Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-02-02
THINGS GENERALLY.
Texas has the smallpox.

Texas has the smallpox.
Typhoid fever Is epidimic Ia Paris.
The Minnesota Indians have the measles
Universal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
fool.
North Carolina has its own Ice crop this
winter.
A miser IS far more forgetting than for
giving.
Courlng alter marriage Applying for
divorce.
A stamp you cant buy-the stamp OF
gentleman.
The girls think Ills is good weather for
bad "chaps."
Stale bread lestiyaes aye the newest thing
IN rural social Lille.
A stump speaker recently alluded to
Shakespeare rs that honest voter" VINO
never repeated.
The Virginia peanut crop for 1871 amount
cd 225, 400 bushels.
Lent commences this year on st. Valen-
tines day-the l4th.
Payne wrote "Hon,e, Sweet Home" in
1918, while in Paris.
Seward is writing his autobiography and
history Of his travels.
Dogs kllleu over fsiOVoiVVO WYNN VI
sleep In Ohio last year.
The firm of G. g. W. Simmons, stone and
brick PAYERS is dissolved.
Mans superiority over woman conslsIa
chiefly 10 his thinking so.
The tylant Gessltr Is said 10 have started
the phrase 'Blocd will Tell"
How 10 prevent chappy checks. Have
nothing TO do with cheeky chaps.
Fifteen of the stalls Ia the new market
house have alieady been engaged.
Springfield Ill papers demand eompul-
sorry vaccination for the whole city,
The smallpox Is very yirulent and fatal
In Hoboken, and Union Hill, N. ].
Weslfeld, Mass. says she rolled up twelve
millions cigars during the past year
The Commercial says It's almanac aud
year book las been decided success.
The young ladies OF Kentucky are enjoy
ing themselves with leap year parties.
VIM. II. Quinn and others are about TO
erect six new houses On Chestnut street.
Joseph b. Lyman, agricultural editor OF
the New York Tribune, died on Sunday.
Pictures of J. Wilkes Booth are being.
sold in New York as photographs OF Stokes
Jacob Pusey and Geo. e. Rice "a Co., ice
dealers in this city have formed partner
ship.
The street commissioner has his men al
work cleaning cutters, preparing Tor the
ihaw.
The Wilmington Coal Gas Company has
declared Dividend OF three dollars per
| share.
1t is going to cost two thousand dollars
per day, during this year, for weather
reports.
The Senate has assed the bill allowing
| Jaranese students 10 be admitted TO the Wes'
Point Academy.
The Printing office of the Port Deposit
| Netps, was sold by the Constable OF Cecil
county on Monday.
Geo D. Kelley, has resigned his position
| M discount clerk in the bank OF Whining
ion and Biardywine.
| Young Gibbons, brakesman on the E. s.
II. r. had finger cut Of while coupling
cars al tue Salisbury depot.
1t is suggested that The church collections
would be materially increased II they wer'
10 be taken up by young ladies'.
Pieces of the buffalo killed by the Grau'
Duke are for sale al enormous prices nj
great many restaurants in New YORK
II ley year 1871 is regarded as having beei
an uncommcnly bad year for demagogues
political schemers and official thieves.
Tie new Market House, on West From
street, between Madison and Jeheisol
streets is rapidly approaching completion.
A dealer in Yankee notions, in Cticf
adyertises Tree vaccination 10 all who max
purchases amounting to one dollar or more
A celebrated writer says that the sweetes
so[tesi, tenderest, tTuest eyes which wo
man can carry 10 her head, are green !
color.
Ills difficult TO under stand why some pee
ME exhibit so much soliciiude about the
iungs, when their lungs take air oil then
selves.
A celebrated clergyman recently said this
he had found more good 10 bad people, an
more bad In good people thin he ever e1
/ pecttd.
A prominent Journalist has offered a re
ward of one thousand dollars Tor tale thu
9 will make his hair stand on end. lie is Ell
} lirely bald.
2 The Ohio State Journal calls Horac
e Greeley an awkward old slommick, VIII
: manages 10 step into his own bucket like
: blind cow"
. The month Of February begins and emf
. on Thursday. Consequently II VIII ha'
i five Thursdays, which will not occur aga
y until the year 1900.
French heels are among the discarded fC
lies OF society girls. A bitter experience
d the direction Of bunions have warned 0lmo
IL all our bellies 10 discard them.
ie A new style Of earrings has a cha
20 fastened from one earring 10 the OthI
+. passing undCr the chin and answering 4
sr double purpose OF necklace also
"a A new style Of dress goods is called I
Alpine p'plin, is two yards wide and y
yard. Dress makers say they only requ
\, | twenty FIVE yards OF this material to make