Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-04-08

PATHxTIc.-A young lady, writing to the Os-
wego Times, thus eSplodes; her subject was the
death Of her grandmother:
shocking intelligenee-how il thrilled nv
nature, and caused its very framework to trem-
BILE That venerable form who. in DAYS gene
by, handled, with maternal foDdness the pre-
cious one who gave me birth lies in the cold
damps Of Natures moral strife -
O. Not many months ago some young men In
Louisville, KY, were playing cards, and after
playing several games for money, concludes to
play for sweethearts. One oftho snung men be-
came possessed of his antagonists right. was
thrown into the young lady's com pany and made
her acqnaintance BY ,aPid steps the acquaint-
ance riPened into friendship, then to intimacy,
then to love- making, and, rs may be suspected
ended in a wedding.
IL A young man, who WIS amopG the crowd
OF nve hundred persons in attendance at an auc-
ton, In a store under the Hatch House Bangor
last Saturday, when the floor gave away and ali
were precpitated into the cellar saws that the
larger portion of the company was composed of
ladies, and such crash Of crinOline and promis-
cnous mingling of limbs, belonging to different
bodies and opposite sexes, has seldom occurred
with one exception, there Were no bones broken,
except whalebones.
iDrA new dodge has lust been started which
IL calculated to deceive the public A youn0
fellow goes 10 a house when he knows the gen.
tleman Is out, and delivers a letter purportnr to
have come by express, and charges twenty-liye
cents therefor. The wife, Of course advances
the change, and keeps the letter for her husband
Upon opening the document, either some ridicu-
ious information Is given him, the simple
words, Thank YOU" meet his astonished gaze
Old Geographic envelopes have been used with
complete success
III Says Boston paper: We published an
account the her day, of aletter Of RufaS Choates
puZzling the Massachusetts Senate: Int another
writer states that one of his cbance:y bills was
presented to Harvard College "a a Thlbetian
manuscript, and was very Carefully preserved
until the Oriental Professor day made out the
word aforesaid - His letters are so much alike
that no man can tell them apart and to this slight
defect ne adds numerous nourisbes which mig
be supposed TO be letters He can read his own
wrtn2 any Tune within a month, but after that
ne Is puzzled himself Three of his law clerks
have died from over anxiety in attending TO
translate his documents
III From the celebrated experiments of Cbos
sat on hamilton, 10 appears that death arrive,
whenever the wastes reaches an ayeraus nronor
tion of four -tenths. That is to saw suDposinT an
animal to weigh one hund red pounds il will
succumb when Its weight is reduced to sixty
pounds. Fishes and reptiles were found by Chos-
sat TO perish at precisely the same limit of weight
as warm blooded animals, but they require a
period three end twenty times long to do il In;
thus IL the experiment be tried of starving hi I'd
and frog during warm weather, although both
will perish when their loss OF weight amounts to
forty per cent, the one will survive a week. the
other three and twenty weeks
II A Mobile railroad train was lately CAUGHT
in q whirlwind at Quitman, and the three last
cars ana ths ca6oose badly smashed up The
cars. loaded with freight as they were were turn
ed over and thrown some two or three feet and
one Of them, truck and all, landed as niue a, ~
feet from the road. This occurred while the train
was in motion, and but a few seconds after tax
Ing in wood and water. After crossing the road
the wind took an upward shoot twisting the
largest pines of by the roots in its PASSAGE and
disappeared in the air. Hal il crossed half
minute before, the whole tain must have been
swept on In The same manner. Luckily there
was but one person in the caboose, and be- wa,
not hurt much.