The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-07-27
GENERAL NEWS.

Non-explosiye oil is being largely ex-
ported to Europe. II works just as 1t does
here.
The latest libel against Newark is that 1t
uses worn-out canal boat Tor a cattie
pound.
The Indiana State Medical Association
expels any member who advertlses ms pro-
fcssion.
One of Barnum's anacondas shuftied Oil
thirteen feet of mortal coil, in Worcester, a
few days ago.
There are 692, ,765 shoemakers in Amer,
ica. (Of course this is lie, but statistlcai
items are all the rage just now.)
A colored jury at Brandon, Texas, re-
Gently sentenced another colored man to
'sbe hung by the head until he gets dead"
Visitors at White Sulphur Springs were
surprised by white frost ON Saturday
morning last.
The average daily attendance upon the
public schools of Philadelphia during the
last school'year was II 500.
John Smith is again in troublc-thls time
for evading the payment OF railroad fire.
WHY can't John behave himself?
An English tourist thought that a Detroit
sign. reading Dinner from 124 to 2 p. NJ, !"
meant 'Dinner from l24 to shillings per
meal"
The Delaware river, below Philadelphia,
is rapidly filling up with mud and sand,
and if it is not thoroughly dredged out,
! navigation to the city will be closed.
The Sandwich Islanders are immensely
nlessed with the new postage stamps intro
ducct, into the islands, and buy them III
large quantities to use as charms.
Two Young men in Long Island churcf
new on a recent Sunday played euchre, anc
the lady sitting between them held the
cards. The party was put out.
The guage of the Ohio and Mississippi
ra;lroad was changed yesterday, in sever
hours, from six feet to four 1eet nine meme
throughout the entire line--a distance 0
$40 miles. The feat is a notaple one, ever
in this time of remarkable exploits.
The towns along the Illinois and Michigan
canal. which have been laughing at Chicag
because of the oder0us river, are beglnnm
to LAUGH out of the other side OF thel
mouth. They begin to know how 1t
themselves, and they doii't Ike ieeihg
bit.
A young doctor, on being asked TO COZ
tribute toward enclosing and ornamentm
the village cemetery, very cooDy remarke
that if he filled it he thought he should q
: his part.
A Virginia editor did not publish on u
anniversary of the rebel retreat from ire
tysburg and fall of Vicksburg, Suspend.
} for one day, Sin memory OF two such ~
ter and humiliating events"
The swells at New London pronom'
Peauot, Paquo {; and the Bulletin says
"Sbades of Uncas! Shall we have to wre
tie with Poquetanoc, Pogwamsticock al
: : Wiccopeset in the French language ~
f A dividend is the surplus, the result, 7
: end of transaction, divided among {
v shareholders the word dividend
I An apothecary originally carried his met
s cine about in lars--he was pot-carrler
' thence the word a-pot-he-carries.
A remarkable family lives in Dali
a county, Ark. The father is los years o.
!, the mother LOG, and the two are the parei
:! of twenty-nine children--fifteen boys a
: fourteen girls.
ss There is one lecturer at least who
i more offers than he can accept. John
nj Cough is wanted next winter at nine n,
i. dred different places. He doubts his al
e. ity to fill that many appointments inside
a. three or four months.
s. The Michigan Legislature, at its late $
ne sion. passed railroad law which auth
a ICES the construction of railroads upon
n narrow gauge plan, without special chart
Accordingly company has already b
as formed to construct road with three
IN gauge from Detroit to Bay City, and
ne work will be begun in few days:
ne capital of the company is fixed atsloo,o
ep and at the first meeting OF the compa
At, about the middle of May, over 800,
ne were subscribed.
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