The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-11
GENERAL ITEMS.

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An Iowa teacher, residing four miles
every morning on an OK. fe9
The Courier journal is indignant
because Cincinnati journal charges that
the Louisville girls wear daggers in their
garters. $3.50 e .
"A new street scholar has put on paper
the fact he would rather be little girl
and obey his mother than be dog and
obey the MOON"
The movement recently started in
Cincinnati, to give working-women hol-
iday on Saturday afternoons during the
summer, bids fair to be successful. 81 ,
AT Graysville, Ind, a Mrs. Lyster,
aged ninety.one, was buried in the wedding
garments which she wore seventy-three
years ago. They were of linen, spun and
woven by herself.
Max Maretzek has concluded engage
ments for the next opera season with Pau
line Lucca, lima de Murska. Fanny Natal
Tesla, E. Tamberlick, G. Vizzani, L.
Marie, and j. Janet.
The women of several states are get
ing up petitions to be sent to legislatures
when in session, asking that the property
of women may be exempted from taxation.
No vote, no tax, is their motto.
"A Milwaukee servant-girl, whose lover
insisted upon an early day for the wedding,
had gathered together eighteen towels,
fifty napkins, twenty sheets, three quilts,
seven dresses, and several other articles
when arrested.
-Four young women have entered upon
the philosophical course at the University
of Rome. They are skillful shorthand
writers, an art that is absolutely necessary
at this university, as all lectures are
required to be taken down verbatim by the
students.
"A bachelor says that it you hand a
lady newspaper with paragraph cut out
of it, not line oft will be read, but every
bit of interest felt in the paper by the lady
will centre in finding out what the missing
paragraph contained. 49,
Sue Blair, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin,
played her lover game Of chess the other
day to decide whether the wedding day
should be fixed for this year or next, Sue
desired more time but lost the game, and
must face the parson before the coming
January.
Mrs. Sharon, school superintendent Of
Marion county, Iowa, receives great praise
from the journals of that state for the ex-
cellent manner in which she performs the
duties of her office. Miss Lizzie Shirley,
of Delmar, is candidate for school
superintendent of Clinton county, same
state. @ ~
Another smart woman has recently
come to the surface-a Mrs. Il. M. Bore
land, of Texas. This lady, who Is now in
st. Louis, owns about 200 head of cattle,
and accompanied the herd all the way from
its starting point to the latter city. doing at
least two mems work in the way of driving
and managing.
--Southey tells us of Spanish nun
who escaped from a long confinement in a
convent, and the first thing she inquired
for was looking glass. She was put in
the convent when five years old, and did
not look in q mirror from the time of her
entrance to the time of her escape. Her
desire to see how she looked by consulting
q glass was natural and certainly very
pardonable.
"A school-boy being requested to write
a composition upon the subject of "Pins,o
Piocucea nv Ile ioi'o"inS ms are tciy
uselui. lhey nave saved inc ives OF q
great many men, women anu chiiurehIin
the puzzled teacher; and the bow replied.
aWhy. by not swallowing them.v This
matches the story of the other bow who de-
fined salt as s.the stuff that makes potatoes
taste bad when YOU don't put on any.0
Inc Albany express is Responsible lor
tne story oil iour ana nall ieet iellow
VINO courtea a SIX ieet girl IN that city ana
was laughed at SO mucn py people when ne
was out promedaaing that ne hnally made
mp his mind TO desert the lar one, ana told
her SO; one promptly seized the little TEL
low, placed hIq over hef knee, ana admin
lstered powerful parental castigatlon. me
ponce, were attracted by the NOISE and ar
IN mn se
ihele - lo peLiou N y man : NE wlen
ne oali wios,io Will 9uoi iea cl supJecls
as Miien he slauua.es rom coiiege:
n nnnol's tho eoplcs WHICH .ne SENIORS oi
Dar!lnou.n are going 10 aeinorisn at the
coming coM,hencement are, Inc Law OF
urowt, anu Decay I'D me Ma1efiai UNI,
verse T Inc M In.enIionai Ineofy J;
Inc olloi VI Craftsmanship anu Z rhlios,
opny, ana sucn IKE. Inc intellectual
caring O these IelloWs Wouid put Newton
ana bacon 70 shalne' Z
When riding in the cars one 10 o(fan