Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-20
EVENING TwINKLEs.

The way ship is bound has no relation to the
restrictions Of commerce.
The spaniards who wanted to mob Castillo
probably took him for the soap man.
The man who pays e100 for . saloon passage
to Europe is not necessarily hard drinker.
Because q lady has a dolman it does not
necessarily follow that she has married dude.
When executions are made by electricity
they. win probably be spoken'of as current
deaths
/ The democrats who tried to Palmer governor
on the state of Illinois must now dance to the
music Of Fifer.
You can never convince a woman that she
has overdrawn her bank account so long as her
supply of checks holds out
A st. Louis hat firm has failed. They prob
ably bet their own hats on the wrong candi-
date at the recent election.
Even the deacon who appeared at church
last Sunday with a new silk hat was immedi-
ately set down as a better man.
When young man has an attachment on
the old mans property as well as for his pretty
daughter his suit ought to prosper
Dougherty. the man who loves Mary Ander-
son. once was telegraph man. but he hasn't
yet found key to the actress affections
There has as yet been no mention of the
formation of glass trust but then probably
| such scheme would be too transparent
Literary kieptomania must be on the increase
in Paris, for within the past two years 145 per-
sons have been convicted there for stealing
books.
In Florida county it is said that the officers
elected recently are half white and half col
ored. They ought to be put in a dime
museum.
lgnatius Donnelly may cipher out that
Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, but he will
Minnesota
Gay and Jolly were the opposing candidates
! for Congress in the third Louisiana district
Gay was successful and now he is jolly while
Jolly is not gay.
'Lo, the conquering hero comes" as the
emigrant said when he saw one of the noble
red men coming for him with an appraised
scalping knife
At the Coquelin performance last night it
was noticeable that the French-without-a-
master students couldn't follow the text with
out the aid of lbretto.
/ According to Oscar Wilde. George Meredith's
style is ''chaOs illumined by brilliant flashes of
lightning" This is one of Oscars Wilde re-
marks and means nothing.
II Stage, the famous Yale pitcher who is
now studying theology has rs good delivery
IN the pulpit as he had upon the ball field he
will prove dandy preacher.
People In Atlanta, Ga, can now watch the
butterflies in open gardens of roses. Here in
Washington the butter flies within doors on
the buckwheat cakes at breakfast
Chas. Reynolds the star catcher of the West
ern base ball association, is teaching the viii
lage school of Sheffield, suburb of Kansas
City, Mo. He is a great favorite with the chill
dren and plays the game without errors.
Alachias. Me-, man who cut grass with a
moving machine all the forenoon last Wednes-
day. only to have it buried out of sight under
the snow before night, thinks something is out
OF gear this year, and not the moving machine,
either.
1t is announced by cable that thirty plump
young women are to sail from England under
contract for theater work. Now is the time
for the high tariff man to insist upon the pro-
lection Of the plump young women of this
country.