Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.


Winter has set 10 10 earnest iD Quebec Six
Inches Of snow and good sleighipg looks rather
that way
The decrease 10 the public debt for the past
month, as officially announced, is $4,000
Ol669
The New York papers tell about draw
back on sugar. That's nothing. There he's
been fearful pull back 90 'laSscs all Summer.
Howard w. Glover, the musician and com
poser. died at his residence 10 New York on
Friday aged fiity-six. He leaves widow
aud eleven childreu, and died in extreme
poverty.
An old bachelor who did recently left will
dividing all his property equally among the
surviving women who had refused him, "be-
cause, said be, 10 theu | owe all my earthly
happiness"
President Grant yesterday, 10 reply to dep
utatlon Of clergymcn, said that he did not re-
gard his peace policy with regard to the Iu-
dians as failure, and that it would not DC
abandoned while he held Office He'll fight it
out on that line.
A woman hailiDg from New York was ar
rested at St. Adams on Saturday on the arriva
of the Montreal train. She had four hundred
yards of black silk on her person. We thought
it took that much now days to make the
buoch behind.
Ftz. Lee met an inpromptu ovation at
Ford's Hotel, in Richmond, the other night.
The Norfolk Blues saw him, cheered him.
mounted him on their shoulders and carried
him round the room amid rounds of applause.
The General had to treat and retreat and was
afterwards serenaded by the Blues baud.
An extensive industry ip France is the man
ufaciure of a new kidd of wall decoration, con
sisting of double sheets Of glass, the inner sur.
face of the under sheet being painted in oil
color in imitation Of aps Iszuli, Jasper onyx,
or some other costly stone. They are used like
tiles, for walls wanscot,, ornamental pave
mcnts, cabinet furniture, &c.
THE SPARE BED.-The Albany Journal has
the following:
When 90 to the country to visit my rels-
tlves, writes Nj Quad, the spare bed rises up be-
fore my Imagination days before l stsrt, and l.
shiver rs / remember how cold and grave-ilke
the sheets are. put Oft the visit as long as pos
slbe, solely on account of that spare bed /
don't like to tell that L had Father sleep on Il
picket fence than to enter that spare room and
creep into that spare bed, and so they know
dothing of my suffering The spare bed is al
ways rs lear mile and hslf from the rest o!
the beds as it can be put 1t is either up stairs
q q N sa6 n hal off r1C h,
psrlor curtain bias not beea raised for weeks :;
every thing Is rs prim as an old minds bonnet,
and the bed is as square and true as if it had
been made up to carpenter rule. No matter
whether 1t be summer or winter, the bed is like
ice, and it sinks down in WY to make one
shver. The sheets are slippery clean, the pill
low slips rustic like shrouds, and one dare not
stretch his legs for fesr OF kicking against q
tombstone One sinks down until he is lost in
the hollow, and foot by foot the prim bedposts
vanish from ight He is worn out md sleepy,
but he knows the rest of the family ARE 80 lar
away that no one could hear him If he should
shout for an hour, and this m ,kes him nervous.
DE wonders If any one ever died in that room,
and 0traightwsy he sees faces of dead persons,
hears strange noises, and presently feels chilli
gslloping up and down his back. Did any one
ever pass comfortable night in a spare bed ?
NO matter how maEy quilts and spreads covered
him, ne could not get warm, AID ii he accident
ally fell asleep it was to wake with start under
Inc impression that dead man was . Hing his
nose. 1t will be days and weeks before h. re
covers from the Impression, and yet he must
suffer in silence, because the spare bed was as.
slgned him IN token OF esteem and affection
GONE AND SEE Me "A writer saws ::
Never lake Come and see me- as phrase
meant 10 earnest unless it be accompanied with
date. Such an invitation amounts to noth-
lng at all. Ii lady or gentleman desires your
company be or che wi Il appoint a time for your
visit Gall 90 me when you can make it con-
venlent, Drop III as you are passing"
Make US visit whenever you have an hour
or two to spare, are social antiquities by
which men and women of the world under
| stand that they are DOT expected to do the
thing requested. When people wish to be-
cheaply polite there is nothing like this kind
Of vauueuess. The complimentary snail change
of society must always be taken at a large dis,
count. 1t ls never worth its face or anything
like it. Yet it is convenient medium of ey
change, and heavy debts of gratitude that
| ought to be required in better cain are often
paid with it. People who have more polish
than principle use it lavish y-p plain. bluot,
honest men sparIugly or not at all Whoever
makes friendly visit to fashionable house on
the strength of mere Come and see me-"
will very often find that the family circle be h as
dropped lnto by request is as ungenial as the
Arctic circle, and he will probably leave it with
chilly feeling that will prevent him from VEN
turing in the same high latitude again. Bu
when whole souled map, whom you know to
be your friend, grasps you vigorously by the
hand and says Come and dine with me to-
day-dinncr on the table at FIVE oclock-be
sure to conceive shall expect you" you can
take it as certain that your presence is warmly
desired. 1t is pleasant always 10 make or re-
celve visit from friend, but a pod 90 the
street is all sufficient from a fashionable &C.
quaintance.
HOME OF THE PRUssIAN EMPEROR. The
Rev. WayIund Hoyt, Of Boston. who ently
visited the Emperor of Prussia palace at Ber-
Ito, writes pleasantly about it. saying: THE
Emperor does not seem to have anything be
wishes to conceal spent very Interesting
hour 10 passing through the palace, which is
his constant city residence. 1t is not very
grand, or even sumptuous; but enter it, and
you at once feel that you are 10 the home