Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-12
Miscellaneous Items.

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Miscellaneous Items.
At Pawtucket, r. l., there lives certain
young gentleman aged eighteen months. -
The other day this youth kept quiet UNI
usual time, and his mother suspecting all WAS
not right went into an adjoining room to look
him up Here she looked upon Il sight which
almost curdled her blood with terror. Upon
the floor By an open bureau drawer sat this
';precocious youth, with loaded and capped
and selfcocking reyolverln his hand, and he
was amusing himself by ramming the muzzlc
Of the piece down his throat, working at the
trigger and hammering it upon the floor. AS
soon as the mother recovered from her fright
she took the weapon from the child, and ad-
miniStered Il remembrance which will doubtless
deter him from another such exposure Of his
precious self TO instant annihiation. 1t is al
most miracle that the Child had not killed
itself upon the spot, but strange to say not Il
barrel was discharged
There is some talk Of putting the Great
Eastern steamship on the passenger route be-
tween New York and Liverpool this summer
with the feature of cheap passage TO Europe
to attract custom The fare, it is said will be
S25. The Great Eastern has passenger &C
conlmodatons for fully two thousand people
A Chicago paper publishes summary Of
some forty Of the more memorable murders
which have occurred within that municipality
since the city was founded. These details pre-
sent the mania Of blood-shedding III all its hor'
rible phases.
1t has been rumcred that the Partisan ladies
intend to show their sense of their country )
misfortunes by adopting for the future all cx-
treme sobriety Of costume, As this Is al &C.
centricty of fashion into which their most de-
voted imitators in other countries can hardly
be expected to follow them; another defeat
of Worth may be anticipated, and the great
Partisan milliner will cease to give the law to
Europe. Under these circumstances it will
become necessary to establish the capital Of
fashion in some other city, and the name OF
several places have already been mentioned rs
the future rest of government Tor female cos
tune.
Fractional CURRENCY--O the first is
sue of SEQ, OOO OOU fractional currency, made
in 1862, and known at the. time as postal
currency" S., AS, 0GO remains unredeemed, -
During the past year Ss9, 4l8 OF this currency
was sent to the Treasury for redemption, but
the rate at which it Is now received decreases
10 RAPIDLY that it promises to cease entirely
in another year. Not far from Si,OOO,O0O vi
the posta currency, it is believed, will never
he heard from, having been lost or destroyed
in circulation. Of the second issue OF about
1923, ,OOO 900, made in 1868, there IS stili out
standing the sum OF So, 246, ,0GO. The redemp-
ton during the past year amounted to ) 81 43o.
Tbe poor paper upon which this issue Is print
ed made it more easily destroyed than the hrst
issue, and it is believed at the Treasury, that
more than 81, 100000 will never come IN Tor re
demption. The total amount Of the first two
issues of fractional currency lost or worn out
while in circulation will, according to these
estimates, exceed $1,000, 900, or about 10 per
cont Of the whole issue. This sum is OF
course, clear gain to the Treasury and an en-
tire loss to the people. Itrepresents 4 small
part of the cost to the country OF the present
system ofirredeemable paper currency
An EMBARRASSING SITUATION. Il " ash
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
Feb. TT The other day Gen. Plcasanton, Il
delicate sensitive little gentleman, was
dressing for dinner. lie had divested himself
Of every garment except the one spoken OF
by Hood in that melancholy song called
.Srhe Song of the the Shirt. lie was sailing
around under bare poles, when he heard a
knock at the door, and snpposlng 1t to DC his
man-who ought to have been there and was
nOt-he sang out, COnle III ~ Iio u''ei
CONSERVATION that constitutional female known
as Mrs Woodhuli: with peaked tct' Iuu
mans overcoat, terminating in unmlstakable
crinoline, stalkcd in As she did not stalk out
but stock looking at the Commissioner OF In,
ternal Revenue in the abstract the last named
gentleman, hiding behind an arm chair, stutter-
ed out, Excuse me madam! =,
Il want to see you Oh business, Ten riea-
santon. -
come to my office? I am not in a condition to
see any one on business just now aud Deg