Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-11-09
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-9s7 newspapers are published in
Russia.
Sprinkle carbollc acid over your
| clothes horse.
-London's recent water Improvement
will cost S45 00O,000.
The fastest thing out-A conductors
baton. IL beats time.
The copyright law Is the latest sign
Of progress IN Turkey.
-Tennyson's new poem is entitled
''Gareth and Lynette."
A hill Is be fore the Vermont Legislature
to repeal the law for Furnishing blasphemy.
Havana now gets peaches from Lou
isians.
Society is brushing up its dancing
pumps.
One of the Boston passenger railways
has smoking cars.
Mrs. Gaines is after the city Of New
Orleansgagain.
-Ladles' muffs will be worn very small
this Winter.
Carpets arc bought by the yard and
worn by the foot.
The most famous lecturers can't
draw paying house in New York.
"A Parislan opened an old bombshcll
with hammer, and will open no more.
An indianapolis poodle cheSs tobacco,
but doesn't swear
Every failure has some good. Even
"beats" yield sugar.
The Springfield, ILL.,, mills roll out
| lfty tons of rails daily.
"A dog epzootic is loudly clamored for
/ by the Louisville letter carriers.
A Danbury gent shed his new teeth
laughing at the price of potatoes.
"A young New Yorker, whose bouquets
cost him 500 last season, isn't going into
society this.
The strike among the wheelwrights
produced some fine orators. Nheelwrights
are good spokesmen.
"A correspondent of the New York
Herald processes to have been attacked
with the horse disease.
"A Kansas man who tried to steal tho
road that ran through his farm is the last
highway robber reported.
Poor Spain To all her other affllo-
tions is shortly to be added book about
her, by Mr. Hepworth Dixon.
"A young lady Of Los Angeles, Cali
[ fornia, owns 6,0OO acres Of land and 1900
head Of cattle, and is still unengaged.
The Portland Press says the horse dis
ease may be auctualng in some places, but
il appears TO be stable thing in that city
lie that can not forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass him
self.
"A private school in New York has
$50, 900 outstanding among uppcltrndom,
and uncollectabe.
A railroad blast, at Lynchhurg, threw
a stone into the main gasomcter and left
the city in darkness.
"A menageric was sold ont at auction
In Memphis lately, each article disposed
of on its own merits.
Diamonds are now to a great extent
set in dull fiilgree work; the effect pro-
duced is very beautiful.
"A Banbridge, Ca, man lately made
fair meal from six cans Of oysters and
pound and half Of soda crackers.
4 An American who was James Foley
when he lived in Connecticut, Is signor
Foil now that he is a basso in Europe.
-''Will the bakers rise % This a comic
London journal dehnies as the (Y)eastcEn
question.
-Four parishes in Louisiana, with a
population Of 80, 900, consume 4, 900 barrels
Of whisky yearly.
"A COW at Westford, Conu., lately got
her foot over her horn, and then feel down
and broke her neck.
An Obi oian set his ague-stricke1
father along side of his apple-tree, to
shake down the fruit.
"A Boston man has been fined 322.50
for sp'tiing tobncco juice ON hat that
passed below his window.
"A reputashun for happiness wantz az
mutcl looking into az q rcputashun for
honesty.
Heaven IL ever kind tew us she puts
our humps on our backs so that We kant
; see them.
-Thare is this difference between jest
aud a jo6e-jest ray be kruel, but joke
never IL.
-suckcess IL quite often like falling oph
from a log, man kant alwus tell how he
kun to do is.
Take all the phools and good LUX out
of this world, and it would bother the rest
Of us tew git living.
Il don't bet on prekoshus children, the
huckelberry that ripens the soonest iz
alwus the fust tew dekay.
"A mud dredge has been named
luccht bcChuht It's OMutI Mdulou 70 uo
Lucca"-ratye business.
"A Kansas man who went to a circus
, thought that the Egyptian mummy was
'nothing but jerked Injun."
There is project in Northamton
Mass, to start a ladies' shoe store, and
; have 1t manned" entirely by ladies'.
, An English theatrical manager is
going to bring out Hamlet, with a real
brook for Ophelia to drown herself in.
1 -Constantinople has at last started a
r newspaper devoted to social reform. II
i sust he "harem scare Nm" kind Of
D sheet, theu.- Boston Post.
D Edmund Yates invariably dictates to
s q stenographer and talks Off his stories.
He don't put his fancy into harness by ary
constraiul Of penmanship.
A lady asked a gentleman who was
suffering from influenza, "My dear cir,
what do you use for your cold ~ " Five
- handkerchiefs IA day, madam"
The Louisville Cotrier-Journai accuses
: the Washington Chronicle Of stealing
from its columns. Well, it's only petty
4 larceny, at the worst.-CoR Adeertisr.
-squashes Of lO6 pounds in weight are
A among the products of Western Kansas.
After the meat is taken out they are con-
sidered very seryiceable for calf pens.
"A Terre Haute young man cuts, fits,
and makes all the dresses worn by his
q mother and four sisters. They Haute 10
think great deal OF him.-Bostoh Post.
The Permanent Friends" is the
name Of an Evansville society. This
IT members ure sworn to refrain from
borrowing money from each other.-Cour-
o Ter Journal.
E. The great tunnel at Baltimore, on the
,r line Of the new Baltimore and Potomac
te Railroad, will, it is said, be completed by
re the end OF the year.
-Beecher says that religion that ISM
h. mixed" with politics aad the business o
)e life, is worth about rs much as yeast tha
is never mixed with flour.
r Prof. Pepper is giving ghost lecture
to the New Yorsers, and "spices' hi
,d dscourses by the introduction of rea
n ghosts upon the stage.
The Chicago Times says "The Com
-k mon Council of ST. Louis has passed
is resolution requesting the editor Of tn
Globe 10 go outside the city limits when
, ever he wants 10 blow his nose"
Mr.. James T. Fields. in his recen
lecture on Masters of the Situation" ex
" presses the opinion that with fewer book
there would be more culture. How is tina
iN for h1fahar