Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-04
Varieties.

AGALLANT RoBBER. Some yyyreels or On
ago a man broke into rOomIat Proph.
etstown, a few miles down Rock river
IN .Wh'rh two ladies opd a oh;lJ~ -----
sleeping in one bed. After collecting
what valuables he could find, consisting
principally of their watches and iewelry,
he got ready to leave: but beforedoing so,
leaned over and imprinted warm kiss
upon the lips of the lady sleeping at the
at the back of the bed. This reused the
lady and resulted in the capture of the
thief. He was confined in the jail in this
place until one night last week, when he
crept through the stove-pipe leading from
his cell to an upper room, made leap
some twenty feet, and vamosed the
rench. "-Dfaon Telegraph. . r.-rs,lr
STRANGE CUsToM IA most extraordina-
ry custom prevails among the Wires,
powerful tribe, occupying an extensive
district in Cabul, among the mountains
between Persia and India. 1t is, in fact.
a female prerogative that has no parallel
among any other people upon the earth,
and that reverses what we are in the
habit Of considering the natural order of
things; the women choose their husbands,
and not the husbands their wives. If
woman be pleased with man, she sends
the drummer of the camp to pin hand
kerchlef to his cap, with pin which she
used to fasten her hair. The drummer
watches his opportunity, and does this in
public, naming the woman, and the man
is Obliged to marry if he can pay her
price to her father. 1og... ..g - 1ls,
LOSING A CHARACTER. Young Irish
servant girl coming from Albany recently
in one of the night steamers, had the luck
to lose the Recommendation" which had
been given her on leaving her last place.
She brought, however, the accompanying
"tieket," which she presented to q friend
of ours: Inns .... > ....,.....i -
g This is to say, that Kathleen O Brian
had good character when she left Alba.
ny, but she lost it on board the steamer
coming down from Albany" j u,5 lnn
~ The bodyof Andrew Herman. one
OF the unfortunate beings who perisbed
by being carried over the Falls of Mae
"a last week, was found below the Falls.
near the landing of the "Maid of the
Mist, " on Tuesday last IT was horribly
mangled, his head badly cut and bruised.
and a sharp stone having pierced through
his body, either in descending the preci-
pice or as he was dashed into the abyss
| below. ..y"1 tiisq Iii
| u II, has lately been discovered that
the leaves of the geranium plant, mashed
and applied to any wound, is the now sure
remedy to heal sores and cuts of all kinds.
A bandage is placed upon the two parts
cut, and the wound is closed within two
days. @t"-4 'iit 3" EdD2lTIsn'-
" lake a raw egg, break it, in t,lm-
bier, cover it with vinegar, and drink it
altogether an hour Or two before the time
for the chill and you never will be an
noyed with the pestilence, which is so
fatal to the human family-the fever and
ague. III, ,.-;i .-Hl'."l = h.tl l.'- ''f"c8E
GT The substance of the verdict of a
recent coroner's jury, on a man who died
state ofinebriation, s-..Death by
hanging-round rum shop Z ~ -.
UWm. Cullen Bryant, editor Of the
New York Eceuing Post, has had the de-
gree Of Doctor of Laws conferred ON him
BY the Union Collage of Schenectady,
New York