Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-12-16

TH Scientific men are now cudgeling their
brains to discover the best method whereby
houses may be warmed by gas.
EgT A statue has been erected in Trafalgar
square, London, to the memory Of Gen Chss
j. Napier, the conqueror of Scinde.
pP An enthusiastic gentleman, in speak
ing Of the courage of his adored, said, " She
would walk up to a cannon's or q lovers
mouth, without shrinking in the least de-
gree"
T Carlyle says that each man carries un-
der his hat 4" Private Theatre" whereon q
greater drama than is ever performed on the
mimic stage, is acted, beginning and ending
in Eternity.
r@ Theodore Parker preached on Thanks
giving day In Boston, on " The Prospect for
Democrats Institutions in America" from
the text, The harvest IS past, the summer IS
6ndeG, and lC: are not SaUeG'
Eg To keep up with the times, q school,
master down East has just invented machine
for whipping scholars. Be- means Of acrank,
a boy is put through his discipline In about
one quarter of the time the rattan used to con :
sumo.
MORE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH "A letter
dated Copenhagen, November 18th, says that
Messrs Sur aud Raaslef have obtained a con-
cession for the construction of Q submarine
telegraph between the Island Of st. Thomas,
the United States, and the Islands Of the Gulf
Of Mexico.
REVIVAL OF AN OLD PLAY.-The National
Theatre, at Boston, closed on Monday evening
with rehearsal of the comedy Of No Pay,
No Play" the actors refusing to perform until
they got their salaries. These not being forth
coming, the house closed for want Of material
add
1 A miscreant in Kentucky recently
perpetrated the following in the company OF
several ladies': What did Adam and Eve do
when they were expelled from the garden Of
Eden?" They raISed Cam" The ladies
tainted, and during the confusion the perpetrs-
tor made his escape, and hasn't been heard Of
since.
BEAR SroRY-The Parkersburg Gazette
mentions an on dit that Judge Camden, hav-
ing adjourned Court in Beverly, few days
since, went out upon Cheat Mountain and
killed no less than three bears. This story
was in circulation among the mountain dele
gates 10 the Democrats Convention, by whom
it seemed to be fully credited.
EFFEcrs OF CLIMATE my way to see
q mastering of cattle, in q stock YARD one
msrning, near the Lachlan, ssluted an ADO
liginal female, who was milking q cow, with
How are you, Kitty |" ION, very weil,
thank you, sar;" and, pointing 70 9unoIe
hanging over her shoulder saia-" haa pea
mimi this morning, sar"'-NOte' on Pas
sage from Sydney.
A yorSs PRINrER.-A little daughter Of
oprs. aged two years and ten months, one day
this week turned the crank used in dis
tTibuting" the roller while We worked of fifty
bnndbills. This same little girl went TO
church last Sunday Cor the first time, and
when asked upon her return home what the
minister said, answered, that " he went up
on the top of a mountain and hurIahed for
somebody.-KimderhOOk ROugh Notes.
THE FULLSEss OF BREvIrY.-The Boston
Transcript vouches for tie genu;nensss OF the
following models Of epistslory b:evity, oil bat
the names:
"DEAR FATHER I want 500.
Yours, &c, sILAs LANsoS, jr."
The father enclOsss the 500 bill. saying:
tDEAR Son Whist for
"YourF, d., SILAs LAHsos, ~"
Clever Guv' 'ner" that!