Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-02-09
THINGS GENERALLY
ulah wanIs 10 red Into Ihe Union.

Ulah wants 10 get Into the Union.
Friday last was ground hogs day.
Wts.ou, The walkist, wants divorce.
Wars and rumors Of wars oil the air Just
now.
The black tongue dlaeas, Is very Iatal In
Illinois.
Base ball Is played on tue Ice 10 Phili-
delphla.
Hay brings 800 per ton Ia virginl' City
Just now.
Southern bellies arc using Court plaster on
their faces.
BIs. RicLlngs Bernard is 10 appear at the
Norfolk Theatre next week.
Forty-t1reo persons over 70 years OF age
died in Philadelphia last week.
Mrs Fair has been granted q new trial by
the Supreme Court Of California.
A "Dress Temperance Society" has
started among the New York bellies.
Candidates for all kind of Office are being
announced In the papeIs OF this State
The New York Crystal Palac3 Is TO be
built as loon as 81 $50 900 can be raised.
Gentlemen are using the old fashioned
cOlored silk handkerchief Instead Of while.
A bad marriage Is like an electric machine.
II makee you dance but you cant let II
30.
In Berlin, Wiz, il'stht tlinO 10 treat the
women to vaccination Instead OF soda or ice
cream.
Priceless as the gilt OF Inference may be,
tho practice OF silence, Ia some respects, lar
excels Il.
The name Of the new Lieutenant Gov
ernor oil Louisiana IL Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pinchhack.
Mr.. y. A IIodgeman has been appointed
Superintendent ct tue Wilmington q West
cru Railroad.
The ice In Sussex county Is thicker
clearer, and better than has been known Tor
many years.
An old Russian saying lie that one
woman's sense is better than The counsel OF
thousand men,"
A clerk in the Boston rost.offlce ia said 10
have confessed 10 being delauter 10 the
amount of $50. 600.
Capt. Vaneck, British army officer,
poisoned himself at tie Hoffman House,
New York, on Tuesday.
II is avowed OF Janauscbek that she has
never smiled tince some tragical love affair,
In which she was 10 real life an actor.
Rosa Bouheur has incurred The displeasure
Of the French newspapers for having painted
tue war horse Of the Emperor OF Germany.
A Cleveland youth, who gave his girl a
bottle Of ~ Love You" perfume, has paid
500 to prove that he didn't mean anything
by II.
J. NJ. Hutchinson will deliver hrs two
lectures on "CalifoInla and the Yosemite
Valley" on Monday and Tuesday evenings
next, at the Masonic Temple.
A noted Atheist 10 Sussex county was
stricken with analysis in the street and died
In few hours after. His last words were
mingled with curses and oaths.
The New York Board Of Health have or
dered an examination Of all the city railroad
cars and other vehicles, TO see If they are
detrimental To the public health.
To be thin is the last fashionable iemiune
ambition. Scrawny nccks are all the rage,
and young ladies whom nature has not thus
blessed, paint lhjlr rounded shoulders with
sonia wrinkles.
The pare to Of little Mary Reilly peltiOned
tie New York Legislature for leave 10
change their child's name because IL wasn't
that kind of baby, a mistake having oc-
CURED at the Christening.
A woman in Philadelphia was arrested on
Saturday, and held TO answer The charge OF
stealing some dried beef. The poor woman
was evidently IN search Of something with
which 10 appease her hunger.
Speaking of that compositor who compiled
669 .egldmate Buglish words from tue letters
forming the words Prince Alexis, the Louis.
Vile Courier Journal says he ought to print
them 10 q book and cal, Il Altxicon.
Alrt. Fair has been granted new tiial on
tue ground that the court erred in not allow.
Ing the counsel for the defence the closing
argument, and 10 permitting evidence 10 be
taken Of her former bad character Tor
chastity.