The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-12-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Navigation is virtually closed above
Memphis. The river is filled with heavy
ice, and the weather is excessively cold.
The King of the Sandwich Islands is
dead. He was the last Of the royal line,
and named no successor.
The last rail on the Shore line, con-
Meeting the West Wisconsin and Chicago
and Northwestern railroads, was laid Mon
day.
-Mesdames Woodruff and Clafin have
been indicted by the Oyer and Terlniner
grand jury of New York for alleged libel
on r. q. Challis.
The engineer and fireman reported
frozen to death Saturday night on the Gin
cinati, Wabash, and Michigan railroad are
reported safe at Warsaw, Indiana.
George Catlin, the celebrated Amer
lean Indian traveller and painter, died Mon
day morning in Jersey City, of Bright's dis
ease of the kidneys, aged IS.
On the 25th of November, 1888, the
British forces evacuated the city of New
York, and on the 25th of November, 1872,
the last of the British forces evacuated the
island of San Juan.
1t is estimated that Father Burke has
realized 100000 for various benevolent
institutions by means of his lectures in an
swer to Froude, and that Froude has rea-
lized $4,000.
The Oil Producers Council in Titus
vile Monday ratified the agreement made
with the Refiners' Association providing
that the latter shall buy $4,000 barrels of
crude oil daily, and cooperate otherwise
to maintain the price of crude oil at "a per
barrel and upward.
The great advantage of Minnesota as
a resort for invalids is the equability of its
climate, which, at last report, was main
tanning a strikingly equable temperature of
twenty-five degrees below zero.
A prince and son-in-law of Isabella,
ex-Queen of Spain, was summoned upon
jury in Rome the other day. He refused,
saying he could not be troubled about such
trifes. The judge fined him 900 lires.
"A Pittsburg paper wants real prin.
ter's monument erected to Horace Greeley,
to be cast from worn-out type, which news
paper offices from all over the country can
contribute, and be mounted on granite
base.
1t is rather annoying after you have
disorganized pair of trowsers in expert
menting with the sidewalk to have another
fellow take advantage of your discovery
and inform you, as you struggle to your
feet, that "that's very slippery place,
SIR"
An old carpenter who had been en-
ployed at job work by an old lady, who
asked why people of his trade always
charged more in proportion for collins than
they did for chairs and tables. swell, you
see, ma'am, it's just because people won't
bring collins back to US to be repaired.
I'm the exchange column of the Queen
appears the following queer advertisement:
ga piece of Queen Victoria's wedding
cake, cut off and tied up by the late painter
in ordinary, and written on by him, to be
exchanged for dining-room table-cloth, or
low tea table, gilt legs, or good exchange
desired"
"A lady in the country wrote to a
friend in Boston: 81 see that you have
been burned out. You know that my
property is so situated that it is perfectly
easy to raise money upon it; so send me
word how much money you require to
continue your business, and the amount
shall be forthcoming at once"
The largest smiths shop in the world
has been added to the other wonders of the
Royal arsenal at Woolwich. 1t is about
two hundred feet in length, by one hundred
and twenty in breath, and contains u
FORCES, several furnaces, and the founda-
tons for six steam hammers-one of 70
cwt., one of 20 cwt., two of 10 cwt., one
of 6 cwt., and one of 5 cwt.
The New York Citizen says: A boy
with microscopic eyes is the latest scientific
wonder in England. Their internal struc-
ture has been changed by disease, and now
the magnifying power of his vision is stated
at 5000 diameters. Had Sam Weller pos
sessed these "patent double-million magni-
fyin' gas microscopes of hextra power''
he perhaps would have been table to see
through two flights o. stairs and deal.
door but bein' only eyes"-
-Women's rights are practically exem.
plifed in Spain. A correspondent thus
describes the loading of iron ore at Bilboa
sit is curious sight to see the women
loading the ships with their bulky cargoes
carrying in baskets on their heads, singing
gayly the while, tripping up and down the
steep planks with their short petticoats
brown bare legs, and straight, suppl,
| backs"
AT a party where questions were
asked, and facetious if not felicitous an
swers were expected, a coal-dealer asked
what legal authority was the favorite will
his trade. One answered "Coke.'
"Right,u said the coal-dealer. Anothe
suggested Blackstone" "Good, too
said the questioner. Then little, hard
faced man in the corner, piped "Littleton.'
| Whereupon the coal-dealer sat dow
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