Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-23
EVENING TWINKLES.

1t is the overworked boiler that causes many
accidents
The man who is forehanded is not neces
sarily freak.
The lantern-jawed man need not necessarily
be wicked or light-headed.
sign painter may not be literary mar
although he is a man of letters.
It's wrong to suppose that ''racy journalism
Is confined to the sporting papers.
Fresno, Cal, packed 81 10000 worth OF
raisins this season. That's a crop worth raisin'
Mr.. Birch is an English SCULPTOR. His name.
sake has illustrated many q schoolboy with
cuts
Probably one reason why the students a,
Yale believe in free wool is that they hope To
get their sheepskins free.
Corsets are advertised at fifty cents, and
every girl can have a small waist il she wants
it. 1t will be at waste of health, however.
The statement that an Italian has taken out
patent for making building blocks of corn.
CORDS fills American inventors with AMAZE.
ment.
Duluth people say that that city is growing
so rapidly that sitting down in the suburbs
with the city against the skyline, you can see
it grow.
A Chicago paper wants to see q man drop
five miles from a balloon. There are several
men In Washington who could be spared for the
experiment.
Capt Small, of Maine, during forty-two
years at sea has not met with single accident.
An insurance company would take Small risk
ia issuing policy to him.
1t is said that the emperor of Germany some.
times walks the floor the entire night. Now il
it was the Prince of Wales 1t wouldn't be SO
much wonder. He is badly in debt
There are on earth 900 600 600 inhabitants.
or these 49, OBS, 033 die every year, 81, 854 every
day, 8, 100 every hour and so every minute or
every second, and yet the undertakers are not
happy.
one having an ak and the other scythe, but q
stranger came along and suggested game OF
poker, and all shook hands and became good
friends.
Under the laws Of Canada If you are renting
house and 1T burns down you are holden to
the owner for its full value. If it is blown down
by the wind or carried away by freshet be
must pay you full damages.
The game of hare and hounds has been re-
vived at Yale and Princeton. Rather pecu-
harly, this sport so popular in England, has
not been much practiced in this country.
Probably it has been knocked out by baseball.
Gen. Harrison has been presented with a
richly-bound volume containing illustrations
of characters taken from Munkaczy's famous
painting, Christ before Plate" Perhaps the
donor thought this would pilot his way to an
Office.
type, preaching last Sunday on Conscience, ("
said that every one has an infallible '.sense of
oughtness" born in him. What this age needs,
however. is more men born with an active
''sense Of oughtnotness,"
Portland, Greg, must have delightful
climate. The Oregonian says one can take a
stroll around the city land see the gardens gay
with roses, geraniums dahlias, fuchsias chry-
santhemums Of all colors, white, gold, purple,
bronze, marigolds, and many other flowers"
The theosophists say Of Kelly, the motor
man, that Ibis inner self is primordially con-
nected, by reason of his direct descent. with
that group of Dhyan-Chohans who are called
the frst-born of ether" If either of the
learned theosophists can translate this jargon
those who have put their money into the
''etheric force" would be very glad.
Mrs. Anderson, of Portland. Greg, is the
right kind of woman. She went out shopping
the other day, and noticed that a young man
was DIGGING her steps. Finally he made an
attempt to grab her purse. Mrs. Anderson
laid down her bundle, rolled up her sleeves,
doubled her fists, and gave the fellow a maui
ing that he will remember for some time.