Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-10

whole lecture was SO replete with energy SIM
plicity. pathos and subimity, that not another
word was uttered.
IAN attempt to describe it, says nearer.
would be an attempt to paint sunbeams." Gu
rlOSlty was aroused to know who the old gen.
tleman was. and surprise deepened into reyer-
ence when 1t was found that it was John Mar
shall. Chief Justice. He died in Philadelphia on
July 9TH 1885. He was buried near his wife at
Richmond. Va. with imposing ceremonies. He
was not member of any church, and during the
major portion of his life was Unitarian in doc
trine, but 1t is said that towards the close of his
career only i'll health prevented his publicly pro-
Tossing the creed of the Episcopalan church.
Mr. Binney. in his eulOgy of his friend said:
"Chief Justice Marshall was a republican from
feeling and Judgment. he loved equality. alb
hOrred all distinctions founded ON rank instead
OF merit, and had no preference for the rich
over the poor"
Saturday Smiles.
When candidate gets into the hands of his
friends, the next move is to get their hands in
his pOckets.-Neeomda independent.
thousand women were present at recent
Kentucky hanging. There being very few
churches In Kentucky. it was about the only OPP
portunity they had to show their new spring
bonnets. Burlington Free Press.
His Riverence (facetiously Inclined pointing
to donkey Pat, dye hear yer mother CALI
ing to YEP
Pat Shure an do, Father "-Judy
Colored mendacty: There was a large boiler
of scalding water over fire in the yard and
several black imps playing near it, Suddenly
shriil voice was heard from inside the shanty:
You, George Washington. keep away from dat
ar bier. Directly you is gwine ter upset de bier
and scal6 yerself to def, and when you is you'll
be de fust one to say, ''Twasn't me. nanny :"
Terds Siftings.
Even the sun, which rises in the east. in
variably comes west to settle Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Hartford man has q Bible bearing date 1899
1t is very easy to preserve Bible for q great
many years. ecause-beo6use-wellw we don't
know what the reason is but it is SO neyerthe-
less.-BOston Transcript.
Private Dalzell has come to the defense of
Fred Douglass for marrying white woman
Mr.. Douglass will now begin to realize the
gravity OF the step he has taken.-C Chicago Iri-
6aoie.
Yes. you may come again next Sunday eve
ming; but'-and she hesitated. ''What is it..
darling! Have given you pain?' he asked, as
she still remained silent. "Yon didn't mean to.
I'm sure" she responded; 'but next time please
don't wear one of those collars with the point
turning outward. "-Anaherst Student.
"No, Laura. no. They do not open the CAM
paign with can-opener. They do it with a
corkscrew. How little, alas, do women know
about politics. "-Ha,ckeye.
white sGuall caught party Of tourists
moving across a lake in Scotland, and threat
ened to capsze the boat. When it seemed that
the crisis was come, the largest and physically
strongest of the party. in state of intense fear.
said: "Let US pray" mo. no. my man." shouted
the bluff old bOatman, 'let that little man pray;
you take an oar"
$50 you're engaged to DR.. B. It must be
very nice to be engaged to doctor. Every
time he calls, you know-and of course that
must be very often-you feel as ii you were get
ting for nothing what everybody else would
have to pay So for"
The teamster who has forgotten to grease his
axle gets good idea Of wagner music.-Bos-
ton Bulletin.
The homeiike man will work and plan
To build his wife rOckery,
While hired girls in short red curlS
VIII ruin the choicest crockery
-ROckland Courier Gazette.
'She loved not wisely but to swell" remark ed
a discarded lover on passing his old girl dressed
in a sealskin sacqua and leaning on the arm of
her husband GOrlldyl M0t,,1tdtleer