The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-24

DIR. Amos Westcott, the man who
originated the cardiff giant humbug, COM
mittcd suicide at Syracuse. N. Y, a few
days ago.
lightning struck house in Wiscon-
sin, lately, and made fizzle of it, only
killing three kittens and knocking the legs
off stove.
New Haven has gone back to puritan
days. A boy six years old was fined So
the other day for rolling hoop on SUM-
day.
A Presbyterian church in Waterloo,
N. Y. has thirty three widows, and with
true Waterloo spirit the men die, but
never surrender"
Taking advantage of official position
for selfish ends is illustrated by Nevada
sheriff, who locked up a husband and
eloped with the wife.
"A lady, editing paper in the west,
asks the indulgence of her subscribers for
the delay of her last issue, owing to the
arrival of ian extra mail"
The Utica Herald says that men will
never know what effect it would have ON
Job if eleven little girls had called on him,
one after another, and tried to sell him
Sunday-school picnic ticket.
New Jersey people don't say siarO
right out, but remark, ''Sir, you remind
me Of my lamented brother, who could
prevent truth with the greatest ease"
Benjamin Rathburn, the famous New
York forger, tavern keeper and operator
in real estate of forty years ago, died a
few days since, in New York, aged 80
years.
Five suits by passengers of the
wrecked steamship Atlantic have been
commenced against the White Star steam
ship company IN Brooklyn for damages
for injuries sustained. a
"A Dubuque woman keeps baking pow
der and arsenic on the same shelf, and her
husband is careful not to disturb the
serenity Of her mind lest she make mis-
take.
An exchange tells us that " Whining
ton, Delaware, has just paid $4,000 for
land for a public park" The land was
most probably bought of Pennsylvania or
Maryland, as there isn't that much in
Delaware. ~
There is only one thing to equal admi-
ration of the modesty and generosity of the
individual who dropped IAN anonymous
checko for SIS 900 in the contribution-box
of church in Norwich, Conn.,, and that
is the quandary as to how to draw the
money.-Rochester Democrat.
"A woman seventy-seven years old, at
Ripley, Miss, walked five and a half
miles to market lately, carrying on her
back seven turkey gobblers, twenty-five
chickens, twenty-four dozen eggs, and six
pounds of butter - and she does that sort
of thing regularly.
"A gentleman recently returned from
Pesth, Hungary, says he saw Louis Kos
suth there in restaurant, smoking fine
hungarian tobacco and reading the news
papers. He don't take any interest in
politics whatever. His head is covered
with white hair, and he walks about very
circumspectly with stout cane.
"A young fellow in Ohio, the other
day, had to grease the wheels of his
buggy before he started in it out into the
country to court his girl. He was much
annoyed for some time after he started at
the queer inclinations of the vehicle, and,
upon investigating, found that he had put
the two hind wheels on one side and the
two fore on the other. Love will twist
young fellows brains sometimes.
The SIMPLE SECRET. Twenty clerks
IN store, twenty hands IN aprlntlng office,
twenty apprentices in ship yard, twenty
Young men in village all want to get on
in the world, and expect to do so. One of
the clerks will become partner, and make
fortune one of the compositors will own
a newspaper, and become an influential
citizen one of the apprentices will be-
come master builder; one of the Young
villagers will get handsome farm, and
live like a patriarch-but which one is
the lucky individual? Lucky There is
no luck about it. The thing is almost
as certain as the rule of three. The
young fellow who distances his COMPETE
tors is he who masters his business, who
preserves his integrity, who lives Clearly
and purely, who devotes his leisure to the
acquisition Of knowledge, who gains friends
by deserving them, and who saves his
spare money. There are some ways to |
fortune shorter than this old dusty high
way /; but the staunch men of the commun-
ity, the men who achieve something
really worth having, good fortune, good
name, and serene old age, all 60 in this
road.
RAsPING HORSES FEEr.-A cores
pondent of 1.-THE Canada Farmer, speak
ing of this practice, says, ''rasping down |