Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-24
Miscellaneous.

! Miscellaneous.
The two elevated railroads 10 New York city
ere carryiug an average Of fifty million psssen-
| gers year.
Never be angry with man who threatens to
| blow your brains out. Ho is dattelng you
with the remark that you have brains.
Anne Rutherford Scott, niece OF Sir Walter
Scott, of Abbottsford, died at Ksston Recsory.
Kent, on April l, in her seventy seventh year.
From recent Developments in New York We
| are Inclined 10 think that the best plan tor q
young gentleman fortune hunter IS to turn
ooachman for some rich papa.
Tho discreet woman never cIiticiz,5 her hus
band 10 company, bu. the uuwlse spouse re,
| proveth her. husband AMID multitude, aod
thereby causeth O guashiog OF teeth 10 the
household.
There is Only one otjss. 10 the world wh'oh
will attract young lady's sttentloa from the
handsome young mau whom she meets on tho
street, aud that ia another woman With hat
two laps ahead Of any style she has yet soen.
The Syracuse Times sgnpathizos With tho
ics dealers who will loss part of their crop by
the colspsing of this world on July |, as an-
nouused by the Advantists There is always
some such thing as this to keep an lcs dealer
poor.
The peach trees throughout Maryland and
the lower section Of Delaware are rapidly buts:
Jog into tl,ss1n. aoi their appearance Is 81
favorable that tbero is every prospect tor one
of the largest cops that has been Gathsred on
the peninsula.
A lad Of eighteen coafoed 10 pri5oo at Paris
for theft, hes recently constructed Wasoi
which runs three hCurs. his only materials bs-
ing two needles. pin, 6 little straw. and SOU,
thread. Efforts are being made to procure his
release, in hopes that he will, az meohaoie.
be a useful member OF society.
A writer 10 Blackwooi's Magazine declares
that the pressot period Of commercial deprss
sion is the legitimate result OF nearly 80 years
Of prosperity and consequent oVar produ'!lon.
He thinks. With most leading economists, that
we can only work cut OF it with pasion'' and
thrift.
A Cinoouari clergyman named Rdcdss is
preschog on frauds. One of his sermons was
on the people who cheat the storeksepers by
purchasing goods for wbica'th d. not pay.
The next Wss ou tho storekscper5 who chest
the people BY selling them goodd which are DOT
worth paying Tor.
I'D YOU praseu, youc ACCOUNT to tbe de-
feudso,?' asked lawfe. of bis elect.
Il did, ycur hooor.
Add wnat did hs say
"Eie told us 10 50 10 The deVl'
Aud what di you do the'
Why, then came to you.
While huatius fox il E,aisad nu VI. ui
| %. the Northumberland aod Brailkshire tx
| houods pursued il toto the postotho, at h!'
field. Theuoe the fox esolped 1910 c't,sg'
opposte. whi;her several dogs followed. Fur
l =, nd
| about and brokeD, aud after q great dea! OF
| cotfdsou the fix WAS killed uadsr bad.
The sudden dsath Of Mrs. Rousby, the Ao-
tress, ia London, is the closing s,eoe 10 tho
''sad, last act Of brilliant career. Mrs.
| Rousby was Of one time reputed to be tn, most
beautiful woman 10 Eogland, apd Wss,a very
popular actress. She cam, to Aneric, some
two years ago, but was failure here, an ate
her rs,urn to Eoglsud declqed rapidly 10 for
tune and reputation.
| A mammoth c)ttoo steamer with oapa,ltY
| Of 9 900 bales is TO bs built al R9ach's ship
| yard. Chester, Pa She is to be- attached Co
tbs Cromw,ll Iiue between New Otlelus aod
New Yak. With the exception OF the Pacific
Mai ioe steamers she will be the largest iron
eteamer built in this couory. Her lecgth
vill be three hundred and twenty fee Feet aod
breadth of beam thirty nine feet.
| Archbishop Purcell. on being Interviewed
last week ooncarniog hl5 taaocal affairs SAID
it was now proposed to appoint c)m nlttee 10
receiqe the names OF 5000 Catholics 10 the
JInited States who will subscribe $500 year
far ten years to pay of the diocesan dsb 10
the meantime, hs said, the othtr plans 10 op'
ration for the removal Of the liabilities would
% On. He seemed to feel ooD6dsnt that the
oayment Of the eu!ira debt was only qnesaoo
of time.
81 love YOU like sn5thins,' said ycuua
. gardener TO bis sweetheart, pressing her taod.
. "Ditto." said she, returning the pressure. The
ardent lover was sorely puzzled TO understand
the mespiog Of ditto. The next day, oeIos
work with his father he said; DADDY, uhss :,
the meapios of diuo?' "Wby,' SAID the o'd ~
man, this /, enc cabbage head, am
: Yves, daddy" well, that eres ditto.
"Drst if" calculated tie indignant 500, ".he'
she called mo cabbage head j.
i Oo a c.r,aiu day 10 the Commons whst
Bnrks had risen with some documents 10 hi
hand to make motion rural parliamenta
:. RAN, wbo had 90 relish for oratorloai hsraogue
9 started from bis seat and said: "hlf. Speaker
I hope the honorable geoIl,n doesn lnten'
: to read that large buad!e OF papers and to bor
us With long speech into the bargain. Butk
| preClDltately retlteI 10 rage apu olesuS.' oo'
= George Selwyu, the Wit. when relating the 10
cidant, remarked that it was bis 6tst reslIzst!c
Of the fable of liou put TO fight BY donkey
= bray. --
It Tie best FLANNEL SUITS, at s.. IS. SIG an
lsl2, YOU will tod at s. DgALHAM's. 62 hIpi
!. st., corner Of Fairfax.
Fop Raging PANS. CAKE PANS, PIE FANS
Oyster Cans Cake Cutters iin lS,s ssnoSu,1 M a.;
thing 10 The towsrs noe; oamSus Eal sts dec q
a. The xre.test variety Of HATS. comprising "a