Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-06-15

boston is copying New York's five
O'Clock dinners.
The rinderpest has reached China and
threatens Japan.
--Caifornians are mfdels--they actually
doubt the census.
AN Academy of Music is projected at
Springfield, Mass.
An Illinois factory turns out stove
every four minutes.
He pulls with long rope that waits
for another's death.
-Salubrious Rainbow is a colored geu-
tleman of Baltimore.
The Nova Scotia giantess has just
been accouched in London.
Chinese physicians are extremely pop
ular in San Francisco.
"A Detroit artist of five summers gets
his living by the violin.
--Tha London papers locate Norfolk,
Va, in South America.
Brigham Young announces that he
shan't marry any more.
AN Indiana reporter tried to interview
a deaf and dumb man.
The finest opera house i'm the world is
soon to rise in New York.
-Oolonel and Madame jerome Bona
parte summer at Newport.
A celebrated Engl5h cricketcr is to
kteach his art in New York.
-rhe Ocean is destroying the beach
and drive at Long Branch.
Ladies' are being admitted to the prac-
tlce OF dentistry in Germany.
-"From whence" is unnecessary.
Whence" means as much.
The Vigilance Committees in Iowa
have been holding convention,
The New York Standard alludes 70
Greeley as tho blonde candidate.
An indianapolis NJ. D. scatlers bis
business cards in the church pews.
| The newest window shades are OF
) crimson silk, with your monOe ram.
The mortal remains of III steamboats,
lie on the bottom of the Arkansas river.
A village near Muquoketa, Ia, re.
1oices in the name Of Shoe Fly"
Two hundred immigrants, on au ave.
rage, daily pass through Detroit.
Racine, VIE, is about to make gas
| from the waste of crude petroleum.
Burlington, To-, is raising money by
subscription to erect one lamp post.
-Manitowoc, which is way out in Wis
consin, is building a $50, 900 school.
"A thrifty organ grinder at Taunton,
Mass, has bank account of $4,000.
Cut worms are doing immense DANA
ges In the western counties Of Indiana.
"A Racine, Wis, lady took motphine
for toothache, and snoozed three days.
Moore ~ Mooreover Is an adverbial
business firm at Council Blutls, 10.
"A New Yorker has calculated that in
l,S00 years Lake Erie will be dried up.
New York paid $4,000 for band
music In her public parks last summer.
--Booth's new cottage at Long Branch
is castelated building of red brick.
-" Horace Greeley's Grand March -
March, 1878, the New Orleans Times says.
Chicago proposes to prohibit doors
aud gates from opening on the sidewalk.
Miss Charlotte Cushman is erecting a
marine villa at Newport at a cost Of
S25, 600.
Blessed are they that are ignorant, for
they are happy In thinking that they know
everything.
The largest orchard in the world is in
California. 1t contains 426 acres, and has
over $4,000 fruit trees.
"A horsey man, hearing mention made
OF the "Latin Races" wished to know
where they were held.-Itiitch.
"A Bangor, Maine, man lately set a
trap for chicken thief, and caught eleven
skunks.
The Woodruff ticket counts confident
| ly on receiving the electoral vote Of
Tennie G.
"A Philadelphia paper says that one
half of the servant girls i'm that city are
drunkards.
"A loaded gun was touched OF by a
hash of lightning at Wilmington, Y. c.,
the other day.
"A boy in Ohio gathered enough chest
nuts, last fall, to buy sewing machine
for his mother.
Red Clouds diplomatic costume is a
black suit, with "bil.d' shirt, paper collar
and blue necktie.
Keep down the accurscd spirit oi
, greed-What they "don't have" makes
thousands wretched.
"A Kentucky paper says that the hog;
are eating the II year locnsts with great
relish, Sand so are the larger fowls
) "A Norwich man has u new variety o
grape. They have a delicate flavor anC
r the skins are useful for umbrella covers.
} Cotton is native of India, whence
It was first brought TO this country il
! 1889.
Ut DdftOl bhYs tue real lulti IN TN
world is he who consumes more than h
produces.
l An Englishman sent to the African
: diamond fields by charity has returned
J with 81 ,250,0OO
English papers are counseling the i'm
portation of Chinese to ireland to counter
! balance the emigration from there.
: "A boy supposed to have died Of spotte
fever In Marshall, Mich, insisted on heinl
! taken out of his coffin, and is now gettinl
we'll.
I Several of the New England woolle
5 mills have stopped work on account ol IN
0 high price OF wool aud the smal. ll...4I
c for goods.
AT Lawrence, Mass, a machine q
y making wall paper produces seveAlv-i.iu
: miles of paper daily, being rim t~er.y
!, three hours.
A "A man in Bloomington, IT,, :Iisd /
Z shoot rat in his back ytga III 1.Aer da
y and came near killias "a servant maid
y the kitchen.
l. The indianapolis Journal says hu
le dog with sound teeth is The only thing tha
n lightning rod pedl er will NOS tackle an
try to persuade Int buying rod.