The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-19
Ihe uiroiltia State Solnnal
GENERAL ITEMS.

"A Russo-Greek cnufch VIII sooh w
erected in San Francisco.
Flowers made Of mother-ofpeari
are newly invented trimming for wedding
dresses.
Paris, ILL.,, offers ten acres OF ground
and $35 900 to any one who will establish
car works there.
"A young married woman in Chicago |
attempted to commit suicide because |
her husband refused to take her to Sara
toga.
The four girl babies who were born
to Mrs. George Smith, OF Watseka, ILL.,,
few months ago, are reported thriving |
finely.
Young fellows on limited salaries, who |
desire to marry, should emigrate to Japan,
where one can live in luxury for five cents
a day.
A young lady wrote home a short
note. from d place where she was visiting,
with the P. S., "You will see by my sigma
ture that am ,uarried."
Blonde hair is worth more than its
weight in gold. The metal costs about
eighteen dollars an ounce, and the hair
sells for from twenty to thirty dollars.
The Hartford Courant remarked last
week We shall soon loose the legisla-
ture,' and proceeded at once to discuss the
questions whether the city was ready for
the cholera.
Dartmouth college is looking forward
to q new Freshman class of nearly one
hundred, which will include o colored boy
from Virginia.
There has Just been opened in Broad
way, New York, a bar for the sale Of cider
only. One of the attractions of the place
is cider mill worked by Siberian blood
hound of immense size.
Hoods Texas brigade proposes to
spend $40, 900 in purchasing the picture of
''Lee in the Wilderness" that it may be
placed in the state CAPITOL at Austin.
There are two reasons why people al
watering places never mind their own busi-
ness. One is that they have no business,
the other that they have no mind
-Swarms of bugs. of slim bodies and
long gray wings, are reported in Wisconsin,
where they completely clean off the leaves
of tree, clover field or potato patch when-
ever they alight upon it.
The dogs of Milwaukee, unless orna-
mented with the city clerks brass tag, ex-
hibiting the number of their license, are
liable to be shot at sight.
The total tonnage launched in Great
Britain in 1872 was not far from ZOO, 900
tons. In the same time the tonnage
launched in the United States was 200 .042.-
% tons. of which IL, 1868 tons was iron.
The steamship Otter has arrived at
Portland, Oregon, the captain of which
reports finding six bodies of persons sup
posed to have persisted on the steamship
George S. Wright.
The latest in the way of self-pralse is
an Indiana editor who played a few tunes
on an old banjo under his office window,
and then thanked the serenader in his next
issue for delightful music.
"A high.school girl, just graduated,
said, in her essay "Let us avoid the fri
volties of life and pursue the noblest ends
only" The next day she was moved to
tears in an agonizing attempt to decide the
proper shade Of blue for her complexion.
The belle of New Albany ball was
recognized as one who had once earned her
living by sweeping street crossings. AL
the more honor to the belle if not brazen.
Do we not separate gold from its earthly
encasement? And do we not gather dia-
monds from dust?
"A New York girl at West Point says the
idea that cadets are great flirts is a popular
fallacy. They know nothing whatever
about it. If girl tries to flirt with one
in New York acceptation of the word, il
frightens him almost to death.
The public bars in Saratoga are closed
on Sunday, and liquor drinking on thai
keepers, however, have little pocket pis
tolls, which they sell on Saturday night
we'll loaded and labelled SIX sise Commits
sioner's Sunday nip.
The wife of Don Carlos is described a.
tall, possessed of anoble mien, having gol
den hair and dark blue eyes. and is consider
ed beautiful blonde. She is reported to hav,
masculine courage, and to be anxious t.
march with her husband at the head Of thu
Carlist insurgents.
A constitutional amendment, "whict
shall prohibit porters in sleeping cars from
extracting passengers well polished boot,
from under his pillow, and charging TWEEN
ty-fve cents for setting them on the foo
in front of his bunk" is called for by
western traveller.
The New York Times, abiding to thu
S20,000,000 to be issued under the new
mortgage of the Pennsylvania railroad
company in the course of very shor
time, says it "will create a correspondent,
amount of exchange on London, where the
sterling bonds will soon be, if portion o
them have not already been negotiated"
The weather on the Pacific slope has
been quite cold Of late The weather q
Truckee has been so cold it has killed the
potato vines, and in Sierra valley the fros
has injured the grain crops. In western
Nevada fires are required in the evening
and oyercoats in demand, and in the mid
die of the day the sunny sides of the street
are not avoided.
Two drunken men Of Dubuque Iowa
while in butchers shop on Sunday O
last week, agreed to chop off one anoth
er's heads, and the one who first placed
his head on the block had his ears cut of
and his skull fractured before the bystand
ers interfered with his executioner. II
is greatly feared,o says the local paper
that the wounded man may recover.
Tin weddings we have known, but i
has remained for Connecticut man t.
announce to the world tin funeral. 70
this, however, a Newtown man is prepar
ing. Some years ago he hired man t,
make for him tin coffin of exact fit
which he has since had stored in readi