The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

"A man may live IN a garnet and still
not be room-attic.
81 die game" as the partridge said
when he was shot.
"A Mormon elder from Utah is on
mission at Saratoga.
The Spanish Carlists want 10 take
their bourbon straight.
Buffalo declines to pay for having
German taught in its public schools.
They are thinking about appointing
women police inspectors in Chicago.
Dover, N. H., is preparing to celebrate
the 250th anniversary of its settlement.
Yale College has received the loveliest
present Imaginable real petrfied In
| dian! .... ..-..
| The graduating class at Cornell Uni
versity have resolved to erect memorial
| fountain on the campus.
| "A sharp-shooting youth in Tippecanoe,
Ind, shot at hawk the other day, and
killed his little brother. - orr aaa
General Beauregard has engaged
rooms at the Montgomery White Sulphur
Springs for the coming season. .... ..
Mamma" said little girl, when she
discovered her canaries asleep, "the birds
have swallowed their heads"
"The exhibitor of the best pair of
patched pants will receive prize at the
coming Tompkins county fair in New
York.
An Indiana justice of the peace claims
the power to unmarry as well as to marry
and has been granting divorces accordingly.
An old frontiersman asserts that if the
Indians were deprived of their steeds their
warlike resources would soon be exhorsted.
"A Newport IN. " schoolmaster has
discovered that filling his pupils mouths
with pepper effectually stops their whis-
pering. s4
"A child six years old, in Dwight
county, Illinois, lately drank three quarts
of whisky to overcome the effects of rattle
snake bite.
An Irish lass wrote to her lover beg
ging him TO send her some money. She
added by way Of POSTSCRIPT: II am SC
ashamed of the request | have made in this
letter, that sent after the postman to gel
it back. but the servant could not overtake
him." # '..f5H
v - Lucy King, of Fond du Lac, became
! engaged to six young farmers, and on {
certain day called them together and tolt
e them to fight for her band. She married
IS the remnant of man, who was left stand
l. ing at the conclusion of the contest.
: Benjamin T. Murphy, who has been
II hack driver in Chicago, and thus supported
two sisters, was the successful competito
:, over fourteen others for an appointment a:
e cadet at West Point. He is twenty on
e years old, and native of Missouri.
y THE st. Louis convention gets Sc
;. back from Mr.. James Wilson of Iowa,
= new member of Congress, who on benl
a asked his opinion concerning the gathering
= replies that he has no faith in st. Louis
:, capacity to help herself or the west, an
=, that if she had been as Industrious a
"A Chicago in developing railways the presen
n cry of monopoly and high tariff would nc
have been heard.
es Many persons, besides schoolboys an
lg college students, use the phrase "He is
of brick" without the least idea that it is SUI
lg posed to be of classic origin. 1t is said tbs
er King Agestlaus, being asked by an amba
N sador from Epirus why they had no wall
ne for Sparta, replied, "We have" Pointin
le to his marshalled army, he said, "There al
ne the walls of Sparta every man you see
IS. brick" a, ussse
he OF all the animals kept exclusively ft
Is, mans pleasure, perhaps dogs and cats al
most numerous, and from their very nun
cd bers are the most exposed to cruelty an
n neglect. They can't appeal to us for kline
ness, out of consideration for the service
en- they give in exchange for their maintel
nd ance; they have nothing but their helples
u ness and utter dependence to plead /,
at them, and it should plead. "-''