Clayton herald. (Clayton, Del.) 1867-1870, 1868-04-25
Here, There, and Everywhere.

......A French sayant undertakest to prove
that Solomon's temple was furnished
with lightning rods.
.....It is urged sgainst female suffrage
that the women WOULD be sure to make
mis- chief.
...."A married lazy at Brooklyn, N. Y,
is now entirely HELPLESS from paralysis,
caused by tight facing.
...... Hint to jealdns wives--Never get an
CRY when your husbands fetch pretty
laundresses home in their arms.
......Nearly a thotsand manned and dis
| figured veterans If Napoleon's wars live
at the Invalides tnPAris.
......Col. j. HaFron Foster, senior editor
of the Daily Dfspatch died in Pittsburg,
on the 21st instsft, Of lung disease.
...... Robert Toombs is about to leave for
Europe to attend an important lawsuit
in which hsis interested.
......Our Consul at st. Thomas, under
date of 18th inst, reports the cholera as
entirely disappeared from that port.
| ......Geauga county, Ohio, makes one
third Of all the cheese produced in that
STATE.
1.-The Hessian fly is committing sad
rayages in the wheat fields of West Vir-
GINA.
1.-The members of the Wisconsin Leg
islature paid their own postage during
the last session.
1.-THE gentleman who had his boots
half Soled, wishes the public to under
stand that he has no intention of compile
ting the sale.
......No less than seven new and different
biographies ofGeneral Grant are in rapid
preparation by authors and printers for
the Presidential campaign.
L....Anna Dickson has been compelled
10 abandon her lecture engagements for
a time in consequence of the failure of
of her voice.
...... The Fenian Circle of Nashville have
agreed upon a Convention in May to
raise 100000 before making another
rad,
......In San francisco lots that in 1865
were worth $1,000 now sell from $40, 900
to $4,000. Tae approaching completion
of the Paciic Railroad has effected the
rise.
THE Omaha Rsasssus says there is
Democratic thuudsr all around the sky.
This is very mo{est insinuation of the
truth that there Aas been Democratic
lightning about.
see. Four hundred thousand pairs of
shoes are now Manufactured in Lynn in
one week. More foods were sold in that
city last month than ever before in the
same time,
......Santa Anna, once reputed enorm-
ously rich, is now bankrupt. In a suit
recently broughtby him in Havana, he
avowed his inability to give security for
his part of the cose.
Henry Ward Beecher, in his latest
Sunday morning sermon, said that if he
was a merchant and wanted to sell
goods, he would advertise in the news
papers.
.....In Lowell, on the 10Th instant, the
veterans of the old 9th Massachusetts
Regiment celebrated the anniversary of
their memorable march through Balti-
more by parade, ofation and dinner.
......It is said that Dan Rice has been en-
gagged to travel witha circus, during the
season, making hisitour in Pennsylva-
mia, with the expedition that he will aid
the Democracy in carrying that State.
......A California editor says he lately
met grammarian who had just made q
tour though the mines cogitating thus
positive, mine; comparative, miner
superlative, mine.2f
...". Eight thousand eight hundred and
eight American vessels entered our POI Is
during 1867. Tonnage, 3,455,052 TONS
q o2 ~
673 tons. Ar
The weather at Cannes, France,
about the middle of March, was delight
full. No fire-windowso open from morn
ing till eveningAwith roses, passion
flowers and other beautiful flowers in
full bloom.
......A special freight train was recently
started from Concord, New Hampshire.
for Salt Lake City, distance of $500
miles. 1t consisted of twenty cars loailed
with stage coaches for the overland line
to California.
:. THE English are trying 20inch smooth
bores with 400 pounds charges, and have
fired one gun over a 1000 times. They
say that arinor for ships is played out,
and talk of building swift vessels with
little or no armor.i
REV. DR.. Breckinridge, of Kentucky.
is outsp0ken in favor of General Grant
for the Presidency, not because he thinks
Grant is especially available but because
he esteems him ''the fittest man for the
Office in America"
1.-THE Deseret NeiCS is alarmed lest
the Paris fashions should be introduced
among the Mormon women, and is
startled at the possibility of saint being
obliged to pay the clothing expenses of
dozen wives.
....., A Washington paper says to Andrew
Johnson: ut is time for you, Andrew
Johnson, to be going. Take for You
your man-servant, Seward; your maid
servant, Grandmother Welles your ass,
Alexander w. Randall, and flee to the
mountains"
......Fat is now the rage in fashionable
circles. Ladies cultivate it. They are
devouring vast quantities of butter.
mashed rose leaves, and such like. It
is said that a certain leader of the ton is
quite corpulent, which, we presume, ac-
counts for the style.
......The fair held in Boston during the
past week in aid of the suffering Cretans
was closed on Saturday evening with an
address by Wendell Philips. The net
sum received is about $4,000, which will
be Immediately sent TO the Cretan re-
fugees in Athens.
.....Of all who persisted by the Sea Bird
only one body has come ashore, and no
others probably will. When the steamer
Niagara sank, in 1866, in two hundred
feet of water, involving a heavy loss of
life, not single body was ever recov-
cred.
.ss...A traVeler through q country Town
in Maine, where there are no hotels, OBJ
tanned lodging with farmer. The next
morning, when he inquired for his bill,
the farmer said: 1855 cents for meals
and lodging, and 25 cents for squirting
tobacco juice over the fioor."
.... .'I stand" said q Western stump
orator, ION the broad platform of the
principles of '9S, and palsied be my
arm ifI desert 'um." dYou stand on
nothing of the kind ~ interrupted a
little shoemaker in the crowd, "you
stand in my boots, that you never paid
me for, and want the monevlv