Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-03-16

QUEER CHARACTERS. 1t seems that M mat
i.r what rapid strides science may MAXI, or to
what degree knowledge isdisscminated throupt.
ont tho world, there is always in each generate 20
4 large PERCENTAGE Ct our raon who never keen
,aca With the times, and iIdgiog from tho
many simple questions they PROFOUND arc net
muCh further advanced, intcllt ualty, then thew
would havo been had they lived in antedi'uvian
days. Il few Instances arc thus eiven:
j lew years ago, when proposition waa be-
;1ro tho Legislature TO ALLOW parties TO build
raiiTcad5 IN the State without going 10 tie ex-
ocaso or trouble of obtaining charters, it was
'armol by tho news papers tho free railroad
hIi!.' and moro than ono person supposed from
,ro title tcat hereafter people were 10 ride gratis,
and, when among their friends would often ex
grcas 9 wish that 1t would psss without opposl-
ton,
A party in this city sent fo7 physician, and
ellrr obtaining prescription, carried il TO u
lug store and had il Compounded When
,sipI Tor the money, no told tia astonlshed
asg.G,s. that he supposed That pieco Il paper
-5-s order from tho doctor for the IN q iciue
,rI inst no moaey WISE rjquiroi."
~oTc gears ag) tho rosldont7 OF The southern
potion 81 tho cIty werO amused c0nsidt rab nj
.la o'1,c! ofM "brg GIT itos which had sudden.
~ boon conceived in the tartilu i'm ieinaton OF 3
raIur"d Individual Of tho masculine gender
IT, had Junt e p!ecS az copper somewher and
IVES -olic'tinG iro0i the TclIhhOrs tho loan of
Hh%. he termed ~ cant mould" in order that
80 ;njgCt cast . few pennies.
Another c%so in point is the following: Be-,
lore the war tacrc Nigh, of.en be- soon perched
.Q5n the tops ct dimuutiVa parcels of wood
wed on small country cN-ts. drawn by loan
nar:cs A. the ratio Of about two miles All hour
,aHE indl7lduals often supposed by pssser: by
> hc not l,r short OF seven ient in haiphth Fol
.o~iag these teams" thare would occasionally
he seven or oZht dogs, one tied under the cart
SnI tho others sauntoring along in single file
Probably ono or two tama GRO vs. might also have
n"rn .Vin2 in tho rear These PROFESSIONS, like
wounded soskcs, would drag their slow lengths
..ons until purchasers FOX tho wood were found,
after which the cortege, ct tho samo slow gait,
would Wiad their way OF. Of town toward their
respective homes. IL WAS tho owner and propri-
r.or OF one Of these teams. who had not been in
va 81 I'll durlr e The war, and supposing every
inng IT, b" IN staLu quo arrived in the city soon
s;~r tho cose of hostll!tiy3, and desiring TO have
ssmCk", entered Il fashionable rcstauraat called
'1- cigs~, and bafore lighting il. drow from ons
II me- pockets slide purse, pntontsd in l776 the
-!ugs al which could have been utilized into fer.
r.cs llr heavy wa king canes, and succeeded rter
'Hmc trouble, IN extracting from it a graeni.h
'g copper cont, dated 1926, and c)olly placed j.
"a tue counter IN payment. Upon bang in
;o:rueI by the bar tender that Il 20 can.s WAS the
gi..c Of the CrgAr, no laid il down hastily, and
WC.Ing ~ tins conpcT ca't qI't the promises
rrragrkiN% As no did sn that 'hh WI idn't TO
rou2ci no mover psil over con. for a cigar in
"a In