The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-28
GENERAL ITEMS.

anu tWtubJ-lOuI nOuIn Ill IdI3 lOI StllhllH
the chief justice of Louisiana the other
day, at Opelousas.
The Red cloud Chief is the name of a
bran new paper just launched. upon an
unsophisticated world from bran new
town in Webster county, Nebraska.
This is no worse than the Oregon Battle
Axe.
Mr.. Wootson of the Raleigh News, has
joined the order of the Sons of Temper
ance.-EGchange.
A chance now for some enterprising
fellow to buy bar-room fixtures cheap 10
Raleigh. -Petersburg appeal.
AN epitaph in Pennsylvania church,
yard: "Here lies the body of Amy
Major, who departed this life March 20,
1899. Suffice it to say that she was an
honest woman--the second noblest work
of God"
One of the austere professors of Yale
came rushing out Thursday night to find
the man who had dared to pull the college
bell. He was told that Yale had won
every one of the boat races, and saying,
" Go ahead, boys" he returned to his
home, modified and beaming.
-" The smells of New York" is said to
be the title of very sensational piece now
in course of construction by an experienced
playwright. Pieces of the old Washington
market have been secured, real garbage
boxes will be used, and each patron will
receive distinction with his ticket.
Since the cutting down of the exchange
lists, there has been much useless handling
of useless newspapers avoided, and the ex-
chm raf iar1 hnc IN vic
ed his visits. And yet men dare to say that
ours is not a paternal government, and
that congressman will not in time sit and
whistle with the cherubim.
ga Housekeeper" writes us, asking
"how to dress lobster.n We don't
know. We never dressed o lobster. If
the lobster is about seventeen years old,
may be it would look well in a plain waist
with demitrained skirt of blue silk, and a
medium.sized panier, and an organdy polo
naise, with pinkish mauve challle; six
buttoned gloves and white chip hat. We
say may be it would but perhaps blouse.
keeper" before dressing her lobster, had
better subscribe for a fashion magazine,
which will tell her all about such things
No,TistoWR Herald.
=" John Paul" writes from Saratoga
that the clergymen there smoke an excel
lent brand of cigars. He says: The
clergymen as body stop at Temple Grove
and, Professor North of Hamilton tells
me, have capital time there prayers be-
fore breakfast and backgammon after.
If this sounds wicked in me, just remem-
Der that am only quoting good, pious
professor who ''stopso at Temple Grove
how odd that Americanism hedged in with
inverted commas sounds when YOU come
to consider it in cold blood l put it
in quotation marks to show that 1 know
what am about.
We begin to feel little kindly toward
that rascallv old aborigine, Captain Jack.
We have read the speech in his own de-
Tense, which he made at Fort Klamath.
Without stopping to consider whether there
is word of truth in it or not, we are
happy to gay that every paragraph doesn't
begin "Brothers !" nor is there the usual
stock nonsense in it about the Great Spirit.
which, with the other spirit called whisky,
has so often been put in the red mans
mouth. Captain Jacks address is not
bit like anything in Cooper's novels end
we are glad of it.
The Chicago Tribune says the tenor
and drift of ex-senator Yates Fourth of
July Grafton at Griggsville, Illinois, was
that although he may have had the Slim
jams," he never had the "grabs,v like the
Credit Mobilier, statesmen. When last in
Washington, he said, these parties looked
down upon him in contempt, or if they
took any notice of him it was to make
an ostentatious display of their Christian
zeal for his reformation. The Tribune
remarks that it was rather severe upon
his old official associates for him to call
attention to the fact that, while perhaps
their hands did not shake, they were not
so clean as his own.
The Winnebagoes do not propose to
go West if they know themselves. A
detachment of one hundred was shipped
to Nebraska the other day, but the rest
stand on the order of their going, and don't
want any more fooling about it, nor any
more of Commissioner Whites "bie
talk" The preference thus manifested by
our noble red men speaks volumes for
Wisconsin society and Governor Wash
burns administration. 1t is likely that a
little force may be necessary in order to
persuade the Indians to go to Nebraska,
and the Chicago Journal takes notice that
this is the way the Modoc business start
ed. 1t thinks, therefore, that there are no
lava beds in Wisconsin.
"A somewhat quaint story is told in
the Church Herald published in London,
of Baptist grocer who called upon Mon
signor Capel to complain that his daughter.
having surreptitiously attended service at
the prot Cathedral, had renowned her MIS-
belief. Monsignor Capel listened with
dimure urbanity, and ended by inquiring in
what way he could assist his vsi-
tor. "Well the fact is" exclaimed
the grocer, "my daughter used to help me
in the shop, and | want to know whether
she will be obliged to inform her confessor,
who has long been customer of mine, of
the little tricks we are sometimes obliged
to use in our trade ~ The Monsignor
replied that. if the Baptist's daughter were
a good girl, she would be bound to disclose
all that lay on her conscience. "Ah, well.
/ that's the case" cried the grocer, /" mi |
nst join your church too; for l should |
ike to give him my own account Of the |
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