Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-18
MULTUM IN PAEVO.

mO LII Y IL LIN tAIsfO.
The Chinese have some curious sarcastic cx-
prcssions. OVERRIDING a thing they call a
'hunchback making bow and buster
ing harmless fellow they denominate :. a pa
Per tiger"
At fight in Ellsworth, Maine, on Sunday,
ono Irishman bit off anothers nose and swal
lowed it. While the perpetrator of this act
was on the way to tho lookup he attempted
to cut his own throat with penknife.
In the New York city common pleas, John
Mckenzie, an einigrant. has recovered IL YER
diet for ST 900 against j. IIackstatF. mate of
ship, for abusing him OH the passage.
\. p. Willis. Esq, has had daughter born
unto him, within a few days. He can no lon
dence OF activity.
The Ladies' Paper" is the title of sheet
just Issued in New York. 1t is edited by
single lady. and advocates matrimony and
baby jumpers.
The Ohio Statesman claims the election Of
Medill over Barrere by nearly $4,000.
They have a new kind of brick in Cincin-
natl, which is hollow and floats. Very con-
venient, We should think, for gentlemen who
are in the habit Of carrying the article in
their hats.
Thirty thousand dollars have been con-
tlibuted in Kentucky towards the erection of
Il monument over the remains Of Henry Clay.
The amount to be raised is 100000
Tho Snoiaty cf EI IF Er,u.,
offers prize of 5000 francs to the ;-uthor Of
the best paper upon the disease of thc vine
a prize of 1000 francs for the discovery of
the most efficacious preventive against it, and
nine prizes Of 500 francs each to the authors
of memoirs upon nine different subjects, which
it gives, connected with the disease.
Among the articles on exhibition at the fair
of the Maryland Institute, at Baltimore, is Il
cut glass vase, worth two thousand dollars.
Mr.. John Lee, Of Cincinnati, states as a
i'll any district or city where rain or pure soft
water is used. and supports his statement by
many important facts. lie also states that
during FIVE years past, not one well authcnti-
Gated fatal case of cholera has occurred where
rainwater was exclusively used.
The minutes of the |. o. .. +. in n. J.. for
the past year give the following statistics:
Iniations, 745; reflections, co. suspensions.
5SS; explosions, 80; total number of con-
tributing members. 1919; Lodges, Ill; rev.
enuc. S43, 100 As; members relieved, I,O63
amount paid for their relief, SI5,Oj AZ; re-
lief to Widowed families, 81 $50 AZ; paid for
education of orphans, SAL s.; paid for bu-
rying the dead, S2,2Sl 20; total amount of
relief. S1s,972 SO.
A strike took place among the factory ope-
ratives of Lancaster on Thursday last The
operatives, to the number of three or four
hundred, marched in procession through the
principal streets headed by band of music
and in the evening held meeting, which was
addressed by several Of their number The
object of the strike was to endeavor to obtain
a reduction in the number of hours to consti-
tute days labor. Resolutions were passed
binding themselves not to return to the mills
unless their request was granted and those
who had been discharged taken back
portion of the boarding house keepers of
Boston held a meeting, on the 4th inst, and
resolved to advance the price of board fifty
cents a week. in consequence of the high price
of provisions. Flour now sells for So 80 and
50 per Dbl.