Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-03-19
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A New York papa gave his daughter
q asix-story hotel in full blast as q we'd
ding gift.
Cork trees are now being raised, in
Florida, from the seeds imported from
Portugal.
The ''Pick Quick CIub,'' is the name
of an eating club at Yale College.
Russia has 4,2OO miles of railway.
completed and in process of construc-
tion.
A law has been passed in Kentucky
prohibiting marriage between first
cousins.
Mrs, H. B. Stowe wants to sell her
Florida plantation.
4 An Alabama paper announces that it
VIII not hereafter take any payment in
dogs.
About /, 900 miles of the French Cable
has already been made, and 600 arc on
the ''Great Eastern"
There is trouble in the New Haven
Public Schools on account of the vio-
lent whipping of little boys by female
teachers.
An igenious American once exhibit
ed at a show at Bermuda a yellow silk
handkerchief made of spiders web.
Turkey offers to sell the Island Of
Crete to Greece, if the Great Powers
will guarantee payment.
Alphonse De Lamartine, the poet.
novelist, historian and politician, died
in Paris on Monday, in his 79th year.
Secretary Seward has lived at Wash
ington continuously since 1910; 12years
as Senator, eight as Secretary of State.
The new Governor AIcClurg, Of Mis-
souri,, provides neither wines nor liq-
ours Of any kind at his public recep-
tions.
Congress and the Legislature of
Massachusetts are said to be the only
legislative bodies that adhere to the old
custom of engrOssing Bills on parch-
ment.
Fishes eyes have been utilized
They make a fine description Of glu-
ten, and attention has been turned to
their preserv alton.
The way ''gizzard'' used to be spelled
In old times, was as follows: "G-i-iz-
zard, giz-, izzard-a-rd, zard-gizzard." F"
The United States Supreme Court has
denied the petition for habeas corpus
in the cases of Spangler and Arnold.
Some planters in Georgia, Alabama
E1OuNneIn
up magnificent fields of wheat for the
for the purpose of putting the ground
to cotton.
Hausslnann, the Prefect Of Paris, has
his private office in the very room, ct
the Hotel de Vile, where Robespierre
lay with his shattered jaw, on rickety
table, few hours before being takento
the scaffold.
A tombstone in Maine, erected to the
memory of q wife, bears the inscription:
clears cannot restore herr therefore ]
weep"
The Austrian Ambassador at Rome
pays $4,000 for new liveries in which
| to clothe his servants on being present
ed to the Pope. The Austrian Ambas-
sadOr and his money are soon parted.
Carl Benson thinks the coming
man" ought to weigh one hundred 1 and
on the other hand, thinks the perfect
physiological man will weigh ono hun
dred and forty pounds
| A Southern paper is opposed to the
education of women as surgeons. II
saws that: Suppose one were to be
put under the influence Of chlorofOrm
| by such doctor, what is to prevent the
! woman kissing you r.
The exhibition of the Siamese twins
in England is a failure, and the poor
fellows are likely to be distressed even
for means to return home. In this eE'
tremity it is hoped they will stand by
each other.
Louis Napoleon has offered A. John
son the hospitality Of his house When
he comes to Paris, and an apartment la
to be made ready for him atsthe Louyre
by the side OF the pavilion occupied
by Queen Isabella.
An English Judge, Baron Anderson
on being asked to give his opinion Is &
the proper length ofa sermon, replied
aTwenty minutes, with q leaning x
the side of mercy"
A lady advertises herselfin an lows
! paper as an "attorneyess-at-law "-
WHY not say bar-maidy II is q NOR
euphonious term, and one in familia
use.
When stoves are red hot the gases o
combustion will leak through thei
pores like water through a sponge
This Is one cause of the unhealthines
, of rooms thus heated.
Lees report Of the Gettysburg battl
Z is now published for the first time.
show that Lees purpose in his morSI
: into Pennsylvania was to cross n
3 Susuuehannah and move upon Harris
burg and, probably, philadelphia
The Boston Journal says; Anon
D the claims allowed ny an ~