The Evening critic., 1883-04-19

Divinity no longer doth hedge about a king.
Divinity isn't dynamite-proof.
fiery novel Is light reading.
Appetite originated In Hungary.
The office-seeker's flower: F0rget-me-not.
Centre of gravity-Letter v.
Bismarck is able to take short walks.
The simpler the hair dressing the better.
Gliding In Wallpapers is more subdued.
The new nickel now has some cents about II.
A stare.w .way-The theatre corridor after a
matinee.
English sparrows are said to increase In
size In our climate.
Boot trees are generally on their last legs
~. y. NeWS.
There Is n loquacity which tells nothing, and
q silence which tells much.
1t has been estimated that there are 100000
miles OF barbed wire fences In use.
The exaggerated styles OF the Court of Marie
Antoinette are very popular In Paris.
The latest mineral discovery in California is
q soap mine. Good stock 10 water.
Ninety.three thousand acres OF land were
planted with timber in Kansas last year.
The taste for mahogany.red, terra Gotta and
brick-colored gloves Is on the wane.
strawberry farms in the vicinity Of Little
Rock, Ark, pay an average profit OF Sl5l per
acre.
Soon the seaside bathlng.house keepers
Will be shaking the sand out OF their seedy
and shattered suits.
Nearly $l4 900 900 worth Of cattle are now
grazing in what six years ago was Indian
country in Texas.
Green apples Will soon be here, but in the
meantime the small boy can continue playing
with the toy pistol.
Farmer Lake, of Howard, N. y, after quar-
rel with his wife, broke a goblet ana cut MS
throat with one OF the pieces.
Murderers in France, II they haye money,
are compelled under the now law 10 pay
large sum TO The family of their victim.
No matter how big fund may be raised, no
one can put up as worthy monument 10
Peter Cooper as he built for hlmselI.
Telephones are to be set up by the Govern.
ment in the telegraph oillces of Paris and
placed at the service OF the public for small
charge
we have set up over broken resolutions we
should have material enough 10 erect a marble
palace.
Asweet potato put to boil on the stove Of a
| lady I'm Natchez the other day exploded with
terrific force and nearly deprived the lady Of
her life.
George and Edmund Gravely arc twin
brothers, 90 years old, residing In Henry
| County, Va, and some of their friends claim
they are tho Oldest twins living.
Colonel Tom Patterson, of Green County,
Ky, has a coat made OF eighty coon skins, The
| coons wero all shot by his uncle with rlne
| that belonged 10 Daniel Boone.
A Tallahassee lady OF uncommon nerve ap
| peared al an evening party recently wearing
live spiders, chameleons, beetles and nreOlea
in her hair and on her dress.
Having heard nothing from Virgins or Ven
nor lately, we hereby predict heavy thunder
shower, with wind and rain, on the evening
| Of the Fourth Of July next
New York paper says; "Death has beer
| busy in high places this year" This is al
| elegant way Of referring 70 the many execu
tlons which have recently taken place.
| Some reckless and evll-minded persoI
| throws out the suggestion that II the 70(
| wives OF Solomon attended the same churcl
| thnraOf have had
| old time.
| BALTIMORE, MD.-Rev, W. II. Chapman says
81 deem Browns Iron Bitters most valuabl
tonic for general illhealth."