The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-05
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would get lost without It,"
GLEA NINGS.
A western lover says of bis parting from
his adored one: ''Her last words fell,
like great rocks, into the sea Of my sor-
rows, and splashed the briny water into my
eyes"
A negro was recently found hanging to
a tree in an Obion county swamp, Tennes-
see, with placard bearing the words
"This one will steal no more horses"
nailed to his breast.
Mark Twain says: ~ have seen slower
people than l am, and more deliberate
people than l am, and even quieter and
more listless and lazer people than | am.
But they were dead"
The Sophomore class of Amherst Col
lege have. presented to Professor Harris,
for his infant daughter, solid silver cup,
lined with gold, and costing about $50.
1t is the first class present ever made there.
A Lockport dog got needle fast in his
tongue, and the animal was chloroformed
in order that the needle might be extracted.
The surgical operation was success, but
the chloroform killed the dog.
There is man in northampton, Mass,
eighty-four years old, who has never been
sick day in his life, nor paid cent for a
doctors or lawyers bill, nor dime for
preaching, and he is said to be worth at
least 100000.
An editor once wrote notice of a Column
bus business college while publishing a
nhia Ha 10 Of xUal1-
deserving institution, and of course the
compositor made it "hell-deserying."
The Nevada Legislature, in granting
charters to new railroads, provides that no
Chinese shall in any way be employed
upon the roads, either in constructing or
operating them, under penalty Of for
fixture OF all their privileges.
A COW in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
about twelve years ago, swallowed a
leather nail pouch. Recently she was
slaughtered, and the stomach being opened,
the pouch was found uninjured, and in it
a dozen nails She hadn't lost one. Good
cowl
A Charleston Massachusetts, State prison
convict, who has done considerable literary
work while in confinement, has written a
letter to the warden, suggesting that the
convicts be allowed to edit and publish a
magazine, giving the public an inside view
of the institution.
A young lady in button factory at
Waterbury, Conn. while STOPPING to pick
up some buttons the other day, had her
hair caught in the machinery, and the
scalp completely torn from her head. The
scalp has been replaced, and it is hoped
will grow on the head again.
A raid was made upon the pockets Of
the boys at the Adams School, East Boston,
the other day, and about barrel full of
the squeakine "roosters," the latest and
most nonsenscsl and disagreeable toy, con-
fscated. The boys had evidently made
extensive preparations for serenade at re-
cess.
The Rev. Alexander Fair, of Christ
Church, New Orleans is totally deaf yet
breaches constantly and converses fluently,
understanding everything that is said
merely by the motion of the lips. He re-
turns instant and pertinent answers to
every question, and it is said that unless
the fact of his deafness were mentioned it
would never be known.
An old gentleman in Caldwell, Mo-, who
thought be was desperately in love with
Young girl the other day, offered to give
her young lover his own wife and $500 in
cash if be would relinquish his claim and
induce the girl to marry him. The lover
agreed, the girl consented. and the old
gentleman's wife signified her willingness,
but Just at this point the course of true
love was rudely stopped by the girls
father. aud the young man, finding he
could not get the $500, submitted to the
stern DEGREES of fate with the best grace
possible, and married the girl.
A public exhibition Of the wonderful
memory possessed by Dan
iel Mccartney, an old and illiterate man,
was given in Columbus, Ohio, one night
last week. 1t began by some one asking
bim on what day of the week was Decem-
Der l. 1864. He answered promptly,
Thursday. and said it was pleasant where
le lived, lin Iowa at the time.) He asso-
dated with tho day marriage in his
and gave the names OF the
parties. Similar questions were asked,
Until twenty-six dates had been mentioned
" different persons, and the answers on an
.yerage given correctly inside of six Sc
,,nds. lie was then examined in maehe-
natics, multiplying three figures, and ex-
racting square and cube root mentally
With great rapidly. His knowledge of the
Bible was then tested, and he told, with
are exceptions, the exact chapter and
'erse of every passage read.