Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-02-12

IL A little boy in Cambridge describes snoI-
ing as "letting of sleep"
10 The young lady who was lost In thought
IA. been found. She Wa. hugging an idea-it
looked like a man
ID circus rider In Mobile lately threw Il
somersets in succession.
ID IL is said that So, 600 natives of Canada
are, at this time, permanently settled in the Uni
ID The Western Texas planters on the Colo
rado are busily engaged in preparing for another
crop.
ID In Philadelphia, oysters are counted, and
not measured by the bushel One hundred and
my oysters are allowed to the bushel.
ID A great revival is In progress at North Or
ange, n. j amongst the Methodist and Presby-
tsrian denominations.
ID Mr.. Lent Rovce, of Sheffield. Mass has a
eow twenty wears old, who had her twenty first
calf a few days since
u The Galveston papers of late da,e have
continued accounts of high water and bad roads
In almost every portion Of the state
VI The Tennessee cotton manufacturers were
neeted with the trade
u VIM Sanders, free colored, convicted in
south Carolina of stealing and CARRYING off three
Of May.
ID II Is stated that, on Saturday, the 9th of
January, the doors Of the English ecclesiasticaI
Courts throughout the kingdoi closed. TO open
no more, after having existed for nearly 500 years
=, ~ One Of onr exchanges calculates that with
tneir present yearly income, il will take the Bible
the saored Scriptures to each of the seven
millions in the heather world
20 On Sunday last, the Rev Newton Heston
P,sached q sermon to the fremen of PhiIadsl-
Pas, on which occasion one thousand seven
hundred and seventy-nine members of the De-
Partment Were present
R a young lady is supposed to be to blame
for the following:
What did the cat say, as she looked out of the
els that 'ar a rat ~
ID The President of Western Bank rushes
up 10 bis friend: "Charley can't Won yiye me
snange Tor dollar, i see the Bank Superitend-
vault" '' lux
" The commissioners appointed by the Le-
Risiature OF New York to trace the boundary line
between that State and Connecticut, cost New
York % 800, although they have an engineer on
dig salary, and the work was In his department
UJ The N. Y. Commissioners are pushing the
matter OF Quarantine location at Sandy Hook,
peioTe the n J Legislature. 1t is thought the
y. J. Committee will report favorable To the
Legislature Of that State.
W few days since, a mother In the poor
LOUISE a. Iannton, Mass gave birth TO d child
wSsning eight pounds, the mother being eleven
Year. old, and the father but fourteen The mo-
L6er nsrself was born in the poor house
VI A deaf mute, named Benjamin Rollins,
between ffty and sixty years of aSe was IecentIy
kiilea IN Marion county. Alabama, while on his
Wy 10 b-xar county, Texas. He had left the
pubic road short distance. and was discovered
eY young man, whom he so fright by hi.
HtelnPts to talk, that he shot and killed him
over 81 80, In gold and silver, Were found upon
O A raveler in Palestine says that not far
rom the probable site where the sermon on the
Mount was delivered, our guide plucked two
uowers, supposed to be Of that species to which
eur Lord alluded when he said "Consider the
lilies OF the field" The calyx Of this IiIy resern
oies crimson velvet, and the gorgeous flower was
OF white and lilac, and truly no earthly monarch
could have been arrayed more gloriously than
oae OF these Such is the testimony of nature 10
The words spoken by our Lord