Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-03-02
Minor ParagrapllS.


4 French letter says :-'There is one thing
men do 10 Europe which an American gentle
man never does When riding in a carriage with
wife, sister or lady-love they will allow her to
climb over their feet and get out with the aid
of footman, not getting out themselves to as
sist her. When this first attracted my atten-
tiou thought it ILL., breeding, but found it was
only custom, growing, perhaps, out of there
generally being footman in attendance, whose
place it is to assist the lady | still think it very
bad taste, but see American girls, who would
be utterly indignant at such rudeness at home.
bear it patiently and meekly here-a but Miss
c. She quietly waited and then ordered
the Duke B to get out and assist her. and
he obeyed willingly, as man oneys the whim
Of q Spartan beauty.
We warn the wives of artists to be careful
how they treat husbands in the least likely to
become illustrious. Hundreds OF years ago, in
old Nuremberg. Mrs. Albert Durcr wasn't
good to her genius of husband. and now
whenever he is lectured about. as he was in
Boston on Saturday, by Mr.. Waterston. the
audience is informed that the wife scolded the
artist numerically, and kept him hard at work
for the sake of his earnings. The reputation
Of the poor lady is exactly that Of the wife of
Socrates, the unfortunate Nantippe, although
aS Sir Alexander Grant remarks Socrates
could not have been a very comfortable huS-
band But perhaps too many OF the wives ot
great men have had but scant justice done
them by one-sided biographerS.
Professor Tutte is lecturng in Cleveland on
the nature, growth, and uses of the sponge.
1t is to be hoped. before he gets through with
the subject that he will clucldate the nature
and use of the newspaper sponge. Everything
under heaven appears to have its use but the
article referred to- therefore the Professor will
c,nfcr blessing on mankind by explaining the
why's and the wherefores Of this branch of his
subject.
Mr.. Ryan, of Melbourne, fell from great
height in lonely place and broke his leg. No
one was in the vicinity, and the case would
have seemed hopeless TO most men; but Ryan
resolutely went to work as his own doctor and
nurse set the limb, bound it, and subsisted on
oysters and rain water for twelve days until
some one chanced to pass by and rescued him
from his unpleasant prcdlcamcnt.
The assets of the Eagle Cotton Manufacture
in. Company at Columbus, Ga, aggregate
81, 3,146, and the liabilities exclusive Of
capital stock. $50. 10 The years profits
were $204 ,:3}27 50, subject, however, to de-
,luction of Sl9.77S n on account of inter ,st.-
These profits have arisen from six months full
work with unskilled labor
Sir Charles Dixie, the young English Re-
publican, has Just been married, and his nup-
iialS we're characterized by genuine Repub-
quietly to church from one quarter, the bride
from another. They met and were married
Sir Charles did not ma Ike a prolonged wedding
tour, but took his seat IN the House OF Com
mons on its opening night.
The local editor of the Mobile Register bash
fully chronicles the fact that while setting abatt
Of a lady whose dress was somewhat dlsarrang-
el he had his attention attracted to her 'bus-
tie, aud being blessed with strong optics, was
enabled to read nearly the whole of double
loaded editorial therein.
A young physician in St. Catharines, Cana
da, offers to visit the two thousand families OF
trat place one year, charging each family only
five dollars year This arrangement would
bring him ten thousand dollars year but it
would be hard on the other doctors.
The papers are talking about new method
of thieving being discovered We don't be-
lieve it the New York Custom House has
exhausted the inventive genius of the country
in that direction.
A New York bride tainted away at her we'd
ding reception on discovering that she had lost
the pendant for her diamond necklace on the
way home from chnrch. A glass of the
ruby restored her.
An exchange says Tom Scott did not want
Colonel Mcclure to run for Senator against
Gray. Well, why didu't be lease the Colonel
for nine hundred and ninety nine years and
stop him?
Nine hundred families Of the laboring poor
of London are provided with clean, healthy
and comfortable homes at rents almost nomi
nal, through the generosity Of the late Mr..
Peabody.
4 Montreal paper wants all Englishmen and
Americans to pray tor peace at this Crisis.
Others think it is not so much petition as
competition that is needed.
A loyal Arkansas paper nominates as follows:
For President Of the United States, Y. ).
Grant; for Governor of Arkansas, not 10.
Brooks by a-sight.
An exchange says that there is more nour-
!>hment in an oyster than in sllce OF beet
hnt it cautiously omits the information as to
what kind Of slice it means.
Wedding rings are now made double, that is
severed but still united-whch style OF ring IS
surely aprOpos to marriage.
The IDEs OF AUGUST We hear but very
little nova days of the Mierites and other
lcople who have predicted the speedy, end OF
the world Rev. DR.. Cummings maintained
t"r longer time than any one else his fa!th IN
the early advent of the Millennium, and the
succeeding end of this great, round globe; ont
even he has been silent of late. However, the
iavorite theme finds new exponent. 1t IS now
= Swiss astronomnr-one M Plantamour, OF