Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-04-18
EDITORIAL BREVIIIES.
.Beecher saws the South is new country

-Beecher says the South is new country
ull of promise.
British Iudia is estimated to contain
population Of 24O 100000
The price of kissing girl against her
wishes has been fixed at one cent by WIS
copsn court.
A Brooklyn colored church recently
became very liberal aud voted to pay It's
pastor five dollars year.
1t costs one hundred thousand dollars
to pay the Presidents salary and run the
executive mansion one year.
An exchange says at present it is hard
to tell which is the greater pest, the poiiti-
cal or the nursery drummer.
The late Frank Leslie Mr.. Carter
publisher, died of s,rangulation caused ny
a cancer similar to that which htflcts Cen
eral Grant.
Miss Cleveland, sister to the President,
speaks four languages huently. The aver
age ones of the sex generally express them
selves tolerably we'll in Que.
Men are said to sleep soundest the n'ght
before they are hanged As general thing
they put away tolerably good breakfasts on
the morning of such an event.
1t has been computed in England that
m ore than II 900 pounds sterling worth OF
silver is wasted every year in the course OF
the circulation Of the crowns, forms, shil-
limos and siypences
DR.. Bigelow, the eminent New England
surgeon, comes to the rescue of those VINO
OF late have been tempted to abandon the
use of the Indian plant and says smokers
have nothing to fear from cancer as result
of the use of tobacco.
Chicago parents force their girls to cat
onions before going to skating Kinks. The
atiluvium from which in conjunction with
that from poor liquors which their galiants
doubtless indulge in must render the atmos
phere of the Kinks saluorious.
Volumes have been written giving dla'
grams aud specifications as to how children
should be trained up, and yet as soon as a
man becomes daddy be throws his judg-
ment overheard, shuts his eyes to reason
and lets the squaler rule the roost.
-P,ople whose wont it is said to fill the
house with tobacco smoke 10 the annoyance
of wives and children can fad comfort III
the fact that aa English writer points out
the probability that smoky atmosphere is
not wholly uumitgated evil, since its car
bon and sulphur must absorb many germs
of diseases, aud tend to prevent the spread
of epidemcs.
The Piedmont Tirginian saysa "piece of
ground set out in black walnut and allowed
to remain twenty years will prove more
than equal to any other farm investment.
This hint would have been we'll enough for
the antediluviaus, but in these days when
life is shortened at both ends aud contracted
in the middle two decades is rather a long
period 10 wait for crop.
Edward LeGrand, son of Lewis LIE.
Grand u prominent carriage manufactures
of Wilkesbarfe, Pa, was recently commit
ted to the county prison for abusing his
family through his excessive drinking. AT
an early hour yesterday morning he be
came respondent in his cell, and at
tempted to shuills OF this mortal coil by
swallowing a paper of tacks and drinking
the contents of a coal oil lamp.
1t is grave mistake, though many
good aud efficient men fall into it, to imagine
their places cannot be filled in the makeup
Of this planet. That every one should be so
useful as to render himself missed when he
shall have passed from this sublunary sphere
is commenda6le but the paradox should
not be forgotten, that Providence is able
and will qualify others to discharge the
duties we have lain down with equal facility
and with just as much satisfaction to the