Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-11-30
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Prof Tyndall is Irish.
-sloth is the key of poverty.
The icicle crop is promising.
Reading has blind newsboy.
Illinois hogs haye the nose bleed.
-Des Moines is lighted by coal oil gas.
-Rubensteini is dead-set against Strauss.
-Potatolessness worries Newfoundland.
-Whitelaw Reid wears a velvet shirt.
British India has 100000, 200 popula~
tion.
-In Dresden all the gas metres are filled
with glycerine.
Eating too many raw chcsnuls "
sometimes fatal.
Connecticut is still AFFLICTED with ffty.
elk stage routes.
Miss Kellogg has spent s10,O for her
winter wardrobe.
Natural flowers in the hair for full
dress are revived.
-o'Conor harvested $500 straight-out
ballots In Illinois.
Oregon will soon grow wool-for
Boston to consume.
"A Japanese colony is 10 be established
in Western Missouri.
1t is said of vindctiye mule that his
foot is against every man.
"A plug-ugly fact-the fire plugs
haven't been strawed yet.
San Francisco proposes to bnil the
biggest hotel on the continent.
"A Michigan locomotive nearly cow
caught bear
London Is raising a better fog crop
than usual this year.
"A constant dropping Of advertisements
will wear out a rock.
"A Terre Haute fop shines his brogaus
with scented blacking
Out West they talk of women riding
clotbes-pln fashion.
Iowa, having taken the census of her
hogs, finds l,250,00O.
MI. Washington is quadruI edal. Il
has four feet of snow.
Lots OF American girls are al school in
France and Italy.
Providence has IL canary bird, aged 90
which still warbles.
-Oskaloosa has cat which makes kill
Ing suakos a speciality.
Why is a mouse like load OF bay 7
because the cat'll eat 1t.
An indianapolis poodle Is an accom-
pllshed tobacco chewer'
New York ladies carry $50 travelling
bags made from alligator skin.
james Russell Lowell will spend the
winter in the Latin quarter, Paris.
The Boston fire actually blow $50
bill 20 miles TO Abingdon.
Gen. Grant will be 55, when be leaves
the White House, in 1877.
While Washington pastors pray thieves
steal their gold spectacles.
--pelches and Strawberries for dessert
are served up yet in Florida.
When will the partisan press calm
down and discuss the potato rot.
Soma have been thought brave, be-
cause they were afraid to run away.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson's public
readings in Iowa are very successful.
The married ladies of Hannibal have
organized "Come Home Husbsnd Club"
"A Keokukan averted the effects Of
snake-bite by years Of prior whisky.
There are 700 Japanese students in
various schools and colleges in America.
-FNnky O'Neill, aged five years, is
jailed In Chicago for "dcadly assault"
"A Dubuque hoy held sllck of wood
for his brother 10 split and lost two fingers.
Il mc +. plentiful In Wamcgo, Kan,
that qualls are captured in houses AID c.
lars.
-Muskrats have informed Ithe Wiuona
Republican that this winter will be an
open one.
Goats arc being used for draught pur-
poses in Chicago during the prevalence Of
the horse disease.
--Thlt fast trottor Dreadnaught has
euccumbed to tie prevalent disease. What's
in u name
Sunny Side the old Virginia home of
Prcsidcn. Madison, has been lately sold
for So, 100.
-Kcntucky is debating the Important
question whether Daniel Boone could
write.
"A Michigan man lateiy claimed tho
right of way against a locomotive and
went under.
-Chirles Francis Adams is suggested
for Secretary Of State by The Cincinnati
Cowmercnl.
The census Of the city of Vienna has
been completed, and shows population
of 100000.
The funniest item yet is that the Conc
dollar gold piece is to be withdrawn from
circulation"
The letter-carricrs of Louisvile ale
/ taking measures to introduce the episootlc
/ among the dogs of that city.
A hoy ia Highland, Michigan, was
/ lately butted to death by calf. That's Il
ncw re-''yeal' alton 10 animal nature.
-Gourds are being grown in Georgia
! from SEED brought from the Nile, the old
stock having been an-Niie-ated.
"A recaptured felon, now in his cells in
the New Hampshire peuitentlary, bears
tie cheerful name Of llellsgrave.
"A dog was recently taken to Kansas
town iium place 700 miles away, but not
liking H., made the return trip on foot.
The boys Of Davenport, Iowa appear
to have been subsidized by the glazler.
They break 81 ,0VO Of windows month.
The darkest scene We ever saw was "a
darkcy in dark cellar, wi h an extln-
! gui,hod candle, looking for q black cat
that wasn't there.
"A peace-maScr at Gilman, H., put an
end to a quarrel between two OF his neigh
bors by drawing revolver and shooting
bo.h o' them
A boy went to fire horse pistol and
goi kicked about three yards He has
since gone TO dOcLoring 1t for the episoc-
tic.
Hans Christian Anderson is suffering
so much from falling eye-slght that his
physicians have forbidden his writing any
more.
The height OF pollteness Is passing
round upon the opposite side of a lady,
| when walking with her. in order not to
step upon her shallow.
When a man whips his wife in Mem
phis, they call il the "ghost Of sensation. -
1t because the whipper has generally
been cOmmuning with spirits"
"A Western paper with peculiar stand :
ards Of value, says that potatoes are one
cigar and drink of whiskey per bushel at
Davenport.
Veterinary surgeons smoke fifteen cent
cigars and wear beautiful snuff-colored
Plush overc0ats since the epizootic came
to help them.
As the Oriental Tea Company we're
the hrst to adopt bovine motive power,
they eau now lay claim to the title "Oxl-
deutal Tea Company"
"A new use has been found for mica. Il
is now attracting public attention as a ma
teriai for roofing buildings, for which pur-
pose it has been found to be peculiarly
adapted.
Saint Louis had him this time: Name,
Hotchin occupation, physician age, one
hundred and forty; cause of death, small