Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-11

nG-Curious people, and literary qttid auncs
were little startled this morning by the ap-
pearance upon our streets of the veritable N.
PARKER WILLIS, of the Home Journal He
is we learn on tour through the West. He
arrived here from the Yellow Springs, where
he had been lettering for few days. No one
would take him for genius on sight He is
abought feet 10 inches in hight has queer
looking face on which little blotches of freckle
seem to struggle to extend all over it; has
oery small piercing eyes, pointed nose; n
small moustach; scraggy beard of sorrel CO.
lor, the ends inclined to run into the cheeks
and chin; has tolerably small head, covered
with wavy hair, in color cross between mo-
lasses candy and loaf of brown bread;
could mt see his forehead, for he had on a small
light colored cap; his coat and pants were of
the same material-thiek cashmere, striped
alternately with light and black, and on the
legs of the latter broad black "stripes ran up
and down" His necktie was not altogether
faultless, and his vest was ANYTHING but at
tractlve his boots were of the substantial kind
which sportsmen use, and he looked for all the
world like one of our Fishing Club fixed up
for a tramp TO the Laramie Reservoir. But
then, WILLIS was only in his travelling toggin
and was on a tour of inspection through our
streets. Altogether zoe think Mr. W. is a Ueyy
ordinary looking man, Gas we conceive him to
be, indeed, n very ordinary one;) and but for
the odd costume he wears, and the affected,
foppish way he has of mincing along and
stopping TO look into the show windows and
with small umbrella pointing his companion
IAN elderly and genteel man) to objects about
the streets, he would not attract more than
average attention. As it is, we will warrant
hat L.. II
conclude anything, il will be that he is a very
common person who is employing all the
means at his command TO make himself OBJ
served Had not Deacon NICHOLS assured us
the man was WILLIS we would have set him
down for the agent of some menagerie, in
search Of printing office, and should have
approached him with an eye TO business.
EaS-The following correction" from an
old correspondent Of the EMPIRE is upto the
mark
LIBERTY, June 4th, 1860.
Mn EDIroR-In the Weekly Gazette Of
June LIST, in an editorial, in which il is stated
that, there was, recently in the vicinity, a
heavy fall of what is called, in popular parl-
ance, honey dew and that the same phenome-
non was observed in other localities From
which it seems that the writer thereof has fall
len into the popular error, as TO the origin OF
honey dew. Honey dew does not fall, neither
can il be said to be phenomenon, for it must
appear, in the ordinary course Of nature so
long as the producers Of it shall exist En-
tomoogists inform us, that honey dew is a
sweet liquid shed by small insect (called the
plant louise Or aphis) and generally deposited
on the under surface Of leaves Of favorite
nlants and treea n l. said IN iniura fha lao,,as
on which II is deposited, by filing the pores
with a thick cammy liquid, the eonsequence
of which is, that the leaf cannot absorb its
needfhl food, nor perform its other necessary
functions; aud, therefore, after a short time
turns dingy yellow.
This is not written in spirit of criticism,
but to correct popular error. HANS
We hope to hear from "HASs' again,