The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-10-13
VARIETIES,

VARIETIES.
A young man recently wrote to his sweet
heart, saying: "Ihere is not globule Of blood
in my heart which does not bear your photo
graph" He ha0 it very bad, hadn t he?
A Washington soldier stole the artificial
leg of his sleeping comrade.
The fashionable Jet neck ornaments are not
worn out of regard to the freedmen. Chains
have not been taken off from the backs to
put back chains over the shoulders Of white
girls and women. The victims are only the
slaves of fashion
In an eastern literary paper some block
he'd talks about western verses We
suspect that every thing is verse to him.
Prentice
A Buffalo man has taken out patent for
a one hundred knife and fork.
An Arkansas reb, not aware the war was
over, recently fired into a squad of United
States soldiers.
Delicious jam-gettng half squeezed to
death in a crowd of angels in croholine.
A forthcoming exhibition of wet nurses!
is announced in the Paris papers
Two ladies and Mr. Thaddeus OGrady
were conversng on age, when one of them
put the home question: (Which Of us do
you think is the elder" Sure replied the
gallant Irishman, ''you both look younger
than each other"
The young King Of Bavaria is a "brick y
He is "fast," and cares more for clandestine
meetings than he does about kingraft or
great historical events.
Arthur Barring, son of the head of the
Liverpool hous eof Barring Bros. & Co. (acccr-
ding to his own statament), recently victim
lied Savannah merchants.
A girl employed in the Columbia mills at
Lee, found four 800 bills among the paper
stock.
In less than ten years the negro labor eues-
ton will be lost ia the Chinese question.
A drunken mau in Alexandria hid $4,000
where he could not find it when sober.
No cheers We're given for General Grant
at Pitstburg; Butler was their hero.
South Carolina blacks are signing a petit
ton for the abolition of Provost Courts and
the Bureau.
aa@ A spiritualist in Pittsburg, believing
himself inhabited by evil spirits, hung himself
aey- A cute counterfeiter in England broke
a shop window, presented IL bogus S. note in
payment, anG got ms chanSe.
A pretty young lady called on a New York
druggist last week and left basket "tor a
lew minutes" Directly after her departure
the cry of an infant was heard and the basket
became lively. No clue to the unnatural
mother has been discovered.
gsg~ Two slight shocks of earthquake were
felt at Constantinople on the evening of the
31st Of August.
Naaa. The taxable banking capital Of Gin
c.nnati is given at So, 700, Represented
by % firms,
gsa. Mr. Oliver Crook, who left Alexan-
dria, Va, this fall, for Memphis, Tenn, died
there last week Of Asiatic Cholera
BEs- Love, the toothache, smoke, cough
and tight boot are things which cannot
possibly be kept secret very long.
Ia Macmillan complains that the libef-
ais are illiberal, and says that he shall con-
tinue to wrestle with them for the throne. He
will get thrown.
Ms What is the difference between per
son transfxed with amazement and leopard's
tail? The one is rooted to the spot and the
other is spotted to the root.
afy- Scotland, with one half CT Inc popu-
lation of Ireland, consumes annua ~ 2 $4,000
gallons of whiskey. while irelaud drinks only
100000 gallons.
gSg- A female slave of fashion las loaded
her neck down with a jet chain SO large and
cumbersome, that she has already begun t.,
grow round shouldered.
u.s.. Garibaldi has incurred debt $2l 900
en his efforts for Italy, and the Italian govern
ment leaves him to appeal to the public for
means to liquidate the debt.
Numerous tramps in London hsve recently
simulated cholera, 50 as to gel into the hospi-
tals and be dosed with brandy.
One quarter Of the entire voting pupGlation
of San Francisco is composed of men from
New England.
The banker prince Tor'onia gave the Be-
logna Cathedral an altar valued at $500, 900
Rumor forecasts the marriage o? Jas Cor
don Bennett, Jr., and daughter of Gen. Dix,
Nine more divorces in Lamoille county, Vt.
What an infelcitous neighborhood.