Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-10
ODDS AND EHDS.

- The Secret of Rising in the
World-Idleness is like the nightmare,
the moment you begin to stir yourself
you shake it off.
- The Douro is frozen over at Aran-
da, thing hardly ever known before.
- The pedlar for whose wares there
is most demand must be he who carries
the "pack o nonsense"
- Winchell tells good story of q
boy On railroad who initiated the whis-
tie Of a locomotive SO clearly that the
engineer had to 60 down and s,citch him
off the track.
- Ladies who have disposition to
punish their husbands, should bear in
mind that little warm sunshine will
melt an .icicie much quicker than a
Southwestern. Kindness is much more
likely to prevent than increase nose-pull-
ing.
- Fanny Fern says she is ready to
Jump at the first offer of marriage. and
presents her qualifications as follows:
Il have very black hair and eyes, and
am very petite. L am as sensitive as the
Mimosa, spirited as an eagle, and uu-
tamable as chain lightning. Can make
pudding or write a newspaper squb,
cut caper, and crowd more happiness
or misery into ten minutes than any Fanny
that was ever christencd.
Among the Kaffirs, agriculture is
considered to be kind of labor unworthy
Of warrior, and is, therefore. left en-.
tirely to the women. When they first
saw plough at work, they gazed at it
for time in astonished and delighted
silence: at last one of them gave utter.
ance to his feelings in this exclamation-
SO See how the thing tears up the ground
with its mouth. 1t is of more value than
five wives. -
"A dog plunged into the Ohio, ftw
miles above Cairo, the other day after a.
deer, and caught it when about hundred
yards from shore. The cog, after getting
ducked about dozen times, succeeded in
getting on the deer's back, and, fastening
to its ear, so interfcrcd with its swim.
ming, that a spectator on the bank took
a canoe and secured it. The owner of the
dog subsequently sold him to a Southern
gentleman for $50.
- In Sunderland, Mass, there is an
association of young men, whose object
is to cultivate piece of land by the
gratmtous labor of its members, the ayaiIs
fomthe sale ofthe crop being appropriated
10 various benevolent objects. Last year
hey cultivated three and quarter acres
of broom corn, which yielded Sl36: Sl25
't which was given to various benevolent
societies.
" "A correspondent Of the Boston
transcript states that the Suffolk Bank
Employs fifty-one clerks in counting and
asserting bills of the different banks of
he New England States. These clerks
count on an average $50, 900 in an hour
md the total average amount at the Close
# each days business, is about 81 .OOO.-
100. 'O"0'
- The fishery business in the cod
and herring lines, American
eas, is considerable" The number of
American vessels engaged in the business
5 l3,l6o; British, 3,775; French, $50.
The capital invested is. American. S3..
'2O, ,Ol5: British, S3,9OO,l75: French.
u '2oo.00O while the value of the annu-
! products is, American, S4,OlS,O3O;
'nash' s'60O,Oe0; French, l,S4O, 900.
- Among the novelties introduced
ato Paris this year, are fruit knives of
Sohemian crystal. The blade is of the
'urest white crystal. and the handle
asteful mixture of white and blue or
fhite and claret color. -