Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

u Artlhclal stone Is now manufac-
tured n London by the use of the follow
ing ingredients compounded together:
$50 lbs. pith, a gallons dead oil or creo-
sOte, Is lbs. resin, Is lbs. sulphur, A
lbs. finely powdered lime, $50 lbs. gyp-
sum, 25 feet ofsand, breeze bricks. stone,
or other hard materials, broken to pieces,
and passed through q half inch sieve.
This hardens, when compounded after
the mode ofthe inventor, in about a week.
70 A. j. Hubbard recently obtained
verdict of 81 900, against the New York
and Erie Railroad Company, for being
9lected from the cars on refusing a second
time to show his ticket to the conductor.
The plaintiff commended that conductors
have no right to repeatedly demand of
passengers to show their tickets. The
verdict has, of course, been appealed
from, and the case carried to a higher
court.
" The Courier and Enquirer SAYS
that the insurance in London Oh house
property is eighteen pence to the hundred
pounds; in New York it is five times as
much. London has one hundred and
nine tiremen; New York three thousand.
London has twenty square miles to be
protected; New York ten London has
no aqueduct: New York has the largest
aqueduct in the world. London has
water on one side; New York has water
on all sides.
q If all the elected tobacco Guilds
were from this time to be dropped on the
dome of the Capitol at Washington, the
hail of Egypt would be no comparison to
the pelting storm, and the edifce would
be buried deeper than Nineveh, before
the next meeting of Congress.
U A project is on foot in New York
to tit up rooms for the accommodation of
the ncwsboys. Suitable rooms have
been obtained in the Sun building. 1t is
TO be fitted up with berths for lodging.
Plans are arranged for a system of in
structlon to be given them, and a box
provided for their earnings. The charge
for lodging is to be sixpence per night.
G British Navy estimates have been
printed and published The increase in
expenditures for the year commencing
with April next is to be one million two
hundred and two thousand four hundred
and fitty-fiye pounds sterling. The num-
Der of the force will be: Seamen, Al 900:
boys, 2,000:mari afoat, 6, 900; marines
on shore, 800; men in the packet SER
vices, He; total, 500.
To- A late visitor to Cuba divides the
inhabitants into two classcsZone of
which makes living by manufacturing
cigars, and the other by smoking them.
q 1t IS said that the British and
French soldiers, except for a short time
IN 1874, have not fought under the same
banner since the wars of the Crusades.
The rivalry that will exist in the allied
army to exceed each other in deeds of
daring, will make them terrible to their
Russian foes.
u The fellow who kissed the face of
nature, says it did't 60 half as well as
the BUSES Of some of his lady friends.
o. To the generous mind the heaviest
debt is that Of gratitude, when It's in our
power TO repay it. ~ s ...-
G"Thc human mind, "says an Italian,
'"walks in England, it skips in France,
it plods and gropes in Germany, in Italy
aitsoars." In the United States it spreads.
: ~ The journeymen Carpenters of
New York, are on strike. About three
hundred met in convention on Tuesday.
Rather small number for so large a
city. =.