The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-12
Clippings from Danbury.

When you see little girl with odd gai-
ters on her feet, crownless Jockey on her
head, three brown paper packages IN her
arms. and mouthfill of candy, you may
know her mother is washing.
AT one time Saturday, there were five
baldheaded men in one Of our dry-goods
stores looking vacantly about, and each one
thoughtlully rubbing his head with finger
that had thread tied about it.
"What shall give my boy to make him
honored and respected ~ writes an alice
tionate father. Education and moral pre-
cepts were once required to accomplish this
purpose, but diamond pin now covers the
ground.
A strange man, name unknown, was
seen darting about Essex street Saturday
forenoon, with paper and pencil in hand,
and every once in a while stopping and
dotting something down. No one among
the women who watched him knew or
could imagine what he was up to, but we
understand that eight men who live on that
street found no dinner ready at noon, and
that they not only knew nothing OF
the stranger, but unanimously and proiane-
ly proclaimed they didn't want to.
The only person we have had in some
time stop The News is a reader In Pittsfield,
whose vito read an item in our last issue
that to sleep with the hands in mittens
of wet bran will remove freckles and tan.
She tried the experiment Friday night,
and in her sieep fell to dreaming Of some-
thing, and unconsciously struck him
across the face with one of her remedies.
1t not only frightened him into convul-
sions, but, bursting as it struck, nearly
choked him to death with the flying bran.
lie doesn't say whether it cured her, but
we presume it did, or he would have said
something about 1t.
An aged couple ON Wooster street are
very fond of checkers, and play quite fire.
quently. When he beats at the game she
loses her temper, and declares she will not
play again. 1t vexes him to have her act
so, but he controls the irritation, and talks
to her about it. lie tells her how wrong it
is for people at their age in lifeto be dis
turbed by such trifles, and shows her so
clearly the folly Of such course, that she
becomes ashamed of her weakness and re-
turns to the game, and plays it SO well that
she beats him. Then he throws the check
ers in one direction and kicks the board in
another, and says he will never play with
anybody who cheats so all-fredly, and
stalks moodily to bed, and leaves her to
pick up the things.
There is man on Franklin street who
has been engaged in the past two months in
mighty effort to kill cat. In that time
that unfortunate animal has explored the
bottom Of every sheet and stream of water
within six miles Of Danbury, has had an
unintentional taste of the several new yarie-
ties of powder, and has got so it can tell in
the dark, without looking around, the
difference between half brick and whole
one. The man himself hasn't got whole
piece of clothing in his wardrobe, and has
almost entirely lost the use of one leg from
rheumatism contracted while drowning the
cat, and has more scratches on him thar
the survivor of four wives. His aged
father says he will take chair out in thu
yard on pleasant afternoon, and will 81
there for two hours at time and look a
that cat and swear.