Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-03-03

er, or the limpid gush of the messy Fountain
Reckoning the mean annual evaporation all
over the globe ut thirty-fiye inches, it has been
computed that the total quantity of water
poured into the air would fill cistern ninety
four thousand four hundred cubic miles in ca
i pacty. This estimate however, founded upon
Dalton's data, is assuredly too low, for the
mean annual issue Of rain from the clouds all
over the earth, is row calculated at five feet.
British Quarterly.
| An ExTISGuIsHER.-Dr. Y. attended mas
querade ball. In the motley and happy throng
he falls in with fair pilgrim in black silk,
whose charming person snowwhite neck, and
| bewitchng coquettish airs awaken in his soul
the most rapturous love. She casts upon him
looks of the most langushing tenderness; he
revels in the hope of having made blissful
conquest. He musters up his courage, and
ventures TO address her:
"Who art thou, lovely mask ~ asks the doc
tor almost melted in the blow of love.
"Is it possible you do not know me, doc
tori"
"Upon my honor do not know thee
"Betiink yourself, dear DOCTOR"
"Ah thou art surely the gracious fairy who
has appeared to me to-day for the fourth time,
to open the gates of bliss"
"You mistake, doctor; am no fairy"
"Ah who art thou, them"
g am the well-known lady to whom you
have now these nine weeks been indebted in
the sum of two dollars and seven shillings for
washing and ironing"
The doctor stood like petrifed herring
A SocKDoLooER.-A few days before the
Harper's Ferry raid, well-known Southern
Senator was dining with a party at a friends,
in our city, when the usual topic, in which the
11t- oil 20 i,1p all
occasions to wit: the "Aggressions of the
North and the rights fthe South''--was intro
duced by him. =" AS for myself he remarked,
:" feel here in Philadelphia as if 1 were in
foreign country. Every day seems 10 impress
me stronger and stronger that the South cannot
continue in the Union, and that the great strug-
gle is at hand. In that emergency, where will
you, Capt. T-fo the Navy and n South
erner,) be found 2-doubtless with your ship
in the Delaware" "On the contrary, sir"
promptly replied Capt T in'uuite posi-
tive tone q should be found in the Chesa-
peake and my first duty would be to seize and
hang up ut the yard arm just such traitors as
you" This fell like a Congreye rocket among
the company, and the subject was not renewed
that evening.
CoLD FROM DAMP CLOTHEs.--lf the clothes
which cover the body are damp, the moisture
which they contain has Il tendency to eyapor--
ate by the heat communicated 10 il by the
body. The heat absorbed in the evaporation
of the moisture contained in the clothes must
be, in part, supplied by the body and will have
q tendency to reduce the temperature of the
body in an undue degree, and thereby to pro-
duce cold. The effect of violent labor or
exercise is to cause the body to generate
heat much faster than il would be in n state of
rest Hence we see why, when the clothes
have been rendered wet by rain or Precipitation,
the taking of cold may be prevented by keep
ing the body in Il state of exercise or labor till
the clothes can be changed or till they dry on
the person; for in this case the heat carried off
by the moisture in cooperating is amply sup-
piled by the redundant heat generated by labor
or exercise.
Aunt Dorothy had wonderful fondness for
singing in Methodist meetings, the negro meet
ings, especially in missionary meetings. Then
her voice would be heard above all the rest
screaming out, "From Greenland's ley mount
ings," or some other equally moving hymn
But when the plates came around for the col
lection, Aunt Dorothy always sang louder, and
still louder, with her eyes fixed on the wall,
so that she never saw the collector till he had
passed her seat. One night she was thus rapt
in ecstacy, singing at the top of her voice and
gazing at the ceiling ely abroad thou nigh
" 0Osplo, when Jhck DOnes came along with
the plate, and touching the old woman with his
left hand, said, "Look here, Aunty, YOU need
MT keep on singing Hy abroad, dou mighty
Gosple, less you glib something to make it
ny"
CLERGYMES HALF-DEAD 40 LoSGER-Edtors,
as our readers may know, are called "dead-
heads because they are not charged for tick
cts of any kind. Clergyman, being charged
mi u hnl toA baI
see by Chicago paperthat they have resolved,
in that Furnishing emporium of the West to
have their clergymen "all aliye"-the railroads,
centering there, having agreed to vivify the
pulpit by charge of full price hereafter. Tn
der what text will the directors be hit back, we
wonder2
"SLEEPERs" OF a RArLRoAD.-Five thousand
workmen writes a travelling missionary have
died of the climate and exposure, in the build
ing of the Panama Railroad Shipload after
shipload of workmen borne thither but few, |
very few, persons survived. Two thousand
Cinnamon came to work, but such was the eli
mate, and such the hardships that many died
OF sickness, while the greater portion, discour-
aged and frightened, hung themselves in the
woods, or drowned themselves in the waters
In short, ladies and gentlemen said an
oyerpowered orator. 81 can only say--beg
leave 10 add desire to assure you, that wish |
| had a window in my bosom. that you might
see the emotion of my heart Vulgar boy in
the gallery; Won't n pane in the stomach do
this time.'
Milliners are making bonnets of paper, which
are equal to those made OF straw, in durability
and appearance, and are much cheaper. The
paper is cut in narrow strips, and plated and
stitched together in the proper shape and warm
ished, i
An attorney before bench of magistrates,
a short time ago, told the bench, with great
gravity, that he had two witnesses in court in
behalf Of his client, and they would be sure TO
speak the truth, for he had no opportunity to
communicate with Them
BEAux BEWARE OF ORANGEs.-In a recent
case of breach Of promise, where heavy dam
ages were expected, the only proofof "particu-
lar attentions" was the dividing of an orange |
and giving the lady half