Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-02-26
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
atti suubbed the President.

LO11uhthL bhlEEs.
Patti snubbed the President.
There were III deaths in Baltimore last
week
You can buy a wifc in siberia for eight
dogs
A young gambling den was discovered
in church steeple in Stockton. Cal. re.
Gently.
A policeman in New York who has had
slxty-ninc complaints made against him has
al last been dismissed from the force
The new comet, though not yet visible
10 the naked eye, will add another to the
many excuses for staying out late.
Sarah Bernhardt's husband having fail.
Ell IN achieving the bubble reputation as an
actor, will try it at the lannon's mouth.
The evils Of vaccination was the subject
OF a lecture by Mr.. T. L. Henly at Greene
Street Tabernacle, in Baltimore last night.
Cato commenced the study of Greek
when 81 years of age Some of the present
generation would like to follow his example
Somebody says the present course of
the republican party is "directly to the
grave" but wc think hades the terminal
point.
Key. Robert Collyer says tho little
Ratchet story is a myth. That's bad; the
Identical weapon was on exhibition here at
one time.
China is said to possess the longest
bridge in the world. Did any one ever hear
of modern wonder that was not eclipsed
by something in China?
"A solemn looking individual entered
Portsmouth, n. IT,, store and asked for the
dark possibilities of bright ideas" He
wanted bottle of ink.
The Nevada Legislature is doing with
out chaplain, as a matter Of economy.
Some one suggests that more money could
be saved by doing without Legislature
Women were candidates for school d.
rectors in seven wards of the city of Pbila-
delphia, last Tuesday They were defeated
ny male competitors in four cases, and were
successful in three
The latest trick Of an inhum;n husband
in Montreal who desired to get rid of his
wife was to set fire to her clothes while she
was asleep i'll order that the house might he
with her
While fashionable wedding party
were impatiently waiting for the arrival OF
the bride and groom in Providence, Il. T.,
church recently. the organist invountarily
st"uc! up "Oh, dear, what can the matter
be-"
John W. Lynn, conductor of Free
Methodist meetings III Fulton, y. y, has
been arrested for forgery. Somebody has
said that excessive spirituality is akin to
sensualty, but I.ynn'4 mania seemed allied
to rascality
BY the will OF the late Hiram w. Tyler,
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his real and personal property valued at
about SS0, 900. is not to be divided until the
expiration Of forty years after his death.
a lesson Of patience in waiting for dead
men : shoes.
The late Robert Asa Packard, in his
younger days, while visiting in Connecticut
discovered that the excellent bread on his
hosts table was made by the latter's daugh-
t err Packard sought out the girl and mar
ried her. but in short time. unable to live
with her, they separated. He certainly saw
the impossibity Misunderstanding TO ''live by
bread alone" is the major portion of the
world will sooner Or later. Deut. viii, 3:
Matt. is, ! Luke w., 1.
The statement of the earnings and ex-
pcnscs OF the Virginia Midland Railway for
the month of January shows: Gross earn
ings $;lU4 ;SG5.11G, an increase over the same
month Of 1882 Of $20929.4j; expenses
$40, lGO.ll, an increase of $l95.S3; consruc-
ton and equipment IS, l1G.93, q decrease Of
80 POI .i9. The freight earnings for the
first week in February were SO ,;1'34, an in
crease of 81 ,94l over the same period last
year.