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

IA NOlluh NAhhLN WV
yields five thousand oranges year.
Tens watermelOus, when scooped ont
are Large enough TO battle babies in-
To become the lion Of party IL Is not
necessary to make beast Of ones self.
A western editor speaks OF wind
that ''ust sat on its hind legs and howltd.'
49," shoe Fly is station ON Kansas
railroad.
There are said to be 5000 opium eaters
in New York.
Prince lturbide, the Mexican heir, Ia
at Cape May.
-Cuttle.lsh are brought by cargo from
the Bahamas.
-Chloral for cholera is successfully
used in Russia
80" SCORPION broth" is Southern for poor
whiskey.
White blaekberries are announced at
Forsythe, Georgia.
The ladies Of Osage, Iowa, have
home-husband club.
There is nothing that needs to be said
in an unkindly manner.
insects are said t. rob our farmers OF
$500, OOO,OO0 every year.
-Waternelons weighing 100 pounds
have appeared in Texas.
--One Western editor recently called
another tank Of mendnciiy
The New York hu6lerufshi describes
stolen property IA "Jimtskaicd."
DR. Mary Walker wants the Wash
inglOn police force to carry sunshadcs. b..
A Memphis man Jumped into the
river to cool his ieet oil. lie was crazy.
No music is wailed at Long Branch on
Sundays.
STORMS and babies generally begin
with squall.
The Pittsburgh Leddsr has twu libel
suits ON its hands.
The Long Branch walters are 0rgau-
izng a calico ball.
The wife Of Baron ROthschld is an
accomplished artist.
Lolita ia studying music in IL French
convent. Just fancy
An cpitaph ON dead roasted duck
Peas to his remains"
Mr. ureclcy prefers bran bread. lilo
is opposed to "bOltng"
An odd sort OF ship: Courtship, which
has two mates, but no captain.
--tiood ntentionsare like fainting ladies'
all they want is carrying nut.
A Western paper talks Of clapping
hands across the bloody chasm.
1T il believed General Ewell was the
author Of " Ewell, remember me-"
--Cure for blind man Get married /;
that will be sure 10 open your eyes
Paris opens q college fyr journalists
next Seplc
On Julien street, Dubuque, there's II
house to rend."
An Arch street hcggar Is placarded
s. am parOliled
"A new beverage, called Irish ale, Is
the charleston swig.
Frogs aud crawlsh came down il
showers lately in Iowa.
A Detroit woman lately despatched &
mad dog with Il rolling pin.
The best looking baby at the South
Wisconsin fair will get f1s.
A mine of mineral paint has beer
opened near LnganspOrt, lnd.
-Filiecu dollars will buy lovely home
stead Of eighty acres In Florida.
A German in Iowa has committed
suicide because he was homesick.
An Iowa man of 463 pounds weigh
-il- on the Jury this warm weather.
There Is promise of the largest yielt
OF corn in Illinois ever known in that State
They arrest pereoDs for furtune-tell
ing IN Fayetteville, n. &. \ good ex
ample.
Young ladies with new damon,
solitaire rings never refuse to play III
piano.
A lady At Watertown. n Y. recent
gave birth To daughter weighing hut
pound and half.
1t is 81 hot this summer in India tina
the crows are said to drop from the tree
from sheer exhaustion.
A Mississippi paper has been su.
pended week owing TO an accident {
the right arm Of it's foreman.
Fifty thousand Americans have sale
from New York this season to make tour
In Europe.
When man has tried everything
and found II will not answer, let him Z
where there is an echo and try It.
"A Minnesota farmer has rye six fec
and u half high, and wants to know ho'
that is fer rye.
An Ohio woman, whose husband &c
drunk, has recovered $1,000 from the ma
who sold the liquor.
8 The hook of Enoch, brought frol
Ahyssina, by Bruce, the explorer, il /
! the Bodleiau library at Oxford.
"A celebrated wit was asked If he kne
Theodore Hook. "Yes' he replied, Hoo
/ and eye are old acquaintances.
, The satana il new Roman iourna
whose writer's sign themselves "Cain,
+ " Pluto The Familiar Devil" etc
. A Florida gentleman has set out thi
} year l25 acres to orange trees, making th
largest grove Of the kind ON the continent
james Black, the maker of the fri
4 howle kuilc, died at Hampstead, Arkansas
, June suIu.
--ieorgc Fmncis Train says: 81 M
the most successful fraud the world ha
ever seen"
--Ob, the Brute That dreadful ma
E =. says he never saw public execution
but he WAS once party TO a marriage.
( 1t IL still a little hotter at Bomba
+ than here, the thermometer Indicating 4
IN the shade.
1t is quite evident that this countr
a will never suffer for want Of some one t
e OH its offices.
f The Journal PsnsicrO Of Nice Is pros,
cuied for high treason, in advocating q
= separation Of Nice from France.
9 The mosquito crop in Now Jers,
!, this season is said to surpass the yield ,
i any previous year known to tho oldest il
habitant.
l "A large tract of grain has been burnt
s in California by native laborers becaui
+ the farmers were about to employ Chin
= men.
A California jury, in a suicide cas-
Il lniely, nt"rnrd the following verdic
o We, he Jury, find That the dcceas d va
4 a fool
IT "A mn who wished TO move
70 D,troit, from one Of the up-river suburb
% recent put his house and family on
raft and nost,d down