Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-01
EVENING TwINKLEs.

EVENING TwINKLEs.
They are quite sensitive out in Montana.
Lady named Winter is engaged to be married
| to young man named Spring, and just be-
cause local paper printed something about
winter lingering In the lap Of spring. the
bride elect has sued the editor for libel.
1t u said that the first thing Washington
Territory Indian buys is huge trunk. Then,
| II he has money enough, he fl1s it. This trunk
acts as store-house for trinkets as long %
the lock holds good, then it is turned into
IN it.
The post-ofice at Hancock, Md, enjoys .
distinction which il different from any other
in the country. It has box-renters from three
diherent states-west Virginia, Maryland, and
The lady who bears the reputation Of being
the most beautiful woman in San Francisco is
the mother OF two children, and although thir
~ looks like girl Of eighteen. She INDUCES
br;st P xalk 81 every morning and takes
A Kansas City carpenter has invented new
chamfering instrument, by the aid of which he
claims 70 cut q corner to the desired angle at
one stroke. There is no repetition Of the PLAN
ing process, the machine being passed only once
over the corner to be chamfered.
). ". Roberta, Of Atlanta, Ga, has q remark
able family. He says: 'There were thirteen
children in all, five boys and eight girls, and
every one is alive to-day, and have families of
children. Three OF my sisters married three
brothers-the Sheffield boys. There are over
nifty grandchildren. Another strange thing
about the family is this: Two of the grand
children are married, and yet there Is not q
single gray hair In my mothers head and my
father II Just az spry right now as any son he's
got"
The Dakota money sharks have reduced usury
to science. When . farmer wants to borrow
money they make him give Q note with face
value OF S125 for loan Of 900, the face value
Of the note to draw interest at II per cent per
annum.
The discovery and utilization of natural gas
has proved Q powerful stimulus to the manu-
facture Of iron pipes and tubes in this country
There are now 2, 800 miles of mains in the United
States for conveying gas.
woman In New York, who had been beaten
by her husband finding him fast asleep, sewed
him up in the bedclothes, and in that situation
thrashed him soundly.
which was erected by the late Dr. Pusey in
proved
Cupid has been making captures on the base
Dali held. Among professionals who have re-
Gently shown that they do not believe that mar
riage is failure are Grumbling, Cleveland
Thompson, Krock and Van Haltren
Crown Prince Rudolph, Of Austria, will spend
| month in London next summer as the guest
| OF the Prince of Wales.
| sor Castle, which has become vacant by the
death OF Mrs. Henderson, is one of the best
things in the queens gift" says London Truth,
flor there Is not only an adequate salary, but
excellent apartments in the castle, valuable
perquisites, and numerous privileges. When
royal personages from abroad visit the queen
at windsor, a handsome present to the house.
keeper Is matter of course, and the Emperor
Nicholas gave her E1,OOO and the Emperor
Napoleon couple Of splendid diamond brace
| lets.
In Waldoboro, Maine, there is a Miles W.
Standish, lineal descendant of Capt. Miles
Standish, who came over in the Mayfower, and
| he has a son named Miles.
In little cottage in Carroll County, N. H.,
| there live four persons whose united ages
amount to 1888 years. They are Charles Drew,
aged eighty-six; Mrs. Drew, aged ninety; Jesse
| Thomas, aged seventy-eight, and his wife,
Nancy, aged seventy-nine. Mr.. Drew is very
strong for his years, travelling afoot daily the
town in all sorts of weather. Mr. Thomas de-
clares that he is able to dance a double shuttle
| as well as the next one, and his actions verify
his statement. Mrs. Thomas is really a won
derfui woman for her years. She performs the
household duties for the family, and the ease
and rapidly. with which she gets around is
really astonishing. without doubt she is as
smart as a large majority of her sex at sixty
beautiful our-and-fve-eighths caret blue
white diamond, valued at $500, that once
n,
from the scarf Of Kansas City cashier. Fisk
owned dozen stones of similar size.
A young Syracuse lady has become so ad-
dlcted to the use of cloves that her health is
becoming broken, and her physician says that
unless she abandons the habit she will paw the
penalty with her life. She has been known to
consume quarter Of pound of cloves in
day.
A Syracuse man lost costly gold watch at
the county fair. A young lady found and adj
vprflGad q nal cd ta1 he
watch, and then said he was sorry he hadn't
enough money with him to reward her. She
said she wanted no reward, but would be con-
tent II he would reimburse her for the dollar
sne had spent In advertising his property. He
fumbled in his vest pockets and paid her TWEEN
ty-seven cents on account
The daily consumption Of needles is said to
be 200 600, and most Of them are from Red
ditch Eng.
A cucumber feet long was recently grown
in Nebraska. 1t was big enough to collie
whole community.
The baton used by conductors of concerts is
said to have been introduced into England by
Spohr in 1920.
common nettle SO fine that 60 miles of it only
weighed two pounds and a half.
A colored man in New Jersey drew S15.0 900 in
lottery and the first thing he did was to aban-
don his old wife and give a white woman
ga, 900 to marry him. He said it was no use to
have money unless he could get into society.
The richest Japanese outside of the royal
family is said to be r. Kondo, Of the Mining
University OF Japan He is the operator of six
teen gold, silver, and copper mines, and is about
to visit the Lake Superior mining districts in
order to get knowledge of the mining machin-
cry used there.
The late Rev. DR.. B. NJ. Schumacher, Of Potts
vile, Pa, left his valuable library to the Luz
theran The illogical Seminary, Philadelphia and
where there are duplicate copies they are to
become the property Of Muhlenberg College,
at Allentown. Among the books is one printed
In 14S5, Of which it is said that there is but one
other copy in sxistence, and another is Luz
theran Churchsbook, edited by Martin Luther.
Many OF the volumes are now out of print and
are rare specimens of typography in its infancy.
A National Anthem Wanted,
writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch says: "On
the steamer coming from England the other
day at the close Of the usual concert given in
the saloon young lady Of American birth es-
sayed to sing The Star spangled Banner
She had pretty voice and her intentions were
dnr1b los trio ~ I.-x.