Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-16

bodies from very great distances.
The Glondou Times says if the Cana
dians Nshnuld hereafter desire to enter
the American Union, Of which there is
no proof or symptom, England viii as
sJFredly not lift finger TO prevent IT,"
Recording TO an English astronomer,
the temperature of the moon varies al
ternately from that of molten lead 10
dthat of frozen mercury. Nice climate.
In the Hamburg PeniJentiary, disci-
pline is maintaiHed in the younger fe-
male department by dressing up of
tenders in the costume of old women,
and banishtng them to the ward for the
aged.
Holland has abolished the stamp du-
ty on newspapers, and TO make up for
the deficiency thus -occasiOned, has rais-
ed the duty on 'Ei1uor. A singuarly
wise people-the Dutch.
Anna Dickinson was too late for the
train at .Des MOines, Iowa, few NOR
ntugs since, and she hired a locomotive
TO take her 965 miles, and rode upon ID
with the engineer and fireman.
A correspondent says that sulphuric
acid and Cayenne pepper are considered
very good gin by the Greenlanders.
They Say the King of Bqrmah's blessed
Mtthiafty wives to sOOthe his rest;
II. faiEttness e'er the King should pain
Would the King revive again ?-zgt.olB.
In Buffalo little girl, who ges bitten
by q dog on the fourth Of July last, has
tst begun to exhibit symptoms of hy-
QrOphObia.
WOrsley dedicated his translation Of
she Ilisd TO General r. q. Lee, ''the most
stainless of living coDa ulanders, and,
except in fortssDe, theAgreatest.''
Six young women, ia Clinton, Ken
lucky, have been on trial for disturbing
public worship. Phe prettiest three were
acquitted, and exemplary punishment
meJed TO the other three.
The shoe makers say that they like
short dresses, because the ladies who
wear them buy very pretty "bOOts,"
which nasUrally are very expensive.
When Anna Dickinson lectured at
Des Meines she received a note while
on tho platform. The writer asked for
AN interview at the close of the lecture,
WlftSh was granted, and he proved to be
q Etch Omaha merchant, who proposed
- Anna on the spot. Anna declined.
Professor Henry Won Sybel, the emil
nenG German historian, says, in one of
the last numbers of his Review, that
''nO finer historical productions appear
ed in the last decade in the literature
of any country than those of John
LOthrOp Motley"
1t is not often that four brothers labor
together with so single a mind, and so
wise and enduring an affec ion, for so
/ long time, as the four who have built
up the firm of Harper d Brothers. How
sad that the noble union should be
broken at last by violent death!
Great Joy was manifested, recently,
| by the miners at White Pine, over the
birth of the first native of the region.
They made up a purse of several thou
sand dollars in silver bars aud gave it
to the pioneer infant,
A New York person writing concern
ing Anna Dickinson, says: One pecu-
liar feature Of her journeys, is the
quantity of loCe letters she receives,
mostly from bsardless sOphomores, ard
other tender yoaths of literary aspira-
! tion and small means.
They are all fsarfully and wonderful
| ly talented. They all look upon her
| with an alteration that can be equaled
| by few and surpassed by none; and
! oh patlaos, pathos, and the rest of it,
they adj want trifiing loan with which
! 20 start ia business.
| Victor Emmanuel has 81 palaces; the
! Emperor of Russia has 81 ; the King Of
Prussia, "A; Napoleon, IL official ones,
and 90 which he might occupy as chief
OF the State; Francis Joseph of Austria
has upward Of 100; Isabella of Spain
had 50 before her fall.
I Negroes cannot seat themselves with
ladies and gentlemen in the South, u
says a Southern paper. If the South
ern people are all like the editor of the
sheet referred to, we agree with him.
Lamartine twice resisted offers OF
Napoleon Third that wOUld have freed
him from debt, although they would
/ have forced him 10 sacrifice his pOliti-
cal principles.
The highest mine in the world is the
POtosi silver mine. in the Andes Of
/ Peru, which is Ii 1915 feet above the lev
I nI nf fln9 Tho donvNuf fu
new Salz Werk, a salt mine in West
pha5ia. It is 2,05O feet below the sur
face of the surface of the ocean. The
average depth of the coal mines of
Great Britain greatly exceeds that OF
all other mines in the world.
A rustic, describing Louisville, said
the finest residence there belonged to
Mr. NJ. E. Church, whose name was cut
in big letters over the door, and there
was a sharp pointed chimney on the
house two hundred feet high.
William A Starr, a soldier, who
went to Mexico with Scott, but left be-
fore the war closed, went to sea and
was lost on the Marquesas Islands, was
recently brought home. The first Ques-
ton he asked the crew of the vessel
which rescued him was, CHOW did the
Mexican war finally come out -
The ladies of Hungary are determin-
i ed to have their rights. They have
asked the Parliament to authorize the
beautiful Queen of Hungary (the Em-
press Elizabeth of Austria), to appoint
/ twenty female members of the HUnga-
rian House of AIagnates.
l Attorney General Hoar is a Uuitari-
an, Secretary of the Interior Cox is a
! SwedenbOrgian, Secretary of the Navy
Borie is Catholic, eX-Secretary OF
State Washburne is n Universalist, Sec
retary of State Fish is a Dutch Reform
er, eX-Secretary Stewart is a Presby-
terian, and Postmaster General Cres-
well esehews churches altogether,
. The Riverside Echo, published at
Portland, Me, tells the following stO-
Ty of dog 'fIhe children We're in the
habit of sliding down hill near the
house, accompanied by a favorite dog.
Early one morning they discovered
that the dog had taken the sled, drawn
it to the top, and was now sliding down
hill all alone by himself: this was fire.
quently repeated
In October, 1858, thc Harpers' build
ings, nine in number, were burned to
! the ground, and Mr.. Harper having
been asked the next morning how
| much the firm intended to paw their
: on the dollar" They paid dollar for
dollar, and then erected the magnifi-
cent fire-prOOf buildings which they
, now occupy.
When Lamartine was at the head OF
the republican government of France
he got his poetical notes and his pOliti-
cal memoranda mixed, and actually
appointed the psalmist David for Con-
sui at Bremen. Discovering the mis-
take after week or two, this order was
t made out 'tCitizen Marchand is ap,
3 pointed Consul of France at Bremen, nc,
4 David, called to another position"
A sensible minister of the Gospel i,
Do NJ ,F
? politan (NIethOdist) Church ofVashing
= ton. On Easter day, having been re
8 quested to give out large number o
notices, he announced from the desl
e that as ''profusely and widely circulu
3 ted as was the American press, through
the columns of which such notices
could be properly laid before the pub
a lie, he did not deem it fair that tht
s minister should be made an adVertis
y ing medium"
i 1 believe animals live beyond thl'
= life. Heaven would be a barren place
r To me without animals. l believe th'