Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-09
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

land and whereabouts.
--Thrty-six dentists were turned out
from the Dental College, in Baltimore, yes
terlav
-Eenuor missed it to-day Like most
other people, he don't always generally
sometimes know whether its going to rain
or no.
i, is announced that the late Prince
Charles of Prussia left fortune of more
than 00.o00 Of which $1,000 900 is be-
queathed to his son.
According to the census returns, New
England is already overstocked with wo-
men, and yet they have exported two hun
dred morein one block from lrelund?
Richard G. Carter has sued his wife.
Elizabeth, in New York, for a limited d.
vorce Oh the ground of cruelty. He COM
plains that she beats him numerically.
Among the officers Of the Central Luna
tic Asylum is noted Doctort?j Tansill, of
Alexandria, All Doctor-prohably rca-
tive of Professor Herbert of tonsoria art,
only not half the man, We venture.
-Ex.Speakcr Keller, has received a good
many compliments Of late; but the neatest
OF them all, perhaps is. that paid by the
New York Jiiorld, which says of MIN that it
is evident that he is q very unusual fool
One seldom sees an usual one.
There is rejoicing in the tea market Oh
account OF President Arthur signing the bill
to prevent the importation Of spurious tea.
The bill prohibits tho importation of sub.
stances called teas which are really imita.
tons rejected by the English customs in
spectors.
Being pressed for MS views on liquor
legislation, Colonel Robert Ingersoll said f.:
III the Mississippi and all its tributaries
were filed with pure whiskev. if the banks
were loaf sugar, and all the low grounds
covered with mint, there would he no more
drunkenness than there is day"
Since the resumption of navigation
two weeks ago, the ST. Louis and Mississippi
Valley Barge Company have taken from ST.
Louis ,lOO,SlO bushels Of corn in bulk and
BAG, 253 bushels CT wheat to New Orleans for
export-all of which hurts Baltimore It is
a great pleasure to sec our Southern cities
thus growing
An old lady opposed to capital punish
ment in passing the Tombs in New York
street car recently remarked to the con-
| ductor that hanging would never prevent
crime. That official cody replied that those
VINO underwent the operation would have
an ciiectual barrier from crime put upon
them, at least
Miss Belle JONES' sixteen year old school
girl, of Flushing, L. l., asserts that her
teacher compelled her as a punishment to
walk up and Gown stairs lO4 times. andthat
at the end of the tramp she found herself in
iainiing condition and had to have rcstor
atives administered to her. And this in the
higher civilized North.
AT the town of Nuneatou, England
football is played in the public streets.
Most o.. the tradcspcoplc put up their shut
tiers at noon and the game is continued till
nisht:ali. 4 general subscription defrays
the cost Of broken windows. This accounts
for the fact that Tor several years it has been
almost Impossible to read paper without
stumbling over announcements of the failure
OF some English merchants.
Last summer man was arrested some
where up North for attempting 10 wreck an
excursion train containing five or six hun
drcd people, mostly women and children :
nov human liend mas been arrested for
setting fire to Il Buffalo, y. Y, hotel while
the guests were asleep, and has confessed
the crime. II seems that dcmoniac posses
sion is not one of the things of the past, and
| prevails still in the land where they used
| 10 burn women Is witches.
The great apostle remarked that there
were characteristic his day who had "a zeal
for God without knowledge" 1t app ears
that eighteen centuries have failed TO rid tile
world Of such as there are some over.zcalous
professors IN this country who have threat
ened to destroy with dynamite the luonu-
ment erected near New Rochelle 10 the
memory Of Thomas Payne 1t is an infialli-
bic sign that those who are the most vindic-
alive in urging their religious opinions are
people who have made but few steps in the
spiritual journey. The more experienced
are sober and conservative.
The Charlestown West Virginia Free
Press says Considering that its street
railway ofsosne years ago was abandoned
because Of lack of patronage Alexandria
would seem to be putting on airs in propos-
ing an extension of the Herdic cab service
thither from Washington. These elegant
convcyances wouldn't stand Alexandlias
bouldcr-paved streets very long" Oh! you
don't know anything about it. The street
railway was not abandoned for want Of pat
ronasc but because the people had such a
veneration for relics that they could not
stand the absence of the boulders, over
which Washington and his compeers used
to stumble o nights; and then they prefer
walking to dirty street cars.