The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

women.
The Texas border is to be worn only
on the outskirts.
"A Minneapolis druggist was fined for
selling toothpicks on Sunday.
American artists find profitable mar
ket in England for their oil paintings.
A Georgia Judge fined four lawyers So |
each for laughing in court, the other day.
"A steamer recently Launched, to ply
in Oregon waters, is named the Don't
Bother Me.
The edtor-in-chief of the Des MONIES |
Qnd.) Republican wears back-hair and a
hustle.
William Charles Macready, the we'll
known English actor, is dead. He was
eighty years old.
Mrs. Jones says her husband is
three-handed man--right hand, left hand,
and little behind hand.
The constant use of tobacco and whis-
key for one hundred aud five years killed
William Cottage, of st. Joe, Missouri.
The fish trade OF Sandusky, Ohio,
has brought to that city s350,oOO annually,
for the past three years.
"A Michigan man says he has discover
ed how to SO temper steel, and even iron,
that it will cut glass like diamond.
Three pints ofsweet milk ard like
amount of sour milk cured the ague and
killed the Dutchman who had it, at Flow
orfeld, Iowa.
A Kentucky man has carefully pre-
served for twenty years the bouquet Jenny
Lind held in her hand at one of her con-
certs in Louisville.
A number of the cleverest London
journalists are coming here in 1876 to do
our great American centennial. They are
certainly making their preparations in time.
1T is said that in Scotland one man in
every thousand goes to college in Ger
many the proportion is one for every 600;
in England it is one for every $500.
"A little Illinois boy poured kerosene
oil on the fire, as he had seen his father do,
and his invalid sister and little brother
were the victims Of his initiative propensi-
ties.
An Atlanta man dreamed, the other
night, that he nearly killed himself by
fall, and the foolish fellow straightway went
TO work washing windows, and, Of course,
fell out and fatally injured himself.
Several tin mines have been opened in
San Bernardmo county, CAL, which prom.
Use an exhaustless source Of future wealth.
One Of them embraced nine lodges. the as
saws Welding from twenty-five to thirty-sey-
en- per cent. Of pure metal.
An Indiana woman is mad because
her husband took her very best sheet to
hang himself. when there was an old clothes
line in the cellar which was good enough
for The purpose. She says he was always
extravagant, and too lazy to go into the
cellar for anything.
"A Titusville father, who sold his oil be-
fore the hard times struck the region, and
who has quartette of beautiful daughters,
has worn out the toes of four pair Of boots
this winter helping the young men down
the icy steps of his residence, who have
called TO chat with the girls.
The Nashville women a little while
ago announced an intention OF being eco
nomical and wearing calico to church. AT
last accounts they had only succeeded IL
making dress cost $40 so, but they are
now going to trim them with Valenciennes.
and do not despair.
A South American newspaper man.
confound him, has spoiled all future items
about very old people in the United States
by telling about Brazilian nearly two
hunered wears old. Thus does foreign com.
petition ruin home industry, and still the
free traders raise their barbaric yawp.
"A bright little boy hearing his father
say that a man ought to 'stck TO his
business" empted bottle of mucilage
in the gentemen's Office chair. The old
man says he has not been stuck so badly
since 1857, and rewarded his offspring by
taking him on whaling trip to the back
cellar.
Rev. Olympia Brown, pastor of the
Uniyersast society of Bridgeport, Conn,
was married, on the 23d inst. at Provi-
dence, r. L., to Mr.. John Henry Willis,
grocer, of the former city. The Bridgeport
Standard speaks of the marriage as a
dispensaton of Providence. :.
A youth Of nineteen lately fled from
Dodson, Ohio, to escape the clutches of an
enamored girl of twenty-five. AT Rock
ford, Ind, he received this telegram from q
friend sect up and dust. Sal's on your
track close" He "dastedo his best forth
with, but she came up with him in an OBJ
scure Illinois town, and led him back home
and to the altar.
"A young married man N Arkansas
was displeased at something his wife die
recently and he struck her. Then he went
to his mother and told her that if his wife
did not do better in the future he would
blow his brains out, as he did not intend
to slap her or complain of her again. A
few days after, thinking she did not come
at his request with the alacrity she ought,
he drew his pistol and shot himself dead
The occupants of a drinking-saloon
in Cape Girardeau, Mo-, were started late.
ly by the entrance of the wife of one oil
them, bearing covered dish. Placing it
on the table, with the remark that the sup
posed he had not time to come home to
dinner, she departed. He removed the lid,
and found slip Of paper, on which was
written: ~ hope you will enjoy your
dinner: it is the same kind your family has
at home."
The West Baton Rouge Qa) Sugar
Planter of the 10Th inst. says: "At the
present time the plant-cane is up in every
ield Of this parish, and never since the
memorable season Of 1858 have the crops
promised so well. The long rains, it was
feared, had injured the seed in mats and
wnrows. But the contrary has proven the
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