Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

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practice is potent. 4a5 la-
-rE1 THE man who will ask for inform.
D alton, and not pay his postage, has no
more claim to our consideration than q
barbarian. ~
iH 50 An edition of Robinson Crusoe,
by the English society for printing and
distributing books for the blind, is about
appearing. [i =. Pa
- DIR. Speer, of Mellonville, Florida,
has raised 10000 lemons from $50 trees.
He is the largest lemon grower in the
country. ...
The minister who lost the thread
of discourse, has obtained a fresh skein
A drunken man was lately trying
to get watchman to arrest his own
shadow His complaint was, that an i'll
looking scoundrel was following him.
The tradesman that buys warily,
always pays surely, and every young
beginner ought to buy cautiously; if he
has money to. pay, he need never fear
goods to be had; the merchants ware
houses are always open, and he may sup
ply himself upon all occasions, as he
wants, and as his customers call.
Poverty makes people very famil-
lar. Let John Whitley, for example,
fall from '.flourishing merchant" to a
bankrupt, and those who once called him
John Whitley, ESQ.," will soon come
10 speak of him as ''Old White" while
those who formerly passed him by with
smiles and elevated beavers" will ex-
change them for slap on the shoulder,
and the more hearty expression Of How
are you, old fellow Misfortune melts
dignity like snow in June sun;
1t is said that forty. eight hours of
total abstinence from liquids of all sorts
will kill a cold entirely; and he who tries
remedy may go out into the air, and the
more the better; for the more he walks
and creates exhalation from the skin, the
more he robs his blood of water, and the
more thoroughly he breaks the bank on
which the nose and throat and lungs rely
for the means of making themselves
troublesome.
- The Sandwich Islands-l2 in
= number-contain 6l0O square miles,
Four of the Islands are so rocky as to be
uninhabitable.
- The number of students in attend
ance upon the lecture at the four medical
colleges in Philadelphia, is between 300
and 400, namely, 620 at the Jefferson,
about 500 at the University, and some
200 at the other colleges,-the Pennsyl-
vania and the Philadelphia.
A Boston paper says that to avoid
the small pox; now so prevalent through
out the country, people must keep their
blood pure, abstain from pork as sacredly
as do the sons of Abraham, and keep
out of the infected districts.
The Journal of Commerce gives
the following statement of imports, in
certain articles, into San Francisco, for
the year ending December 81, 1858:
Bacon, $500 tierces, 1000 bbls., 9,4OO
boxes; butter, 1880 tierces, 1900
frkins, $4,000 kegs; hams, 29,5OO
casks, $4,000 packages; lard, 1900 bls,,
$4,000 kegs, $4,000 cases brandy, 5000
casks, $4,000 bills, 1900 kegs, 5000
b cases rice, $500 tierees, 1900 bbls.,
100000 bags; -four, 100000 bbls.
equal to; corn meal, 1900 puncheons,
100000 bills: beef, $1,000 bills, equal
10; pork, 1000 bbls., equal to.
Look out for frauds in -four, and
especially for deficiency in the weight
At New York it has been found twenty
pounds short In q barrel. Boston is not
quite so bad as that vet.