Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-27


-sophronia: "Wiat Is philosophy" It is
something that enables rich man to say there
Is no disgrace il being poOr.-Some,'uiue
Journal.
1T is suspected th4 the science in who's e
interest so many boys re allowed to shoot ur
song birds is the sciene Of millinery-Boston
Transcript.
-Tootsy. on making the horrible discovery
that her kitten had whikers: MA, 1 don't want
want dlri tail"
An exchange prits an article upon s'The
Proper Time to Work It should contain in
formation of importsce. Thousands of per-
sons have lived to TODD old age, and died
without discovering the secret.-Boston
Transcript.
The Gothic style II handwriting, now SO
popular among youngadies, may have it's dis
advantages. It is saidthat a Young man who
recently received a specimen oft could not tell.
for the life of him, Will her it was eyes, with
pleasure" "No, thank tou," or a sketch of q
picket fence.-Indid,x1OHs Herald.
"A woman who doe all her own homework,
attends to seven childln, and turns her dresses
half dozen times to make both ends meet.
may be good Christih, but when a lady in a
81 600 carriage and a 800 dress halts at the
door and asks her to abscribe to some chart
table object she can frdly be expected to act
and talk like one.-PHadetphia Neacs
of all the duels fqght in Paris last year
but eight resulted serinsly. Our youth should
be induced to give up ,ase ball for duelling.-
Boston Post.
There is kick in ONE quarters against
tight trousers. It's enrally quarter where
it hurts, too, if the old nn is very mad.-Boston
Post.
-'Onlv Milliner' 1.-THE little of an article
In the New York Sun. Wonder why she didn't
take In cloak and dres making, too. That's
where the money como in.-DetroH Free Press
Alexander H. stehens will have no diff
Guilty In securing the pvernOrship of his state.
The people there are dtermined to elect q civil
liam, and he is the oily public man south of
Mason and Dickson's he who is not colonel
at PHILADELPHIA Ne,os.
"A Congressman wo does not scatter six or
eight bushels Of Agricultural department seeds
among his constituers must make the next
campaign on his temperance record.-Detroit
Free Press.
The most impOsi1 man In San Antonio is
the Recorder on Money morning. Last Mon
day he imposed fine that aggregated $50,
which went into the city treasury. And yet
some people say whisk Is curse to tie CITY.
"Oh, shame were is thy blush?"
TEXAS Sif,ings
Since the recent tephone decision in Gin
clnnatti the customer sTs: '.Ring off; want to
swear. "-Hawkeye.
The slang Of a 'big ling" is going out Of
style. New York girls DIV talk Of having q
regular Jumbo time-Psautne
Now that tie-pain1g is little out of
foolery in art, its adeptsare off in the country
painting the virtues ofvarious patent medi-
clnes on barns, fences ad rocks.-PucE.
In an editors roon,in Fleet street, London,
skull is nailed up aainst one of the desks
Underneath Is written large letters, ''This is
Smith, who did not lik an article about him
sell, and was rash enOgh to say so."-Punch.
Too eager: The crescent shape of the first
quarter OF the moon hng like an electric lamp
In the western sky, asting subdued, cool
light upon the path hey had chosen. They
walked with slow and measured step and said
little. The scene wa rapture inspiring. At
last she, looking up ito his face with sort OF
bert, how many walk: like this we've TAKEN
YES, Rosalind. we hve taken great many
walks like this and-ad-aHd-" ooh. Albert.
now don't" 'WeI, won't, seeing it's you. -
Another case OF Shaping at the bait too SOON
Ne'o Hdcen Register.
-Aristocracy bonDarded: 's'When I shake
hands wild a stranger" said Brother Gardner,
as silence fell upon tn members, II doan' keerr
two cents wheder B great-gran'fader was a
CABINET officer or q cobbler; wheder his own
gran fader sold silks kaliker; wheder his fader
was cooper or statesman. De man have to
deal wild am de manberO' me an not de dust
an bones an collins of his predecessors He
may size up well or b may run to remnants; he
may be squar' or he may be blk; ne may be
honest or he may have de right bower up his
sleeve-data am fur m, to find out. doan' pro-
pose TO Jfne hands Wd q stranger bekase his
gran father cum Oberwid de Pilgrims. Neither
shall lend five dOlla,s to one o. my color ON de
ground dat his uncls weighed ton an shook
hands wild three different Presidents. De pusson
who trabels from dis lentry on nothing but de
record made by som, relative a century since
VIII land In Jail as SON as in good society,"
Detroit Free Press.