The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-03
GENERAL ITEMS.

Kerosene lamps are called parlor
magazines.
The author of "Put me in my little
Bed," wrote it for 5000.
| The alumni of Williams college, at
Williamstown, Massachusetts,, have re-
fused to admit women to the college.
Since the postal cards were introduced,
the postmistlesses are not getting an aver
age of more than three hours sleep aday.
The will of Jesse Grant gives $685. 900
apiece to three of his children. The Pres-
dent gets nothing. ..,
The English papers note with satsfac-
ton that considerable diminution in the
pauperism of that country has recently
taken place.
1t is said that the portraits of "promi-
nent scholars" published in Frank Leslie's
Boys and Girls Weekly, cost the boys
fathers only $50 each. 80 x
-" Stealing money is a serious business
out here" says a Colorado paper, !" but
you can kill man and all they ask is that
you don't leave him in the way"
| One pious young lady says lions
Herald forms the basis of her pannier.
llCT WeuI Oue UttLeTs dllu SHu Tic
Christian at Work was in hers.
An experienced old stager says, if you
make love to widow who has daughter
| twenty years younger than herself, begin
by declaring that you thought they were
sisters.
Many of the public documents intend
ed for senator's and representatives did not
get off in time to have the benefit of free
postage. They lie over in Washington.
1t is stated that the government will
take no proceedings whatever against Van
Buren,, the Vienna Commissioner, there be-
ing nothing to show that he has been guilty
of any dishonorable act.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is to
address the colored residents of Hudson on
the Fourth of July. They intend to have
a grand celebration in honor of the adopt
ion of the civil-rights bill.
The Boston Transcript says that Miss
Thoreau, the last of her family and name
in Concord, Mass, has lately removed to
Bangor, Me-. and the Thoreau house has
passed into other hands.
The leading Democratic paper in New
Hampshire, dominates for its ticket in
1876: Winfield Scott Handbook, for .presi-
dent, and William H. Groesbeck, for vice.
president. There will be plenty of time
to consider these names hereafter.
An item in an Oregon horse Doctors
bill reads: To holdin postmortim ex-
aminashun on boss who afterwards re-
covered, $780," 1t was paid.
Since the police Of Philadelphia have
got in the habit of shooting at the mayor,
as he sneaks up the alleys at night, when
watching the guardians of the place, he
has released his vigilance. 81
Missions voice has said to have gained
in volume since her marriage. The Chica-
| go Post says: $50 did Mrs. Caudle's and
hundred other women's voices, to the sor-
row of their husbands"
-Macready, the late tragedian, left an
estate of about 500, 900, which is distribu-
ted by his will in family requests. All
his manuscripts are entrusted to his wife,
who may publish any of them at her dis
, erection.
in these days, the young woman of the
period dresses herself in 495 staIched,
graduated ruffies, to 60 into some damp
grove, and come back, in ten or twelve
hours. limp and dirty, announcing she has
been to a picnic.
"A man in Worcester, Mass, who has
been before the courts III times for drunk
enness, and has paid 81 JAP in fines, has
lately signed the pledge. hoping to. save
money and to avoid the many unpleasant
experiences.
"A country editor has answered the
question, "What is the use of dogs ?" He
says wait until man hangs round your
office for four days, reading exchanges and
proffering good advice, and then you'll
know what dog is good for.
| "A New York paper SAYS those men
who place a $40 bill on the desk of a
government clerk as they go to make in
quiries, have their questions answered with
promptness and dispatch, and go out feel
!, ing that the stories about red tape are
malicious lies and ISLANDERS.
The governor, state officers, and some
, members OF the legal profession of North
carolina, irrespective of party, have joined
IN recommendation to the President to
appoint Judge Il. M. Pearson, of North
:. Carolina, Chief Justice Of the United
States supreme court.
. A Democratic paper publishes with
much apparent satisfaction an announcement
4 to the effect that the people of Louisiana
intenu 10 appear TO france Tor assistance
] against the United States government.
i 1T" it says, "McMahon be imbued with
: ordinary ambition, the appeal Of Louisians
will have patient and careful consideration
: William M. Tweed is reported to have
: said recently that the events of the pas
: twenty-four months had added ten years
$ to his life, and what troubles him more
/ than the loss of power and money is thu
}. desertion of those he regarded as his best
, friends. Tweed is learning what every
{ body learns whose prosperity suffers ant
). an eclipse.
q "A. M. Burney, special agent of thu
treasury department at Brownsville, Tex
$ as, reports that two Americans were impli
J. Gated in the robbery of the custom-hous,
i at Brownsville, on the 9TH instant. TIL,
" loss is cOmparatiYelY small. az a week nre