Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-24
nsdidts' Benedict Fred Grant.

beHedtte. Benedict Fred Grant.
sF-Jenkius forgot TO saw that Nlss Hooore
doesn't part her hair In the middle.
sS-''Are there sny fools an this t,snp" askel
stranger OF a newsbOy. 81 don't know" re
Piled the boy; "Sre you lonesOmeg-'
~ China wanted TO buy the Iron Duke.
British man OF war, nov ia the Chinese seas
but John Bull refuses % sell.
ADshville, Va, is 20 have 500 900 cotton
mill. Fart OF the capital for IT, construction a
10 be furnished by parties in England.
RS-whsts in a manner Colonel Gabe Rouck.
of oshkosh, Is q candidate For Congress IN Wis
of Outagamie.
9The Wisconsin Erangsrs are now putting
italy through a sort OF shorter catechis,n on
railroads and state regulation.
Active preparations are being made in
gfleans Tor The entertainments Of the knights
IemTlar, who sre expected from all sections OF
the union 20 attend u grand cOnVOcatiOn COM
mencIng December lst.
s<At $50 O'Clock yesterday morning a
solemn requiem high mass WAS celebrafed in
the Church OF the Immaculate Couception an
New Orleans, At the request OF the rel atives OF
the citizen soidiery who fell in the late conflict.
sF-ln accordance with q dying wish OF the
late blshOp Nhttehouse, OF Illinois, MS church
ID Chicago has been made tree for 81 time 70
come by the payment of It, entire debt. A gen
eTous member has contributed the means
~The following appears on a tombstone in
Thompson, New Hampshire: "Here Lies the
body OF Jonathan Richardson, who never sacri-
feed his reason at the alter OF superstition's
God, and who never believed that Jonah swAl-
HS-The typographical fiend has a last come 60
grief. printer IN the Lynchburg Republican
ofhee had his hand disabled the other day Oy
the bite OF a coon. He had spelled the enraged
amin ais name with &. And now ne bitterly
Tepents 1t.
G-In a common dinner service IL is q great
evil 20 make the plates too hot, ~ IL invariably
cracks the glass on the surface; NJ not the plate
Itself. We all know the result comes apart:
''nobOdy broke it," cit Was cracked before -
or "crscked long time ago"
pFAn exchange has an scqusintance who
remarks that be has otter heard the proveTb
"A Trend In need he a friend indeed, 4" but he
says be can't see where The laugh comes in. He
hss friend IN need who is always borrowing
money OF him.
ET"Show me a radical, gentleman" said a
politician. "and III show yOu liar" 81 SIR
am oDe,p exclaimed ready opponent. ''Just
CINE round the corner" vas tke reply, oaud
III show you a fellow who said couldn't fDd
radical In the ward"
~The stupid and criminal Joke of aiming |.
nre- arm At friend In play has been none too
beaylly punished 10 Baltimore case, where
Lewis hrumm gained a verdict of 80 900 against
Nicholas Reich for injuries inflicted in that
manner.
HThey have an effectusl wsy Of getting rid
OF wooden pavements in San Francisco. when-
ever they bulge up H. such pavements have
way OF doing, the poor people attack them
win picks and axes ana carry on the wOSd for
use ia their stoves.
SA Temperance lecturer, descanting on the
superior virtues OF cold water, remarked:
"When the world has become 50 corrupt that
The Lord could do nothing with 10, be was oblig-
ed 10 give IL thrOughing sOusing in cold
water" eyes," replied a TOPPER present ssbut
II killed every critter on the face of the earth"
~All the depths OF infamy hal not been
sounded prior 20 the recent attempted Of A ruf-
nan named RedmOuth, in the southwest. He
MED On the sherih7s posse, and, 20 shield him
self from their return ire, held a woman, his
companion, before him and thus escaped while
she was riddled with bullets.