Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-04
EVENING STAR.
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ORA BIRpI IN THE HANDS WORTH TwoIs THE BusH.
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There are two little sonssters well known in the
Their names are I-kars and O-had-I, -,
I-tavs will come tamely and perch on your hand,
But O-Add-I will mock you most sadly.
I-haps, at hrst sirht, ~ less fair to the eye,
Than thousand had rs, that sit far and hugh.
On roofs and on trees, SO ailuring.
Full many golden egg this bird will lay,
And sing you, be oheery be CHEEKY -.
u, merily, then. will the day glide away,
And sweet shall your sleep be. when weary.
But let an O-had- once take your eye,
And longing to oatoh him once seize you
Hell give you no comfort nor rest till you die;
Lifelong he'll torment you and tease you.
He'll keep you all day running up and down hill,
Now racing, now painting and creeping;
While far overhead This sweet bird. at his will,
with his so.den piumage Is sweeping.
Then svery wise man. who attends to my song
And whene'er an O-had- comes fyinS along,
Will just let him fly at his pleasure.
III The annual salary of Queen Victoria is
~ 100 900. Out of this she has to pay the sala-
aries Of the state officers.
u The success of Tbalberg and yieuxtemps
In New Orleans has been SO great that they nave
U-A mean specimen of a man, who had been
xlandering a lady, in Louisville, was publicly
cowhided the other day.
III Mrs Logan, the last surviving parent of
the distinguished tragsdienne Miss Eliza Logan,
died recently in Cincinnati.
III The Irish Miscellany is a new weekly in
the Hibernian interest, started at Boston. 1t is
quarto, neatly got up.
III The New York Herald says that Il Is es-
timated that lottery tickets are secretly sold lille
Rally In that city to the amount Of nearly $780,
90 year.
III SIX car loads of soldiers passed Column
bus, Ohio, toward Cincinnati, on the 26th ulti
mo. Their destination was supposed to be in
Utah.
IL gentleman who was formerly one of the
proprietors of mercantile house in Davenport,
which lately failed, is now saving wood for a
living.
IL A relief depot, for the distribution of rice,
-four, aud other provisions, similar to the the
depot in Newark, has been opened by the Relief
Committee Of Jersey city.
iD- Last week, gentleman living near Gains
Cross Road, in RapPahannock county, Va, dis
covered panther stealing ore of his hogs and
shot him. The animal measured five feet from
tip TO tip.
III The gas consumers of Wheeling. Va.
almost to man, notified the company to shut off
their gas, on Monday, and not to turn il on again
until they may see ft to reduce the price from So
to g rer thousand feet.
IL The San Francisco Evening Argus, here,
tofoTe opposing the administration on the Kansas
question, has now come out in favor of the Ad-
ininistratiOn, and the patriotic policy Of Presi-
dent Buchanan.
ID The Detroit Advertiser saws that the let
tiers received from Ontonagon, announce the dis
covery Of another mass of copper at the Minneso-
Ia mine, which, from indications, is larger than
the one found in 1oJ6, which will produce 600
tons of pure copper.
IL One item in the wardrobe of the Princess
Royal of England on her marriage should attract
the attention OF American women and be adopted
pair OF boots, which are described as useful and
solid. Some of them, intended for rough walk
ing, were provided with treble soles.
IL At an editorial festival which was held
IN Philadelphia on the 18th ult the preliminary
steps were taken for the organization of an ed 30
rial association for the State. president and
secretary were appointed, together with a com
mittee. authorized to issue circular to all the
editors of the State of Pennsylvania, inviting
them to assemble in Philadelphia on the third
wednesday in April next.
DIS. LEIcHARr.-It is greatly to be feared that
DIR. LeichaTdt, the Austrian traveller, has shared
the fate Of Sir John Franklin Four thousand
hve hundred pounds have, however, been voted
oy the Legislature Of New South Wales for the
expenses of the proposed expedition to search
for him. DR.. Gregory has volunteered to con-
duct II, and he entertai rs some hope that state
ment made by convict, that DR.. L-ichardt is a
prisoner In the hands Of be OF Northern abo-
rhymes, may be true.
III During late revival in the Baptist church
at Lagrange, Mo, lad, seventeen years of age
who had acquired some notoriety in the town as
theatrical performer, Joined the church and pre-
pared himself for the ministry. He has recently
been licensed and has entered on his clerical du-
ties; and so wonderful are his powers. the whole
community are In ectacies with his efforts; when
he breaches the church is crowded, persons from
all the country round about focking to hear him;
and the oldest veterans declare that they never
before listened to such thrilling eloquence. The
name Of the "boy preacher is J. b. Fuller
III Numerous applications have been made to
the California legislature for the change Of the
the name of individuals. In approving of
these bills, Gov. Weller INDUCES in the follow
ing argKmsHtKHI ad honinem
The executive, am sure, can spend his time
much more probably than in examining bills
passed TO crafty the taste fancy of men and
women in regard TO names. As the males in this
State far exceed the number of females, it il
hoped that tails portion Of our population will
not ind IL necessary to resort to the legislature or
TO the courts in order to change their names"