Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-07-27
HERE AND TIL E R E.

"A good family cat weighs ten pounds.
--lndia-rubber watch eases are a verify.
Iron shingles are the latest Innovation.
Wheat looks badly in western New
York.
Cotton factories are being built in
Mexico.
"A New Haven boy don't s'oN whistling
even in his sleep.
Illinois women are now eligible to
official appointments.
-Dlsracli is reported I be at work on
another novel.
New York city holds $4,000, 600
worth of churches.
Alton, Illinois. is infested with gray
foxes.
"A syraeusan patents an everlasting
bung."
The postal cards will be three by five
inches.
Africa exports peanuts to France very
largely.
-" Chappaqua' is accented on the Il st
syllable.
-Massachusetts is overrun with grass
hoppers.
Peanut oil is now used for packing
sardines.
"A son of Tom sayers is a comic singer
in England.
"A Fish Out Of ". er-w(h)ale on a
boys back.
a Now Haven gent has died of pei
ritei stomach.
An earthquake has been comm ihro'
Rye, New York.
Vienna furnishes the world with tie
most ballet girls.
"A red bat has been Gagged at Nculls-
vile, Wisconsin.
An English nobleman, Lord Wen,-
worth, has advertised his wife.
Denmark treats Mormon missionari
to the whipping post.
Over 1000 steamers ruillc the Miss =
sippi and her tributaries.
1t cost Chicago half a million to re-
store her Gre department.
"Ida Greeley Clubs" are talked of by
some enthusiastic Southern boys.
Oshkosh Wisconsin, is so hot that L
man melted and "rn over the Sidewalk
"A Manchester, y. II. dyspeptic nlncl
he contains huge potato bug.
"A Chinaman in Honolulu committed
suicide to cure the tooth-ache.
Levi Dinkenspiel was the Fourth II
July orator at SabethG, Kansas.
Miss Phelps is "Ilcdged In'' for tbs
summer at East Gloucester, Mass.
"A Fon du Lac man was obliged -
order cradles for four one day last week.
The Queen Of Holland is very literary
in her tastes and habits.
l. 3. L..
a colony of Irish farmers.
There are no steamboats, on the
"Beautiful Blue Danube"
"A Franklin county, Ga, child has -
toes, 13 fingers, but no eyes.
"A tragedy has been performed at Vi
emma, written In German, by a Turkish
author.
Green Land, near Georgetown, Colo.
RADIO, is 10000 feet above the level Of the
sea.
Mount San Bernardno, Nevada, has
been measured and found to be II 1000 fee
high.
The Freeport Journal says "pairs are
abundant at that place, and front gates are
loaded down with them on fine evenings"
"A beer saloon keeper in Illinois COM
mitted suicide because his license wasn't
renewed.
California expects to send five thoH-
sand tons of butter and cheese to China
annually.
1t will cost sl7O,OOO including ten
miles of piping, to supply Macon, Ga,
with water.
-Barefooted beauties play croQuet IL
front of the palatial mansions in Euclii
avenue, Cleveland.
Shades containing Photographic pic
lures on ground glass are superceding the
old fashioned porcelain shades.
Some irreverent chap declares that the
first Dolly Warden was worn by 4 man in
the garden of Eden.
In Australia spring begins August 20 (;
summer, November 20 autumn February
20, and winter May 70.
1t grieves us to hear that in Baltimore
George Francis Train Literally tore the
treaty OF Washington TO atoms"
1t is'nOw said that orange is the pro-
per color for spectacles for persons wit
weak eyes, instead of blue or green.
When you 20 to drown yourself, says
Aunt Hubby, always pull oil your clothes !
they fit your wife's second husband.
Monroe county, Georgia, has a do :
who drives the calves to pasture, and, ~
night approaches, drives them home.
Great preparations are being made n
Rome to celebrate the twenty-siXth anni-
versary of the pontillcate of PiO Mono.
"A colored woman in Mobile, Ala, g
suing the county for $4,000 damages, for
the death of her husband, killed in a late
riot in the city.
Applicants for admission into tn
Treasury Department of the Civil Service
are now compelled to produce 4 surgeon 8
certificate of good health.
-California boasts some lively towns
with suggestive names, ,sueh as Ynha Dan ,
Dutch Flat, You Bet, Red Hot, Chinc-J
Camp, and the like.
Macon, Ga, disputes Brooklyn claim
as the "City of Churches She has d
church to less than every thousand inhahf
tants.
AT a hNil-storm in Georgia a few day.
ago the hail stones We're from the sizr Of =
marble upto guinca's egg, and Of dilic'
ent eolors.
An Alabama parent didn't favor III
, daughter lover, and bet him five huadn,
dollars he wouldn't marry her. Ili
I parent lost
DIR Loring,of Boston, says it he shou
4 | Nt u NhuulNhtt loi hilAte ne AutrA kllI' Y
! why his wife should not vote FOR hin,
d. She does, probably.
: When man and woman are MAJ
. one, the question Is, Which one o.
Sometimes there is a struggle between
them before the matter is ended.
A Powder and double b shot t. the ON
thing that will ciyilizc a hawk c.c.
4 through, 50 thet he will stay So. arl
. takes Il big charge ov this, too lBn
!. lings.l
l. "A Minnesota man was lately carrie
T. forty feet by the lightning and set dow
r uniniured. Perhaps electricity cap O.
d utilized for BIZ bundles Yet.
}, Tho Louisville Couricr-Jo,ono says
'e "Thc Atlanta Sas is very popular anon
its exchanges. They cut out Mr.. stcpLcus
e editorials for paper weights.
It st. Louis has a Grand Centm, Hot
e on the European plan, where thrc tho
!, sand persons feed daily, at an average cos
8 of twenty-five cents per meal.
li Griffin, Ga, boasts of a curiosity Il
y the shape Of a hen, which lays am el
every day, crows like rooster, and won
ls eat corn.
!, i -Four young hrutes choked and hun
ii boy at Manchester, Ia, recSntly, To NAL.
y him confess that he had stolen some hal
"a "a ness rings.
"A Young LAWYER who has lust hpr