Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-03-08
THINGS GENERALLY


Lookout for bursting hydranls.
England has 10, 900 locomotives.
sheria-maklng is getting lively.
Smallpox is Tavaging California.
Corn is knee high In some parts Of Texas.
A Newfoik thief stole steamboat boiler.
Everybody says, OTIS cold" Wonder If
Il is.
The new DAILY JOURNAL will look quite
neat
London has clergymen's Insurance
Company.
The new DAILY JOURNAL will he a one
cent paper.
Election days are made legal holidays in
Wisconsin.
San Francisco importation Of raw furs
la year was 100000
A new Londou burlesque has the title OF
THE very last days OF Pompeil."
In Australia Kangaroo leather is thought
appropriate Tor wear In leap year.
Geo. ID. Armstrong ndverlises a ilne busi
ness stand on Market street, Tor rent.
10 Iowa the planting oil both ornamental
and uit trees are encouraged by law.
Among the exports from Baltimore TO
London, recently, were a hundred bales OF
hair.
The old Delaware Fire Insurance Com.
panY is one OF the best and safest In exls-
tence.
Indiana women carry whiskey bottles TO
church, and imbibe at intervals during tue
sermon.
Photographic views Of the ruins OF Dr.
Jayne's building, Philadelphia, were taken
Tuesday.
Police Officer Davis while making an at
rest lost bis star, aud offers reward Tor us
recovery.
The population Of Chicago iucrtase du-
ring the year previous 10 the fire over Thirty
thousand.
The editors of the Richmond Wing and
Enquirer were arrested on wednesday 10
prevent duel.
The Senate OF Virginia has 70 used TO ex-
empt female pick pockets from the punish
ment Of the Lash.
A bachelor hsD expressed tue opinion
that lie prefers slim ladies because he can be
nearer their heat.
Jacksonville, H., suspended four Of her
teachers in her pubic schools for having
been exposed 10 varioloid.
Abusing ones relations In the bosom of
ones family, is said 10 be one Of the sweet
eat Of domesllc privileges.
French dretsmakers say that an Ameri-
can customer is worth more to them than
three Of their own counlrymen.
The newest and most searching drink
juice IS called "palmasola," and ii Is made
from tho iruit of West India raims.
The only place 10 the world where
young lady is not "missed" is al home.
There is always plain Susan, or Bet.
Reports from the rorth, east and west are
unanimous in agreeing that Monday night
was one of the coolest OF the season.
All notes consisting OF pieces, each less
than three-flihs OF The original, hereafter
will bs redeemed only al Washington
Business is so dull IN Paris that ii is said
that ilit were not for the Americans large
number Of the stores would be closed.
Tie publisher oil the London Days Doings
has been fined $3.50 and compelled TO give
bonds for decent Lehavior In the future.
The New York World has il that some
one who las read "Lenten Thoughsl" says
il ought 10 be called borrowed Ideas"
IL ia said that there are more good people
than bad in the world, but the bad get the
upper hand merely because they are bolder.
As viewed through the Post office win
d,w from the outside, the new cOlored letter
tarrier looks like 'cal in strange garrtt. "
]. ]. Mccullough, offers through Mr..
Bright, a valuable property tor sale u 10Th
and West SITS. Stidham u Sou are the auc'
loneers.
A man out west was offered a plate of
macaroui soup, but declined il, declaring
that they couldn't play of any billed pipe
stems on him."
A man looking for site for paper mill
has found one in an Iowa town, where, he
tays, there are more rags IN proportion 10
the population than in any other place he
ever saw.
A Kansas lady went 10 a theatre and
handed the man In the box once nhe
Tooth comb for her ticket which she lett Mt
home. The door keeper told her she could
not comb in.
In an old cemetery in 81 Louis is a moss
covered Tombstone, on which a single poin {
heaven gaId, aid beneath II is the inscrip'
lion. "0one up." That was Rravtn before
the phrase became "slaog'
A half witlcd man in PaIis. attempted u
commit suicide by hanging himself by il'
feet from the ceiling oil d room. The fopf
broke, and the man nearly succeeded in hi
object by irac;ullng his skull IN the fall.
A novelty in grenadines are the Dolly
Warden and Crelonne styles, and will b'
! extremely popular, as they will vary III,
mopolony OF the plain black dress without
which no lady considers her wardrobe com
rleie.
A Michigan gin.mill keeper has this eva
sive Arrangement You put your ten cent
/ on spot marked "whiskey;" the apparatus
: reyolvcs, and directly you see glass o
wLIskey standing before you, and you
5 don't know Of course, who gave it TO you
or how il came there.
The French women are the best dresse'
in the world, German women have the mos
/ luxuIiant heads Of hair, tue Spanish womeI
the smallest hands and leet, Italian wome
4 The most brilliant complexions South Amer
t leans the most beauty, and America
I, women the most style.