Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-25

~ The Archbishop of Canterbury has intro
dnced q bill in Parliament providing for special
services in the Church Of England
IL Among the odd rumors Of the day II il re-
ported that Edwin Forrest intends to leave the
stage, for the purpose Of opening a wine and tea
store In Chicago.
ID bill has been reported in the Massachu
sets Legislature, making laborers wages, to the
extent OF $50 each, preferred debts to be paid in
full, In all cases Of Insolvency.
ID Calico parties have been the rage this
winter In Chelsea, Mass. The last was given
last Friday, when nearly two thousand couples
were present.
III IL Is q very sing alar fact that the assassin
Orsini and his intended victim, Napoleon Ill.
were, in 1881, brother members Of society called
Carbonari.
IL The Mills of the Lawrence, (Alass. Man
ufacturing Company will hereafter run full
time. For several months past, their time has
amounted to five days in the week.
H. The dwelling house of Hiram Webster, in
Tyringham, Mass, was burned a week since,
and the lives of the inmates were saved by the
barking Of the watch dog, who, however, was
himself burned TO death.
IL Artificial ear drums are now made of Hne
silver wire, with a disk of India rubber or gutra
Percha between. They are placed In the ear and
worn without Inconvenience, and II is said the
effect Il magical.
IDA cart-before- horse blunder 10 my mind,
Was Shakspeare's writing "cabined, cribbed,
confined"
A something in my cabin lately happened,
That makes me read ''confned, }" then ''oribbedh
and s'cabined."
III sea serpent had been seen of ST Helena
90 say the officers and crew of the ship Castil an
The serpent was seen on the 18th December last,
as Enthusiastically detailed by them In a recent
communication on the subject to the British
Board of Trade.
IL A small printing Office was dispatched
few days ago, from Paris for Constantinople
This press is to be worked entirely nv the lad les
OF N No NJ Of pa
chas residing on the BOsphorus. The books in
tended TO be printed works of amusement.
translated from the French and English
HI 1t is said to be the intention of the English
government to release Robert Bates, of the de-
franding frm of Strahan, Paul, and Bates bank
ers, on the 18th of DC ebpr, when three years Of
his imprisonment shall have expired. The three
partners had been sentenced to transportation for
life. The government, in reply to memorials on
behalf Of Bates, have recogni ed the distinction
between his case and those of Paul and strahan;
Bates having been merely q nomi nal partner, on
salary, without any cOaifol management or
share in the profits.
TAKE SLEIaH RIDg-The following novel
way to increase church fund we take from the
Rochester Union: ''The Presbyterian Society az
Pittsford will give an oyster supper in the base
ment of their church on Friday evening for the
purpose OF increasing their church fund and af-
Sording an occasion for the enjoyment OF pleas
ant evening. They would be happy to see their
friends from the city, and the ride out will
occupy less than an hour behind fair piece Of
As~is~ AeSuf We nave no uO0Ot many Will FAVOR
them with a call"
"A Nswsso1 GIRL.-A good-looking pews-
boy apparently about sixteen wears old has been
ssys the Cairo Times, for some time travelling on
the cars between Cairo and Centralia vending
literature very successfully. But last week at
C-ntralia IL was Inadvertently discovered that the
good looking newsboy was girl, Of some twen-
u odd years Of age. Ser disguise had never been
suspected: She had travelled with the newsboys,
SMOKED cigars, swore and Tank whiskey as ca
silly as any Of them. The reason Of her disguise
10 not known. Her career as a nswsboy has been
ended.
I'D Bayard Taylor, writing from Nubia, In
Upper Egypt, says: i.Those friends of the Afri-
can race who point to Egypt as a proof of what
Inc only negro features represented in Egyptian
sculpture, are those of slaves and captives taken
in the Ethiopian wars of the Pharoahs The
temples and pyramids through bout Nubia as far
as Daref and Abyssinia, all bear the hieroglyphy
OF monarchy, and there is evidence in all the
VALLEY OF the Nile that the negro ever attain
ed higher degree of civilization than is at pres
ert exhibited in Congo and Ashantee mention
this, not from any feeling hostile to that race but
simply to controvert an opinion very prevalent in
some parts Of the United States