Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-03-12
THINGS GENERALLY


Cold and disagreable yesterday.
There are 10 cities in Massachusetts,.
In 1928 NJ. THEIRS was a printers devil.
Vessel building is said 10 have opened
briskly al Buffalo.
Mount Vesuvus is reported 10 be contem-
plating an eruption
Baltimore claims to be the heallhiest city
In the United States.
Where does all the money come from that
supports the Thtstref
The height of nonsense--The summit of
fashionable chignon.
II ls said that this globe will support lie
only 10000, 600 years more.
Alabama has six cotton factories, which
work up 10000 bales annually.
Over six thousand million pins are used
in TIE United States each year.
Boston is contemplating the purchase OF
the horse railway lines there by the city.
al. IL Cole, Sons and Daughter, flour
merchants, Ia the style OF a st. Lcuis firm.
One fourth part of the population of New
Hampshire have money in the saving banks.
Punch says that he has observed that the
unfortunate mans friends live long way
of.
Reports from the north west speak OF the
severest sHow stcrms OF the season taking
place.
A corset is on exhibition 1t Dubuque
Iowa, which has sque' Z I'd three females 10
death.
| A tender and eonfiding maiden oil n has
sued a STRIPPING Of 80 Tor breach Of promise
in Illinois.
The "SUgnr Bowl" is the suggestive tile
OF two year old newspaper published In
Louisiana.
| Neatly million gallons OF petroleum are
shipped from Philadelphia every week lu
in the year
The Commercial claims tie "honor" o.
"direcling'' 1.-THE developing pOwert" OF the
editors OF EUery Epenfng.
A woman has Just died IN New York who
accumulated $4,000 by selling gingerbread
on a street corner there.
The French Academy Of Fine Arts Is
about to take into consideration the admis
sion oil female members.
Plean,y OF beef and out door sir ale sue
cesslully prescribed now for invalids threat
ened with consumption.
Only one person in ten thousand lives Ia
| be one hundred years old, and but one In
a hundred reaches sixty.
| Reports from several counties In Ken
| lucky say the peach crop is entirely destroy
| ed by the recent cold weather.
| American oysters are selling In London
| for thIrty-slx cents dozen. English oJs-
| teIs cost seventy. two cent dozen.
| The nan who tried to sweeien his tea
with one of his wife't smiles, has fallen back
on sugar. Nolhlng like first principles alter
ALL,
Speaking of the danger Of catching small
pox by handling greenbacks, country ed
| itor congraiuates himself that he's SAFE
enough.
A town in Texas called "Hell's Hal
| Acre" is situated al the mouth OF "Pufga'
tory Creek" and is so put down in the mar
oil The Slate.
Tie Manufacturers and merchants OF
| Chester will organize steamboat company
that they may receive their heights from
Philadelphia AT fair rates.
A lover match was broken up the other
evening by the gentleman, while inspired
by the inebris log glass, introducing ihs
lady as his future prisoner.
A line in one Of Moore's songs reads thus
"Our couch shall be r. ses bCspsnRled with
dew" To which a sensible gill replied
"'Twould give me rheumaliz, and SO II
would you
rerort is going the rounds of the press
that Sergeant Boston Corbell, the slayer oil
Wilkes Booth, is dead. II he Is not he
ought TO be, for he las been in the grave
nearly two years.
A new and ingenious advertising dodge
is 10 print an advertisement ona narrow
strip of PAPER like telegraphic dispatch
and lnclose 1t 10 an envelope of the tele
I 10 at
Those wishing TO engage in a profitable
buslness read advertisement Of NJ. b. Dyot'
ia South Second ST. Philadelphia In hsissu
Light equal tn gas-at one.cighth the 's'
SC. &c, highs Of Counties and States 10
sale.