Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-19
MA Frenchman who knav


ing it out. The Frenchman agreed to
this, but wished to know what he should
say if he got beaten. Being told that he
must cry out enough" they set to-
The Frenchman, however, forgot the word
and cried out as he heard some of the
bystanders do. ''Hurrah! hurrah ~
To his establishment, the Englishman
pounded all the harder. This caused
Monsieur to 60 to work in good earnest,
that the Englishman soon cried out
enough ~ - Say dat again." said the
Frenchman. Enough, enough :" cried
ne again. The Frenehman in turn ex-
claimed, Dat is de yer word 1 vas try
ing to say long time ago.
% The following fact fell under the
observation of country minister in Ian.
cashire, Known to writer in Household
Words. A poor man lay diving, but
still perfectly sensible. A woman Of his
acquaintance came to see him, who had
lately lost her husband. Bill" said
she, 81 where thou art bound to thoult
maybe see Our Tummus be sure thou
tell him we have gotten tn wheel of the
shandry mended, and it's mostly as good
as new; and mind thou say'st we're
getting on vary weel without him he
may as well think so, poor chap. To
which Bill made answer, "Why woman
dust 90 think Use have nought better to
do than 60 dumping up and down the
sky a searching for thy Tummus 2'
PRAIREs FIREs.-The St Anthony Ex-
press, a newspaper published at St. Paul's,
Minnesota, says that for several DAYS past
the citizens of that place have been en-
joying the spectacle of prairie on fire.
When evening sets in. the whole horizon
Is belted with wall of fame now shoot
ing heavenward in vivid streaks, and
again bending low like reed before the
blast. At one moment it rushes along
with hoarse roar, tapping up every
blade and twig in its path, and in another
1t resembles the camp fires of tented
host, dotting every knoll and mound. As
the red flame glareS upward, now deep
ening, now paling, it far surpasses in
sublImity and grandeur the mightiest py-
rotechnic efforts of man.
U"What novelist" says the Gateshead
ObServ er, " would venture to relate that
VIC Ow and mother, who lost her hus-
band and the father of her children by
an epidemic, and lost child by death
five months afterwards, took a second
husband to her bed the day after her
child died, and buried it day after her
wedding. Yet this romance has been
acted on the Tyne; and one day this
week the women had what our American
brothers call an . Indignation meeting, y
and hooted the bride in the street."
y What wretched philosophy it is
that induces laboring man, after work
ing like slave all the week, to commence
spree on Saturday night and continue
1t until Monday morning. In the mean.
time his family is left without the COM
mon necessaries of life. AS for the Door
victim himself, be rarely escapes withou,
getting bruised face OF bruising some.
body else's face. an operation EQUALLY
expensive, and after nights lodging in
the Station House, he has an interview
with the Police Magistrate, who requests
from him a SIS bill for the county
treasury.
q Marriage between persons of the
same age Is an ms tuition Of God. Mar
mage between an old man and Young
woman IS al institution of man. Mar
rage between an old woman and a YOUR o
man is an institution of the devil.
u The man who has daughter, and
can, yet won't educate her, deserves to
have her stolen from him.
" At the close of the present year
there will be in operation in Boston.
forty banks, with a capital of S37 ,OOO,-
900. averaging nearly one million to each
bank.
u The low price of molasses in
Louisiana, seven cents per gallon in cis-
terms, is said to be owing mainly to the
scarcity of cooperage.
~ There are things that modest men
should never undertake-to borrow mo-
ney and study law.
WELL NAMED-The London Diogones
denomlnates the dispute between Hobbs
and his opponents, case of &" Lock-
jaw"
o." What monsters these cotton fac
tors must be-" said Mrs. Darlington,
Il IN told some of EN- has more than a
hundred hands. My poor Paul often
wanted me to 90 and see them, but I'm
thankful | never went"
U Galveston, Texas, papers of the
9th instant state that the crops in Con
zales county, are in most fourishing con-
dition. Corn is knee high and growing
rapidly, and the planters have commenced
scraping cotton.
o. The Fayetteville lark. Indspend.
ent says that gentleman near that place
owns buck. three or four years old that
Is of clear, brilliant, wLite color, with
out black hair about him.
" Winter still reigns in the woods
of Maine and Canada. Letters from
those regions represent that several feet
snow still encumbers the fields and for.
ests there. And the northeast winds
that have prevailed for few days past,
have been laden with frost.
u Cincinnati paper states that
several thousand barrels of swine's blood
uSeH in tbot ovaru for tho