Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-10
Danbury News.

All little boys are not Indifferent to the need
of their hit lie sisters. There is an ingenious lad
on Pine street, who snOw-balls obese peies
trians with a view TO making them dodge. The
strain they are thus subjected 70 breaks on
more or less OF their buttons, which he industri-
ously gathers after the victims departure, and
gives 70 his sister to put on string.
One of our citizens met with q singular nus
hap Sunday evening while attending the Meth
cdist church with his wife In passing through
the brightly lighted porch, he saw the end of a
thread on the side OF his pantal0On leg, and TAX
ing hold of IL gave IL a smart pull to break il
off, when to his unbounded amszement and ter
ror the thread unwound TO great length, and the
whole side OF the pants opened at once, reveal
ing shrinking leg 10 several very hysterical
people. With brief but hearty middleton on
single thread machines, the mortified individual
fed hOmewards.
MIR. oClarence SAYS his wife has had but
one new bonnet since their marriage, twenty
wears ago. That was the first bonnet ne bought
her. Since then she has had this made over a.
regularly as the seasons came around. At first
she furnished the frame, after that the cloth.
then the ribbons, bye and bye the feather, and
then the flowers. Last week he went down to
the millineT's with the strings, and as fine q
bonnet as you would want TO see came home tue
next week. What that bonnet would have cost
had it been entirely new MIR. O'Clarence does
not kIOw-and he shrinks from contemplating.
There is a sort Of deliTiOus JOY i'm looking
over family album, especially il il is a very
old album with a sprained back, which Occa-
sionally and unexpectedly drops through your
fingers, leaving couple OF cousins in one hand,
and three aunts in the other and the balance of
the family under the chair. The first picture is
Of an old gentleman with an expression of wary
cautiousness in his face as il he was engaged in
lodging wild bull, and was somewhat doubt
full Of the result. Opposite him is the grand
mother, patient-lOOking lady in a black dress,
with a book in one hand and pair of spectacles
in the other. There is feeble bat we'll mean
ing effort to look safe in her face. On the next
leaf is middle aged man looking as if he had
been suddenly shot through the roof of q starch
factory, and had landed in the middle of q
strange county. Opposite is the picture Of his
wife, who, having heard a rumor OF the catastro-
phe, has made up her mind TO prepare for the
worst. Then follow the children-little girls
little boys with their eyes turned on their
noses, and with an EXPRESSION on their face of
unearthly solemnity. Then follow uncles, taken
in their overcoats, with a spreading inclination
in their clothes, hair and face, as II they were
bound to get their moneys worth; and aunts
with warts on their noses, and varnish in their
halr, ana preposterous lace collars about their
Becks. Then there is the bashful young man
penned opposite an aggressive young lady,
whom heaven and some married woman have
designed for each other. There are also the
pietures Of Cousin Aleck and his young wife,
young man looks at him without retiring at
once and registering a terrible vow never TO get
married. Besides these is the picture of the
man who lived next door for eight years, At the
end OF which time his wife died, and he moved
to Illinois with the children, aud is now worth
some fifty thous and dollars. He has been pho
tographed in his hat, which is one size too large
for him, and which gives him an appearance OF
having murdered his aunt and concealed the
body. Then there are two or three tne- looking
corsairs of no particular ldenuty; anu sessrsl
broken spirited women with babies In their
arms-directly or indirectly related 70 the own
ers Of the album; and the exhibition closes
DahbETy Nescs.