Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-03-25

MISCELLANY. "A correspondent wants to
know what the difference is between four bill
lions and four thousand millions? We answer
nothing, under the French arithmetical system,
which makes thousand millions a billion.
The English system is a million millions for a
billion But the French system, being the
simplest, is generally adopted now in this coun-
try. The term billion could never be practi.
cally employed ifit were counted as a million
millions.-l Louisville Courier. 4,
a Boston preacher says: II have great hope
Of a wicked man slender hope OF mean one.
a wicked man may be converted and become a
preemnent saint. A mean man ought to
be converted six or seven times, one right after
the other, to give him fair start, and put him
on an equality with bold, wicked man"
Peanut Statesmanship is the term applied
by some of our contemporaries to the move
ment Of Senator Abbott of North Carolina,
towards protecting peanuts by previsi IN in
the tariff. The value of the product of this
nut in North Carolina amounts to some three
millions of dollars per aunum. The strongest
opposition to protecting them may be antici-
pated by the peanut democracy of petty juries
and parquettes
The fashion of gold bracelets for young gen.
tlemcn is said to be spreading in the eastern
cities. With our American prejudices, the
fashion strikes US as contemplate.
The Postofice Department employees are
busy engaged in receiving and filing the bids
for thirty-threc hundred mail routes in the
Southwestern States, which arc TO he let on
the first proximo. The proposals flow in by
every arrival OF the mails, and are quite hume.
r0uS.
Numerous contracts for building in Nash
Vile have been suspended on account Of the
proposed congressional interference with the
government of the State = -
FEMALE SwINDLERs. Mrs. Elizabeth Hanes
ard Miss Laura Haines, aged respectively fifty
and thirty years were arrested in Philadelphia
on Monday, and held to bail in the sum OF
$1,000 ou charges of swindhng They came
to that city in January last, engaged expensive
lodgings and made numerous purchases OF ex-
pensive dresses, laces, &C., &c. They repre-,
sented themselves as persons OF wealth, ana
stated that the younger lady would soon oe
married to Dr. Julius De Mayer, very rich
man, who would settle all the debts contracted.
Suspicion was finally aroused by their move
ments, and the parties were arrested as stateo
above. Their baggage, which was seized con
sisted of two trunks containing number OF
quart bottles wrapped in paper, tin pans and
cans, bed tick and pillow, horse blanket, and
some old garments. Also, number OF letters
many CT which were of an amusing character
CLOSING CRACKS IN SToVEs.-lt may he
convenient 10 know q ready method OF closing
up cracks, which are not uncommon, IN cast
iron stoves, and we arc assured that the follow
ing rccipe is reliable one. Good wood ashes
are to be sited through fine sieve, to which
is added the same quantity of clay, finely pull
ver,zed, together with little salt. The mix
ture is to be mos,ened with water enough to
make paste, and the crack of the stove filed
with it. This cement does not peel OFT or
break away, and assumes an extreme degrees
of hardness after being heated. The stove
must be cool when the APPLICATION is made The
same substance: may be used in setting IN the
plates of a srovc, or Ill fitting stove-ripes,
serving to render all the joints perfectly tight
TO ADVERTISERS The advantages of ad-
verising in an evening paper may be briefly
told la the morning, with business OF the
day before you, hasty glance is made through
the paper barely sufficient to afford an oppor,
tunity to take all the news contained therein.
The evening is a period OF rest,o' leisure, when
the mind wants occupation OF dltterent sort
than that which has engaged it during the day.
The evening paper Is, therefore, clretul'y
rcad-neWs miscellaneous matter, adver-
tisements-the whole paper.