Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-08
ODDS AND ENDS,


gan James, Of Utica, N. Y.,-shooting ar
apple off a mans head, several times IN
succession-offers to shoot with MIR
James, twerty shots, each man firing off
hand his own pistol, at his own target
at fifteen PAGES distance, string measure
for one, two, three, four, or five thousand
dollars for the best in the twenty. As
to the apple shot, Mr.. Travis says
his way of doing the feat is to have the
man, on whose head the apple rests
stand perfectly unprotected by any cover.
ing, barrier or intervening object or sub.
stance Between him and the marksman
and asks if that is the way Mr.. Morgon
James did it.
1.-THE following is recipe for making
modern republic: Take half a hundred
-seedy vagabonds, with nothing but life
apiece to lose, bag of bread and bacon
one ''caved" lawyer, pistols and whiskey
al libitum, one strong-minded woman
and two yards of red and white bunting
to be well shaken in the interior of .
small fishing smack for ten days, from
whence eject upon the shores of a bowling
wilderness. Season with DEGREES Of bonn
bast and fustian, proclamations ant
balderdash, and the article will be founG
to be genuine, though preparation hare
to swallow.
" In England, each parish employs
physician at fixed salary, independent
of the amount of sickness to which be is
called to administer. On this plan, he
can afford to visit people to see how they
are living, how their constitution are tend
ing, look out for what causes of disease
may be abroad, and spend his chief care
and attention in the most effectual wav.
Of course there is no prohibition on the
employment of other practitioners.
70 Brownlow, the profane parson,
says the Plaindealer, who made so much
fun last campaign, still lives" Judging
from the following sharp paragraph in
the last ''issoo" of the Knoxville Whig.
1t I" knocks" Knoxville:
The editor of this paper proposes to
deliver discourse tomorrow, at Tenn.
peranee Hall, at IL o'clock, upon the
subject of human depravity, his position
by the Bible frs, and next Kno1uille."
70 The Austrian Lloyd newspaper has
been suspended for several weeks. as a
penalty for publishing articles against
Russia.
70 The recent marriage of Mr.. Day
and Miss Field presents this singular
anomaly, that though he won the field she
gained the day.
u The hair and feather trade of New
York city is estimated at So ,OOO, 900, one
establishment consuming annually ST.
100000 worth of feathers.
% Aunt Ploddypoddy is delighted to
learn by the arrival of the Baltic, that
"the Car refuses to treat" She thinks
he will next be joining Temperance So
ciety.
70 The news by the Baltic shows still
another decline in -four. We mention
the fact for the information of the bakers,
who seem, from the diminished size of
the loaves they offer the public, to believe
that the price of -four is still upward.
y The Toledo Blade estimates the
Indian corn to be shipped from Toledo
the coming season at 5000, 900 bushels.
The largest quanty ever shipped from
that port in any previous was 3,S78, O47
bushels.
U DR.. G. B. Smith. of Baltimore.
reports in the Boston Medical Journal
two cases of puerperal fever cured by the
administration of brewers yeast, inter-
naly. He gave the yeast, diluted with
sugar, table spoonful every two hours.
" The observance of Lent took place
in England for the first time in $40. The
Church of Rome, and the Episcopal
Church are the only denominations that
now keep it.
What love is, if thou wouldst be taught,
Thy heart must teach alone
Two souls with but a single thought
Two hearts that beat
Nothing like heart to teach the heart.
U There are 40 railways in operation
in Massachusetts,, stretching distance of
1912 miles.
" Every Judge in the State of Ten
nessee is Son of Temperance.
o." Ordered to he upon the table,
A spirit-medium. ... t-
u Gerard Stith, printer, has been
elected one of the Assistant Aldermen of
New Orleans.
" The Madrid Journal states that
the number Of nunneries in Spain in SO3,
and the number of nuns in them, 80. 6I3.
u There are about five thousand
brewers and distillers in the United
States.
" There have been recently created
IN Indiana nineteen free banks, with a
capital of S6,850,000. The whole num-
Der Of free banks now in Indiana, is forty-
eight, with nominal capital of SIS ,OO0,-
900.
NEw MODE OF FENCING.-It is said
that gentleman residing in Windsor,
VT, has introduced into that region a
method Of fencing, which for cheapness
or durability and efficiency, can hardly
DC surpassed. He procured stakes of q |
suitable wood, five feet in length, and
Sleeps the lower portion of them in q So
iution OF blue vitrol-one pound of vitrol
70 forty OF water. This renders them
almost indestructible by the natural pro.
cess of decay. He then drives the stste,
into the ground at the distance of EIGHT
inches apart, bringing the tops into
straight line, and mailing upon them .