Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-03-05
THINGS GENERALLY
Chicago has / ,ssY saloons.

Chicago has ,867 saloons.
Spring styles OF hats are appearing.
Claymont has boy choaking parson.
New York 10 to have an "Oil Exchange"
"Parepa Hans sold Here" is Cincinnati
sign.
shad sixty cents per pair In Wilmington,
NC.
The Albany (oregon) treasury contains
81 cents.
Green pens, string beans and strawberries
In Florida.
Alligator lard is a New ORLEANS rheuma-
tsm specific.
It Ia said that an ex-negro minstrel singer
occupies Wilmington pulpit.
A carriage has been built at Newark, N.
j., for the Captain General OF Cuba.
A Western editor called Alexis the noble
"Russ." The printer made 1t "kuss."
80, Tor a thousand tongues" said the lad
when he crawled into a molassss barrel.
There wele 12l deaths from smallpox 10
Philadelphia last week-a decrease OF H.
The most popular spring costumes pre OF
foulaid silks trimmed with velvet and iiing'.
San Francisco has a one cent daily paper
Just large enough TO wrap bologna sausage
10.
Mayor Hall threatens 10 bring 80 actions
OF libel against the newspapers OF New York
city.
A Western bachelor editor inserts MARI.
ages under the head of Melancholy Accl-
dents"
Next 10 busy bees, booiblacks furnish the
highest example Of improving the "shining
hour"
A Kentucky couple were married on tie
platform of a railway depot. The bride wore
no train.
The English fashion weddings Is becoming
popular In New York--six bridesmaids and
no q eomsmen.
Mrs. Fair has been allowed 10 walk out Of
Iail In the custody oi the Sheriff 10 settle
son 9 family affairs.
II is fashionable at this season Tor ladies
TO invite their young gentlemen TO breakfast
instead of dinner or supper.
Large coral beads, worn around the neck,
are said To bo preventive against asthma,
rheumatism and neuralgia.
Why is 1t that every young bachelor who
dies suddenly IS always represented as en- =
gagged to be maIred next dayi
A new style OF glove for ladies Is made OF
opossum skin; it's very soft and durable,
and can be worn In lull dress.
st. Palrick's Day will be celebrated 10
New York by parade OF the Sixty ninth
| Regiment and OF the Irish Civic Societies.
Somebody has discovered that II Is a
curious fact that the peak or summit Of u
| henlOek tree almost always leans toward
the east.
The snow storm of Saturday was the
heaviest of TIE season, and extended over
1 al. oil nd az a
Raleigh.
There arc three hundred and sixty grain
and molasses distilleries In the United Statrs
with daily producing capacity OF 2es,9O4
gallons.
| A physician has discovered thai might
mare" in nine cases out of ten, Is produced
by owing bill to the printer. money
makes the mare CO."
The most fashionable polonaise Tor spring
| is the Franklin coat, which 10 .ornamenteu
with the square packets and haps OF the
| Revolutionary times.
In Georgia, written contract 10 pay 10
per cent. interest Is legal, an act to that
effect having been passed at the last session
of the Georgia Legislature.
A cheerful giver put the following note in
a pair of pantaloons sent 10 the Michigan
sufferers: "There, take 'em, d-n you
last I've got; don't gel burned out again"
A keeper who was taking two convlcts 10
the State prison last week, when the train
stopped al Sing Sing, called out: "Step out,
gentlemen, fifteen years for refreshments. "
Two Young ladies in New York, who
have been noted for their beauty and style
have recently become quite paralyzed IRON
The use, the physicians affirm, Of paints and
cosmetics of various kinds.
| A Tennessee wOman's paper has termi
thus slngulaily graduated: "Three dollars
year to men; $3.50 10 unmarried working
men; seventy.hvo cents " women with
| La yv huahaufs 10 suDpOTt,