Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-09-14
HERE AND TIER I.
Kansas Is raising cotton.

The Sultan don't smoke.
Hop merchants Dancing masters
"A city that scots peoplc-Pittsburg
--One-Gith Of Kansas is rn'iroad property,
Iowa has three lady notares public.
--Annie Laurie recently died down South:
"A Pennsylvania is boring Artesian
wells In Spain.
The Ward Brothers are taking the last
rows of summer.
-Watermelons eight for dime in Cow
ington, Georgia.
Full sets Of dead gold are the latest
masculine jewclry.
1t is the ''odd Jobs" that are the
hardest to get done.
y disgusted thcatre-gocr says' "Thcrc's
no plays like home"
In New York wedding cards arc to be
white, plain and small.
Susan Cations voice is sweetcr than
Philadelphia Star.
--Coats-of-arms arc breaking out all
over New York society.
| Women earn as much as S3 u day in
the South picking cotton.
The st. Louis Globe culogzes rival
papers "brilllant clippings"
Every firm of architects should have
woman to look after the closets.
The chateau OF William the Couqueror
has recently been sold at auction.
during the last ten years nearly 1jO,-
900 houses have been built in London.
English railroads are adopting Ameri-
can cars.
"A new version of m old verse Loathe
the poor Indian.
Madame Rretzon is prominent law
yer in ST.. Petersburg.
"A monkey in Paris geological garden
sings a beautiful tenor.
-GoOd intentions are like faintrg ladies
all they want is carrying out.
The Chicago ministers use the late
wheat corner 10 preach about.
England makes $3,5OO,OO0 worth Of
her Old rags into paper yearly
The New Orleans ltalian- have
Christopher Columbus Greeley Cluh.
When a dog is sulky his tail docs not
wag on.
A wild girl 10 the latest sensation in
Nevada.
White ants chew up the telegraph
poles in Australia.
Brandy distllerics average seven to IL
county in Kentucky.
"A Kansas man has been driven insane
by the low price of corn.
-Beecher is the name Of a new Florida
town on the st. Johns river.
No man is happy who does not think
himself so.- Marcus 1iitOHius.
Council Bluffs spiritualists exclude
red-haired people from the circle
"A sordid st. Louisan has let lis foot 10
Western agricultural society for fair
ground.
Two American citizens have been
naturalized and elected TO the Canadian
Parliament.
In Charleston, 5. c., there l. Rus
sian bloodhound three and a half fec
high and six feet long
Rufus d. Connolly. of Terra lIautc,
married his eleventh wife recently. Rufus
is of domestic turn Of mind.
Those Indianans who sell ileas for
Hax seed may he said to fleece their Gus
toners.
-smiggles says that the most thrilling
tale he ever listened to was that Of
rattlesnake.
An American lady in London recently
went TO the United States Legation for
'pass" to see The Queen.
Nine. Parcpa Rosa and Mr.. Carl Rosa
have been engaged for an eight months
season of opera in Cairo.
A Fort Wayne iouneyman printer
has been a member OF Congress, but he
hopes he is above such things now.
"A whole family in Kentucky were
poisoned lately by eating jelly made III 10
| copper kettle.
Mrs. Alice Carter, of Nashville, aged
| fifteen years, has petitlOncd Tor dlVor1c
| from Samuel Carter.
1t has been ascertained that coral
grows in the South Pacific at the rate oil
seventeen feet in century.
| "A sleeve button turned aside the bullet
| of an assassin in Memphis, Tenn, recently
and so saved the wcarer's life.
| Jenny Lind. Clara Louise Kellogg,
| Nilsson, Lucca, Patti, and Parcpa all sat
in London audience recently
"A Cedar Falls Gowa) minister ic-
/ Gently preached in defence OF croqhet, from
the text, "And she took the Mall.t.'
Beds with revolving monster tdrrets Of
sheet-iron, for the sleeper, are the only
relief from mosquitoes at Kansas City.
The increase in the assessed valuation
of the real estate of Boston the past year
has been nearly million dollars week.
"A Troy dog fancier owns 4 three
months old pup" that weighs only three
quarters of a pound, aud rcposes IN
slipper.
A cubic inch of gold IS worth $3.50.
| A million dollars in gold, according To the
figures at the mint, weigh Just about TWO
tons.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has added %
new word TO the vocabulary. lie speaks
Of "imbibitionists as an antotgM Of
"prOhihitiOnists."
| American fashionable weddings arc
now to be conducted on the English plan
tho groom proceeding to church first,
and waiting for the bride.
Kaiser william, Emperor of United
Germany, los. his iavoritg wa.llng-sticll
the other day, and advertised for it in the
daily papers, like an ordinary plcbcian-
There will be enough wild grapes in
Texas this year TO make more wine than
was ever manufactured in France in any
one year.
AT a funeral OF little child in II
son, ". Y, the other day. the corpse
drawn TO the grave in the baby cart
which it had ridden when alive.
-Neckties made of leather, with gilt
buckles, are said to have been proposed AS
4
, wear the coming winter.
3 The Cincinnati papers arr exulting
5 over the achievements of Joe Lytle, Il lrttls
Cincirrati boy, who stole $50, OOD the OtteI
: day, at Ultra, New York.
"A wag in what he knows about farm
: ing, gives plan to remove widows weeds.
he says gJol-l1oking man has only TO
say "Wilt thou - and they wilt
John b. Tompkins, a Peoria druggist,
found mouse nest behind his money
drawer the other day, which was made up
OF about S45 in tl and 81 grecnbacks.
! "A few days since Dubuque damscl,
pretty as a pink, entered saloon, kicked
: over a table, drew a revolver ON the bar
7 tender and led her iath1r out by the ear.
/, A gentleman in Carroll county. ga,
a made furious attack ON the handle of u
. skillet, supposing 1t TO be the head OF a
r. blacksnake prOiruding from under the
: stove.
n "A sensible enactment OF the last Mis-
i souri, legislature provides that the doors of
Il all public buildings shall open Uutwardly
Is from the hall aud he hung on double
y hinges.