The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

Joaquin Miller.
You can always find a sheet of water
on the bed of the ocean.
All Mann, heather, has raised forty
acres of excellent cotton in Arkansas.
Florida is manufacturing feather flow.
ers from the plumage of the white heron.
--Bucksport, Me-, has fertilization Of
huge proportions garrisoned by two men.
The thigh-bone of the mastodon that
died IN primitive Evansville has been ex-
humed.
"A vigilance committee to enforce vac
cination is one of the wants felt in Chi
cago.
Why not add I rail to the Pacific
railroad track if the tea crop is too much
for it?
TO find out what Mr.. Greeley will do,
it is only necessary to hear what he says
he won't do.
Mrs. Glen, the indianapolis murderess,
encouraged by the luck of Laura Fair,
wants new trial.
A Kentucky man in twenty years
drank seventy-three barrels and some odd
quarts of whisky.
"A San Francisco journal states that
wealthy miner has fallen in love with Mrs.
Fair and will marry her.
Carl Marx is affectionately called by
the Parisars the High Priest of the Reli-
gion Of Petroleum"
The jute crop of Bengal has been Sc
riously injured by a storm. A rise in back
hair will probably be the result.
An English volume has Just appeared
with the allterative title Puttyput's Pro-
tege or, Road, Rail, and River"
Brigham Young has taken his decen-
NAL census Of his children, and reports
fifty-eight, with no returns from outlying
counties.
Madame Casenton, of Lyons, France,
has forty-three cats, eighteen Of which took
first premiums at the London cat show last
year. r
A mighty hunter in Nevada attempted
to get a bullet out of his gun by melting it.
He got it out, but had to call in doctor 10
get it out of his own head.
The only prisoner in the Jail at South
Bend, Ind, is indignant at the circum-
stance. He says that he was not condemn
ed to solitary confinement.
If Laura Fair had her deserts, there
would be an occasion for disquietude in the
household of Satan. That is the politest
way we can put it, Chicago Post.
Julia Meyers, of St. Louis, was mar
ried to her first husband eight years ago.
and last Monday followed her fourth to
the grave. She buried each one-no d.
vorces.
"A German pedagogical convention is to
be held at Dresden on the 18th instant, at
the call Of Prince Bismarck, for the unfit
cation OF education throughout the empire.
--Sunday-school Tommy thinks every.
body is real mean because he is not taken
to the theological gardens to see the beast
of the Apocalypse and behemoth of the
Holy Writ, and, he says, every time he
proposes it, they just up and laugh at him.
The brilliant little "Etc." articles of
the Overland Monthly are written by
Miss Sarah B. Cooper, who also reports
sermons from memory, &c. Queer place,
that California! Bartlett pears, big ranch
es, Bret Harte, Yosemite, and Miss
Cooper.
The two ladies' who have recently been
admitted to the bar of Utah are not Nor
1HSy uuNCitloC Willingness
to advocate the cause of all Mormon wo-
men who wish to escape from the VOWS
that have made them the fractional owner
of man.
The Chicago Times has received an
original poem on ''The Burnt Districtat
Midnight" The hundred and second verse
reads: Z" The derrick stands still 'gainst the
half finished wall. The brick-piles are
quiet; the stones are at rest. Tomorrow
they'll rise, nine or ten stories tall, in huge,
massive structures the worst in the
West. u
Mrs. Joaquin Miller has been lectur-
ing in California about her husband. She
says she tasted till she became thin because
he loved interesting women-but she
added, my poet went down to the classic
shades of Oregon and made love to boun.
cling Willamett girl who weighed two hun
dred pounds ayordupos, and who ate all
she wanted"
--Bsmar, and the German authorities
may do their best, by ordinance and prohi-
btion, to turn back the tide of emigration
to America, but force works against
them which it is difficult to overcome. The
simple fact is that Germany is overcrowded.
III DCIHu tilOuodltiS VI pOoI pcOplt i've III
old railroad cars and omnibuses, and when
the police drive them from these retreats
they have nowhere to go. The Germans,
looking towards land where there is room
enough for all, and to spare, will seek it:
and official restrictions, however rigid, can
not check the tendency.
Somebody says the hog is Peabody
among animals alongside Of a hen. Throw
q handful of corn in ten-acre lot and
every hen in the enclosure will get dab at
it. The last hen ON the spot may not Sc
cure more than two kernels, but nothing in
in the hens appearance will indicate That.
1t will step around with as much precision
and gratitude as any in the flock, and wear
the most pensive smile you ever saw. A
hen will not eat everything it sees. but it
will try to, and there isn't one of them on
the face of this earth but that can tell you
the taste of everything it has seen within
the radius Of half mile of the house.