Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-02
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

Manning, has entered convent at Koch.
lmpton. She is an heiress to G, 900 annu-
ally.
Sunday dog fights are becoming quite
general in some parts Of Long Island, and
are utilized to pass away dreary Sabbaths
now that there are no summer resorts at
which to while, smoke and drink away the
day.
Garcia, the most notorious gambler OF
Europe, has entered a Trappist convent in
Spain. Garcia has been known TO win and
lose 100000 stakes at Hamburg and Mona
CO. His last exploit was to break Spanish
roulette bank.
The patrons of the Tichborne claimant
have bought the celebrated Granville Hotel
for him. The claimant will shortly be re-
leased from imprisonment. He made some
thing save notoriety by personating Roger
Tchborne after ALL
-Immigrants arriving at New York from
Europe have always had swindlers and
Mormon missionaries to encounter. Now
mistresses of dsorderly houses have their
emissaries on the wharves ready to decoy
unsuspecting female immigrants.
Nearly every newspaper attempted to
write an editorial on the dying year. The
prefaces TO the same, though varied, were
mostly of an antiquated nature. The New
York Hera'd started its ''leader'' by re-
marking that "Old Father Time cuts another
coupon tonight
-Errands of mercy don't appear to be the
safest missions at all times. On Saturday
on the Cumberland river, near Dover, Tenn,
Rev. Josiah Cook shot and killed Mrs.
Joseph Glasgow, who was waiting on
Cooks wife Cook has been suffering from
pneumonia and says he thought Mrs. Glas.
gov was mixing poison with which to kill
his wife.
1t is reported that the Car will send
the Grand Duke Alexis, his brother, to
Warsaw rs Niceroy, preparatory to marry
ing him to Princess Zaltoryski. His Maj
esty's object in making this marriage is to
concliate the Poles. They would rather
be an independent people though than vic
tins Of such hypocrisy.
The habit, so often the butt Of ridicule,
of the female sex admiring themselves in
mirrors, enabled lady in New York TO dis
cover boys about to make Off with her jew
els a day or two ago. "She straightway
forgot what manner of woman she was
and raising an alarm caused the juvenile
thieves to be captured and locked up.
"A good many Of the almanacs that have
appeared for the year 1881 were evidently
calculated and printed before the new time
for the 18th meridian went into effect. They
are therefore about ten minutes slow, fact
which all persons who have to do with the
risiu. and setting of the sun-otficers Of
registration and election particularly
should remember.
The American Charitable Association
of Paris has issued an appeal for assistance.
1t states that its funds are inadequate to
help the poor Americans in Paris who de-
sire to return to the United States who have
learned by sad experience that there's no
place like home" and that after all the vex-
ations and dsappointments incident to this
country it is much to he preferred to tluctu-
tua;ing and spasmodic France.
There were 50 suicides in Brook Ign dur
Ing the past year. OF the suicides 4G were
l., ,l Ia
natives of the United States, Irish, Eng
fish and the remainder Of other national-
ties. The largest percentage, it will be seen,
is among Germans, a fact noted in the past
two or three years in compiling suicide sta
tistics. This has led some to suppose that
the drinking of lager beer tends 10 produce
melancholia which ends in selfdestruclion
A 'lonyshoreman living close to New
York city became very angry with his wife
Christmas night. He didn't adopt the mod
ern modes Of settling difficulties with his bet
ter half by throwing lighted coal oil lamp,
stamping in the abdomen or drawing ra-
zor across the woman's throat, but pulled
her out Of bed in her night clothes, carried
her to the door and threw her out in snow
bank, and locking and holting the door
quietly betook himself to bed.
Some youngsters have an ambition to be-
come reporters on newspapers-especially
to be able to write short hand -supposing
there's millions in it. The following item
from New York paper may interest some
of them: Among the men who in the
Tombs Police Court Saturday desired to be
committed for vagrancy was Patrick Nc
Gowan, an intelligent young man and an
expert stenosrapher. He said that since
his arrival from Ireland in July last he had
sought in vain for employment. Justice
Power committed him."
General Butler hopes to live long
enough to ride in car made of iron and