The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

-Lockjaw can be cured by perspiration.
Each fire alarm costs New York 35,-
California has produced a 24-pound
turnip.
New York city has . 1000 billiard tables
IN use.
Chicago has physician named
Chronic.
Chicago has fifteen miles of lumber
wharves. s0A' TT ~
Thirty Hindoos are studying law in
London. 40 -. =
The Library II Congress has 230, 900
volumes. F 'tf.f't 4Stif. Ft4S
-Pittsburg has 30 foundries and 30 roll
ing mills.
Arkansas has grown figs equal to those
of Arabia.
There are 5000 oyster boats in Chesa-
peake Bay.
louisville has l 800 saloons, receiving
900 per day. ~, 4,
"A Charleston child was drowned in a
barrel of molasscs. f.gi2gg.l
A horned rooster is the latest produc-
VIII VI Wi III CdIOliIlds -1ftt
Fourteen Chinese theatrical stars are
to arrive in San Francisco. MOOD,
There is q candle in the Vatican COM
posed OF "a pounds Of wax.
Five generations of Walkers recently
picnIcked at Sturbridge, Mass. 7,
= There is man now living N Ohio
whose father was born l65 years ago.
- A California orcharlist nettcd 81 900
on three car loads Of pears sent East. as
@ In Truro, Mass, there are IO5 Wild
ows whose husbands were lost at sea.
A Syracuse paper states that only 1875
trains arrive and depart from that city every
day. ~ gf -
Its your tall fellows that are luckiest
IN love. The young ladies are all in favor
of Hy-men.
- The dog in the kennel banks at his
ficas the dog that is busy hunting does
not feel them.
The one seryiceable, safe, certain. re-
muneratlye, attainable quality in every pur-
suit, is attention. ifHAI@' it4
1t is wise and well to look ON the
cloud OF sorrow as though we expected to
turn INTO RAINBOW. H
For ten years but five Greenlanders
have left their icy mountains for dwelling
in more genial chimes.
English experience is said to show that
out of every 80 colts from thoroughbred
stock but one improves fast. a.fs.e
White vests are bad investment for
the young men, now that the girls have got
to using so much oil on their hair. g
A woman lately arrested in Savannah
for street lighting, threshed two constables
and kicked the Judge down stairs. Il ~
Goethe says the destiny of any nation at
any given time depends upon the opinions
OF its young men under the age of %.
Mr.. Egan, of Wisconsin, thought he
would feel circular saw to see il It was
going. He is now learning to write with
his left hand. 't 1853
Colonel Chesney is about the most sue
,essiul author of the day. The. seventh
hundred thousand Of his "Battle of Dork-
ng' is now selling in England. q ~
The instrument used in the murder of
Kate Leehan, of Boston, was wrench. II
vas found wrapped in the Helena Clarion.
newspaper published in Arkansas. aa
Mrs. Mary Ann Cleveland, of Maqno-
letta, Iowa, has sued ten saloon-keepers
II that city for $1,000 damages done her
~ furnishing liquor to her husband.
The way to wealth is as plain as the
way to market; it depends on two words --,.
Industry and frugality; that is, waste
'either time nor money, but make the best
# both. "aq..' 'ef aH I37iI7i
,,, iii, - iflNiet. ~ Lr.S ~ l.iis tat45
The decision OF the United States SUI
IRENE Court on the legal-tender question
Will be announced about the last week in
ne present session, which will expire in
december.
Yellow fever is said to be abatine in
'atchez, Miss. One hundred and fifty cases
re still under treatment. There have been
bout 60 deaths since Sept. Is. There are
. cases under treatment in Vicksburg.
The Baltimore Saturday NigM rebukes
ne fools in that city who still yituperate
gainst Yankees" and says the place will
ecome a provincial town unless this
pirit is extinguished.i Capital will not 90
lcre to be sneered at.
Reports from the forest fires along the
axe Shore railroad gives the curious fact
nat the dry "muck," which forms the first
yer Of soil, about three feet in thickness.
urned with the. slow fire of compressed .
eat, eating under grcentre and uproot-
q them to add their fuel to the flames.
The Democrats of Indiana will, not .
old their State convention on the Sth of e
anuary, as has been their custom, but
Ill defer the meeting to a later day, and t.
ltil Congress Shall have done something
hich will allow them to frame a new set
"time-honored principles" upon which 6
go before the people. a
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