Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-21
EVENING TwINKLEs.

The employees in the mint are the ones who
make money.
| Andrew Carnegie is the greatest '.Maitre
DIES FORCES in this country
| King David played the harp, but it is not
stated that he was an italian.
girl doesn't care if her lover gives her the
sack provided its sealskin.
The reason why some children are so saucy
Is probably because they are given saucy-pa-
| rilla for medicine
They have discovered chalk mountain in
Montana. Some enterprising milkman will go
out there and start dairy.
Mr. Grady's senatorial boom did not material
ize. The Georgia people have evidently sized
| up the grade he should occupy.
The one-arm act in ''Held by the Enemy is
the basis of law suit. The one-armed with
| the best testimony will probably win the case.
His experience in Philadelphia Monday night
| has probably convinced Kilrain that Sullivan
! still reigns in the hearts of the sports of the
| Quaker city.
| There is another war scare on in Europe Just
because the ear is Russian around for n big
| loan. He had better let the rest OF Europe
alone ut present.
A Georgia paper saws that the southern girls
are holding their own. That's because it is
! leap year probably; generally it is the young
| men who hold their own.
| A Cincinnati tallow chandler wants to 20 as
minister to Athens He says he has been in the
| grease" business for twenty years and that
should give him some claim.
Annie Schott had quarrel with her lover
and shot herself. Unfortunately her aim was
/ good and she is dead Her lover now says he
has no aim in life and wants to die also.
Girls are naturally religious and rarely
swerye from the faith III which they are
! brought up, but man varys his church attend
ance with the belief of the girl he is waiting
! upon.
! Banker Fry. of Pittsburg. is sued by Mrs.
! Hibbard for lacerated affections to the amount
/ of 100000. 1t will be hard to convince jury
that a secondhand heart is worth that amount
| of money.
| Chas. p. Hall. San Francisco theatrical
manager. is confronted by two women. each of
| whom swears she is his wife. He has evidently
made bigger matrimonial haul than he can
| attend to.
I A Rondout, N. Y. man agreed that if Cleve-
land was not reelected he would wind up a
Waterbury watch. He has commenced his
task and is watching eagerly for the time when
| he can take rest
| Washington is said to be the best place in the
world to study American types. NOvelists
| Howclls and Stockton are coming here this
winter to utilize those types. They will prob
I ably also use tyDewritors.
! dinner was gwen last week at the Grand
/ Pacific hotel. i'll Chicago, in which thirty-four
kinds of game were served. This STORY must
come from St. Louis, for they always max
ing game of Chicago there.
1hlrty-slx years ago James NJ. New left a
wife and five young children at Greenpoint.
| T.. L.. in destitute circumstances. Nothing was
heard of him until recently, and now it appears
he is rich and willing to begin New life
! First they called the signal service "Old
probabilities then they called it ..Indica-
! tons; then it was found that it didn't indicate
and now it is called "Old prob" probably be-
cause it is supposed to have lost its abilities.
| Philadelphia lawyer is said to be insane be-
cause he claims that he is descendant of
Henry VIII. There appears to be nothing
| wrong about that. If he claimed descent from
| Henry or NJ it would show an irregular tenor
| i'll his train of thought
| The Secretary of the Navy is in "a box" said
| one correspondent to another who had asked
for news. How. where?" was the eager query.
Over at Al5aush's" was tho response. land
he's got hrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Whitney with
him." Then they went for acouple of ''schoon.
| ers"