Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-10
ASTEROIDS,

There is probably no one phase of human
character which brings the possessor into
notice so Conspicuously as that OF eccen-
tricity. If one be quite eccentric he is likely
TO be regarded as droll, conceiIed sort of
fellow, but If he be eceentrically eccentric he
is sure TO be dubbed lunatic: yet all this
passes for naught, since genius very often
manifests itself through this quality. Old
Dr. johnson, for Example was in the habit of
touching all the posts that fianked his strolls
with his index finger; while the later. Ia
mented, long, lank, languishing Theodore
Woodruff Tilton hangs pictures in his noe
turnal habilimentS and Tugs n dreaming
damsel from her chambers of slumber in the
scant raiment of sleep, and yet he is not
happy. In the vernacular of the circus. DAN
lei can be distinguished from The other lions
by the green cotton umbrella under his arm.
Hence, what a mODOtOnous mob of stock
actors the stage of life would present, We're
IL not for the green cotton umbrella of eccen-
tr1clty each OF us carries, alike in sunshine
and shadow
Speaking ofpills, we came home the other
evening and found a circular thrown upon
the threshold of the door, expatiating upon
the peculiar merits OF somebody's kidney
persuading and liver enlivening pills. We
read ii, and were not at all astonisned TO find
that this pill was sure-pop on some fifty or
sixty maladies that flesh is heir To- but whaf
got u.s. was the information impaired in
literally:
"The only pill that obtained a diploma at
the New England Agricultural Fair, The
state Fair at Manchester. n. H.. and the
Merrimack County Fair, Of Concord, y. H.,
in 1873"
Now il is perfectly easy to see the connec-
ton between an Agricultural Fair and a
slIhon-pure vegetable pill, but the query is
what was the modus operandi ofdetermining
the pills merits, as TO quality, strength
time, movement. &c? Was a dose a.i-
minIstered TO a triangle of sick and melan-
choly committeeman, or did the whole fair,
from past experience, testify As to this being
family pill that didn't go fooliny around
bat attended strictly 10 business? Hence the
diploma. Next
Everybody whose good fortune il is to
know us intimately. can testify as to how
modest, patient, gentle, meek and lamb
like we are under ordinary circumstances,
but to be fianked, met and surrounded by a
skirmish- line of discriminating itinerant
mcndlcantS every time you move a roll from
yOur local habitation is enough to make one
swear or "even wish he were dead" Yester-
DAY afternoon we strOlled from the Patent
Office directly to the vicinity of Lafayette
Square. the brass Jackson, and return and
without exaggeratiOn we were asked 10 draw
our wallet ten or fifteen times, No less than
seven melancholy juveniles presented sight
drafts for bread. .'Haint had nOthin feat
since mornin.' Besides the annoyance OF
ana Slue-WdlK mOnStfOSitleS we
met a perfect army OF newsboys.
Her hands cold; her face is white
No more her pulses come and go;
Her eyes are shut TO life and light
Fold the white yesture, snow on snow
And lay her where the yiOlets blow.
But not beneath aayeH stone,
To plead for tears with alien eyes;
slender cross of wood alone
"a hal here a mai iias
In peace beneath the peaceful skies.
The gray old trees of hugest limb
shall wheel their cireling shadows round
To make the scorching sunlight dim
That drinks the greenness from the ground,
And drop their dead leaves on her mound.
when Ger their boughs the squirrels run,
And through their leaves the robins call
And, ripening III the autumn sun,
The acorDs and the chestnuts fall,
Doubt not that she will heed them all.
For her the morning choir shall sing
lie mathis from the branches high,
And every minstrel voice Of Spring,
That trills beneath the April sky.
Shall greet her with its earliest cry.
When turning round their dial track,
Eastward the length ming shadows pass.
Her little mOurners, clad in black,
The crIckeis, sliding through the grass.
Shali pipe Tor her an evening mass.
Al last the rootlets of the trees
Shall lind the prison where she lies,
And bear the buried dust to seize
In leaves and blossoms TO the skies.
30 may the soul that warmed il rsel
II any. born of kindlier blood,
Should ask, what maiden lieS below
Say only this: A tender bud,
That tried TO blossom in the snow,
Lies ~lthered where the violets blow.