Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-06
EVENING TwINKLES.

EVENING TWINKLES.
Law Levers sometimes lose their pasisnoe-so do
A farmer near Parkersburg, W. Va, is only
forty years old, and has inst welded his sixth
wife.
One reason, probably, why so many people
fail to get square with the world Is because it
| Is round.
Verdi has entered upon his seventy fifth year
in health and wealth. He is certainly enjoying
| a green old age.
temper is now explained. He IL an inveterate
smoker of cigarettes.
Leadville Is not bullioning the market as
much as 1t was. Its estimated product Is
o., 600, 900 less than last year.
Ventura County, Cal, points with pride to q
field of 5000 acres in beans. The owner is
probably an emigrant from Boston.
In one province alone in the PHILIPPINE
Islands over 5000 animals have died from q
terrible cattle disease which is raging there.
An egg Of the great aux" was recently sold
at auction in London for 81 400. 1t would take
millionaire to buy those eggs by the Dozen
A Warren County, Pa, girl killed two rattle
snakes on her wedding day, Just for luck Her
husband now says she makes . rafting good
wife.
The king of Uganda, Africa, executes five
wives every morning before breakfast, just to
give himself an appetite. It is not known how
long his stock will last at this rate.
A female California school teacher recently
killed eight quails at one shot while out gum
Ming With such q record she ought to be sue
cessful in teaching the young ideas how to
| shoot.
1t is computed that this years corn crop, If
loaded for railroad shipment, would fill ,878 ST.
cars, and make train that would reach 16, 449
miles, or two-thirds Of the way around the
world.
The Paris hospitals are To have telephones
placed in the infectious wards, in order that
the patients may hear the voices of their frinds
without the risk of conveying infection by a
personal interview.
A Kansas woman with fourteen children ap-
piled to the city marshal recently to split her
family, as she could not support them all He
took six OF them off her hands, and she now
has to care for but eight.
The town Of Arvesnes in France is in bad
girls and only three young men eligible for
matrimony, and one Of these is about to wed a
girl belonging to neighboring village.
A brakeman on the Jersey Central Railroad
was not long ago clergyman who was deposed
from the pulpit for marrying girls under age.
1t appears, however, that in his present occu-
patton he has a good deal of coupling to do.
A Boston lady recently hit upon a neat way
OF contributing generously to church fair.
She brought a large number of useful and
fancy articles, and, after they had been ac-
cepted and the prices marked upon them, she
purchased them all herself.
How are the mighty fallen! John Milton
has been arrested for stealing cigars; Schiller
is up for vagrancy about once a week, and Mi
chael Angelo sells peanuts. New York, Pitts
burg, and Detroit respectively are honored by
these distinguished people.
A skeleton, canteen, and a musket were
found under the floor of the kitchen of house
in Dinwiddie, Va, while workmen were demol-
lshlng the building. 1t is supposed that during
the war a sick or wounded soldier crawled
under the floor and died there.
Mount Edgecombe House, the residence Of
an English nObleman of that name. has Just
been made in miniature, entirely of cigarettes,
by a cigarette manufacturer in Plymouth Eng
land. He worked eight months on it and says
he has put 10000 cigarettes together to make
the toy.
Wood oil is now made on somewhat extern
sive scale in Sweden, where the refuses of
timber cutting and forest cleaning is turned
into account for the oil it contains. 1t is used
Tor Illuminating purposes, and gives when put
in lamp especially made for it a very salts
factory light.
The fact that a frog depends more on his legs
than his brains has been successfully demon
strated by ST. Louis doctor, who recently re-
moved the brains from dozen frogs, healed the
wounds and let them go. They hoped off as
value. If some physician should try like ex-
pertinent upon dude similar result might be
reached.
Last April citizen of North Adams, Mass,
discovered. in the southern part of Adams, out
crops OF plumbago, promising rich returns.
he secured control Of a large tract of land
covering the deposits interested three others
in the scheme, and began sinking shaft. At
the depth OF 20 feet, it is now reported, the
men have uncovered what appears to be a
large vein of rich plumbago, similar in quality
to the Siberian black lead used in pencils.