Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-09
PERSONA

still unfinished.
THE huge circus posters and other plays
bills Of America are unknown ia Europe.
@soRosrs" Is a Greek word meaning
THE Atlantic cable is growing more per-
feet in its insulation month after month, It
is said.
| GENERAL ROBERT Z. LEE has just return
ed to Virginia from q visit to New England.
JOHN G. FREMONT mas added 1000 to the
Humboldt monument fund.
NEW YORK has attained to a sixteen
bridesmaids wedding.
.LEAv4EEwosRsTgIEI, II, Kanees, is thirteen. years
old, and has 1900 Inhabitants.
/ IN settling the Indian question Grant
thinks Penmanship mightler than sword
manship.
EXTENSIVE coal fields have been discov-
cred near the seaport o. Bergen In Norway
TRoPnoNe, the late President Of the
French Senate, died si50OO0 in debt.
! SALT LAKE contains 5000 dormons and
I 5000 Gen1iles.
ANTHONY TROLLoPE writes most Of his
novels between five and eight in the morn
Ing.
GEN. THOMAS ls said to have refused e
purse Of Sl00i000 rendered to him.
SIX hundred men are working at Proyi-
( railroad.
THE druggist Helmbold advertlses In p
500 out Of the {, $50 newspapers publlshed III
the United States.
YOUNG men are at a premium. The neW-
" nominated President Of Harvard College
is only thirty-si1.
a ATELEGRAPHICm message was recently sent
from London, and reply received from
Calcutta in less than VI hours
THE Hoh..J. F. Wilson, of Iowa, is made
attorney Tor the Pacific railroad, at tl5,OJ0
year salary.
AN Illinois railway ts getting freight cars
| built on which is painted, 4 From Ocean 70
Ocean-No o Transfer"
A VYIscoNs1ly Legislative Committee has
/ reported unanimously in favor or inc re-
| enactmeht OF the death penalty for murder.
| CAPTAIly E. B. Ward, recently divorced In.
/ Hs5 iltalsa 81 on me LIN ulL' as
/ Conneaut, a niece Of Senator Wade
4 IN a portion OF Rhode Island, the chill
Il dren are Kept away from school by the fear
Il Of mad dogs.
] THE richest young man in America is a
] son of the late Edwin A. Stevens, residing
4 in Hoboken. His property is valued at
4 Sl5O,O00,OOO.
TEENYsON has again declined an invita-
/ Rollicking Rams" the English House Of
Lords
MAINE Vermont and New Hampshire
have had one hundred and hfteen days Of
/ good sieighing this winter; and Boston not
that many hours Of It,
ALI. the European Crown Princes, in ac-
| cordanee with an ancient custom, are taught
a trade. The Prince OF Austria is now learn
ing that of matchmaker,
THE New York Sun says that Parlze Cod
win still owns third of the New York
Post, and finds it too valuable tosel.
THE Iowa Agricultural College. is i've
stories high and contains over one hundred
rooms; the farm 648 acres.
CUBA has a population Of 100000, Of
which T64, 800 are whites, and 6o5l5O0 colored.
THERE is but one strictly virtuous person
in Washington. His name is Donn Ftatt-
He is virtuOus because he 4nds cakes and
ale indigestible.
A NEW YORK paper says Tom Thumb
drinks. If he does his wife has at least one
cOnsolatiOn-he doesn't hold muchs-Louis-
UtiJe Democrat
Mr.. 7. BucHApAN READ has just COM
menced a 1lfs=size painting OF I" Sheridan's
Ride" He occupies 8ossettts studio in
Rome.
A SITE has dnally been decided upon for
the new Lindell Hotel at st. Louis. The
building is to cost s9OO.000.
Two marble busts have just been discov-
cred at POmpeits one OF Eompey ana Lne
other of Brutus. They are both OF hne exc
cution.
