The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-17

The years have Innings Just as goblets do;
r Inc old year is the lining of the new
FILLED with the wine of precious memories,
The golden aods doth line the silver u.s.
-Mansard hats at the opera are as un-
popular as mansard roofs of wood are with
underwriters.
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire
respect In proportion as we know how
they are made.
What is the gas-trick fever? It is
simply the monthly excitement respecting
our gas bill.
"A tourist, who was asked in what part
OF Europe he felt the heat most, replied:
"When | was going to Berne."
-Frghtful explosion in Wisconsin
Rev. Constantine Barry has exploded the
Darwinian theory.
How greedy you are !" said one little
girl to another, who had taken the best
apple in the dish; {" | was going to TAX
that,D
One ought every day, says Goethe, to
hear little song, read good poem, see
fine picture, and If it be possible, to speak
few reasonable words.
Miss Clara Remington, Of st. Louis,
has inherited an estate In Cuba, valued at
half million, from a gentleman, recently
dead, to whom she was affianced
The Spectator reports twenty-seven
widows and thirty-seven widowers between
twenty-five and sixty in Staunton; sixty
seven old maids and forty-flve old bache-
lors.
The st. Louis Democrat says " Whales
are running their noses against that portion
of Rhode Island that sticks out into the
water, and the inhabitants are troubled
with earthquakes"
"A popular essayist says, perhaps
the greatest triumph of all moral writings,
including sermons, is that at least they
have produced some sweet and innocent
Sleep"
"A poor lrishman hereabouts, seeing a
crowd approaching, asked what was the
going to be buried" heresponded, "Faith,
III stop to see it, for we carry them in the
old country"
"A San Francisco paper expressed the
unqualified belief that il Judas Iscariot
had lived in that city he would never have
hanged himself, but would have stood
couple of trials, discussed his thirty pieces
OF silver in judicious manner, and been
Tree man to-day.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin thus
Classics letters:
Warm letters ......... ....................k N.
Cold letters. ........ ".................."l y.
Mourning letters. ......................AM nj.
SculptolS' letterS...... IL q.
| Quiet letters. ......................EZ II.
| Astute letters. .........................Y'S.
Singing letters ...........B's.
That clerical and lay functions were
once conjoined, the follwing old time adver
| tisement will sufficiently show: WANTED,
for family who have had bad health, a
sober, steady person, in the capacity of
wife. He must occasionally act as butler,
and dress hair and wigs. lie will be re-
quired sometimes to read prayers, and to
preach sermon every Sunday. A good
salary will be given"
1t is curious that nobody ever thinks of
| anything until somebody reminds him of
| it. 1t has just occurred to somebody that
railroad managers light the cars On even
| ing trains just enough to tempt people to
read and ruin their eyes, and not enough
to make reading either pleasant or profta-
BILE. Now that we think of it, why cannot
some of those cars, yclept 'palatial," be
decently illuminated?
The New York Times commends the
courage and chivalry of Third avenue car
driver, who, seeing a scoundrel annoying
an unprotected lady, the other evening,
promptly stopped the vehicle, thrashed the
villain, threw him into the street, and, call
ing policeman, gave him into custody.
The Times thinks that the drivers conduct
deserves to be recognized with something
more than empty praise.
= Mrs. Mary Somervllle, the greatest
mathematician among women, with all her
scientific attainments, was no sceptic. An
intimate friend of hers states in contem-
porary that in her last letter. written in the
ninety-second year of her age, she declared
that "she had never had doubt of immor-
tai lile," and in her last published volume
we believe, on microscopic discovery-she
speaks Of God "as great in great things,
greatest in the least"
The hunters are making sad havoc
among the buifaloes in western Kansas.
During the past two months, one firm
alone in this city have received from Fort
Dodge 20, 900 buffalo hides, for which they
paid from 81 25 to 50 so each. Butfa 0
meat is very cheap. The hams are selling
for one cent to two cents per pound. The
forequarters cannot be given away, and ;r j.,
thrown out into the streets. Notwith-
standing this wholesale slaughter, the hun
ters tell of seeing herds miles in length,
and almost as countless as the sands upon
the seashore.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
i UNITED STATES for the Eastern District