Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-09
A Word about Umbrellas.

The umbrella is great invention-great
for utility, and great for learning folks to
steal and think the act one of honesty.
Where did the umbrella come from? Who
first made it? We can throw ray or two
of light on the subject.
tits generally supposed that this article
is of Christian invention, and not yet two
centuries old. Jonas Runaway, who, about
the middle of the last century, fourished
one in the streets of London, was not the
first man, however, that hoisted an UNI
brella, by long shot-say $500 years or
So Instead of Jonas being the first man
that walked under hollow hemisphere of
silk or cotton, the probability is that his
illustrious predecessor, the prophet Jonah,
Nineveh; for DR.. Layard mentions that he
met with umbrellas among the bas-reliefs
in that city.
ut resembled in shape" says the doctor,
(meaning the Ninevi;ish parasol,) "those
now in common use" There is one thing
connected with the umbrellas of Nineveh
which the doctor has not yet discovered,
but which he may bring to light when he
has got through his hieroglyphics; and that
is, whether people stole them. If it can be
proven that they did not, it will at once
establish the superiority of ancient morals
over those of the present day.
Modern researches among the relics of
antiquity tend to confirm the truth of King
Solomob's remark, that ''there is nothing
new under the sun"-not even sunshade.
Improvements, however, have been made in
umbrellas since the days of Sardanapalus.
The old fashioned concerns manufactured
shortly after the food did not open and
shut. This is important. The improve
ment that has been made in the umbrella
is wonderful example of human progress
"THE WORLD OWES ME LIVING. NO
such thing, Mr.. Fold-up- your-bands; the
world owns you not single cent! You
have done nothing these twenty years but
consume the products earned by the sweat
of other mems brows
"You have eat, and drank and slept: what then?
Why eat, and drank, and step again."
And this is the sum total of your life.
And the world ''owes you living!'' For
what? How comes it indebted to you to
that trif1ing amount? What have you done
for it? What family in distress have you
befriended? What products have you al.
leyiated?. What acts have you perfected ?
The world owes you living! idle man
Never was there more absurd idea! You
have been taxa sponge upon the world
ever since you came into it. 1t is your
are immense, your assets are nothing, and
yet you say the world is owing you. Go
to! The amount in which you stand in
debted to the world is greater than you will
ever have the power to liquidate? You
owe the world the labor of your two strong
arms, and all the skill in work they might
have gained: you owe the world the labor
Of that brain of yours, the sympathies of
that heart, the energies of your being you
owe the world the whole moral and intel
lectual capabilities of man? Awake,
then, from that dreamy do-nothing state of
siothfulness in which you live, and let us
no longer hear that false assertion that the
world is owing you, until you have done
something
BAD MoNEY.-An Indiana paper thus
describes bill of the wild cat currency in