The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-29
GENERAL ITEMS.

An expensive wife makes pensive hus-
band.
"A failure in good cause is better than
triumph in bad one.
The test of a mans honesty is in the
sacrifices he will make to preserve it.
Wherever the epizootic has appeard
it has been followed by cheap sausages.
"A Yankee named Smith has opened
first-class tavern in classic Athens.
Ought you to reckon dogs worth by
what he will fetch, or by what he will
bring?
"A little girl at Dubuque amended the
Lords Prayer by asking for ''her daily
gingerbread"
"A Memphis Dutchman mistook "Old
Rip" for his father, and was taken out of
the Opera-house frantic.
The Emperor of China assumes the
personal government of his dominions on
the 24th of next February.
AN Indiana editor hires band to sere-
made him twice week, and ne always re-
spends by a column of thanks next day.
1t seems as if them as aren't wanted
here are tn only folks as aren't
wanted i tn other world George Eliot.
During the late storm seven children,
going home from school, lost their way and
were frozen to death between Sleepy Eye
lake and Golden Gate, Brown county
Michigan.
The Louisville Courier.Jo Journal says
an insane desire to do something practical
for the fallen women of Memphis has
prompted proposition that they be invi-
ted to attend prayer meetings.
"A Milwaukee lady had several hum
dred dollars worth of point lace clipped
off her clothing by an adroit thief while she
was at church singing "Strip me of the
robe of pride clothe me in humility"
The London Times, commenting on
the scenes at the close of Stokes trial,
says no English judge would have tole-
rated such indecent proceedings as the
exchange Of personalities on that occa-
sion.
"A mass of rock weighing several tons
fell upon man named Charles Glasson.
in the Streator coal mine, ILL.,, Friday, fear
fully shattering one arm. Five men were
required to remove the rock from the
sufferer.
The little Quaker village of New Sha-
ron, down in Mahaska county, Iowa, has
strict example in the liquor traffic. They
have incorporated the town a mile square,
and raised the license for the sale of liquor
to $1,l00.
Every furnace in the Eureka mining
district in Nevada, has suspended work on
account of the epizootic, and every mine
but two. Freighting between the railroad
and points in eastern and southern Nevada
is confined to OK teams.
The smallpox epidemic has reached
such height in Baltimore as to have
alarmed the authorities and the inhabitants
generally. There were 119 deaths for the
week ending January 20, and there are at
the present time 1900 cases.
Stokes seems to be getting ready for
the gallows. On Wednesday he trans
ferred the property at Green Point, Long
Island, to his mother. This consists Of
the oil refinery over which he and Fisk
first came into hostility in their business
operations.
General John Eaton, jr., commissioner
of education, will in his Forthcoming report
give the following interesting facts in refer.
ence to the illiteracy of the people of the
United States: Total population of the
United States, 3S, 55s, 371 /; illiterate, ter
years old and over, 1858 ,ll4 estimated
number of persons able to write, in 1870
26, 422, 572 per cent. of total estimated
illiterate, to total population, AT.
I'm lecturing before the Liverpool liter
airy and philosophical society, last week
Professor Max Muller controverted IN tott
the Darwinian theory of the origin of Ian
guage, and asserted his determination tc
deny the power of rational language il
inferior animals till he met with pig pos
sessed of the power to say to him, II an
a pig" Some other eminent German
scholars, too, it appears, are calling il
question Mr.. Darwin's views Unitaria,
Herald.
A hanging garden of sponge is one o
the latest novelties in gardening. Take
white sponge of large size, and SOW it full
of rice, oates or wheat. Then place it for
week or ten days in a shallow dish, in whicl
little water is constantly kept, and as tn
sponge will absorb the moisture, the seed
will begin to sprout before many days
When this has fairly taken place, tn
sponge may be suspended by means q
| cords from hook in the top of the window
where little sun will enter. 1t will thu
become like mass of green, and can b
kept wet by merely immersing it in bow
! of water.