The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-07-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Coughing Hoss" is the Indian name for
locomotive.
Political Entertaining your own
opinion.
The Cincinnati cotton trade amounts to |
five millions year.
Plump lemons have been grown this year
at Macomb, Illinois.
A Columbus paper notes "the wabbllng
of the isothermal line."
Osceola county, Iowa, is said to be en-
tirely destitute of trees. ~
Colored brides in Cairo go blushing to
the altar in musquito-bar wells. a
A dog that can play on the piano is one
of the attractions of Atlanta, Ga.
The shady side, suicide and seaside
seems to be the most popular sides at
present.
1t is said that in this country consump-
ton carries off 100000 people evey year.
A boarder at hotel wanted his bill re-
duced because he had two teeth extracted.
The Versailles NIo.) Argus reports oat-
stalks six feet and corn twelve feet III
height.
A Cincinnati police lieutenant has been
suspended from the force for beating his
wife.
Three hundred and sixty-fivc divorce suits
were brought in Hamilton county, Ohio,
last year. One day.
1t is said that the new singer, Marie Mira
mon, has "put PATHS nose out of Joint, J"
having sung up to Z in alto.
Another co!ored jury in Ohio has distirl-
laI off
hav.or and good Judgment in murder
trial.
The author of "Ginx's Baby" who has
hitherto strictly maintained his incognito, is
now known to be Mr.. Edward Jenkins, a
native of Montreal.
Christian Crucable is the name of quarto
published in Macon, Georgia. 1t is reli-
ious semi-monthly, in the interest of the
lniversalist denomination.
Chill is troubled with heavy rains, snow
storms, priestly intrigues and presidential
election-a complication of curses enough
to throw all Chill into a burning fever.
While the Pennsylvania Central railroad
company is swallowing up an average of q
railroad week, it is also erecting new off
ces in Philadelphia at cost of a quarter o
amillion.
A Maysville (Ky.) "chap" went into I
drugstore in that place, and picked up
bottle of .hair-oil, thinking it was perfume
He saturated his handkerchief and tn
lapels of his coat with it, and now wants t.
know which is the best kind of soap for re
moving grease-spots.
The Heath Zouaves' explanation of thei
defeat at Cincinnati is that the Cincinnati
Zouaves were regulars from Newport bar
racks; that when they wheeled they locke
arms, and that they had the advantage {
certain "chalk marks" on the walls to guild
them in some of their evolutions.
Jarrett Bull, of Perryville, Kentucky
has in his possession two books that hay
seen service. One of them. 'Burhitt'
Notes on the New Testament" was printe
in London in 100, and is consequently on
hundred and sixty-two years old. Th
other is skiing James Bible" with tn
following letter-press "London: Printe
by Thomas Barkett, printer to the King
Most Excellent Majesty, and by the as
signs ofRobert Barkett. MDCCLlX."T hes
books are about sixteen inches in lengt
and the width of a family Bible.
The late Sir John Herschcl, the cminer
astronomer, bequeathed to the Royal As
Economical Society of London the volume
of drawings of spots on the sun by Pro
Pasdorff, and devised to the students of $
Johns College, Cambridge, where he IN;
circulated, and other learned institutions,
large number Of copies of his work ent
tied, "The Result Of Observations Astr
nomical made during the years lS36-7-S
when at the Cape of Good Hope" III
cost of the printing of this work was d.
frayed by the Duke of Northumberland.
A correspondent Of the st. Louis. II
publican, present at the recent review
the French army, says of M. Theirs: "
regret to say that what attracted my ow
attention most in NJ. Theirs, was the ev
dent signs of wear and tear which
showed, and the unmistakable symptom
of overwork telling upon advanced age an
worn-out physical powers. His head is 3
white as snow, and his face looked pale an
sodden. To think whispered a friend
my side, that the salvation, almost,
France depends upon that frail existence
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