Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-10

= Old Bourbon whisky, worth 81 per
gallon, is shipped from Louisville, KY, to
Scotland. 49,
TComplaint is the largest tribute heaven
receives, and the sincsrest part Of eur devO-
ton.
~Ws start in life with great stock Of
wisdom, but IL grows less and less the farther
we 60.
UNrILrAL WISH OF MEDICAL STUDENT
ooh, that my father were seized with re-
nsiffs,tf fever. ~ - 1890 .-----..---
GA philosopher who had n srried vulgar
bat afhiable girl, used to call her :" Brown
Sugar." because, he said, she was sweet but
unre6ned. s-ssssszzz-z-as-- s-sl-s--a,
ISFINIrEsINAL,- There are more animals In
the milt of a Goldfish than men on the whole
earth-and single grain IL larger than four
thousand Of them
A SMLK.-An angry woman In room is O.
bad as . lighted cracker-for when once she
goes o&thars's no stopping her, and when she
does 60 out it is sure to be with bang
r." Why" said an argumentative gen
tleman, " it 10 as plain a. that two and two
make four" That deny" retorted his
antagonist, "for 2 and 2 make a."
z questioner 10 sometimes one who is
really DESTROYS Of obtaining Information but
more usually he assumes ignorance in order
to display his own knowledge.
ESome Turkish ladies at Scutari left their
homes on account of the tslegraphic wires
having been carried over the roofs Of the
house. They imagined that the wire could
tell all their secrets
Y A remarkable hard drinker, who was
expiring, begged one of his friends to bring
him a goblet Of water, telling him " on cur
death beds We must be reconciled to our enc
mics"
II An English paper says that during the
year 1885 the Oriental Company's steamers
took out India and China silver TO the value
Of six millions and half sterling. 1t weighed
about 720 tons. y $ ~. -s-t
II The Charlottesville Advocate states
that Mr.. Marshall Bayliss, of Fauquier, so we'll
known in that section of Virginia, and who
left some time since for Kansas, has recently
gained . suit in the Court of Appeals, by which
he will realize $50, 900
TA letter from Portsmouth, Va, dated
March z, p. m, says that q fire had been
raging there at the wood wharf, for two hours
The entire block, with the old saw mill, be-
ing in blase. ~
~What lie fashion, Dinner a. midnight,
and headache in the morning. What is idle.
ness Working yellow mountains ON a pink
subsoil-or blue-tailed dog in y-colored
commissions. What is joy To count your
money and fnd IL overrun . hundred dollars.
BRUTAL INGRArIfUDE.-Scared individual
lodging Infatuated bull behind a tree" You
ungrateful beast you, you wouldn't toss a
consistent vegetarian, who never ate beef In
his life, would you? Is that the return you
make ?"
PRACTICAL SCIENCE. --Graadma--WelI,
Charley, and what have you been learning to-
day! Charley-Pneumatics, Gran ma and
can tell you such dodge If was to put
you under glass receiver, and exhaust the
air, all your wrinkles would come out as
smooth as Grandpapa's head.
HIS FIRST Boors-A youngster who had
just risen to the dignity of pair of boots with
heels on. laid himself liable, through some
misdemeanOr. to maternal chastisemsnt-
AFTER pleading to get clear to no effect, ho
exclaimed -.
We'll, if I've got to stand it, mean to
take off my boots"
'Why?" asked his mother
Because won't be whipped in them new
boots, no how. That's so %