Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-04-05

III 1t Is said thore are a hundred attorneys In
Cincinnati who have never had a case even be-
fore city magistrate-an encouraging prospect
Tor new limbs of the law
ID The charter Of the MARYLAND Agricultural
College has been so amended as to provide for an
election Of trustee from the District of Column
IL During the past winter, the Albany aims
house people have consumed ten hogsheads of
rice-the cheapest and best diet in the world
man can live on rice and keep fat for 25 cents
week. People who dread " hard luck' will
please notice, and indulge in hope and sunshine.
IL Mr. Buttman, the telegraph operator In
fremont, Ohio, during a storm was STOPPING
under the instrument, when he received a stroke
and upon recovering from the shock, found him
self on the outside of the counter on the floor
with lame foot and leg The stroke was so Sc
we're as to confine him to his room several days
III The young Princess Royal of England Is
erecting quiet little revolution of her own In
the fearfally stiff style that formerly kept the
Court circle OF Berlin in a state Of automatic Pc
ulfacion, and royal hignesses, ladies In waiting,
and characteristics are now seen to smile and look
happy, just as II they were really human beings
like other people.
IL Considerable religious feeling il being
manifested among the employees of the New Jer,
sey Railroad at Jersey City, and for several DAYS
past morning prayer meetings have been held In
the ONCE OF the Assistant Superintendent. In
consequence, however, Of the increasing attend
ance, the room Is found to be too small and the
meetings hereafter to be held In the ooe attached
to the machine shop.
ID Old fools are the worst of fools, :" saws
an old proverb, and an Instance of this occurred
In Cincinnati the other day. An old man fell in
love with girl sixteen years Old and proposed
10 marry her, but she, believing that Nav and
December could never agree, refused him He
bad been all his life very abstemious; but to
drown his disappointment, went on fearful de-
b4uch, and was not sober again. He died from
deiirium tremens In the course of a week.
ID Rudolph says that once upon time col
ored cook expected company, Of her own kind
and was at a loss how to entertain her friends IL
was al time OF the wear when eggs and butter
were high, and the colored folks generally are al
the pense OF "extras" for their own company
Her mistress said
"Chloe: you must make an Apology
5000 Lord missus, how can / make it, 7
got no eggs, no butter, nor nothing to make il
WITH
The BUSINESS OF THE ''THUNDERzR EVERY
Issue OF the London Times Is accompanied with
double-sheet supplement, filled exclusively
with adyertis ,ments, in addition to the like mat
Ter inserted in the regular edition. Its CHARGES
moreover, are beyond any rates in this country.
Its weekly receipts from this source exceed
SIS 900. single firm (that of Windham Co J
pays the Times for the advertising Of one article
ciCireassian Oily sl5O,OOO per annum, aud
cassian Liquid"
ID John Young, of the westdeld Argus,
tells some awful stories. Here is his last attempt
Some OF our Younger male readers may have
heard Of brandy that kills at 80 rod1" Ana
ecdote told us the other day disclosed the fact of
compound, called whisky, considerably more
certain In its effects. Charley l., attending a
dance one evening, feeling In It's first rate spirits
got his key pretty full of ardent, and finally re-
tired to the privacy Of an armchair, where he
sat comfortable, 'cornered,' and pretty much in
caple of locomotOn. Just then If came
along, and seeing his state addressed him with :.
Whats the matter, Charley? Laid out, eh ~,
Z" An entire mistake did Mt take more'n a Thin
BILE full hccoughed Charley; wanted SO-rod
whisky and the cussed fool gave me Tnstantsr'' -
DIsMALLY DIscoNsoLArE-Ad dry goods deal
eT, doing business In the Island ward Fast Ros
ton, has stepped out, leaving his creditors under
the following mournfnl circumstances: He man.
aged to sell out most Of his stock in trade dur6o
the last week Or two, collected nearly all the
debts due him, sold his household furniture at
auction, and then informed his friends that u
near relative Of his family had died out w est
He tied yard or SO OF black Grape Oh the door
handle, closed up his store. aud Is now among
the missing. The shop on being opened, pre-
scented sad and solemn appearance to his cred
itors The only consolation left them is in the
fact that he attended PRAYER meeting tie even
ing before he left the Island ward and IL is hop
ed that his conscience may be awakened by the
good seed sown on that evening.
EXCITEMENT IN PGrrsrowN--Soms medical
students at Pittstown, Rensselaer, county, who
bad obtained the body of 4 State prison convict
for dissection, created an excitement by hiding
1t In farmers barns to frghten such Of them az
were superstitious nearly out of their wits and
startle those VINO were not, with the suppostion
that a murder had been committed on their prem
Uses. As soon as the body had been discovered
In one barn they removed it to another Their
sport came near having a serious termination to
themselves. A number of Irishmen at Eagle
Bridge, thinking from the desert ption of the
body, that II was that of the murdered Barney
Mcintyre, marched down to Pttstown in body
breathing vengeance against those who had ssre-
surrected'' him. They were, with great di ficul-
ty, convinced OF their mistake The body has
since been dssected.-AILaay Journal