Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

TOBACCO CHEwERs BEwARE.-Besides
the poison contained in the weed itself,
many of our tobacco chewers are absorb
ing into their systems an oxyde of lead
the same which kills so many painters,
and paralyzes others. Lead foil is cheap
er than tia foil, and some of those who
put up tobacco for chewing, use the
former instead of the latter. The coun-
terfeit may be known by its dark blue or
blueish color, whereas the foil is nearly
white. Tobacco chewers, who do not
wish to absorb two poisons at once, will
do we'll to profit by this caution.-Jour.
zsal Of Commerce.
% Fowls may be fattened in four or
five days by the following process: Set
some rice over the fire with SKINNED
milk, as much only as will serve one day.
Let it boil till the rice is swelled out; add
a teaspoonful of sugar. Feed the fowls
four or five times day in pans and give
them as much each time as will fill them
Great care must be taken that they have
nothing sour given them, as that prevents
their fattening. Give them clean water
OF milk from rice, to drink. By this
method the flesh will have a clear white
ness.
u The largest church in Europe is at
St. Petersbursh. 1t was begun in III,
and in twenty years two thousand men
had not finished the walls. 1t is of pol.
ished marble both outside and in; the
pillars are of one piece, fifty feet high,
the base and capitals of solid silver; but
the greatest curiosity of all is a wooden
box, constructed to cover it from the
weather.
"a new vehicle has appeared in
which the horses are behind the carriage,
and push instead of pulling it. A steer
Ing wheel in front is used for guiding.
A Yankee has invented q drilling
machine, which not only drills wood,
and rocks and iron, but is useful in drill
ing military companies.
u They now make India rubber teeth
which are said to be decided improve
ment. If they will invent India rubber
food, it will be q great saving, in the
present high rate of provisions.
" If every man had window in his
breast, blinds would be in demand.
U Measures are in progress for the
erection of monument to the memory
of Winthrop, the founder of Boston and
first Governor of Massachusetts.
" The Roman Catholic in Minnesota
out-number all other denominations. A
cathedral is to be erected this season at
st. Paul's which viii cost $4,000.
u The three dollars gold coin, autho-
rized by the last Congress, will be issued
as soon as the dies now in progress are
completed.
O. Four of the sweetest words in the
English language begin with H-Hope,
Home, Happiness and Heaven.
o. No less sum than f126, Az was
RENTED last year by Irish emigrants in
America and Australia, to their friends
in the Limerick emigration district.
u A slanderer of the fair sex under.
takes to prove that Satan was a woman
named Lucy Fir.
70 The proposed "new cent" is to be
of white metal, resembling silver in ap-
pearance, with a round and slightly
raised edge. 1t is about 8-10ths of an
inch in diameter, larger than a ten cent
piece, and less in size than . quarter
dollar.
~ Stones were first used for bullets,
iron ores are first mentioned in 1850.
Leaden bullets were made before the close
of the sixteenth century. Stone cannon
balls are still used in the East.