The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-02-24

never was quite clear in my mind about
dat are bill. Some days thought it was
a bad bill, and oder days | thought in was
a good bill !; and one O dem days when
thought it was goci bill / jes' passed it
away
Woman sufferagers are not sailing along
in the West as smoothly as they appear to
desire. Illinois refuses to have anything
to do with them, Iowa is ardently willing
to let we'll enough alone, and Missouri has
now fatty told them that they can't vote
in that State on any terms.
Minnesota rejoices in the possession of
a poetess who has written poem "an hour
in length" said poem commencing with a
"nebular hypothesis" and ending with the
political aspirations of "women who wear
corsets, the poor, heartess little things"
On the coolest day of the winter, Jan.
oath, two ladies of North Anson, Maine,
went a mile into the woods. got load of
wood, hauled it TO a school l-house, unloaded
it, and got some boys to cut enough to
keep fire SO as to have prayer meeting.
The New York Examiner says the reason
why an American comic paper will not
succeed, is because there are in the country
so many people who can spell worse, lie
faster, and blaspheme more fearfully than
any corps of editors that can be gathered
together.
They have temperance insurance socie-
ties in Georgia, which are somewhat origi-
nal. Each member pays five dollars as
an initiation fee, and five dollars dues each
month. At the end of the year the money
is divided among those who have remained
faithful to the pledge.
Tho wedding tour of young couple in
New Haven, Connecticut, last week, con-
sisted of a horse-car ride to the end of the
line and home again; total expenditure,
twenty-four cents. They began married
life as they ought-cconomically,
The completion of railroad in Peru
was lately celebrated by the contractor
with a .fete costing 5000, 900, and attended
by six hundred guests whom he transported
five hundred miles by sea, and entertained
for ten days on scale of eastern mag
nficence.
One of the stories told of the Paris siege
is that Baron Rothschild, firing of rat,
vainly offered 800 for pheasant. He
was forced to take fifty sparrows instead.
flor pot pie,) at So each.
The latest novelties are evening shoes
for ladies, which are made with gilt heels
and very great deal of gold embroidery
over the instcp, and gilt caps to the toes.
Missouri laments the fact that its State
prison, with seven hundred able bodied
convcts, has in the last three years cost
$23 900 more than it has earned.
There is lad Of our acquaintance who
regards hunger and the Christening rod as
about the same thing-they both make the
boy holler.
The Saturday Recie,o quietly suggests
that ''if Gen. Butler were to lead contin-
gent to Ireland he might find it difficult to
return"
On his late return to Salt Lake, Brigham
found his wives drawn up in hollow
square to receive him.
Memminger, formerly Confederate Sec
retary of the Treasury, has been made
president of thc Charleston IS. C) Bible
Society.
At recent school examination a young
rrchin being asked why it was so warm
In tho torrid zone, replied promptly, "Be-
cause it is so hot"
A young lady being azked by an enthu-
siastic politician which party she was most
in favor of, replied that she preferred a
wedding party.
At La Croese, Wisconsin, they victimize
the poor countrymen by selling them ju-
jube paste for sole leather.
Mrs. Sarah Sleeper Smith has arrived
in Lake Village, N. H., after twenty-seven
years missionary life in Siam.
Good resolutions are like ladies who
faint in lecture room--they should be
carried out.
A musical young lady says that COM
poser may very properly make overtures
to anybody.
San Francisco has mushrooms foot in
diameter.
Boston has a severe attack this winter of
private theatricals.
IT requires two or three thousand tons of
food each day for Paris.
Coats of arms are becoming popular
among fashionable New Workers.