Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-10-26
HERE AND TIL HER L.


The latest blue is called duck's breast.
Western bellies patronize cheap jew
elry.
Mark Twain will stay In England a
year.
"A rolling mill-a rough-and-tumble
fight
The Parisans support 37s5 candy
stores.
John Bright's flvorite recreation is
fishing.
Sleepy Eye Is a wide awake town in
Minnesota.
-watered ribbons will be fashionable
this winter.
Jerusalem is agitated over her water
supply.
The only thing that can live in fire is
q live coal.
Women are working as bank cashiers
in Kansas.
--'1naammable rubber bustles" are the
latest social buoy.
Louisiana is scourged by the worst
drought since 1860.
The largest room in the world-the
room for improvement.
Lady ushers did the showing round
at New York church wedding.
"A loving swain in Maine dedicated u
napkin ring to my almost wife"
A Georgia man owns 400 acres of gold
mino, in high state Of cultivation.
Gerald Massey is engaged on a work
to be entitled Myth, Miracle and Mystery.
The French cooks of New York have
formed a trade union.
Prof. Tyndal thinks the moons rays
are cold.
An object of intercst-Your deposit in
the savings bank.
sc grass widows are the chief verdure
of Topeka, Kansas
Some Georgia ladies logged Il bogus
doctor for quackery.
Chicago poet speaks of the ocean as
"ProdigiOus dampness."
An italian resident of California has
married japanese woman.
The little Indian girls of Colorado
have taken TO doll pappoOses.
Trees are TO he planted on the Sierra
Nevada mountains to raise quinine from.
A Maryland morse tancier IS import
ing Arabian stations from Egypt.
j. s. Clark, the comedian, has bought
the Charing Cross Theatre, London.
What ship does literary pirate
invade Authorship.
The Jacksonville Qnd.) prison now
turns out five cars daily.
The Chinese have 4OO, 900 square miles
of untouched coal-nelds.
Hairy rattesnakes are reported from
the valley of the Yellowstone.
Moral Penambueo, in South america,
prohibits billiard tables by law.
The manufacture of yeatt cakes keeps
Waterloo, N. Y, in a fermint Of industry.
New York bellies complain that the
young men of that city no longer make
calls.
Limitation tortoise shell ornaments are
known among cheap jewellers as mock
turtle.
; -Nine-tcuth's of the men who watch a
safe getting hoistcd would like to sec ii
, fall.
"A hithorto unknown island of 1900
acres has just been discovered in Lake SUI
perior.
! AN arch@ologlst has discovered trat
General Washington weighed 209 pounds
in l7I5.
4 "A punster challenged sick mans
( vote az the late election, on the ground
that he was an ill-lcgal voter.
Nearly three thousand women show
: shat their soles are not above buttons in
Philadelphia gaiter factories.
Tho Secretary Of the Treasury is said
to have decided that imported chignOns
are liable to extra jutey.- World.
+ "A cynical bachelor, in speaking of
ladies' bali dresses, say "Thuy wear hut
l.ttle here below, but wear that little long"
-lniudicious advertising is like fishing
where there's no fish. You need TO let
the line fall in the right place.
- "A premium is offered at a California
fair to the young woman who shall pre-
pare the best dinner at the smallest cost.
) The Cuban privateer, Pioneer, has
been renamed Livingstone" and will
now doubtless get lost on the first trip.
, "A Kentucky lady recently died whose
: Oldest great-grandchlld was 40 years Of
: age.
- Iron graye-stones arc much used in
3, Texas, and are very popular with all who
= haye tried them.
D Martha Dean Briggs commands the
Conquest, a schooner that has made five
= trips between Dublin and Glasgow this
! season.
: An Iowa farmer lately Weighed his
herd of one hundred and ten cattle, and
found they had increased over twelve tons
in about two months
London is to have home for poor
q govelnesses. Can't something be done
= or the poor Governors There are enough
q Of them to maks it an object to try.
9 A Springfield paper says; eve know
n shoes have soles aud tongues, and now u
1t chap in Rhode Island advertisos ''Shoes
c made hear" We don't believe it.
-Ofa miserly man who died of soften
ing of the brain, a local paper said ellis
head gave way, bat his hand Lever did.
y His brain soitened, but his heart couldn't.
l. "A woman attempted to commit suicide
rs by drowning, at Chester, Illinois, and the
& boys threw mnd at her. ste postponed
II dying in order TO have them arrested.
r. If Laura Fair had her deserts there
9 y ould be an occ clsion for disquietude in
y the household of tatan. That is the
y politest way we can put it.-Chieaqo Post.
n "A boy IN Indiana has taught his dog
y, TO Gig potatoes. The boy pulls the vines
D. and the dog follows after, unearthing the
E. potatoes with completeness and dispatch.
be "A man who applied for help for desti
nj tute children, on being asked what h'
needed, said he was not particular, ''if h,
~ coulNu HOb ulNttu hN Nouiu haho NbubNNo
"A lady who did not think it respecta
BILE to bring up her children to work, ha
recently heard from her two sons-one i
ly bar keeper Of a fiat boat, and the ether
" second clerk 10 a lime kiln.
fare you not afraid that whsky'l
;s get into your head ln asked stranger o
a man he saw drinking at bar. "No,
4 said the topper, his liquors too weak I
nu climb"
er An Alabama editor has found a neI
ne premium To offer subscribers. He will
Nd name his me- boy for the patron who pay
he for his subscription the longest time i
ne advance.
ns "A New Jersey editor closes his las
=, stick and makes reddy with the following
III "Just as we are g0lng to press somethin
~ is happening, which We will report in ou
next issue.'
led -"There Is but one good wife in III
Sc town !" said a clergyman in the course
as his sermon-the congregation looked e.
TX, pectant-''and every married man thinl
his he's got her." added the minister.
IN IN "A debaung society discussed the que
700 ton, "ls it wrong to cheat lawyer
no. After full discussion and mature deliber
~ tion, the decision was, "Not wrong, bi
IN 700 fiicult to pay for the trouble
of That was cool Scottish s'aside" ,