Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-11

Twinkle brightly, Evening Star,
Shine for all, and shine afar.

MYsTERIoUs-A reform writer says he
cannot understand how delicate young la
dies-too delicate to 60 up and down stairs
when at home, and as a consequence, their
mothers must do the chamber work-are
able to dance down the strongest man in a
hot ball ROOM Granting the truth of all
these statements, the question is something
of a poser.
EPIGRAM.
When Harry was old to Mary he said
"My dear, if you please, We will marry
But Mary replied, with toss of the head,
81 never will wed the old Harry"
He waited till all her gay suitors gone,
Then cried, d" q fine dance they have led you
The hand that offered you treated with scorn,
And now the OLD HARRY won't wed youw
THE DIFFERENCE.-A testy lawyer, lately
in one of our Courts, found himself bothered
with knotty witness-who wouldn't ex-
plain, as he desired, the difference between
the "thick" and slong" kinds Of whale
bone. "Why, man." he said, you don't
seem to know the distinction between thick
and long," "Yaa's, dew Explain it,
then" Wal-you're plaguey thick head
ed, but you amt long headed, no heow."
said Greeney.
FLORAL DIR. P, who is attached to
a Partisan theatre in quality of physician,
expressed his establishment that man and
woman we're not created at the same time,
instead of the latter springing from a rib of
our first parent. A young actress standing
by, remarkable for the graceful turn which
she ever gives to the expression of her ideas,
said, Was it not natural, sir, that the
flower should come after the stem?"
GOLD SoUP.-Provisions are so dear in
California, that some of the miners have
been driven almost to desperation. A friend
writes US that he sustained life during the
first two weeks in January, by paying fifty
cents an inch for potato pairing. Pretty
steep price this, and yet he informs us that
he made money by the operation. The wa
ter in which he boiled five dollars worth of
parings he sold afterwards for French soup
at the rate of two dollars per bowl Great
country, that.
A MIsTAKE.-A clerk, out west, having
one morning in church proclaimed the banns
OF matrimony between a ''gaP' and her
'feller," was followed by the clergyman
reading hymn of Watts, beginning thus:
"Mistaken souls, who dream of Heaven
PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION A Chaplain
was once preaching to class of collegians
about the formation of habits. ssGentle-
men," said he, 'close your ears against
bad discourses." The scholars Immediately
clapped their hands to their ears.
A MODEL woMAN-We hear that a
statue-an embodiment of the perfection of
a woman-is about to be erected on the
heights Of Folkstone statue that shall
carry with it a great moral lesson. 1t is no
other than the Statue of a woman (about to
traveD with only one portmanteau
So PoLITE.-A newly married lady re-
quested her ''liege lord and MASTER" the
other day, on going to market, to purchase
foot Of mutton for dinner. That goes
ahead of that lady who complained of being
disturbed by the noise of the gentleman hen.
CooL.-The Boston Post accounts for the
extreme cold weather of the season, by
supposng that Sir John Franklin, in going
through the northwest passage, forgot to
shut the door after him.
LIKE FATHER.-Matthews the actor, hav-
ing been asked what he was going to do
with his son, (the young mans profession
was to be that of an architect, replied,
"He is going to draO houses, like his
father"
MARRIED.
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