The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-30
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TtLTO NISNIS.

We do nst agree with Theodore Tiltor
on every point of politics or religion, possi
bly,, but we are nevertheless clear that ht
who does not read the Golden Age, shuts
himself out from enjoying the raciest news
paper published on this continent.
The worst rum-hole in this city is di-
rectly under an old toper's nose.
Connecticut hangs in the balance, and
to guess at the result of next weeks elec-
ton would be like prophesying the wealth.
| er.
In Mr.. Saxe's new book of poetry he
does not try to be as funny as he can, foi
which we are duly grateful. He knows the
weakness of poor human nature and is
merciful.
According to Sir Charles Dixie, Queen
Victoria has two physicians in her house
hold. Certainly this is sin against the
constitution of the members of the Royal
family, but it is one which carries its own
penalty with it.
Congress has practically decided that tea
and coffee shall be admitted free of duty af-
ter the first of July, when every house
holder will drink the health of that honor
able body in a cup of pure Java well mixed
with chicory and peas.
Mr.. Beecher says that seventeen ser
mons on the doctrine of retribution, as it is
found in nature, rather tire man out.
Very likely. Hash is very good OCCASION
ally, but twenty-one hashes week are
enough to give saint the dyspepsia.
DIR. Holland, who edits ''Scribner's
Monthly" is great on the theologies, with
which he delights to daddle, and nothing
short of regular course of theological
study will cure him of the strange conceit
that he knows something about them.
One of our shop windows has for a
sign "Dying )" and directly underneath in
the next pane of glass "spots removed"
We have often noticed that dying was a
very expeditions and effectual method of
removing spots from soiled and stained rep
utations.
Our friend r. f. Barrett. whosn little
book on hell is chestnut in the burr,
thinks the devils are not permitted to see
themselves or each other as the hideous
and loathsome creatures they really are,
and their bitter and fiendish tones seem
agreeable and musical to each other.
Really they are rather happy devils after
all.
M. Taine was mastered by Shakespeare
in trying to get the mastery over him, and
says of his style-we pause stupefied be-
fore these convulsye metaphors which
might have been written by feyered hand
in nights delirium, which gather page
full of ideas and pictures in half a sentence,
whca scorch the eyes they would en-
tighten.
DR.. Bartol thinks Emerson's banish-
ment from the church on technical ground
and punctillo of form was as blessed ostra-
cism as Dante's exile from Florence.
Those going without the camp bearing
some reproach are always redeemers. In
side the heavens are but half seen. That
imagination which is eye and atmosphere is
Kindred by walls. A fence fences out
more than it fences in.
Mrs. Gaines is still in Washington pre-
pairing to once more prosecute her claims
to half the land New Orleans is built on.
She has been prosecuting her claims until
they are nearly exhausted, and her gains
thus far have been repeated disappoint-
ment and an unenyiable notoriety. Mrs.
Gaines has done good deal of costly and
unsuccessful counting in her day.
Vice President Colfax was fifty years
old last Saturday. He looks ten years
younger than that, and if he will drop Sc
gars, keep out of bad company, and quit
politics, he may live to celebrate his CEN
tennial. We fear that the destinations of
an inveterate smoker are proving too much
for his constitution. If there is anything
human nature cannot endure it is incessant
putting.
This is the age of reforms and conyer-
sions, but the latest thing in the way of
reform and religion is the United Farmers
Christian Milk Reform company of this
city. We have not tasted of the "Chris-
tian Milk" but hope that it is pure, sweet,
and wholesome, the genuine orthodox arti-
Gle, and more suitable for babes than some
of the doctrinal specifics which are adminis-
tered under that name.
One of the Boston papers says our
venerable neighbor, the distinguished farm
er of Chappequa, is now generally called
DR.. Greeley-a piece of information that
will be new to everybody in New York.
We should as soon recognize the ''later
Franklin" in new suit of black clothes,
with kid gloves and one Of Knox's best silk
hats, as know who was meant by '1Dr.
Greeley" But theu we always have to
20 away from home to learn what is doing
in our own kitchen, and how many eggs are
boiled for our own breakfast.
Literature is not taught in our public
schools. English is the last thing that our
colleges think of teaching. 1t is not bad
suggestion of the Riperside Bulletin, that
the children in the public schools shall be
made to read some of the best things in
our language, and thus obtain knowledge
of our classic literature, and taste for the
best books. A taste for Dickens and
Scott, and Hawthorne and Irving, would
be the best protection against the trash of
the circulating libraries, and the streams OF
impurity that flow from the cheap print
shops.
"A full grown man carries pound and
three-fourths of phosphorus about in his
| body, enough to make four thousand ordi-
nary boxes of friction matches, provided he
was supplied with sulphur to match ; but
| he has not enough Of this to strike fire,
though, most men have magnesium enough
to make a light which would be seen
twenty miles. 1t is wonderful how bril-
liant most men might be, if there was any
way of getting it ou;of them. But to get q
scintillation Of wit or glimmer Of an idea
out Of most men is harder work than tc
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