Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-10-12
HERE AND THERE E.

Tariff isn't talked Of any more.
"A green grocer-one who trusts.
Detroit has nineteen musical clubs.
Agricultural fare-Pork and beans.
-Macready, the tragedlan, is eighty.
"A capital Understanding money.
Paris Is appointing butter inspectors.
Mil dews-the wages Of factory girls.
San Francisco Celestlals adore bll-
-Inuocence abroad: Mark Twain In
England
Vermont makes 100000 Of plate
penells yearly:
at, The wild pigeons have begun their
flight southward.
-Bultine rams are used for watch.dogs
In California.
The breaking Of both wings of an
army Is pretty sure way to make Il Hy.
The prophecy of cold winter is start
900. '"'"'eu 'or soS'-
"A meteorological hybrld-the Autum.
=, bruno Tsehkfx is a candidate for the
Nebraska Legislature.
Sydney Smith said Macaulav talked
ike a book In breeches.
,-Arkansas City, Kansas, greets lis frat
oapy, and has decided 1t a city lot.
-Fanny Fern has been III all summer at
her delightful "Fernery" in Newport.
-Laporte, Ind, has a haunted house-
tull OF real goblets, Mrs. Partington savs.
Though husband and wife are regard.
cd as one they often contend like s'sixty.o
ards. ~ 1"A
York. - ''' 4" Ne"
The scarcity Of silver has hurt the sale
OF childreu's money jugs.
The husbaudman sows wheat. whilst
the housewife sews "tares."
The buckwheat crop, we are pleased
to hear, is good, quite good.
1t is calculated that there are 100. 900
women named ''Marie' In Paris.
Trust a man who goes cheerfullv To
bis work and whistles while be is at ii.
All the Illinois villages are making
cities OF themselves under the general
law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been
appointed lecturer on Jurisprudence in
Harvard's law school.
"A Little Rock Dark woman tarred
and feathered her husband because he kis-
sed the cook.
Mary Butler, of Jerseyvile, ILL.,. offers
to plow match with any man in the
country for 800.
"A paper call d The Cat has been start
ed in Athens, Ga. 1t will cultivate the
Mewses.
Why Is selfish friend like the letter
~ Because, though the first In ply, he is
the last IN help.
An ambitious boy named Dickinson
iouud pint OF brandy In MuskegoD, Mich,
and died in heroic effort to digest II.
-"How / found Livingstone" +" is the titlo
Of stanley's new book, published by Scrib-
ner, Armstrong & Co.
Miss Lewis, the colofed sculptress,
is in Rome,hard at work, With nine assist
ants.
Virginia has seventeen sumac mills,
and fiatters herself on sumac-tiyity in that
line.
-Peumakers are had lot. They make
people steel pens, and then say they do
write.
"A Mt. Pleasant, Ill.,, girl was so ag-
gravated by warts as to seek a watery
grave.
"A New York Post critic pufs ''the
flawless transparency of Lucca's higher
notes."
Owens "barl of apple sass'' is profit
able pomaee. So far It has netted him
81, 500, 900.
-"No cows, no cream" was the way
an Intelligent eompositor set up the words
"No cross, no crown"
Pedestrian tourists will regret to hear
that German miles are to be made 33 per
cent. longer than they have been hitherto.
-Insoles made of goose. feathers are
the latest invention for keeping the feet
warm.
A single orchard at San Diego, Cal, ,
has yielded this year $1,000 gallons Of
olives.
Elder stover, of Paris, KY, who has
preached for five years, is now eighteen
years old.
The old Fleet prison so familiar to all
readers OF Dickens, is to be converted into
a mission chapel.
Two brothers, aged and years, and
belonging In Omaha, have been arrested
u Kansas City for burglary.
= "A boy Of nine years has been arrested
I at Liverpool for garroting fatally aud
: robbing still younger boy.
. Madame Nilsson and her husband at.
y tended circus at Geneva, recently, with
i much enjoyment to themselves.
u An acquaintance of the Mobile Tri
bufe has bantam chicken which caughi
\ a large rat and held it till 1t was killed.
il The boys in Peoria, H., have invent
is ed a sling that will break any averag,
window at forty yards. Their elders ap
D preciate, but do not admire it.
Cumulative of Stanley, an ambitions
2 Connecticut man is fitting up an expedl
70 tion TO search for the author Of "Beauli
70 full Snow"
70 The Terre Haute Opera House wa
M struck by lightning the other night. Tn
10 audience never saw so many stars in 1t a
DO Que time before.
M w. Forester, the distinguished burgla
and ex-Nathan murder, arrived in Jolie
90 and has began TO work out his thirteen
90 years contract with the state of Illinois.
90 There is still one slave owned In Wash
lngion. That is the property of the banke
90 Corcoran, and is popularity known as Pow
90 ers' Greek Slave.
100 Fort Wayne, Ind, is in ecstacies b.
100 cause they have a woman among thel
OO who is mother of thirty children, Il
oo youngest being only three years old.
- "A pair of old breeches with $500 in Il
700 pockets, went through a destructive mi
chine IN an Iowa paper-mill the other da
700 before the operatives discovered the fund
,,SoS After great onhographical discu
,o0 sion in England, II has been decided tbs
300 'Shakespeare" is ths proper way to spe
it.
'Oi Schuyler Colfax claims to be armi
200 with the ''spear of TRUTH and the Loui
,er vile journal accuses him of carrying co
di- cealed weapons.
200 Sir Sidney Waterlow, who is TO be Il
by next Lord Mayor of London, is a .whol
ing sale statiouer and blank book manufact
Ia. rer.
II An old bachelor Of Darlington count
Is S. c., offers fine silk dress to the b,
10 preserved old maid, to be awarded at t
next Darlington fair.
10 An English paper came to the Bost
=, Post Office, few days ago, addreese
~ "Ralph Waldo Emerson, Esq, Philos
pher, Mass, N. E., us, North America
An objection is raised to the plan
20 publishing the names OF drunkards
Louisville on the ground that II would
e5 volve the republication Of the whole dir
80 tory.