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

EVENING TwINKLEs.
| They are quite sensitive out in Montana.
| A lady named Winter il engaged to be married
| 10 young man named Spring, and Just be-
cause local paper printed something about
Syd 3os .1,d aspssrns A. the lap Of the
| said that the first thing Washington
Territory Indian buys il huge trunk. Then,
| II ne has money enough, he flis IL. This trunk
acts as q store-house for trinkets as long a.
cradle, and when the owner dies he 10 buried
in t.
The post-ofice at Hancock, Md, enjoys q
| distinction which IL different from any other
IN the country. It has box-renters from three
different states-West Virginia, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania.
The lady who bears the reputation Of being
the most beautiful woman in San Francisco is
the mother OF two children, and although thir-
ty looks like girl Of eighteen. She INDUCES
In sponge-bath every morning, and takes
brisk walk Of miles after lunch.
"A Kansas City carpenter has invented new
| chamfering instrument, by the aid of which he
Claims TO cut a 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.
J. ". Roberts, Of Atlanta, Ga, has remark
| able family. He says: 'There were thirteen
| every one is alive to-day, and have families of
children. Three OF my sisters married three
brothers-the Sheffield boys. There are over
fifty 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 is just as spry right now as any son he's
got"
The Dakota money sharks have reduced usury
to science. When q farmer wants to borrow
m yivn vnfa vrJfh a fana
value OF S125 for loan Of 800, the face value
OF the note to draw interest at II per cent per
annum.
The discovery and utilization Of natural gas
has proved 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.
The Church Of st. Saviour at Leeds, England,
which was erected by the late DIR. Pussy in
memory OF his son, is to be restored and i'm
proved
Cupid has been making captures on the base
ball field. Among professionals who have re-
Gently shown that they do not believe that mar
rlage is failure are Grumbling, Cleveland,
thompson, Krock, and Van Haltren.
Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, will spend
a month in London next summer as the guest
| of the Prince of Wales.
1.-The appointment Of housekeeper at Wind
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,
for 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 f1,000, and the Emperor
Napoleon O couple of splendid diamond brace
lets.
| In Waldoboro, Maine there is Miles W.
Standish, a lineal descendant of Capt Miles
| 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
Nancy, aged seventy-nine. Mr. Drew is very
| strong for his years, travelling afoot daily the
| two miles between his house and the nearest
| town in all sorts of weather. Mr.. Thomas de-
clares that he is able to dance double shuttle
| as well as the next one, and his actions verify
his statement. Mrs. Thomas is really a won
| derful woman for her years. She performs the
household duties for the family, and the ease
| and rapldity, with which she gets around is
really astonishing. Without doubt she is as
smart as large majority Of her sex at sixty.
A beautiful four-and- ive-eighths caret blue
white diamond, valued at $500 that once
adorned the person Of Jim Fisk, now sparkles
| from the scarf of Kansas City cashier. Fisk
owned dozen stones of similar SIZE
| A young Syracuse lady has become so adj
dieted to the use of cloves that her health is
becoming broken, and her physician saws that
| unless she abandons the habit she will pay the
penalty with her life. She has been known to
| consume a quarter Of a pound of cloves in a
day.
Syracuse man lost costly gold watch at
the county fair. A young lady found and adj
vertised 1t. He called, pocketed the recovered
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 IL he would reimburse her for the dollar
she had spent in advertising his property He
| fumbled in his vest pockets and paid her twen-
| ty-seven cents on account.
The daily consumption of needles is said To
be Az 1000, and most of them are from Red
| ditch, Eng.
A cucumber feet long was recently grown
in Nebraska. 1t was big enough to collie
The baton used by conductors of concerts is
said to have been introduced into England by
| Spohr in 1920.
thread has been made from the fiber of the
common nettle so fine that 60 miles of it only
weighed two pounds and half.
A colored man in New Jersey drew $4,000 in
lottery and the first thing he did was to aban-
don his old wife and give a white woman
$4,000 to marry him. He said it was no use to
nav Inouey uuless ne cOulu 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 schmucker, 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 1885, OF which it is said that there is but one
other copy in Sxistence, and another is Luz
theran Church. book, 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 q pretty voice and her intentions were