Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-03-12

Philadelphia to about $4,000 private
dwelling.
Rosa Bonheur has refused to accept a
Russian order that was offered toher.
The Woman's Suffrage proposition
was killed in the Minnesota Legisla-
ture.
| Yelocipedes have become nuisance
/ wherever there is a Nicholson pave
ment in Philadelphia.
! VeIocipedes are to be made in New
ark with double saddles, for lady and
! gentleman.
A statistical connoisseur calculates
4 that only one woman out of ninety-hve
in New York, can be justly called pref
tY.
The richest copper ores on the West
ern side of this continent are found in
! Arizona.
The Emperor of China wants to sub
scribe $4,000, 900 kof the Darien Canal
stock.
A subscription has been started in
Kentucky to buy a residence for Mrs.
John G. Brckinridge.
Eugene is giving much offence in
Paris by her active efforts to make con-
verts to Catholicism.
A couple were recently married in
Kansas City, Missouri, in less than one
hour after being introduced.
One member of the Freshman class
at Yale is 36 years of age. Another of
the Same class is but Is.
Queen Victoria intends, it is said, to
build very large asylum for poor
widows near Coburg.
Col. Parker, the red man of Grants
staff, is 'spOken Of as Commissioner
pf Indian Affairs.
Debates in the Louisiana Legislature
are conducted partly in English, partly
In French, and sometimes in German.
In Boston women are taxed on $685.
900, 900 real estate and SI3 ,OOO, 900 of per-
sOnal property. Some Of them would
like chan ce to vote on the disposal of
this prope rty.
A writer, who enjoys handling huge
figures estimates the amount of human
blood wasted, up to date, by the wars
of the whole world at $50, 900 pipes.
Every Republican paper in the coun-
try approves the Schenck bill regard
ing the payment of the debt in gold,
except the Cincinnati Gazette.
The Hon. Walter Brooke, formerly
member of Congress from Mississippi,
died at Vicksburg last week by straD-
gulation, produced by eatinga oyster.
Most of the stone required for the
massive masonry of the Suez Canal
has been made from the sand of the
Desert.
Some people think that in his last
veto johnson shows himself not so bad
a copper-head after all.
There is to be "grand and aristo-
cratic' wedding in New York, April Z, |
at which the brideswill wear white tulle |
embroidered.
Xenia ordinances prohibit the sale of
ale and beer in the city after March /. |
Missouri proposes to appoint a State !
EntomOlogist with a salary of So, 600. |
Grasshoppers are to his speciality
Nearly every County Agricultural
Society that has decided upon a pre-
miUn list, has offered a premium for
velocipede riding.
The is a boy in Hunterdon County,
New Jersey, not II years of age, who
weighs over 300 pounds. He isn't a
"shOw' boy either.
1t is singular how pious new clothes
make people. For a whole month af-
ter Misses FIirt get new cloaks they were
at church three times day.
Fossil bones and teeth of enormous
size have been exhumed in various parts |
of Montana Territory.
The Rocky Mountain Herald heads |
its column of humorous and other par |
agraphs Noodle Soup
Yale has graduated fifty College Pres
ident, ten Cabinet Ministers, forty SEN
ators, thirty Governors and more than
100 Judges.
Golden bracelets, anklets, and rings
were recently found in the stomach of
a crocodile a Agra. The animal evil
IDENTIFY had an appetite for young In
dian girls.
G. W. Gosling is giving exhibitions
with velocipede in Ohio, and his sire
is snumerously practicing upon the same
in New York World.
Boring for one ofthe deep-water piers
of the great St. Louis bridge has been
commenced. The foundation is to rest
upon solid rock, so feet below the bot
tom of the river.
A Chicago Woman's Rights organ
states that the wOman's movement /
means, among other things, her SOW
ereignty in the parental realm, and
her first right to WOO instead of wait
ing to be wooed.
Two hundred thousand dozen toy
drums are manufactured in Paris
every year. Young Frenchmen are
particularly fond of military toys.
A colony of beavers have settled on
ApBOAAe4HeD@A NV NAf ' 4AkAUAaa ana are
cutting down quantities of shrubbery
and young trees.
The old Quaker rule which probft,it
ed the use Of grave-stones has not been
enforced for about twenty years or
more. Nothing but name, age, and
date, however, are allowed.
The Wisconsin Senate have recently
declared in favor of a new State, to be
formed Of part Of their own territory
and Michigan. Its name to be Supe-
rior.
It is a curious fact that, though the
rain keeps thousands away from church
on Sunday, it does not deter a single
man from attending to his business on
week days.
The new capitol building Of south
Carolina presents, it is said. a yerv i'm
posing appearance in it's nnfinish CON
dition. 1t is built of the South Cart,-
lima granite. Two million dollars wer,
spent on the building before the war,
The young ladies of Dover, Wayne
Co., Ind, have formed a society for tho
redemption of young men from bad
habits. Each Of the members hRs1
pledged herself not TO receive the at
tentions OF any young man who uses
liquor, tobacco, or profane language.
An indignant orator, at recent po-
litical meeting, in refuting an nOpponentl
thundered; "Mr. Chairman, I scorn
the allegation, and defy the alJigator.'
1t is said that dog taken in his in
fancy and held for three-quarters Of an
hour with his head under water viii
never have hydrophobia, even II bitten
by mad dog.
Bishop Simpson, Of the Methodist
Chuch, during his visit to Houston.
Texas, was not allowed to preach in the
Methodist Church Ssrufh FFs ,s,,,,i,v,ig9
a German church.
Mrs. Quantrell says she is Mrs. Bar
bar0 Frietchie. Mr.. John G. Whittier
says Mrs. Quantrelli is not Mrs. Barbara
Frietchie. It Is Mrs. Barbara Friet-
ehie's turn now. The poem still stands,
however.
Mr.. tHerbert spencer. the famous