The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-02
miscellaneous.

Dime dances prevail in Wisconsin
Moonlight is worth $157 night |
Cleveland
Greensburg claims to be the best pave
city in Indiana.
Amusement is the happiness of thos
who cannot think.
| In Chicago the omnibus drivers carr
lean people a cent cheaper.
| One of the Oldest inhabitants OF Tro,
predicts a very mild winter.
Iron Chicago and Milwaukee.
| That fossil ship in the California deser
Is now said to be 200 feet long.
The class of ~ at Yale has lost fiv,
members by death within year.
Fifty-two of the cities of the United
States have the letter carrier system.
A Cincinnati lager beer firm does busi.
ness under the name of A. Schwill & Co.
A mammoth London circus in now on
its way to this country in six sailing vessels
The Cincinnati horse railroad companies
are no longer allowed to run one-horse
cars.
A girl at twenty, at Alton, Illinois, is
digging well for her father at seventy
five cents foot.
Philadelphia consumes 2,O0O,0 900 tons
of coal annually, and her demand con-
stantly increases.
Of what feminine creature are you re-
minded on the completion of building !?
A housemaid.
Last Friday was the coolest day which
has been experienced in Memphis for
twenty years.
The Roman Catholics of Quebec propose
to iovite the Pope to take up his abode in
Canada.
The total population of Lynchburg is
6,S25-of which number s,472 arc white
and 1858 black.
The Kentucky supreme court has de-
cided that stray dogs may be killed with
impunity or other suitable means.
The largest and most beautiful Metho-
dist church in Cincinnati has 222 pews, of
which every fifth one is free.
The Campagna around Rome is to be
drained, and made the source of agri-
cultural fruitfulness instead of malaria.
AT the battle of Gravelotte trumpeter
was killed by ball which went in at
the mouth of bis instrument.
The Germans have no funeral service.
1t is left to the ability and discretion of
officiating clergymen to improyise one
suitable to each case.
Mrs. Ingham, of Iowa, will live in his
tory as the woman who delivered a thanks
giving sermon while her husband proudly |
sat back of the pulpit holding the baby.
When the San Domingo resolution of |
Mr.. Morton comes up in the House, it is
said that Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, will |
be the principal advocate of the purchase
of the island.
Rev. William T. Sabine is New York |
clergyman who refused to read the funeral |
services at the burial of George Holland,
the venerable actor. 1t was on account
of the latter's profession.
Cincinnati arms her policemen with steel
nippers for seizing their victims. Other
cities don't supply nippers, as the police
men always know where to go and get
them when they want them.
A suburban resident tells of man with
a concrete heart who promised to make
little miss nice Christmas present and
gave her--two copies of Ayers almanac.
There's big heart for you.
Near the ruins of Thebes, in Egypt, is
lake called the Purple Lake, from the fact
hat its waters at certain period annually
assume purple tint. The cause of this
phenomenon is unexplained.
The ice on the Potomac is from five to
seven inches thick, and the river boats are
frozen in. An attempt, Fri
lay, to break through to Alexandria was
Memorial tablets of General George
Washington and General Robert E. Lee
nave been procured by the subscriptions
of citizens of Alexandria, and inserted on
sither side Of the chance 10 Christ Church
n that city.
AT an execution at Chattanooga, Tenn,
IN excursion steamer was run to the gall
ows, some distance down the river, at a
lolar and a half h ID. 1t is believed to
be put-up job besween the steamboat
men and the man who was hung, to divide
The proceeds. There is cheating in most
all trades but ours.