Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-14
EVENING TwINKLES.

Picking pockets is the way many a miner
makes his money.
China must be Owen Denny, who is running
| affairs in Corea, q grudge.
In the rural districts the board Of education
is usually the schoolmaster's single.
Peru appears to be talking loudly about its
rights-making sort Of Peruvian bark.
One of the leading anarchists of St. Louis
has the appropriate name Of Griefgrabber.
When woman reads a letter on the street
you may be sure her correspondence is not ex-
Willard Perkins, Of Waterbury, is one of the
solid men OF Connecticut. He weighs A52
pounds.
All tobacco reformers do not make light of
the weed; Some chews different method of
Those who robbed the government Of the sill
yer dollars will have q very dollorous time if
they are caught.
A man oughtn't to growl at the clock ticking
ON the mantel when he has q mattress ticking
under him all night.
II time is money most persons are burdened
with surplus which they would willingly con-
vert into ready cash.
Mary Anderson's Angio-mania is beginning
to reap its just reward The correspondents
The newly-elected mayor of New York is not
up in photography. He is also likely to give-the
city bad spell Of government
Though King Milan has found one marriage q
failure ne proposes to try it again, now that he
has been divorced from Natalie.
A negro dental school has been established
in Nashville, Tenn. Each of the graduates
will want few achers to start in business
Ex-Collector Gould, Of Buffalo, made $780,
600 out OF his Office during his four years term.
In his case public Office was private snap.
postmaster named Baker was recently ar
rested for embezzlement. An examination
showed that his accounts had been cooked"
In a fight out in Michigan between q bear
and q boar, the bear was worsted. Most men
have to give up when they are tackled by bore.
The author Of ''She" is cultivating an air Of
genius. He wears his hair in flowing locks
which reach almost to his shoulders and looks
Haggard.
A New England exchange tells how to keep
chestnuts from four to six months. Some that
are now going the rounds have been kept
longer then that.
Pride goeth before destruction as the burglar
said when he put the dynamite into a safe after
he had pried for an hour with q jimmy and
failed to open it.
The sultan Of Turkey has become interested
in mindreading. The turkeys in this country
would like to be mind readers, now that Thanks
giving is approaching.
There are over q thousand women and girls
in Pittsburg who work in the iron mills en-
gagged in making barbed wire, and there's no
hustle about their work either.
The man who borrows money borrows trou-
BILE along with it, and the interest on both in
creases in proportion to the amount borrowed
and the length of time the note has to run.
1t has been computed by western statisti-
clan that the people of the United States spend
more than 81, 900 every year for chewing
gum. The Yankees were always noted for their
gumption.
Rev. DR.. Reasoner, of Cornville county, Ore,
is the oldest Presbyterian preacher on the Pa
cific coast. He is ninety years old, but is able
to take an active part in the duties of his pas
torate. He has certainly lived Reasonable
long life.