Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-01-23
THINGS GENERALLY.

Fisk's brain weighed ffty-eight ounces
Scarlet fever is raging In Scranton, Pa
Mutual fritnds-Kcrosene and coronerf'
The smallpox is decreasing 10 b ooklyn.
1924 has been sent 10 Chicago from Hong
Kong.
A 10 year old Connectculer sports heavy
beard.
Beer fills many bottle, aud the bottle
many bier.
Beauregard is writing notes on Pollard's
Lost Cause"
200 deaths from small pox In Phladel-
phia, last week.
The Swiss ribbon makers are said to know
$4,000 different colors.
Down East when people get angry they
say they feel grsvelled.
is an old pack Of cards.
Little fish have roper idea of business
they start on small scale.
The iron front of the new Hotel is being
rapidly placed in position.
Girls nowadays, 1t II said, know too much
ut fifteen, and too little at fifty.
The latest style OF visiting cards is pale
lavender, tinted and nearly square.
Mosby the guerilla has been appointed a
brigadier general of Virginia military,
Mrs. Senator Corbett, is pronounced the
most beautiful woman In Washington.
Sardine lovers will regret 10 Learn that the
catch this year has been unusually small.
The Chicago Post wants 10 know II the
Governor has had the Stale arms vaccinated.
A women at wesifeld, Mass, gave birth
10 two sons and two daughters on Wednes-
day.
An Australian photographer has succeeded
10 producing photographs enameled upon
cooper.
It takes $50, 900, 900 pounds..ol tea and 49,
600, 900 pounds Of coffee per year to o pplY
the world.
A Trenton N. j. phllanthroplst sent SIX
thousand doll babies 10 Chicago tor Christ
mas presents.
The net proceeds of Catholic Fair held
recently at Wilkesbarre, Luzerne O., Pa.
was $4,000,
A Maine woman has swallowed two hun.
dred and seventy bottles Ct cherry pectoral
aud still lives.
A Louisyillian Is trying 10 make hog
Of himself by eating fourteen pigs feet Tor
breakfast daily.
Next 10 the French, the American women
are conceded, by all 10 be the best dressed
women In the world.
Round hats are not worn over the forehead
this season, but are tipped back far enough
TO show the forehead and front curls.
A car load of horses and one of mules
arrived In his city, on Friday, from Bel Air
Ohio, destined for Middlstown, Del.
A Brooklyn physician was fined $50 for
taking o smallpox patient into crowded
street car to avoid the cost OF carriage.
How many men there are who think they
are making themselves exceedingly popular
when they are only making themselves rid'-
culous.
The man whose hair turned white in q
single night, Is surpassed by the New York
Girl who lost hers completely off in one
dance.
A new rtyle of earrings is crystal in
the shape Of a snail resting on leaf OF
frosted silver. The design is odd, but very
beautiful.
A Terre Haute girl thinks il about tim,
some fellow proposed, as she has beer
bridesmaid eight times, and has been tants-
LIKED enough.
The Chicago Poa says 1--WE here good
deal lately Of Stokes line OF defence. What
ever 1t be, we trust he will, in the end, de-
pend from IT,"
Council granted the use oil the City Hall
10 r. b. Heisler, on the evening OF January
| 8lst to deliver free lecture on 1.-THE Clyd'
and the Christiana."
1t is stated that the proprietors Of III,
Grand Central Hotel, In which colonel Flsl
died, demanded ~, 500 for affording hin
that accommodation.
Filtration has become a science with GU
young people of the present day, and RiT
Of twelve knows fully as much as Ler moth
er, and goes into society fully as often.
Letters Of Administration have beef
granted to Margaret Ann Richardson, an
d. Eldndge Richardson upon the estate o
Joseph Richardson, Jr., deceased.
William, who used to boast that he die
not owe dollar, and never would, foun'
that IN less than a year after lis marriage
he had little Bill 10 take up every day.
A man arriving home at late hour III
lie the worse for too much supper, hallef
and coalless, was asked by his indignan
spouse, "Where's your hat and coat ?
"sent'em my dear, (hic,) TO the Chicag
sufferers"