The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-29
GENERAL NEWS.

Nebraskans who neglect to vote are rid
den on rail.
New Albany ladies walk up to bars and
call for little sugar in theirs.
Gloves are rather deeper in tone and
higher in price than last season.
Thayer, of circus fame, is about to enter
the political ring in Pennsylvania.
An unruly lover was cowhided by his
prospective mother-in-law in Cincinnati.
Mr.. Howe, of Lebanon, N. H., aged
eighty-five, took his first railroad ride last
week.
A Florida colored woman rock-a-byed
her infant to sleep with dose of laudanum.
Venison is eight cents pound in Wis
consin, and "deer'' at that.-Boston Post.
"Yankee Doodle" is often played now-a-
days by English bands, and is very popular.
A wood-ple fell and forced Detroit
man against circular saw. He was cut in
two.
The gloom of Missouri funeral was
alleviated by an impromptu jig by an in
sane man.
The Hartford Times mourns that the only
sparrows in the park are spare rows Of
benches.
Southern saloonists have formed a syndi-
cate to put the price of drinks down to ten
cents.
A Massachusetts psychologists has mes
merzed an inebriate out of his. appetite
for liquor.
A Hartforder advised slender friend to
chalk his head and go to masquerade as
billiard que.
Some Troy Sons of Temperance seasoned
their oysters with whisky, by mistake, in
stead Of vinegar.
Mr.. Kerr, of Kansas went to bed upon
a roof, and on waking up on the sidewalk
made some Kerrsory remarks.
St. Louis gamblers are out with circu-
lar setting forth the great losses to the city
occasioncd by the suppression of gambling.
Three ameteurs attempted burglary in
Greenfield, Ind, and were cordially well
coined with little shotgun by the afiable
proprietor.
James Neely, of Ohio, enjoyed the great
est satisfaction in his last moments, by re-
fusing to tell his weeping family where he
had buried sl5, 900 in coin.
A Vermont paper speaks of minister
who had resigned his ''pasturate. His
last sermon might have had for its text,
"All flesh is grass v'-Boston Post.
With the completion of the European
North American railway from Bangor to
St. John, on the 18th of October, the ocean
transit to Europe will be reduced five days.
An eccentric clergyman lately said in
one of his sermons, that about the COM
monest proof we have that man is made
of clay is the brick so often found in his
hat"
Miss King, who has tasted tea in every
part of China, says Americans will never
get the, best tea until they are willing to bid
as high for it as the Russians, who now
monopolize the finest growths.
The Queen of Belgium is better horse
woman than scholar. Her trained horses
recently awoke the professional enthusiasm
of Ernest Benz, famous circus rider o.
Brussels, who declared them much better
educated than herself.
The ex-King of Spain, the consort of the
deposed Queen Isabella, is stated to be {
| very Sklll1ul turner anu WOOu carver, ant
spends several hours every day in making
small images of saints out of wood. ii,
can out-whittle any Yankee.
In one county of Kansas alone there arr
121 acres of castor beans under cultivation
and Greeley thinks it needs no mathemati
clan to show that the crop will supply cas-
tors to every bedstead in the United States
Detroit Free Press.
Laura De Force Gordon insisted, in re
cent lecture at Stockton, California, tina
she was ian American citizen over twenty
one years of age" which provoked crus
ty and disgusted benedict to exclaim
"You bet you are!" Sensation in the au
dience.
One of the most humorous things con
nected with the smallpox excitement il
Lowell is told by the Courie, which re
ceived letter from a man in New-Hamr
shire, desiring his paper discontinued ii
the disease should abate. The Couier
afraid to telegraph him for fear that boy
will climb the telegraph poles and becom
infected.