Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-09
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMs.

An orator out West lately electrified
thus: Mr.. President, the roaring of the
thunder was heard far and wide, reminded
those who heard it of the Gathering of the
hoofs of so many wild horses gallowing
across bridge over a creek where the
little fish were seen skipping from puddle
to puddle-the lightning flashed and
flashed, and every now and then the whole
canopy of heaven looked as though it was
lighted up with tallow candles. and them
all snuffed.
Extract from the argument of young
lawyer before Mississippi Justice: Nav
1t please the COURT would rather live
for thirteen hundred centuries on the
small end of a thunderbolt-chew the
ragged end of a flash of lightning-swal-
low the corners of a Virginia worm-fence,
and have my bowels torn out by green
brlar, than to be thus banboozled by
these gentlemen.
The operatives engaged in the various
manufacturing establishments on the Pa
tapsco have published an address to the
manufacturers of Maryland ON the ten
hour system.
As Father Morris was walking through
a parish famous for its profanity, he was
stopped by whole flock of the youthful
reprobates of the place. 90 Father Morris,
Father Morris. the devils dead ~ lis
he!" said the old man, benignly laying
his hand on the head of the nearest
urchin, " You poor fatherless children :"
The following is the address of letter
recently put into the Post Office at Spring
field - This wants too go too Pat Oneal
he usid too 1--WE in West field but heeSe
after baing gorn too Southwic now but ha
will ba in west field mex week for after
Job and ha will Pay for lit"
Sam Slick says, "Consait grows as
material as the hair on ones head, but it is
longer cemin' out"
The proprietor Of ApothecarieS' Hall,
on Main street, says the Norfolk Argus,
has an extraordinary cat, which has at
tracted the attention of the curious for
year or two. Some time since, she adopt
ed young fox into her family of kittens,
and brought him up with the greatest
care. More recently, having discovered
a rats nest in her peregrinations, she
laid in wait and killed the two old ones,
and took charge ofthe young rats, towards
which she exhibited the utmost affection.
The population of Turkey in Asia is
l3,700,0 600, and that of Turkey in Eu-
rope is $500, 900, making total Of
nearly 30,000.000, nearly equal to the
population of France, although the coun-
try is not so thickly settled. The popu-
lation of Russia nearly doubles that of
Turkey.
Throughout New England there is a
general scarcity of apples-indeed, an
almost absolute dearth of them, the foil
age of the trees having been destroyed in
the carly part of the season by the canker
worm.
Necklaces, which have been so long dis
carded by the fair Sex, a Paris letter says,
have made their appearance in the estab-
lishments of the fashionable jewellers of
Paris. Some are composed OF strands Cf
fine gold chains, formed into festoons by
medallions of precious stones others are
strings of jewels connected by links of
gold or enamel.
Hour-glasses were formerly much used
in pulpits, to denote the proper length Of
a sermon. George Herbert says: The
parson exceeds not an hour in preaching,
because all ages have thought tuat COM
potency" All ages but ours, and we
think it little more than competency.
1t is said that this custom was borrowed
from the ancient Greek and Roman ora
tors, who declaimed by an hour-glass.-
In many of the old records are charges
for this needful instrument-fo instance,
in Christ Church, st. Catharine's, London,
under the year 1864, this entry occurs
Paid for an hour-glass that hanged by
the pulpit when the preacher doth make
a sermon that hemay know how the hour
passeth away"