Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-11-16
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Mr.. Seward was Insured for slOO,OOOs
-Gaudy neckties are threatened once
more.
The horse disease may result in steam
city ears.
The Good Templars of Kentucky nuns
Der $500.
-Terre Haute's best practicable barber
l. woman.
The wear before the last Was 1870, this
year is 1870 too.
"A famous rose tree in Ceylon has
1900 roses upon It.
"A Kansas county has voted 10 name
to county seat Bunker Hill.
"A Yankes ls setting panes Of glass
With rubber instead OF putty.
-+Beet-root sugar makes the best con.
fecdeaery.
.4Kansas laws give mothers the control
of their children.
The St. Louis Globe talks Of the horse
disease as "O!d Ep."
The best literary production Of Bron-
son Alcott is his daughter Louisa.
-Lo, the peeuniarlly deficient Indian,
has embraced rag-picking In San Diego.
1t is said that cork-serews have sunk
more than cork-jaekets have ever saved.
- rhe Nashville Bulletin says that seces-
sion is beginning to stink In Tennessee.
"A Western critic speaks of q PERSONA
tion of Falstaf as "too thin"
Bourbon county, KY, whiskey ls being
shipped direct to Bourbons In France.
-''Nocturnal scrapers Of melodious In
testlnes Is the Hoosler for serenaders.
jumping from trains when in motion
has been made penal offence 10 England.
"A Burlington (Iowa) book firm ad-
vertises Bibles "superlor to any other"
The p lstal railway service has been
increased during the last year 10000 miles.
Walt Whitman ls coming forth as a
reader Of his own poems.
California is shipping considerable
wheat to England by way Of Panama.
School for scandal--A Presidential cam
vass-N Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The Governor-General of Canada has
appointed November IA for general thanks
giving.
In England they are buying coal by
the pound, aud putting ii on the fire with
sugar-tongs.
Prime winter apples are selling in
Kent, Conn, for 70 oeuts u barrel and
cider at $3.50.
Those profane people who wished the
horse distemper sin Halifax" are grati-
fled it's got there.
-" A self-consciousness of elegance is
said to be the leading feature in White
law Reid's manner.
An Alabama editor mildly alludes to
his rival as "a reservoir Of falsehood and
an aqueduct of mendaeity."
"A rising artist is painting for next
years Royal Academy Exhibition pic
ture OF Death as large as life.
--Terre Haute has young man who
cuts, fits, and makes all the dresses worn
by his mother and four sisters.
Some flesh was made two, a few days
ago." is the way a Washington Territory
paper announces a decree Of divorce.
Ann Campbell, Canada dairy maid,
has died at the age of 13l years. She had
worn out IF cen generations of cows.
Fanny Fern wrote h T closing articles
ft-handed-rheumatism disabling the
other.
Cold weather Is at hand. Marriage
notices. one insertion fifty cents.-[st.
Louis Globe
Cornelius O'Leary son of Mrs. O'Leary
of the COW, has been fined S5 for carrying
. . a concealed pistol.
! It don't follow because ladies are well
! laced, that they have Staid in their demean-
or.
"A number of Chinese workmen at
North Adam, Macs, have cut OF their
pigtails.
' A New York saloon keeper advertises
for "a boy TO open oysters about fifteen
} years Cd I"
japanese Invitations to dinner are
= written on sheets of paper the size OF
; small table cloth.
The repertoire of a Pitsburg brass
band consists of Marching Through
Georgia" and polka.
-vinaigrettes are now made OF dul.
gold, 10 represent hunting horn, and
f hung al the waist belt.
= -Fretting is both useless and unneces-
: sary it docs no good aud great deal Of
= harm yet II is almost a universal sin.
Stray alligstors are put into the same
( pound with lost dogs at St. Louis. It
! saves paying and feeding an executioner.
New York young ladies have wagered
: largely in gloves, cologne, and Aowers, on
a the result of the elections.
1 -slxly-Gve new colors in dress materials
e have been introduced to the notice of the
e feminine world this fall
s -Kansus is the most fertile State in the
r Union. One potato hill rec ntly turned
+ out half bushel of rattlesnakes.
!, The sophs and Freshmen of Harvard
G College have signed an agreement TO stop
haziug, aud those undor suspension for
L recent acts of the kind have been recalled.
'r Henry Clews has begun five libel
- suits against the New York Tribune, and
a Oakley Hail threatens similar attentions
y 10 the Times and Harper's Weekly.
/. An indianapolis balloonatc proposes
% 10 build an air-ship that will sail as
e straight and steadily through space as a
/, vessel through water.
e The Springfield Repubhcan says Georg,
Is Eliot is "the female Bacon of this cen.
N tury," and a county newspaper in Penn
10 sylvania spells it with little 3D."
le "A poor but honest young lady, who
Ie earns a living by working on hoop skirts,
ot in reply to AN inquiry, stated that she had
~ spent the summer sat the springs"
y Nasty is to lecture in Chicago soon
~ Here are circumstances under which
/, Locke-jaw may be accepted as a pleasan
IL thing Chicago Post.
n The first exclamation of an American
al Dtllt On GutIAlAk Aut NhAAHuihl hN MI AZ
n. was, "oh, what church to get mar
al ried inl''
The conversation Of English societ
We girls "ventures into the re0lon Of bias
AT phemy," according to a writer in th
III Saturday Rspisie.
Gilmore has BEEN robbed of his laurel
ne by a recent discovery that Giuseppe SaTt
DC an Italian, used cannon as a musical ad
nd junct as early as 17SS.
=. The Eastern railroad of Massachusett
~ ~ leads of with cheap w0rkingmen's train
y, niglt and morning between Boston an
y Lynn, fare only five cents.
rn Henderson. the correspondent of III
rn New York Herald arrested in Havana,
nd the man who worked up the Lowery eel
.od sation in North Carolina.
W. 1t is stated by some OF the professio
his that there are less than sixty really comp
ter tent short hand writer's In the Unite
lsh States.
er- -Apropos Of Mrs. Fairs lecture sl
ct gaEements, the Louisville Courier-Journ
der thinks she could make more money [
les teaching pistol shooting.
ou- A Welsh orator recently remarked
ue fine peroration; "Innocence is like q
nls umbrella When once we have lost it, v
,Pl- can never hope TO see it back again"
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