Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-19
NO. 4s



sheep.
Preventlves OF consump,ionlhigh
prices.
/ Wisconsin is the only Western State
in which dissection is legal.
A wooden wedding-NEarryiag q
/ blockhead.-CCitizen.
Coughs recent lecture ia Detroit
cleared nearly $4,000 for the Orphan
Asylum
John @. Breckenridge and wife are at
ST, Catherine's, Canada.
The French wine crop exceeds $780,
0e9,O0O.
A Californian has built an "agrieul-
fural locomotive" that runs thirty-nine
plows at once.
There are one thousand and four in
mates at the Soldiers Home, Dayton.
Mrs. Mary Evans, a sister Of the late
Governor Tod, died in Akron, Ohio,
Tuesday.
A New York halter is getting up a
complimentary Inauguration tile for
Grant-size ~.
Marquis Moustier, late Minister OF
Foreign Affairs in the French Cabinet,
died recently.
In California everything from q
church to a peanut stand IS run by a
joint stock company.
The sale Of seats Ga Booths theatre
Tor the opening night Melted $4,000.
The "German" is going cut Of fashion
in New York.
The hairless ones in America spend
100000 a year on wigs.
Eighty thousand tuns of ice have
been stored at Gardner, Me-, for ship
ment.
Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, praises
God for the war, Notwithstanding its
woes and burdens, because It abolished
slavery.
Pound parties" are the latest. Those
invited are expected to contribute one
pound at least of something to eat.
A Pittsfeld sign painter has put out
this new signs SeehOwqu erasignloUlzs
withOutspaces."
The Illinois Legislature is consider
inga public bill admitting colored child
rem into all the public schools.
When a fish is wounded the other
fishes fall upon and devOur him. There
is some human nature in fishes.
A cruel wag turned a bald headed
friend into an enemy by advising him
to have his head frsscoed.
The New York World estimates that
80, 600 nightly attend the theaters of
that city, great part of whom come
from the floating population, which
numbers 10000.
The Canton (Ohio) Republican pro-
poses to make velOcipede with rim
med wheels, so that il can be run at the |
single rail of a railroad. In case Of 4
meeting lightning train, wouldn't it
be very bad for the bicycle
General Robert E. Lee has been elect
ed President of the Bible Society, Of |
County, Virginia, and has |
issued a short address to the citizens Of
that county, in behalf of the Society, |
which is to supply every family in the /
county with copy Of the Bible.
The New York World, of Sunday,
says "CommOdOre Vanderbilt made \
ten million dollars in one day recently; |
80 il was stated in open court, yester- |
day. II this is true, and it probably is, |
Ii is undoubtedly the largest sum ever
made in the same time by one man
since the beginning of history"
A GEORGIA paper says; some notie- /
able fact Of late has been the small
number of negroes that have attended
the circuses. All who go nowadays
can be placed in one quarter of the
space the negroes occupied directly Rf-
ter the war"
The enormous capital Of Trinity |
Church, in New York, of which the an /
1ual income is $500, 900, has never yet /
paid dollars tax to the Government. |
It is estimated that million offrancs |
are lost and won at cards every day, In l
Paris. The cards alone cost eight |
thousand francs per night.
The Richmond papers complain of !
he city authorities for having leased |
,ne Of the principal public squares Of /
hat city at Sl25 a year 'sfor a cOrn-field /
and hOg-pen."
Twelve years ago a Newburg, New /
York, brewer commenced business |
with a peck of malt. To-day he is /
worth 100000.
A. T. STEWART has sold twenty |
ihawls, this season, worth So 900 each, I
Ind one worth $4,000. One woman ran |
lp bill for $4,000, at his store, in a /
couple of months.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN is busily en-
ragged in finishing the Stevens Battery. /
There is nearly two years work upon 1
t yet.
MEMBERS of the New York LegisIa-
ure found on each of their desks the
,ther morning q large cake of soap.
an advertisement or hint, does
Tot appear.
The New York ferries carried s2I, ,221,
"a passengers IN 1868.
The golden youth OF New York did
lot get home until 5 O'Clock In the af-
ernoon following the French ball.
A man in Richmond, Virginia, was
,ublicly cowhided last week by the
mother of Alandered girl.
GaribalGi speaks about fourteen diff
erent Languages. English is the last
ie acquired having learned it in Amer
ca in 1850 and 1851.
The stage effects of Booths new
heater at New York are worked by
the first attempt Of this
lind in the world.
A Cincinnati genius adVertises for "A
saying that "work is not so
1uch an object as good wages" He
uRht to have place on the police force.
T Boston Advertiser.
A thoroughly reliable gentleman,
rho breakfasted with Grant the other
ay came away full OF waffles and no I
'aoinet Information to speak OF.
1t is well-known that Abraham Lin
oln, though a mild hammered man,
7as susceptible to any insulting re-
1ark, and was occasionally moved to
be greatest indignation. BE became
o exasperated toward a resident Of this
ity-at one time an officer Of vOlun-
sers-as TO actually kick him out Of the
White House, New York Sun.
Mary Clemens Amea says that Eliza
eth Cady Stanton embodies in her :
erson the noblest type ofthe American I
natron. Her white hair curls closely (,
bout her fine forehead; her dark eyes
uick and earnest, fash under it's wide !
rches, clear refiectOrs of every feeling !
nd thought within, Her features are :
Ioble, the lines OF the mouth as sweet :
s they are strong, her dress rich and 4
uiet. She has n powerful magnetism Il
g public speaker, for all the forces {
f her rich personality seem fused 4
he Is logical, earnes and eloquent, and 7
ever maunish in her manner. n
Fitz Greene Halleck and Joseph Rod