THERE are $50 American students in the
various German universities, and over ltO9O
male and female American pupils az urst-
class boarding schools.
| TEN lady students graduated Friday eve
ming at the sixth annual commencement on
the New York Medical College for women
1 THE late Edward Bates, Of St. Louis, had
i seventeen children by the wife Fno'survives
i him. Six sons and two daughters are still
living.
1 REV. NJ. P. GADDIs, Of Cincinnati, has ac-
/ cepted a call TO the state Street Oongrega-
tional Church. New York.
/ A YOUNG lady in staunton, va, keeps q
/ list of her male acquaintance I'm a pocket
| diary, and calls it her him book.
| IT costs England thirteen millions year
4 TO support the military forces In her colo
4 CoRNELL U1VTvEElsITY has collection Of
Z shells numbering 100000, representing a.
I 900 species, and which it took their collector
| thtrty-hve years to gather
HARRIET Hos1rER has been commission
I ed by the eX-Queen Of Naples TO execute q
4 statue of her eE-AIaiesty as she appeared in
/ the character Of Heroic Defendress or
Gasta."
T a young girl who died brokeu-heartsds
''She who lies beneath this stone
Died or constancy alone.
Fear mott approach, oh passer-by,
OF naught Contagious did she die"
Iris new the fashion in Paris cemeteries
on the tombstones. On mamma IS is tie
/ general exclamation with children, and
" Oh God, /" with adults says a curious NOR
/ tuary statistician.
THE Hon. Pierre soule has become de-
ranged, and curator has been appolnted
IN New orleans 70 take charge Of his affairs.
His only son is also crazy.
THE fashionable female Iip is very pale.
according TO the latest Partisan accounts.
Coral ,coLorlng ls quite gone out Of fashion
ana the expression OF the elegant mouth la
that Of WEAKNESS and scOrn.
CONSIDERING the row in Cuba. isn't ft
lucky for Spain that she didn't send out
any rebel cruisers during our civil yFar3 The
| Spanish squadron now on duty at Cube cuu-
/ sfsts OF six vessels. mostly slde-wheelers,
poorly armed and miserably slow.
/ PHILADELPHIA hasa Last Man Brother
| hood consisting Of thirty-three printers.
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until the " last man has to sit 40 the table
| alone.
LADIES ears, 50 long neglected, have be.
/ come an object of attention fin Paris, and
/ are now tinted with pink or white They
/ are brought Forward or forced backward
/ (or shortened2 p according to taste.
/ A cLERGY1rAlg was shot while performing
I the marriage ceremony &C Amuergouwiuet
1 Ca, recently by the drunken stepfatllqr Of
by pillows.
| % PERSONS who send communication 90
eaI'qrs I ll,s 70 Inc, nelR ,tti t9ei9 il,l ny @ S fe II m
/ the fraternity e, get their own ertlcles
/ Transcript.
Mrs. EVANS, who has been appointed
| Postnistress at Ravenna, is the widow OF
/ Lieut.; Evans late OF the i04th Ohio, who was
/ killed at Atlanta, Georgia, and is the dnuFh-
1 ter Of Colonel VIM. Frazier,
THE following suggestive notice was post
L ca in the Westheld (Afass.) Postolnces
| hand without mitten. Information may
/ be LEFT at the PostofiCc,"
THE old riddle, q" why IS a bald mnn's
1 head like Paradise 2" being rehenread 10
/ Lord Derby, with its answer because it ls
| a bright and shining place, where fhere'suo
| parting or dyeing," the Earl added And.
thank goodness, where there are no more
] Wth)igsP'
HENRY W. Lo1yGFELLoW win, it is said.
return from Europe TO Boston in August
/ next. Few Americans have won higher
houors abroad than have been bestowed
upon him.
THE Hartford saloon keepers who sold
young Hitchcock liquor in spree Whlcn
ended I'm his death, are 20 be prosecuted lof
Violating the SUNDAY law and that forbid
ding the sale of liquor 90 MINORS ~ pint
and a half of raw whisky OF the Nllcst sort.
was found I'm the boys stomach, with mo