Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-08
DAILY EVENING STAR.
An SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

applied to for contribution to the fund
then being raised for the destitute widow
of Thomas Hood the poet, and headed by
Sir Robt. Peel with the munifcent donation
of ESQ, she promptly sent liberal sub
scription, with the following lines:
$50 cheer tn. willows heart in her distress,
To make provision for the f,theress,
Is but a Christians duty; and none sncuid
Resist the heart appeal OF Widow hood.
ia A gentleman lately took the follow
ing meteorological journal of his wife's tenn
per: Monday, rather cloudy; in the after
noon rainy. Wednesday, changeable gloomy,
inclined to rain. Thursday, high wind and
some peals of thunder. Friday, fair in the
morning, variable till the afternoon, cloudy
all night. Saturday, gentle breeze, hazy,
a thick fog, and a few flashes of lightning.
A lawyer somewhat disguised at seeing
couple of Irishmen looking at a six-sided
building which he had constructed, lifted
up the window, put his head out and address
sed them:
.'What do you stand there for like pack
of blockheads, gazing at my offce-do you
take it for church,
"Faith," answered one of them, 81 was
thinking so, till 1 saw the divil poking his
head out of the windy"
Some rascal having palmed off a false
marriage notice upon the Albany Express,
the editor protests against repetition of
the hoax, and feelingly remarks: Frequent
ly the catastrophe comes soon enough of it.
self in all conscience, without extraneous
aid: and we should feel very bad to have
to assume all the Responsibilities" arising
from it.
Patherick, man. and what is this? and
what is the naming Of it, sure ? "Aisy now!
Ye see this road is the Springs Turnpike,
and this that We ask about is fowl gate
and it is meant to tell travellers " stop
darlints, yell mire if We 60 farther" and if
they won't, We see that lady keeps it comes
out and fines them for their folly.
1t would often be better not to attempt
to reward brave action than to reward it
i'll. A soldier had his two hands carried
of at the wrists by shot. His colonel
offered him crown. SIT was not my gloves.
but my hands that l lost, Colonel" said
the poor soldier reproachfully.
We once heard of preacher who was
called upon by some of his congregation, to
pray for rain, of which the crops stood
greatly in need. His reply was, that he
would, as his congregation desired it, but
he was sure it would not rain until the wind
shifted.
The London Dispatch does not consider
London the worst place in the world 1t
assures its readers that bad as that great
English metropolis is. there is more villainy,
vice and crime in New York, than in any
city in the world, New Orleans, another
American city, alone excepted.
Barney, where have you been ?'
''To widow Mullon's ball. and an Elegant
time we had of it-four fights in fifty min
utes, and knock down with the Waterman
that left only one whole nose in the house,
and that belonged to the tea kettle. Be dad
the likes were never seen since we walked
Donnelly."
From these remarks it will appear that
some people ideas of the ''illegant" differ
somewhat from others.
The fastidious editor of the Yankee Blade
gives the following among other 'hints on
matrimony:" 'Don't be surprised if, after
you have sailed smoothly eight or ten
months, on the voyage of matrimony, you
are suddenly overtaken by squaAs!"
An 1rishman was asked how his mother
did? "My jewell" said he, 81 am much
obliged to you for your inquiries, but 1
never had mother" GLOW is that ?" said
his friend. "Why, don't you know" said
Paddy, "that am the son of my aunt.''
"Bill," said Tom Williams, on Monday
last, "what desperate cold weather we have.
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