Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-17
EVENING TwINKLEs.

| The hen is not afraid Of work; she lays RICH.
/ down to it.
| 1t win be found that most Of the oface-seek-
ers are men Of wait
The talkative wife may justly be called the
| speaker OF the house.
I'll, The :. Thanksgiving turkey is nearly ripe and
Organized raids on rabbits furnish rare bit
| o sport in California
| The cabinet makers are now at work. The
| bureaus will be attended to later,
| Venison ought to be cheap this season, accord
! ing to reports, though it is always deer meat.
This fall the politicians had to work, but next
spring the circus men will canvas the country.
Inc old Bay state always makes q good show
| in Mass.
There is a K-street girl go timid that she
won't use Florida water for fear Of catching
the yellow fever.
Out in Kansas they have potato socials.
get mashed on each other.
English detectives are not more successful in
discovering the Whitechapel murderer than
our own officers are in finding Tascott
A Philadelphia court has decided that IL Is
hbelous to call a young woman a daisy"
That seems rather a fowery decision for q
court
Prof. Virgins has got over his excitement at
being elected a member of the Boston Ananas
club, He has concluded to lie still about the
weather.
They want to throw more light on the gas
question In st. Louis 1t was supposed to be
sixteen-candle power, but tuSps out to be only
| ten and half.
Many man who starts for the west expect
| ing to get covered with honor finds himself
covered with a road agents revolver before he
reaches his destination.
"A Mrs. Dustin and Mr.. Lane are said to have
eloped from Leavenworth, Kan. At last ac-
counts the husband Of the woman was dustin
after the pair at a great rate of speed.
little Hebrew miss in New York has the
commercial instinct so strong that she rents
furnished rooms in her dolls house to her sis
tiers for fixed number of caramels per week.
Chief Justice George w. Stone, Of the su-
preme court OF Alabama, celebrated his seven
tleth birthday anniversary by dancing Jig
with his greatgrandson. There's nothing rocky
| about his health.
A Boston Office boy recently asked his en-
ployer for raise in his salary on the ground
that he didn't know how to whistle, and he got
| 1t, although in other respects no wasn't much
| of an office boy
There has been row between a Cleveland,
Ohio, congregation and their pastor because
the latter used tobacco. After a lively debate
the matter ended in smoke, and the preacher
retains his pipe.
A sulky sleigh will DO New York novelty
this winter. 1t is built in the same way as the
ordinary racing sulky, light and having steel
spring. but, instead of the wheels q short pair
OF runners is substituted.
young collegian. when asked by his father
to explain why two-thirds of his expenses were
put down as extras, said that surgeons fees
after the football match and the regular police
fines were included under that head.
Twenty young men in q Pennsylvania town
formed a football club They had lots of fun.
In three months fourteen of them had broken
bones, three were crippled for life. and one
druggist sold them SlS worth of liniment.
James Miles, an Idaho man, refused to chip
in even nickel to bury fellow-townsman.a and
bolt of lightning killed thirteen horses for
him on the day of the funeral. He says he
hopes Old Nick'l get him if he don't contribute
to the next planting"
In the center of a roll of good butter recent
" bought by family In Rutland, VT, was a
little tin box, and in the box note. apparently
written by "a girl eighteen years of age, good
looking, and an excellent housekeeper," who
thought she would make a good wife for '.some
unmarried Christian gentleman" That girl
may not catch a husband, but her effort de-
serves success.