The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Only one person in sixty-six is com
Portable in England. Comfortable means
$500 year.
Emma Ryalls, of Liberty county, Ca,
aged fourteen, shot rattlesnake the other
day.
Robert Browning is scratching out a
new poem.
--Thackeray's daughter is the queen of
London literary circles.
The best stick for the correction OF
child errors-a stick Of candy.
Northern Michigan is enjoying little
furry of snow which began five weeks
ago.
Unhappy creature-the storekeeper
who overcstimated the demand Tor holiday
goods.
The poorest education that teaches
self>control is better than the best that
neglects it.
Candies are almost universally used in
Russian railway carriages in preference to
oil lamps.
Young ladies are wearing bright-col-
ored sashes Topped far down on the left side
over black silk dresses.
Mrs. Vroman, of Schoolcrait, Mich,
was divorced from one husband and mar
1ied to another the same day.
An inebriated Wisconsin man threw
his watch into the CRATE, and carefully
placed bis ha!f-burnt cigar under his pillow.
The ghost of muscular christian in
tests Charlotte, North Carolina, and makes
the place pleasant by hurting red-hot brick
bats around.
Beautiful jewel cases are now made Of
thick but very transparent glass, with gilt
Inountings. In the bottom is satin cush-
ion for the jewels.
The editor of Maine paper says there
are no rum shops in the town where II
is published, but Immediately adds his
regret that there are some ten or twelve
places where Intoxicating liquors can be
had in violation Of law.
"A gentleman at the Crestline, Ohio,
depot, was asked to hold q Christmas par
eel for few moments until the lady made
another purchase. lie now wants to trade
or give away babe warranted to yell on
the slightest provocation.
An Arkansas artist in marble carved q
sleeping lion while ago, and took it to 9
county fair for q premium. The award
was thusly: flames Magill--frst pre-.
MUM for beautiful bull-pup in marble. u
"A wit being asked by a seedy poet
whether he had ever written anything that
would live, replied, Before you trouble
yourself on that score, | advise you to
write something that will let you live."
"A rural gentleman standing over 8
register in one of our stores attracted
attention to himself by observing to his
wife, "Mariar, guess Pm going to have
fever, feel such hot streaks runnin
up my legs. "-Dneer Meas.
The st. Louis Journal says: A youns
man came into the office of this newspaper
a few days ago with manuscript poem
1t began with 1.-THE snow, the snow, tn
beautiful snow" His friends may get tn
body by applying at the basement and pay
ing for the dry goods box containing th
remains.
When Lee met Meade on the Pain
Sunday of 1865, near Appomattox Court
house, he said, with the trivialty so com
mon amid crushing misfortune. "Why
Meade, what are you doing with all tina
gray in your beard ?" You have had
good deal to do with it," retorted his con
queror, with short laugh.
Virginia is the happiest of all the lat
Confederate States, and perhaps the most
prosperous. A good deal OF this state {
affairs is owing to the liberation and cor
seryatism Of her press. 1t is slight thing
but characteristic, to find the papers
Richmond praising Senator Lewis rep.
can) for his honesty, advising the youn
men of the State to sink their pride and 2
to work, and inviting immigration, all j
one day.--Ph1adelphia Press.
"A plan for Strengthening buildings whic
certainly presents some new and importal
facts in regard to the architecture and safei
of cities, has been introduced in Boston
Mr.. ID. l.. Emerson, California architec
1t provides for the insertion of iron uprigh
an inch in thickness, and one-third as wiz
as the wall is thick, at intervals of ten fee
in every front and side wall, with cross ba
holding the four walls together and runnil
through the floors, strap iron being used
intervals, and bound in with bricks.
"A citizen Of Chicago lately underwe
the horrible experience Of being place
in coffin and almost buried while amin
ton was merely suspended. The funer
had taken place and the body was lower
into the grave when stifed groan told I
startled spectators that the corpse was n
dead. The man was speedily extricat
from his embarrassing position, and
likely to recover. Herein is warnii
against hurried burials. How many hi
may have returned to consciousness
moment too late to be rescued viii new
be known.