Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-12-22
ALL SORTS.

The only tree that fourishcs on sandy
Cape Cod is the beach.
Mr.. Snare, of PENNSYLVANIA, caught 169
tried oysters in his "trap," at a single meal
The runaway did NJ. Catacazv no more
damage than Mr.. Fish's letter does.
A Swiss mechanic has invented a self
playing piano.
The conservatives claim that Dixie mis-
Leeds the English public.
Utah has received a largo invoice of the
AngOra or Cashmere goat.
SpurgeOn goes to France for another re-
Vlval-hiS health.
Tight rope performers are called ..flnaIn-
bulatols, in Georgia.
Even the London Times is beginning to
cry "EnOugh''-of the TichbOrnc case.
Burrbridge's friends billet O'Neal with
cOWardicG because he avoided the duellists
bullet
A Tennessee farmer has raised pound
OF tea at an expense of $15.
Baltimore averages one hundred and
thirty deaths week
Lydia Thompson was presented with
gold oil we'll rig by the enthusiastic Ii
tusvillianS.
An odd girl, of Kentucky, amused herself
by sticking pins into people at al Odd Eel
lows fair.
The Russian hymn wants the letter L to
make it perfect. 1t would then be Russian
hymen.
A ton of straw makes eight hundred and
fifty pounds Of paper and it's strutcny paper
too.
Some New Workers said to the Interna-
tionales, do parade othore said '.Pray
dOn't.''
VIM. n. Tweed, .jr., assistant district at
tOlney, New York, has rendered his rcsia-
nation TO take effect January !,
The prescriptions clerks Of New York, IL
censed under the new law, have formed
mutual benefit association.
The missionaries to the Fills, instead Of
converting the islanders, stand a fine chance
OF being converted themselves-intO soup.
A Cincinnati horse doctor advertises chow
to teach horse to sing" This is irced-
less. We haze enough One-horse singers
already.
Shade of our ancestors John Calvin
has been fined five dollars and sent to Jail
in Ohio for swearing and unbccoming con-
duct.
The remains Of Alexander Dumas are to
be transported this month from Nilliers-
COtterctS to Paris for intermcnt in the Pere
La ChaiSc.
The steam tugs Highlander and Hercules
We're burned at Kingston, Ontario, Friday
night. Loss $4,000. One man burned to
death.
The ninth church is now being built in
the two year old city OF Duluth, and it
doesn't pretend to be very pious for its
bigncS, either,
To the native Alaskans our country is i'll
debted for the production of liquor from
sugar, of such potency that it kills i'll three
weeks.
Louisiana engineer was acquitted Of
neglect i'll running over a man, because
''the grass on the track grew 50 high as to
obscure the person"
The Queen Of Holland has climbed up
Nc5uviuS i'll Sedan chair, and thus the
Sedan has become the instrument for clc-
waiting or degrading royalty.
The RUTman Ambassador will have a
pleasant reception at buckingham Palace.
lie is the bearer Of Il gold necklace weigh
ing ten pounds. as a present for Queen
Victoria.
The tedious routine Of Irritation, intro
duction, courtship, engagement and mar
riagc was successfully gone through with
by an Arkansas couple in thiry-siN
minutes.
.ENow, then, children,7 said Il parish
school mistress, showing her pupils off on
examination day, "who loves all men?"
You, missus,'' was the unexpected an
SWer.
The discstabIished church Of ireland has
voted i'll synod against State aid to denom-
national schools, and the Cork Preobyte-
rians have also taken grounds i'll favor OF
UnSectarian education, and against the fO-
man Catholic movement for separate
schools of their own.
Parton is ungracious enough to remark
! that many American ladies, were they sell
/ fenced to be hanged tomorrow, would ask
as their first question, "IIavc l hanging
! dress ?"
A Michigan arithetician computes that
the number Of clothes sent to the sufferers
by the forest fires in that State would fur
nish each man with about two hundred
pairs Of old pants and one hundred pairs OF
old boots.
+ A member Of Louisville debating so
ciety enforced the weight Of his argument
Tor the affirmative by shooting the success
ful supporter Of the negative while he was
riding home from the Lyceum with his SIS
ter. Effective, certainly.
This is from an Indiana paper " The
self-raking reaper has slain its thousands.
The buzz-saW S bloody victims may be mum
bered by scores. The sorghum mill crushes
its dozens. And now flax mill has elided
the arm of Mary Burns, Of Union City. =
Comment Is needless.
; \ newspaper item states that - AleXan-
! der Dumas, the elder, died with only one
gold piece in his pocket" We dclt know
how it is ourself; but we don't think 1t
would have helped his case any, or made
his dying moments more happy, If he had
Ofty gold pieces in his pocket.
4 gentleman travelling homeward fon
| Atlanta met an eli colO.ed man, on "l.Vot
hat was entwined the Grape Of grief. The
gentleman said, :. Nou have lost some
friend, L See.' - Yes, maSsa.7 . w as IL
a near or distant relative % swell, pretty
distant-'bout twenty-four mile"
A colored member of the Alabama Gene
! raj Assemby-one of the original Stanton
men-was recently seen with roll OF
greenbacks in his fist, over which he chuck
led SO loudly as to attract the attention OF
bystander, who asked, ''What are you
laughing at Je1y?' Jerry replied, ''You
see dat money ?'' "Yes.'' 'Well, boss, [
jes got dat for my vote. I've been bought
a heap O. times in my life, but dis is de fust
! time ever got all de cash myself.
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