Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-06
EDITORIAL BREvITIES.

"A western LADY Is The WHO" vi e'e'en
husbands.
.-Marriageable girls are not in demand 10
California.
The most beautiful girl at Long Branch
is Cuban only IA years old.
The greater part of the japanese lac
uuer work is made in New Jersey.
The Jericho of the Old Testament is
now a mere heap of shapeless stones.
"A wildcat was pitted against three bull
dogs near Charleston, W. Va, recently, and
killed them all.
The dropping of pebble into well in
Fredonia, Kansas, produces a sound like
the firing of a gun.
-LotLic Brienly, of Philadelphia, lived
two weeks on milk punches, and was found
dead Wednesday night.
1t is stated that Mr. Cleveland's letter
of acceptance is nearly finished, and Will
be given to the public toward the end OF
the week.
Mrs. Eldridge, widow OF Pittstown,
asserts that she has lived for five weeks on
lemons and milk She adopted the diet to
rid herself of bad blood.
Elk Smerkobssky, Pole, recently
made two attempts to take his life in Phil
adelphia by hanging himself He is now
being tried for the offence.
A woman in Johnstown, Pa, recently
whipped her sou nearly to death because
he did not sell as many tickets for church
festival as she had promised he would.
The first execution for arson in Ala
bama occurred last Friday, when George
Smilh, aud Asberry and George Hughes
| were hanged for that crime in Scottsboro.
The orange tree is the longest-livet
| fruit tree known. 1t is reputed to have OBJ
| tanned the age of 800 years, and it has beer
known to have hourished and borne frui
for more than 100 years.
Belle Boyd's husband assaulted youns
lawyer in Dallas, Texas, day or two ago
and then filed papers for divorce. He al
leges that the lawyer has been of late to-
intimate with the ex-spy.
The best dressed woman at Atlantl
CITY is said to be Jewess. Her wardrob
is superior in quantity aud quality to an.
other at the seaShore, aud probably is no
euualed in the United States. She neve
nuts on the same dress twice in a season a
one resort.
SAMUEL Ben Lisa, q scholarly Jew from
Morocco (now residing in Jacksonville
Fla.), publishes brochure entitled "Ml
Ingersoll vs. the Jehovah of the Jews" il
which he challenges the united SCHOLARSHIP
of the world to find in the pages of an.
other book such an unfolding and evolution
of the Divine idea as is contained in tn
Bible.
Bishop Ryle, of Liverpool, has solved
as far as he is personally concerned, th
problem GLOW to reach the masses" H
breaches in the open air in the great ship
building yards at the noon intermisson an
amoug the IA, 900 carriers, with their wive
and children, and the men Of the freigh
stations, having oftentimes from two to thre
thousand persons in one assembly.
The Southern Industrial Record says tina
the American climate is not so much re
sponsble for disease as damp homes cause
by bad drainage, the use Of tobacco, tn
drinking of whiskey at all times and espec
tally between meals, the excessive use {
strong tea and coffee, the frying pan, tn
soda baking powder and patent purgativ
pills Overwork is rarely the disease.
MY dear, look down below" said
grandioso as he stood On the bridge wit
his wife, and gazing at a tug hauling lon
line of barges. 'Such is life the tug is Xix
man, working and toiling, while tn
barges, like women, are" II know" in
terrupted Mrs. G., acridly, 1.-THE tug doe
all the blowing and the barges bear all tn
burden"
Sir Garnet Wolseley recently wrote t
lady in the United States: II believ
that when time has Gained the angry pas
sions of the North General Lee will
accepted in the United States as the creates
General you have ever had, and second a
patriot only to Washington himself
Stonewall Jackson l only knew slightly
His name will live forever also in America
history when that of Mr.. U. S. Grant ha
been long forgotten"
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