The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-31
GENERAL ITEMS.


ALI Washington is in raptures over
the plan of its new jail on the Eastern
branch-310 by 1872 feet.
In China the hearts of executed muir
derers are presented to the relatives of
the victim 10 order to appease their sor-
row.
They have discovered fresh water at a
depth of eighty-four feet at Cape May.
Visitors to the Cape can now take theirs
Mixed"
Mems lives should be like the day.
more beautiful in the evening; or like the
summer. with promise and like
the autum,-rich with the golden sheaves,
where good works and deeds have ripened
Oh the field.
"A coroner's inquest on a murdered
man in Miami county, Indiana, cost $S2.-
20, while an inquest on suicide cost
but $36,15, whereupon the Paola Spirit,
which is q thoughtful kind of paper, remarks:
st is prayerfully hoped by our tax-pay-
ers that the violent deaths hereafter will
be all suicides"
BY way of stimulating strictly agri-
cultural pursuits, the New Hampshire
agricultural association offers handsome
premiums for horse-race and a baby show
at its forthcoming fair Perhaps the mama
gers have heard of " baby-farming," and
fancy it to be rural industry which ought
to be encouraged.
Daniel Webster is not the only bright
boy bornin New Hampshire. The Boston
Globe has heard of another--a youth re-
siding in Dover, who refused to take pill.
His crafty mother thereupon secretly plac-
ed the pill in a preserved pear and gave it
to him. Presently she asked, "Tom have
you eaten the pearl" He said, eyes,
mother, all but the seed"
The personal mention" with which
the Omaha editors take pleasure in honor
ing their friends is illustrated by, the
following choice morsel of recent date:
"W. Nj. Madden, commonly known as
Fatty, the Great American Traveller
arrived in the city yesterday, and sampled
forty kegs of beer, besides attending the
circus and eating eight straight meals at the
the Wyoming.
The frothy controversy between Gen.
ID. II. Hill and Parson Brownlow is still
going on. In his last letter Hill says:
"Brownlow boasts that he still lives.
Yes, he does drag out miserable exis-
tence, apparently that he may stand as a
and the malignity of satan, which can thus
transform human being into hideous
and CHASTITY wreck, jeering at Heaven and
abhorred by mankind,
A Danbury mans order for his
wife's hat is novelty in its way. She
was sick and could not 60 for it, so he
drove in himself. He told the milliner to
put on dollars worth of parsley, fifty
cents worth of string beans, ten cents
worth of cherries, few green currants, a
beet or two, little cabbage, and about
three slices of turnips, or, if it was too
early for turnips, make it two new potatoes
instead.
A wise man in the East, that is in
Springfield, Massachusetts, says that if you
wish to determine whether your watch
keeps correct time or not you should select
any given star from the corner of window
sash, or through any small hole, and note
the precise instant at which the star disap-
pears behind a chimney, or other stationary
object within short distance. IL from
the same standpoint the same star disap-
pears earlier by three minutes and tifty-six
seconds the next night. and by seven min
utes and fifty-two seconds the third night,
the watch is right to the half Of a second.