by Thos-
Bond. After eighteen months of iitiga-
ton, the T. S. Court, at Trenton, closed
the matter by distribution of the sale of
said vessel to Tie hbellant, Thomas
Bond. The proceeds amounted to Sl0O5.
the whole of which was swallowed up II
the costs of the Court. except S2o, which
the Ibellant received. His claim was
S2,282 81 About three per cent. for JUS
tie iGg,i'p apd "'"ef"-seren per cent. for col
FBlackberry cordial Is make by add
ing one pound of white sugar to three
pounds ofripe blackberries, allowlngthen
to stand for twelve hours, then pressing
out the juice, straining it, adding one third
part of spirit, and putting teaSpoonfu
of fine powdered allsplce IN every quart
of the cordial, 1t Is at once tit for use.
This is very valuable mediclneln the treat
ment of weakness Of the stomach and
bowels, and especially valuable IN the
summer complaints of children.
THE INpLANMAroRY RHEUMAT1S/ IA
gentleman wishes US to publish the fol-
lowing for the relief of human .ity. He
says be has known numbe r of cures
| made by it, and all of thern n in a short
time. Half an ounce of r,ulverised salt
petre, put in half a pint of sweet oil bathe
the parts affected, then a sound cure will
| speedily be effected.--Lynch6ury Erpres,
MONEY COINED IN JUSr.-There was
coined at the Philadelphia Mint, In June.
S2,000,034 in gold coin, and in gold bars
| SS,769,24l. In silver, 3,038 900 piece A
valued at S640,000-and 1861 certs
y Mr.. Jenkins formerly accepts tbe
Wing nomination for Governor of Geor-
gia.
q If the league Of friendship be once
broken, then is the cabinet Of secrets un-
locked, and they fly about like birds let
loose from cage, And upon every rup-
ture between friends, secret enemies lie
ID watch, blo'S the fire, and when war is
once declar ed, old friends become the
worst of erIemies.
10 MIN ABOUT TO MARRY.-The New
York Legislature having passed law in
lo4S' exemptlng the property of the wife
from being taken for her husbands s debts
contracted before marriage, have now
equalized the law bv nassing an act ex-