The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-04
GENERAL ITEMS.


GENERAL ITEMS.
Carl Rosa has been naturalzed,
-Gavazzi is sixty-four years of age.
Ole Bull starts for Norway, May 81.
The first ark-tick xplorers-Noah'l
bed-bugs.
st. Lewis will have the nationa
Schutzenfest in June.
The English debt has been reduced
E2,500, 900 in three years.
Milk consumers in Connecticut have al
last resorted to the cocoa-nut.
A professional jurors protective
league' is organizing i'll indianapolis.
The Southern" Presbyterians Of Ken
lucky are striving to establish another
university" ia5
The Dolly Warden eyebrows are got
up by mucilage and sifted charcoal there
upon disposed.
Sixty thossand acres of land in Florida
were recently purchased for one and half
cents an acre.
The Missouri Democrat says that the
Cincinnati Convention carries Its constitu-
ency in its shoes.
The Austrian and Hungarian govern
ments will send delegates to the Interna-
tional Prison Congress.
"A New Haven paper thinks the melan-
choly days have come. because they are
the shad-est Of the year.
--One hundred trains every day now
pass over the Union Pacific bridge between
Council Bluffs and Omaha.
"A proper Philadelphia girl broke her
engagement because "he' ventured to ad-
dress her by her given name.
An epileptic youth in st. Louis shot
himself through the head while seated with
his family at the supper table.
"A fat baby in North Carolina has been
leased by enterprising parties who will
soon exhibit him to curious world.
st. Louis now extends for fourteen
miles on the Mississippi river, and has an
area OF about fifty-two square miles.
"A gentleman connected with the late
war says that though he was never at sea,
he has often seen a whole squad run.
The Philadelphia Board of Trade has
memorialzed Congress against the adrnis-
sion Of foreign-built ships to the American
registry.
The public schools in and about
Charleston, South Carolina, are to be
closed this week for want of funds to pay
the teachers. .s
Eight young ladies of New York have
been licensed by the State Medical Society
to go forth and look at the peoples
tongues and say ''Ha! indeed ]" at so q
visit. aesi ls1-
"A young man who called on his sweet
heart rather late one evening was edited
when Bridget came down stairs to say that
Miss Blanche had taken off her hair and
could not appear.
The coming musical prodigy is an in-
FAINT, three years old, in New York, who
sings airs from the operas, and plays the
accompaniment correctly, without practice
or teaching, and apparently by instinct.
"A San Francisco spiritualist was
buried recently according to the burial
ritual of the Spiritualists. The coffin was
white and the mourners were clad in white.
The mother of the dead man performed the
religious services.
"A lady Of Louisville, few days ago,
scwed the drunken companion of her sor-
rows in q sheet and belabored him with
cane until he cried for mercy. The poor
abused man was obliged to call upon the
neighbors for assistance.
The question, "Where do all the pins
go top which has been long-mooted
one, bids fair to find q solution. There is
woman in the city of Biddeford who has
been married twenty-eight years, and DUR
ing that time has not purchased single
pin.
"a young man of Lubec, Maine, re-
Gently took it into his head to get married,
and not being supplied with necessary fix
lngs, borrowed a coat from one, a pair of
pants from another, pair Of boots from
another, and vest from fourth, so that
the ceremony might not be delayed. He is
q happy man now.
A Connecticut man displayed his lack
OF caution by visiting q theatrical perform
ance with sweetheart and unwittingly
seating himself directly in front of his wife,
who, not relishing the situation, proceeded
to take down the young lady's back hair
and remove sundry articles of jewelry and
wearing apparel from her person, without
the formality of an introduction.
"A letter enclosing bill for adyertis-
ing brought back the following edifying re-
ply: "Your account was forwarded to
War Department for audit, March 10, ~,
and has not yet been heard from. 1t will
come around, however, in due time they
never fail. The bill will be paid, but aohen
tod only knows. / have just paid one of
$3.50 which was is months olds Red
tape, you know"
"A French paper, in commenting on
the national subscription for the payment
Of the debt of Germany, notices, among
other things, that General Trochu has con-
tributed his plan Jules Favre his tears;
Jules Simon his portfolio; Glais, Bizoin
his head Louis Blanc one of his books
N. Arago hurrah; Victo Hugo his cap
Dufaure his resignation, and Ferry a
Washington dispatch.