Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-03
ODDS AND ENDS.

like our own: or rather like that of Rome;
for VIC got our hint OF dimes and dollars
from one of the Popes. We hope that
good sense will triumph, and that pounds,
shillings and pence will give way to the
facile decimal, and its easy computation.
The property is one ward (the
4th) of Boston is assessed at 500, 600, 600.
The one ward has nearly as much wealth
as the whole city of Baltimore. Yet
Baltimore has about S225,O00 inhabi-
tants, while that ward in Boston has
less than 10000.
- Poppy, do you say yer prayers
nights 2
:" In course do.n
Well, if you do, You sleep with your
stockings on, and that's worse"
From this it will be seen that the value
of enormities differ with different peo-
pie.
- John Avery Parker, who lately
died in New Bedford, leaving fortune Of
over one million Of dollars, was, when a
young man, warned out Of the town Of
Westport, for fear he should become
chargeable TO the town.
- How to see the teeth of bearti-
ful young lady-praise her rival before
her face, and you may depend upon il,
she will soon show her teeth.
- The farmers are sowing a great
deal of wheat, particularly in the South
ern portion of California, which is now
beginning TO prosper as a farming coun-
try.
- The Welsh Prcsbyterians are
about to build a church N San Francisco.
IN which the services may be conducted
an their own language.
- They have arrested a number of
little girls and boys in New York, who
were engaged in sweeping the crossings
of the streets, under the pretence that
they are yagrants.
- The New York Typographical
Society has existed for nearly 50 years.
"A reverend gedtleman down
South, says a northern paper, being
invited by young friend to take pri-
vate drink, agreed to dispose of lemon
ade. BY some mistake he drank his
friends whskey punch. who informed
hlm that he had taken the wrong horn
The minister smiled afiably, and remarked
60 All, my young friend, the horn of
the ungodly shall be put down." Psalms
IS: 10.
- The editortof the Pittsburc Post
lest pair of boots at the fire there re-
Gently. A friend has sent him boot
made In ireland that weighs three pounds,
has one hundred and forty-seven large
headed nails in it, besides an iron horse
shoe on the heel, and an iron shaft on the
toe half an inch thick. The editor is now
where he shall find a mate
to it.
- The man who swallowed whet.
stone to sharpen his appetite, has since
eaten himself up. The woman who un-
dertOok 10 scour the woods, has abandon
ed the job on account of the scarcity Of
sand and the high price of soap. The
genius who files newspapers, lately broke
his instrument while operating upon a
:. hard shell organ.
- The surest way to prevail upon
young couple to marry is to oppose them.
Tell them you would rather see them
in their graves" and twelve months afier
their baby will pass you twice day in
a willow wagon.
- The term Of endearment irvaria-
bly, employed by the wife of Rossini,
when addressing her husband, is My
IA little more animation, dear"
whispered Lady B - to the gentle
Susan, who was walking through quad
rifle. "Do leave me to manage nv own
business, mamma, replied the proyident
nymph; Il shall not dance my ringlets
out of curl for married man." "Of
course not, my love; but was not aware
who your partner was"
-"It is a terrible thought to re.
member that nothing can be forgotten. I
have somewhere read that not an oath is
uttered that does not vibrate through all
time, In the wide spreading currents of
sound-not a prayer lisped that its record
is not also to be found STAMPED on the
laws of nature by the indelible seal of
the Almighty's will"
q - An old topper was overheard 4
other day advising young man to
married, because then, my boy, you1
have somebody to pull off your boots
when you 60 home drunk"
- There is a girl out west so all
fired pretty that she has to wear around
her waist spike belt, similar TO those
the farmers put on colts heads to break
them from sucking. This is the only
means of keeping the young bucks from
hugging her to death, and even with this
shield, it is said there is not young gent
in the neighborhood that does not bear
spike prints on his arms.
Tennessee has a public school
fund of nearly a million and a half of
dollars.