The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


Staten Island cows, fed on still slops,
get drunk.
A race between one-legged men will
enliven Rutland. -s as
Lager beer is called rm de Bismarck at
Niagara hotels. ,uanM 4gAast
Again they say the Muhlbach is coming
to read, in the Fall.
The Patriot Hen is western hebdo-
Tnadal, which will soon set. z4 y ala7 I
Snuff dipping is becoming prevalent
among Providence mill-girls. sss4 Z
A loving wife, in Indiana, knocked her
husband down seven times with rolling
pin! .r9b'tts4 ffieii ls aas 7ii" S4
A Saratoga lady who pours down 40
glasses of the water daily, is becoming
dropsical. Ash .,i q. ,o sia',,
rs. The London Times appeals to the Queen
Z to come out and show herself to her loving
subjects. a lo...ss5 Is s,a ..l ..i's.
An Ohio boy, who shot his grandfather
with atenpenny nail, explains that he tried
to shoot a cat. l,-iis a's9
An Alabama debtor slung the contents
of his snuff-box into mans face who
dunned him in church. ~ Z ..
Put-in-Bay people have been wasting
their sweetness on bogus Jim Fisk, and
propose to sue the real one for damages.
-La Mr. Welzy, of Washington, having sui
cided because he couldn't get clerkship,
the Chicago Post opines he did as Welzy
could.
A fond father in Washington brought his
two daughters from New York seventeen
silk dresses and four blonde wigs of various
shades.
Some Philadelphia gamblers knocked
down q gentleman passing, hurried him into
q carriage. and drove off, robbing him At
their leisure. l, .s
A large New Foundland dog in New
York displays the greatest aversion to CHG
mons and panniers, and tears then oil
whenever opportunity offers. ,,f aa
Some burglars near Philadelphia got into
lady's bedroom and forced her to give up
her cherished silk dresses and jewelry at
the mouth of pistol. fFif I1'hla5
An old gentleman in Louisville engaged
lot Of boys to clean up and beautify the
Pioneer graveyard, promising them $3 for
the job. They got it nicely done, but the
.old man did not reappear to pay them.
A little Springfield girl, crying as if her
heart would break, finally got breath to
tell the crowd that she had lost her canary
bird, and man had found it for her, and
she was crying: because she had lforgotten to
thank him -. gsrf.fr Ia ~
Col. Jim Fisk's attire at Long Branchthe
other evening was thus: Patent feathers,
immaculate white pants, velvet frock, dark
and soft as the plumage of the raven, spot
less shirt front, revealing his ''koh-inoor, =
or locomotive headlight, /" rich straw-col-
ored kids, and cuffs adorned with the
brightest of sleeve-buttons, a light straw
hat trimmed with blue ribbon in his glovet
hand, and his hair parted in the middle.
A duck which died in Portland Of som,
strange disease, was post morte,aed, and il
its crop was a large frog, like any Othe
{except that it was covered with very thiI
skin, through which the blood vessels conlt
be plainly seem, completely filling the croI
thus causing suffocation. 1t seems tina
when the duck was young it must hav
swallowed q little pollywog, and this polly
wog had grown and thriyen in his singula
habitation. IN .''''i 'ii' ''s {, s-t.,5ss 5,IP
Somebody once asked Tom Corwin if h
had heard certain story of Lewis D
Campbell's. "Was ii about himself p
inquired Mr.. Corwin. ..'No believe not.
HWell. then. never heard it ~ said Mr