Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-18
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towns, was shaving one of his customers,
respectable citizen, one morning, when
a conversation occurred between them
respecting Mr.. Dickson's former connec-
ton with colored church in that place.
Il believe you are connected with the
church in Elm street, Mr.. Dickson, said
the customer
mo, sab, not at all. :"
"What, arc YOU not a member Of the
African church,"
"Not dis year, sab.
"Why did you leave their communion,
Mr.. Dickson! if may be permitted to
ask"
"Why, tell you, sah," said Mr.. Dick
son: strapping cOncaye razor on the
palm of his hand. at was jess like dis
jined dat church in good faif glib ten
dollars toward de stated preachin of de
gospill, de fuss year, and dc church peepil
all call me Br1ulder Dickson. De second
year my business not good, an only glib
five dollars. Dat year, de church peepil
call me Mister Dickson. Dis razor hurt
you, sab %
mo, the razor goes tolerably we'll"
Well, sab, dc third year L feel berry
-sicknessin myllamily -and didn't
glib nof;n for preachin. Well, sab, arter
dat dey call me ole Niger Dickson, an [
left en-"
So saying, Mr.. Dickson brushed his
customers hair, and the gentleman de-
parted, we'll satisfied with the reason why
Mr.. Dickson left his church.
UExercise is better than Pills, to pre-
serve health. Mark, says a sensible wri-
ter. the laboring man, who breakfasts at
SIX, and then walks perhaps two miles to
his work. He is full of health, and a
stranger to doctors. Mark, on the other
hand, your clerk: who takes tea and toast
at eight, and gets down to the store at
nine, or half-past. Heis a pale effeminate
creature, full of sarsaparilla, and patent
worm medicine, and pills and things.
What pity it is that this class of people
do not lay down yardstick and the scissors,
and take up the scythe or the fail for a
year or two. BY remaining in their
present occupation, they only help to fill
up cemeteries, and that s about as misera-
BILE use of humanity as You can name.
Stop Ny PAPER.-A New Orleans paper
says:
The Russian Minister has acted as ma
tive nincompoops occasionally do, and
ordered the Washington Union to be
stopped, because it contained an article
which did not please him.. The Russian
Bear is greater fool than we took him to
be.
PARIS FASHIONS latest accounts
from Paris says: The most fashionable
dresses Just now are robes aacrces, mother
of pearl dresses, made of silk and wool,
admirably combined, which give to that
dress the varying colors which Justify its
name. These dresses are madewith three
flounces, and each flounce is arranged diff
ferently. They take the place of the bare
.ges, whose reign seems ended. The
sleeves do not come down lower than the
elbows they are very large, and are
trimmed at the elbow with large founce,
fatty sewed on
FOR LADIES. golden rule for a young
lady, is to converse always with your
female friends as if a gentleman were of
the party; and with young men, as if your
female companions were present.
n" Oh, Doctor" said an elderly
lady, recently to Doctor T., the
celebrated bone setter, in describing the
effect of a diseased spine. Il can Meth
er lay nor set" In tina. case, replied he,
Il should recommend the propriety of
roosting."
GA century ago, even the smallpox
had its friends and admirers. A public
writer in 1853 argued that Providence
had wisely ordained smallpox to be fatal,
and human science 10 be unavailable
against it. The greatness of His power
was thus cOntrasted with the weakness of
our frames. Smallpox, as this conser-
vatlye gentleman cOnjectured, ''amOngst
other purposes, is sent as severe me-
mento of mortality, and wise and
seasonable check to that pride and over
tondness with which beautiful face is
too apt to inspire the giddy owner and
also to teach the boosted sons of science
humility and reverence
C. The following is true copy of a
painters bill, at Manchester, delivered to
the church wardens ofan adjoining parish:
Mr.. Charles Forbes,
Church warden of Liddington,
To Joseph Cook, DR..
TO mending the Commandments, altering
the Belief, and making a new
Lords Prayer, fl Is. Cd.
NThe st. Augustine Ancient Citu. in
noticing the capture of four porpoises in
that harbor, is responsible for the follow
ing: ''PorpOises are long -lived, and seem
to inhabit particular harbors, or rather
q retIlrr, to the Sau,a La