Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-20
ODDS AND ENDS.


small men, but it is supposed that they
will do some very tall fighting. The
average height is about feet 5 % inches.
They are wiry and sinsvy men, encum-
bered with no extra flesh, capable of
performing long marches and enduring
great fatigue. The small stature of the
present day, in France, is attributed by
some to the wars of the first Napoleon,
which consumed all the tall men of the
country.
The CLERGY AND THE EASTERN WAR.
The Church Journal, (Epis. } in its foreign
review, informs US that the Bishop of
Manchester and Cardinal Wiseman have
both pronounced in favor of the Eastern
war. The Bishop calls it ga just cause
and holy war" Cardinal Wiseman
would doubtless speak in the same terms
against the Greek Church, as the Pope
has done before him.
10 The New York Courier and En-
quirer remarks that it is absolutely
impossible for any American, with Amer
lean spirit and feeling, to be in favor of
Russia and against England. 1t would
be favoring intolerance, arbitrary power,
the dark iron-bound autecratic principle,
barbarism and opposing religious free
dom, liberal institutions, the policy of
popular enlightenment, the progress of
civilization" -
u Advertisement-If Nicholas will
meet Sir Charles Napier in the Baltic, he
will hear of something to his advantage.
70 The following resolution was re-
Gently passed at a political meeting in
Hodgdon, Me
% Resolred, That the Nebraska ques-
ton is no new theory, but one descended
from the first dawn of the republic by
the democracy of the nation, which is
{" Let the people rule"
U"I wish you to pay little atten-
ton, sir" exclaimed carpenter, this
morning, to his careless apprentice
Well, sir, am paying as little as /
cam was the calm reply.
" There are ten or twelve frightful
cases of lip, tongue, and face cancer in
the London cancer hospital, all result
ing from excessive smoking.
SoUArrER RIGHrs.-A Washington cor
respondent desert bling the bellies at ball
says Miss As, of Ohio, has face a
painter might dtreH upon" We presume
under the homestead bill.
" Some Gloucester people Quilted a
building on the beach, one night last
week, destroyed the contents, and warned
the proprietor to leave town, or he would
be tarred and fathered. 1t appears to
have been temperance mob.
q A lad in Connecticut has multi
piled a sum of twenty-six figures bv
twenty-si1 figures, mentally, and given
the correct result.
@ Boys are like vinegar-the more
''mother" there is in them, the sharper
they become.
70 Is there any harm in fellows
sitting down in the lapse of agesl
U What is boomer? A woman
who pants for netoriety.
q The editors and printers of Western
Massachusetts,. at convention at Spring
field in the earlier part of this week, re-
solved upon general advance of from
25 to SO per cent. on advertising, and &c
per cent. On job work.
u" What's whiskey bringing 2" in
quired dealer in that article. "Bring-
ing men to the poor house, to the peni-
tertiary, and the gallows," was the in
slant reply. .-.. ...--...
" 1t may not be generally known
that editors get one important item o
subsistence at very low price-they ge
bored for nothing.
" Bachelors are targets for firts ant
coquets to shoot at.