Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-31
EVENING TwINKLES.

In nearly all the Northern and Western
| states hunters report that the indications poin!
| to long and very cold winter.
| Atlanta, Ga, is still a wet" town. The
other morning three persons were found dead
| in their beds and the coroner attributed their
deaths to ''over-indulgence in liquor"
The report comes from Semiohmoi, Wash.
| Ty., that sardines are so plentiful Whereabouts
| that ''enough can be caught in o week to sup
| ply the whole United States"
There is a curious ''sink hole" in Wisconsin,
| on the line of the Eastern Minnesota Railroad
| which has TO be daily repaired at considerable
| expense. The locality presents the appear
| ance of having been shaken up by an earth
quake. Trees have fallen to the ground with
| roots exposed and the earth is marked with
cracks, which seemingly grow wider every
| day.
There is still rage for old-fashioned china
but some OF it Is not what it is cracked up
| to be.
Alfred G. White, pastor of the Universalisi
church at Amesbury, Mass. now claims to
have been the youngest soldier in the war,
having been mustered in as a drummer-boy
when only eight years old.
The leader of the New Lebanon. N. Y, Shak-
| ers, Elder +. w Evans, is an Englishman who
came to this country in 1926
Uncle Billy" Watson, an eccentric character
OF Moawequa, Ills, who recently died at the
age OF rs, kept his coffin in his house for
many years. He came to the conclusion that
the cofins made in shops were shoddy affairs
and determined to make one for himself. He
cut down black-walnut tree, sawed out good
piece of timber, and, after allowing it time
to become well seasoned, nailed up a coffin for
future occupancy. He then carried it in and
placed it at the foot of his bed, where it after
ward remained. He seemed proud of his work.
manship, and frequently invited his friends in
to see the coffin.
Miss Clio" Graves, author Of the play ''Net-
ocris," Is a young Irish woman, Instantly
related to the bishop of Limerick.
English chemists have discovered that fuor-
inc will dissolve metal of any sort, even gold.
1t may be stated that whiskey is also a great
dissolvent; at least it will make mans gold
disappear.
Miss Elizabeth Gardner, the American artist,
says that Rosa Bonheur has that simplicity of
life and conversation which gives such charm
to intercourse with most of the French mash
ers.
A monster wild cat weighing twenty-five
pounds, and measuring three and one-half feet
in length, was recently killed in Watson town.
ship, N. Y.
The Corinthian column had a romantic deri-
Walton. A faithful attendant decorated the
acanthus plants. The graceful leaves of the
plant, falling over the marble shaft Of the
tomb, inspired an architect with the idea of the
beautiful Corinthian capital, which is the most
ornate style OF architecture in the world.
Jean Francois Millet, the eminent French ar
.iSs' hoo Diotuer HFinB quietiy III DOstOn ne
began life as a wood-carver and gradually
branched into sculpture, by which he earns a
very modest living in Boston, although he
remains entirely unknown to fame, and has no
friends to push him into notice by getting him
to make their portraits. At present his time is
taken up chiefly in working on some part of
the stone work of the new court house. He is
man well on in life, with gray hair, a CHEEKY,
polite, but very retiring presence, and bears
withall good family likeness to his famous
brother.
New Jersey turns out nearly 81, 1000, 900 yards
OF ribbon year, or about 22,730 miles if
stretched out in a single line.
A Michigan man is said to have Matched an
egg from the heat Of his body every day for
twenty-one days on a wager of $40. He car
rled the egg in an inner vest pocket.
A novel electric railway has been completed
running from the shore of Lake Lucerne over
bed cut in the solid rock to the summit of the
Burgenstock, $3.50 feet up. 1t has a gradient
OF from 81 to So per cent. The electricity is
generated by water-wheel in the river Ara
A big firm of bakers with establishments in
Glasgow and London is said to be baking brea
by electricity, and saving both labor and ex-
pense.