Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-07

Somebody pulls the strap, the driver
muttered an oath, and stopped. To the
horror Ct al, the woman pulls out Eve
dollar bill.
| "Hain't you got change. ma'am 2"
| 90, dear, no-nothing but that ~
"How many tickets do you want ?''
''No tickets-I only want the note
changed; take out FIVE cents %
We couldn't begin to say how mad the
driver was, what he said, or what be
would have said, had we not passed up
ticket for the woman, and told her to
| get out.
About ten rods further on, ''true to
her instincts" the old woman with the
boy wanted 20 get out : she san ble1 from
one pocket to the other-bag, basket, and
bosom, until she found a ticket slowed
carefully away.
Luckily, the other two females got cut
before the ''bus" started again, and both
had tickets in their fingers; SO we three
men left had a good long breath Of
thank heaven! Fifteen minutes coming
from SchuvlkiIl Eighth street to the
Mint, and just five minutes doubling the
distance, to the Academy of Fine Arts.
Moral.-If you value time or common
| decency, never offer bank-note in change
for single ticket in an omnibus.
A MODERN GoLGoTHA.-Ofall the grave
Yards IN or around London, the practices
in the St. Johns wood burial ground are
perhaps the most revolving. This burial
ground and chapel have been establishG d
thirty eight years, and during that time
there have been Il. l.O22 bodies inferred
therein, in ground most unfavorable to de-
cay-iifteen times as many as ought to
have been inferred in ground favorable to
decay, where the number ought not to
exceed 1876 per acre per annum. while in
St. John 's-wood burial grouud the inter-
ments are 1000 per acre per annum. The
average number Of burials, according to
the statement Of Mr. George, one of the
vestry, is 2,472 per annum. More than
one half of these burials take place OH the
Sundays, between the morning and even
ing services. The corpses are carried into
the chapel, sometimes thirty or forty,
many CT them persons who have died of
measles, scarlet fever, typhus or other in
fectious diseases, and in an advanced state
Of decomposition, in coftins, too, very
badly secured. No sooner are the dead
removed frona the chapel to the burial
ground than the congregation enters for
the evening service. Sudden seizures in
the chapel during the service are lot IN
usual, and this has become SO generally
known that the chapel is almost deserted.
Do AS | Do.-This morning a cele-
brated fast man from the South End
entered rtfreshment saloon, where some
IF cen or twenty of his friends are in the
habit of congregating about eleven o'clock.
He with his usual heartiness and gener-
osity, s'asked the crowd"
They. nothing 10th, stepped PROMPTLY
up. "Iou must all do as [ DO, s" said the
liberal friend. "Oh, certainly, certainly :
was the universal response, "what is
yours going to be-" Il Shall take bran
dy and water in mine"
"Very well, we'll all take brandy and
water" they cried.
The party drank, and tie wageish in
viter laid down his four pence urcn thC
counter, and Immediately retired, whis.
4 perin~ in his sof,cst tones, I" do as I Go
eentlemen."
The party locked at each other for {
moment with most comic expression Q
face, when one, who felt the full force o
the idea creeping powerfully through his
hair, exclaimed, & Sold, bv-.n' ''HeTe,
he added, turning to the bar keeper, 'takC
my purse and treat freely for the next ter
, minutes"
GREAT SPEED.-The Cincinnati Express
train, on the New York and Erie Rail
road, ran from Hornellsylie to SusGue
hanna, en- Tuesday, distance of l45
miles. in l61 minutes. The Bingham
ton FeruII1cGR believes this to be The
greatest speed which has ever been at
tanned fer so great a distance, On any
road in the United States.-EcchGngt
paper.
While such ftats as this are performed
and published, with at least tacit com
mendation by the press we reed not b.
surprised to hear Of any number Of ''acci
dents" Speed, speed, speed seems to b
the desideratun with Northern Compa
nies: safety is a secondary matter These
efforts at great speed, are neither NOR,
nor lacc than "a nipr araiuSt tipfs Il J