The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-11
GENERAL ITEMS

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In China, wives are considered legal
tenders for debts. 5s 1900
--Jewelry of Russia leather is one of the
latest freaks Of fashion.
-Flute-playing is the latest accomplish
ment for young ladies in England.
Six young ladies' acted as pall-bearers
at q funeral in New York recently.
Connecticut, getting tired Of her select
men, has selected fifteen selectwomen.
--Chicago's new railway depot is said to
be large enough to hold forty thousand
people.
OF one hundred and nine daily papers
started in New York within the last twenty
years, nine only survive.
"A new volcano, with more than TWEEN
ty craters, has been discovered near
Moleje, in Lower California.
"A woman in Greenock, Scotland. was
recently fined $50 for selling dogs flesh
which she pretended was lamb. d
The jury, in recent English breach
Of promise suit, had to listen to the read
ing Of IA letters between the parties.
An American in London writes that
he has spent ten days in the British
Museum, and has not got beyond the first
floor. M
At Torquay, England. recently, an
old gentleman, eighty-two years OF age,
plunged into the sea 10 rescue child from
drowning.
Paris has forty-three horse-meatbutch-
ers. Last years sales included live
thousand horses, seven hundred asses and
twenty-three mules. Yt
An obituary notice in New England
paper concludes with the information that
the deceased I" leaves two infant daughters,
both girls"
"A writer divides men, with regard to
their laughter, into three classes-the he,
he, he, the no, no. no, and the ha. ha, la
men-the shallow, gross and the refined.
In Champagne, newborn babes are
washed in champagne wine, and, after
baptism, the first thing the little stranger
tastes, as it enters home on return from
church, is glass Of the Oldest champagne
wine the family can procure. fs
-" Men are what women make them, /"
is the singular title Of q new book. 1t may
be true, but we have seen some dreadfully
poor specimens OF the manufactured article,
which fact reflects badly either upon the
material or the maker.
"a young clerk in Dubuque fancy
store, who had been requested by a lady
customer to send home q spool Of thread
which she had purchased, hired an express.
wagon, in which he placed the spool, and
80 drove to the lady's residence, where he
deposited the spool in the hall. endwise,
like . barrel.
"A professor of hygiene proposes to
utilize the skins of porcupines by convert.
ine-them into friction towels. The quilts
are to be shaved off near to the skin, so as
to leave surface somewhat like that of 8
very rough Turkish towel. To fret the
human skin with that of the $ fretful por.
cupineD is an idea glowing with savage
grandeur.
A Detroit man bought horse recent
ly, but finding the animal by no means
what was represented, dyed him . splendlt
black. and resold him to the dealer. Ii
about two weeks tho animal was resold t.
the first purchaser, his appearance having
undergone another change. and now De
troit is interested to know which of thu
men ought to sue the other.
"A Portland photographer engaged /
woman to wash the floor of his photograph
gallery. The woman, seeing a large BASH
full Of what she presumed was hot waite
standing on the stove. emptied the con
tents into her water-pail to warm the waite
it contained. Now it happened this basil
contained silver bath for negatives, an
the result was one black floor, two femal
arms well BACKED, an awfully scared Iris
woman, and loss of fifteen dollars to th
photographer. .-,5 ~