The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-14
GENERAL ITEMS.


--Abdel Kader, the famous Arab chief
tain, is dead. 81 aa 81.
--Blondin is walking the rope in India
and Australia this year. m lsfas
Senator York, of Kansas, the man
who Illuminated Pomeroy, is going to lee
ture.
The ''hard labor" of the genteel
Stokes consists IN clerking in the prison
cigar factory. Eassss KsiAtf4 ss
"A Kentucky paper desires the restora-
ton Of the franklng privilege, because it is
q truly Democratic journal, and is ''agin
all abolition doin's.o a a8.s5s,s
Mankind may have been learning six
thousand years, and yet how few have
learned that their fellow.men are as good
as themselves, and that the "laborer is
worthy of his hire" ssi4s1 haa a ha'A
-Squabbles, an old bachelor showed his
stocking. which he had just darned, to a
maiden lady, who contemptuously re-
marked, tPretty good for man darner."
Whereupon Squabbles remarked "Yes,
good enough for woman, darn her, d5f
Nebraska is swinging forward at d
rapid gait. There is no reformatory
school or asylum in that state there being
no need of any; while in population Of
1913, 900 there are ISL public schools, AZ
periodicals, ISL churches, and only SO
persons in prison.
The Florida comptroller, by notice
Of November 4, warns, all persons not to
purchase any detached coupons of the
state of, Florada six per cent. bonds Of the
dates Of 1868 and 1869, as some are
Illegally in the possession of individuals,
and will not be paid by the treasurer.
One of the United States commission
ers to Vienna is now engaged in visiting the
iron and steel works of Austria, Prussia,
France and Belgium, to report to the
United States government upon the metal
lurgical industries of Europe. The precise
occasion of this mineral investigation does
not appear upon the surface.
"A farmer, not accustomed to literary
composition or letter-writing, having lost
new hat at a county meeting, addressed
the following note toi its supposed possess
sor: "Mr. A. presents his compliments
to Mr.. b. / have got q hat which is not
his if he have got a hat which is. not
yours, no doubt they are the missing one.ns
The Washington Chronicle states that
eX-President fillmore, and his four surviY-
ing cabinet officers, viz: Conrad. of Lou-
isiana, secretary of war; Hall, of New
York, postmaster-general; Graham, of
North Carolina, secretary Of the navy, and
Stuart, of Virginia, secretary ofthe interior.
will have Reunion in Washington during
the winter. M 9TH Il q fi1i
"A politician, trying to find his way
home, ran foul of tree. He didn't dare
10 let 60, for fear of falling, and vet he }.
wanted to go home. So he kept on walking
ILL he went around the tree eleven and |
half times-then let go and struck lamp
post. He went round this fourteen times,
then stopped, looked to see where he was,
and then said GAN right, got SO far now
know rest of the way home first-rate. "sgo
"A young man, who processes to have
Travelled, says that the only difference in |
she WHISTLES Of the two principal cities Of
California is that, after taking drink of
sacramento's chain lightning, you imme-
tliately make a short cut to the railroad
and go to sleep on the track; whereas,
after imbibing a little of San Francisco's
bottled insanity, burning desire takes
ossession of you to steal horse and
buggy.