Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-07-20
HERE AND THE R E.

The Turks wear blue for MOURNING
--Ahi will revisit America in ten years.
The Jubilee paid for Itself.
Savannah has q Sunday theatre.
Japan has seventeen newspapers.
North Carolina has n newspapers.
There are still plenty of wild bears in
Maine.
"A miners lamentation "Vein yelnl
give ore"
Anna Dickinson has u startling"
new lecture.
1t costs nearly $40 per day at the Nj
agara hotels.
Edwin Booth is quietly summering at
Long Branch.
Turkey City is the name Of a new
virginia town.
The Indians are driving good bead
trade at Niagara.
Boston Imported twice as much wool
this year as last.
The Choctaw Indians have a base ball
club.
Paris eats $4,000 worth of snalls a
year.
Women drive horses on the English
canals.
-One Texas acre produced Is bushels
Of oats,
Chicago prohibits quack medicine
posters.
France will have a good wheat
harvest,
"A sponge bath before retiring secures
sound sleep.
Butter cents pound, wholesale, in
Terra Ilaute.
American corn is preferred for making
Scotch whisky.
Memphis, Tenn, is to have a baby
show.
Watch cases are now made Of Indian
rubber.
Steel traps to catch flies are Boston
novelty.
An artesian well, at Corydon, Ind, is
1850 feet deep.
Five circuses and an earthquake are
travelling about in Georgia.
California expects soon TO become a
great coffee growing country.
A man in Anamosa county, Iowa, sold
hi, wife lately for a keg Of beer.
The mosquito crop of New Jersey is
reported to be unusually abundant.
"A down-east shopkceper advertises
'puart bowls of all sizes for sale cheap"
Gel. Tennie Claain's regiment has $50
uniformed men.
Bancroft is pegging away at his his
tory.
Gold has been found in Greenwood
county, Kansas.
The author Of "Ginx's Baby" is COM
ing to America to lecture.
Austria will IN future execute con-
demned murdereTs by shooting
Gold mining is more profitable than
ever in Australia.
The Old White Hat is the name of
Greeley campaign paper.
The Chicago and Alton road is setting
hedge plants out along Its line.
"A Texan obtained divorce from his
wife because was had bad cook.
Families out West who keep Chimes
servants find they cannot keep cats.
They say that croquet players out
West have adopted the ten-hour system.
-" Stovc-lodder" is the Yankee slang
for kindling wood.
Il 500 pound bear should yield you
nine gallons of hair oil.
Monks are not exempt from military
conscripton in Germany.
California will probably shed 100000
gallons Of wine this year.
In Turin, Italy, thereare eighty women
each over one hundred years old
And now Governor Parker, of New
Jersey, has been made an Ii. D.
In Charlotte, y. c., live four men
whose aggregate weight is LIB pounds.
An elk horn ~ inches long and 12
inches in circumference has been dug up
in Illinois.
-"Small pox here" and 'rooms 70 rent
are two announcements on one door of a
Detroit house.
1t would ruin England if she hire DR..
Livingston e to make his explorations at
so much a month ''and found"
Sponge fishing, of the coast of Flords,
is said to have been very productive this
year.
Mrs. II. B. Stowe is to give public
readings in New Heaven, Conn, next
autumn.
AT % dinner given recently in London,
England, sixty dollars dozen were paid
for peaches.
Fall River, Massachusetts. the we'll
known manufacturing town, has Il pOpu-
lation Of 81. 900.
-Grccley don't write so had hand but
that his friends consider his name OH the
back Of "A note as OF some value.
We advise any ofour friends who have
not done so to read My Wife and |" des-
pitc all the critics may say of it.
A man at Pittsburgh has brought
charge against a ncighbor of assault and
battery Oh the cat of the dcponent.
j. b. Ford 81 Co. don't have very
good proof reader, If we may judge from
their edition of My Wife and ~
--Mazzni's large fortune will be nher-
tied 10y his grand-niece, who is an art
critic ON daily paper at Turin.
Miss Nahby JOY, of Boston, will he a
ioy forever, for she has Just died leaving
$3.50, $50 to purely charitable objects.
"A lady of Springfield, Va, was bitteu
by cat having the hydrOphobia, the other
day.
"A negro of Columbus, Ga, bets forty
dollars that he can eat seven pounds of beet
at one meal.
q SOME reckless voorheesionist in the
South declares that II. g. wrote the John
Brown song, Its not so.
"A border-rutiian of a postmaster ont
West cancels letter stamps with his boot
heel.
Trade in overcoats and skates is
quoted duh, but with good prospec 5
ahead.
Why does freight car need no loco
motive, Because the freight makes the
cargo.
An admiring Peruvian Journal calls
Agassiz the Columbus OF the scientific
universe.
There never was any heart truly great
aud gracious that WIS not also tender and
compass Tomato. South.
1t is one thing to wish to have truth
ON onr side, and another To wish TO bc Gu
thc side OF truth - Nhdtely.
"A Richmond man has worn the same
par ot linen trousers foriy-nine summers.
They have been In style seven times.
A woman, fifty wears old, has Just
hccn unclrthcd at Winston, y. c., who
has Just heard fiddle for the first time.
"A lake has been discovered in the
Cascade Mountains, Oregon, complete =
surrounded bya wall ofroek 1000 feet higl 4.
A Notth Carolina goose was latc'S
struck by lightning, SO feather beds do n t
pusses> the virtue claimed for them aftei a. q.
-"Rey" f. L. W. Jones, Of PlttsbuT 3,
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