Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-16
: II is poor wit that tests at poyertv,

year, for five years, to colonization to
Liberia. GsG s.. 1.- 80
~ It is poor wit that jests at poverty.
"A wise man will bend little,
rather than be torn up by the roots.
"A New York paper says that an
e1-Mayor and many wealthy citizens who
are well known, have engaged in the lot
terry business in direct violation of the
law. r. ---
- The guilt that feels not its own
shame is wholly incurable. 1t was the
redeeming promise in the fault of Adam,
that with the commission of his crime,
came the sense of nakedness.
- The English Emigration Commits
sioners have made preparations to send
5000 women from the Shetland Islands
10 Van Dieman's Land.
- The game laws of Wisconsin pro-
hibit the taking of quail after the 30th of
January. The Sentinel says that there
have been shipped from Milwaukee, du-
ring the game season, above eight hun
dred and sixty dozen quails.
AN Irish girl being inquired of
respecting her mistress, who had gone to
a water cure establishment, replied that
her ladyship had ''gone to soak"
- The quantity of boots and shoes
cleared at the Boston Custom House last
week WIS 200 cases. Total since JAN
uary 1st, 40,s76 cases.
-T There is to me daintiness about
early flowers that touches me like poetry.
They blow out with such a simple love-
illness among the common herbs of pas
lures, and breathe their lives so unobtru-
siyely. like hearts whose beatings are too
gentle for the WORLDLY. p. Willis.
The Virginia House of Delegates
has passed the bill chartering the Nor
folk and Petersburg Railroad Company.
- The whole of the Spanish Navy,
including the vessels in course of build
ing, and those which have been decreed
TO be constructed, consists of ships-of-
the-line, IA sailing frigates, 8 screw
steamers, IL corvettes, IA briggs, brig
schooners, 8 transport vessels of war, "a
steamers, and 102 smaller vessels; alto
gether 1S9 vessels. .....
The Baltimore tax levy for 1854
is SI.S7I on the 800 of assessable prop
erty. This, with the State tax of Is
cents on the 500, will make the whole
tax for Baltimore city, within the limits
of direct taxation,) $2.02 On the 500.
- 1t is said that 'sfast" young
gentleman heats his shaving water every
morning with the fire of his genius.
- The entire profits of some popular
London publications are likely to be cut
off by the rising price of paper.
1t is stated that France annually
produces nine hundred millions gallons
of wine. The people are believed to be
more temperate than those of any other
nation in Europe.
"A CONNECTION has lately been con-
nected by French chemist for the pur-
pose Of sweetening the foul breath of
calumny.
- The Plymouth Rock states that
during the past year, the number of per-
sons employed in Plymouth, in the man
ufacture of neck-stocks, was five hun
dred and fifty, and IA, 900 stocks were
manufactured at cost of not less than
SloU,UUU.
How do we know that Cleopatra
did not wear pockets? Because she put
her ripper in her bosom.
- The man who beats the drum to
the march of time," is now learning to
play the horn of plenty" The poor
fellow recently lost his sight, and is now
led by the "dog whose bark is on the c. -
= The Rochester Union gives the
following directions for manufacturing
Fire Kindlers :" "Take a quart of
tar, 3 lbs. Of rosin, melt them, bring to
a cooling temperament, mix with as
much saw dust, with little charcoal
added, as can be worked in; spread out
while hot, upon a board when cold,
break up into Jumps of the size of hick-
DRY nut and you have, at a small ex-
pense, kindling material enough for a
household one year. The composition
will easily ignite from match, and burn,
with strong blaze, long enough to start
any wood that is fit to burn"