Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-26

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| GIRLS AS WATERS IN Horrts
tel keeper from Boston, who took dinner
a few days ago, at the Clarendon. saws
that the prettiest sight he saw in New
York, was when the dining-room doors
doors were thrown open, and two rows
OF trm-looking girls, all dressed in pink
dresses and white aprons, with their hair
plated and trimmed in uniform. presented
themselves on either side of the long Ia
Dies ready to wait on the guests at dinner.
Silas Wright, the distinguished states.
man OF New York, sleeps in an humble
grave in the burying ground near the VIII
iage of Canton, st. Lawrence county
with simple monument, bearing his
name and dates of his birth and death.
His law office has been converted into an
Ice house attached to a hotel
A young lady Of extraordinary intel
lectual capacities recently addressed the
following letter to her cousin in a neigh
boring village: 4f
''-"Deer kussin the weather whar we is
air kold and L suppose whar YOU is air
kolder We all is well and mother has the
his Terrlcks and bruther Tom has eott
the huppin kof' and sister Susan has cott
baby and hope these fu lines will find
you In the same condition rite sune your
aphecahunate KuSSin."
PRAIRIES ON FIRE.-The Missouri and
Illinois papers give accounts of great dam
age done in those States by tie firing of
the prairieS. In many instances whole
fields and stocks Of grain, fencing, &C.,
have been destroyed.
In Turkey a firman will shortly be is.
sued, authorizing the admission of chris
tan evidence in courts Of law. Hitherto.
no christians S word has been admissible
as evidence against Mussulman's.
A drummer for the house of LYMAN.
Scar d Co., of New York city, has been
arrested in Richmond city, and held to
bail to answer an indictment for selling
goods "by sample" without a regular
merchants license"
Whatever be mans station in life.
whether higher or lower, public or pri-
vate, he will become better man. and
escape many disaster, if he will listen
IN due season to the voice Of the intelli-
gent and the refined among the other sex.
EPIGRAM.
Hard and S'So:t' do scratch and bite.
Just as hungry dogs we see;
Toss bone 'IwiKt Two, they fight;
Throw couple, they agree.
A Connecticut minister having walLod
through village church yard. and OBJ
served the indiscrininatepraises bestowed
upon the dead, wrote upon the gate-post,
the following line:-
'Hrre lies The dead, and here Ihe living Ec!,,
The Michigan Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, at its
recent session in Detroit, reported 1000
members in Michigan. They have I32
charges.
Murder in the first degree is bailable
offence in Wisconsin. Andrews, who was
indicted at Shullsburgh for the murder of
Duffie, has been bailed in the sum of
So, 900.
The receipts for the year of the New
York Bible Society, which met on Mon
day, were S3I,755.
The Baltimore City Council have not
yet acted on the application for an en-
dorsement of S5,000,000 of bonds of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Gov. Stevens Exploring Expedition at
latest accounts, had reached within three
days journey of the Rocky Mountains.
All We're well.
A daguerreotypist, named E. A. P.
White, was shot dead by boy named
Odena, at Atlanta, Ca, on the llth.-
Odena was arrested and committed to
prison.
The oftener carpets are shaken, the
longer they will wear; the dirt that col.
lects under them grinds out the threads.
New iron should be gradually heated
at first; after it has b come Injured to
the heat it is not likely to crack.
Twelve thousand men are now at work
upon the Illinois Central Railroad.
Do not wrap knives and forks in WOOL
lens. Wrap them in good strong paper.
Steel is injured by lying in woollens.
Suet keeps good all the year round if
chopped and packed down in a stone lar.
and covered with molasses.
If you wish to preserve fine teeth,
always clean them thoroughly after YOU
have eaten your last meal at night.
Woollens should be washed in very hot
suds, and not rinsed. Lukewarm water
shrinks them.
Clean brass kettle before using it
for cooking with salt and vinegar.
The revenue duty on sugar for the last
five years has amounted to S6,OOO.O 900.
Spain and Portugal are about TO be
united.
u The Montrese STANDARD tells a
story, how, in a conversation the other
day between two carpenters, one asked
the other, What he was patching that
old hooker with z" meaning an old vessel
on the slip. "Oh," replied the other,
with Bibles and psalm books" Anglice,
of 4 II