Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-26
MULTUM IN PARVO.

Court at Columbus, Is SAID TO nave prohlblted
the publication of the testimony in the Mar
tina Washington case during the trial.
VIM j. Watkins a colored 7oung man of
fine talents, both as writer and speaker. has
paper.
Among the curious strikes of the season is
that of some of the female sheep shearers of
Scotland, who not only announce that they
will not work for less than two and sixpence
day, but threaten to stone any woman who
works for less.
India-rubber eye syringes are now in use
a flexible globe, the size of an egg has an
ivory pipe, extremely delicate in construction;
by COMPRISING the ball between the thumb
and finger, the air is expelled, and a fluid
taken up by immersing the tip of the pipe.
Nux Vomica is a most poisonous drug. In
1910 there were 540 lbs. of it imported into
England, while last year there were $40 TINS
of it imported. 1t is used in beer making
At present the annual number of medical
graduates in this country, is FIVE times as
great Zone in every $4,000 of the population
as it is in France.
Three sisters, of somewhat notorious char
acter, were arrested in a high state of intoxi-
cation at the Boston Museum, on Thursday
night. and conveyed to the watch house to get
sober. Truly, sad picture.
John Green, for forty nine years a resident
of MorrisvIlle, Madison county, was found
dead in the meadow of neighbor last Mon
day. whiskey bottle nearly empty, and
uncorked, was found by his side
A man recently, while in liquor, crawled in
on the top of boiler in a machine shop in De
troi: and dropping to sleep, VS. literally
baked when he was discovered.
Don't talk to me about your gun cotton, -
said gentlemen. I'll put my wife against
pie up if the Government could get her to
sit down opposite San Juan de Ulloa, the
Mexicans would leave instanter'
Mr. Frederick Pieifer. of Indiana county.
Pa, has succeeded in bringing German prunes
to great state of perfection in this country
He raises immense crops without any d. ficulty
The value of this fruit, either green or dried
is not second to any of the plum variety
1t is estimated that this year the yield of
gold in the world. from all sources. will
amount to f40 900, 900 In 1916 the produc-
tion of gold in all the mines of the world
amounted only to fa,S46,752. And yet in the
face OF this immensely increased production
there are some who contend that gold is Just
as valuable now as it was five years since
The London Morning adre,,ise, speaks Of
new and improved construction of vessels
by means of which it will be perfectly practi
cable to accomplish the voyage between
Ireland and America in three and half DAYS
between the ports of Galway and Halifax. and
the Adreutser adds that the truth of it's
statement has been thoroughly established bv
experiment. No details are given or limited
at. and the story is entirely too mysterious for
belief.
A-scotehman who lately put up at Quebec
was asked the next morning how he slept
"Troth, man, replied Donald. mae we're
wcel either. but l was muckle better off tina,
tho bugs, for deal ane o them closed an ca
the hale nicht'
A colored man had his hand badly bitten
by camel at the menagerie in Westchester.
Pa. 1t is said that when these usually docile
animals become irritated they are very Zero.
cious, and often kill their keepers. new
wrinkle in natural history.
The Savannah Repubi,cu,l has reduced it.
price from SIS per annum to s..
The Cincinnati Ga-ette SAYS the SUNNY If
coal in that city will be exhausted by the end
OF three weeks, and that there will be much
suffering Tor want of fuel. unless there should
soon be rise Of water in the river
Cornelius Vrooman, the m an who had been
asleep for five years, died very recently at his
bIothcr's residence in New York lie had q
short wakeful spell previous to his death.
A man at Louisville. named Alonzo Fern
who had been separated from his wife. re.
Gently visited the house where she WAS s,av.
ing first attempted to force some poison down
the throat of his infant child, then shot at his
wife, and finally took poison The wife and
child escaped uninjured and prompt medical
assistance saved the life of the husband
The election in Minnesota has resulted in
the choice OF Democratic majority to both
branches of the Legislature.
Gottschalk the Pianist. gave n concert in
Boston, on Friday evening, which was sad
dened by an announcement that the gifted
young musician had during the day. received
information Of the death of his father He
played nevertheless. though evidently much
affected by the melancholy event.
Frederic j. Fuller was found dead in his
room in New York, with 81 800 in his nocket
ne was an Englishman, forty years old. and
miser
Un'o 'u ter Is only u cents per pound at
Baltimore rAN 81