Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-02-14

Pig-fights form new branch of sport
ing in California.
The number Of daily and weekly jour
/ mails issued in Germany was 1855 on
L the first of January.
Anna E. Dickinson make $4,000 to
$4,000 q year by 1ecturing.
One man in the London post-odice
does nothing but decipher misdirec-
tions.
There are newspapers in but 80 Of the
128 counties in Kentucy.
Salem. Massachusetts,, is to be sup
Piled with water at an expense Of 81 COO
Twenty-Five car loads Of ice per day
are shipped from Toledo to Cincinnati.
The rice crop, like cotton, is a failure
/ in Florida. Bad weather and the birds
spoiled it. t
An apple-grovyer in Western New
York realized S25, 600 last year from a
farm of IA acres. a-,l He
Charleston has now only a population
Of $4,000. Before the war it had 10000.
It is settled that Congress viii not re-
duce the whisky tax. It will do better
collect It.
A splendid cotton plantation Of 2,00O
acres in franklin county, N. O., was
sold lately for @2.O5 an acre.
bought the famous trottinR stallion,
BashavE, jr., paying for him sl5,050.
italy, as il now is, exclusive of the
Papal States, comprises q population Of
p, ,23I $50 persons, of which ~, ,128, ,S24
are males, and 12,lO5, ,o56, females.
DR.. Ball, "a fuIl-bIooded negro, y
spoke to a crowded meeting of Demo-
Gratis in Lebanon, ILL.,, one day last
week. He edits Democratic paper.
Licking County, Ohio, has 3l6,ss6
sheep, being the highest on the list in
the State, Harrison, Muskingum and
Knox follow, in the order named. The
total number Of sheep in the State is
1856, ,5O7, valued at $20,360, ,302s
The delinquent ta1-list in Berlin en-
braces, this year, not less than one hum
dred and fOrty-five thousand names.
Some South German governments are
again quietly engaged in sending their
live cOnvicts to the United States.
The New York Herald is writing up
Satan. Bennett ought to be successful
in autobiography.
In Coloma, Cal, during the past sea
son, a single Isabella grape vine bore
$500 clusters, weighing 1000 pounds.
New York has the greatest number
Of cheese factories ; next in Ohio; next
in Illinois, then Vermont, Canada, and
last England.
Parton prescribes whisky and water
-stTong-tO kill the habit Of smoking,
but what will kill the habit of taking
the toddy?
The Saturday Review says; "There
are, it must be owned, but few things
on earth of less interest, at first sight,
than girl in her teens"
At Danzig, a young man of twenty
four recently married a handsome wild
ow Of forty-tWo. After the wedding he
discovered that his bride had been his
wet nurse.
A midnight eIOpement in New York
was frustrated by a cat, who frightend
the young lady into q fainting fit as
she was going down stairs 70 meet the
expected lover at the door.
Josh Billings says ''If you trade
with a Yankee, steal his jackknife fust:
for If he gets to WhittIiug, you are gone
in spite of thunderl'
A Rock Maple was recently cut on
the pasture of N. x. Abbott, OF West
Concord n. H, whose circumference,
whore chopped, was IA feet 9 inches. It
was at least 100 feet high, and had been
tapped for sugaring 1O6 years.
A lady and a gentleman entering a
bookstore, the other day, in search of
a bridal present, were induced to pur-
pose an English version of Dore's Illus
trated Dante, which is somewhat free
" and frankly rendered as ''The Vis-
sion Of He'll"
A French paper supposes that q whale
may be only an antideluvian sardlne,
but thinks is very fortunate that men
are deprived of this faculty of unlim-
tied growth. "At the present price Of
bread; it says, ga man so feet high
would be the ruin Of any family"