Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-25
H ERE AND TIL E RE-

Story is modelling bust of Beethoven.
Queen Victoria has taken the prize
for pigs.
Evansville, Ind, Is going to be called
Lamasco.
Mr.. Yell is loud.mouthed politician
In Texas.
Wages Lave nearly doubled in fifty
years.
There are A. 100000 Catholics in Eng
land and Wales.
A criminal couit-sparkiug another
mans wife.
Fred Douglass talks of going to
Europe to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is to pass tue
winter in Egypt.
san Francisco sgells wear boots of
Kangaroo hide.
-Tilton Taleges that Greeley was peer
less among his peers.
WIN. B. Wright, Buffalo teacher, Is
a newly risen poet.
The baby.s show folly has been COM
mitted at Dubuque.
1T takes powerful sight Of men 10
watch fallen horse.
The best band to accompany Lady
vocalist husband.
-Rubinstein thinks he could manage
his concerts best himself.
-Vicksburg is nearly eaten out of house
and home By $4,000 dogs.
The heaviest speeches do not always
have the greatest weight.
-Monograms on envelopes are said TO
be no longer fashionable.
"A Troy, N. Y, man in dying left
$4,000 10 girl be had Tilted.
An English actress got $4,000 railway
damages for a scar on her face.
-spduking red pepper on dancing
floors is fun in Nebraska.
George Alfred Townsend was made
happy father on Christmas.
sold Talk talk'' is what Mark Twain
calls George Francis Train.
kansas, during tie year, has expended
s1,0O0,00O on school houses.
Hot sand baths are now extensively
used as u remedy for rheumatism.
When is a shiplike a scarf-pini : When
ltis on the bosom of heavy swell.
Mr.. Be gh lectures on " The Speech
less Servants Of Civilization"
M. D. Conway is writing a book
called Republican Institutions"
"A. T. Stewart, of New York, exhibited
fifty acres of holiday goods for sale.
"A western reverend is lecturing on
the Bright Side Of Libby Prison."
In New Hampshire they are already
getting ready for their spring election.
"A Kansas doctor has had to pay $4,000
for killing instead of curing patient.
The French Canadians own church
in Albany ana run "a newspaper in Troy.
The la gest piece of steel thst Pitts
burg has ever forged weighed fifteen tons.
"A gold spittoon was one OF Queen
| Victoria's recent presents to the King Of
siam.
While Minneapolis lover was with
his girl, his rival stole the wheels of bis
buggy.
AN of Sir Walter Scoit's race are gone
now but a great granddaughter, girl OF
nineteen.
1t is ouly the great souls that know
how much glory there is in being good
Sophoclss.
- see through IT," as the washer
woman said when the bottom Of the tub
fell ont.
The new style of bonnet is a cross be
tween locomotive smoke-staek and d
custlrd-pie.
"A literary correspondent of the Pitts
burg (Pa.) Gdzstte, Signs himself y.
Phddle Styx.
-Ceorgs Washington, of Savannah,
Ca, is only 10 years old, but has stabbed
his third man.
"A Chicago editor speaks of Paul Nor
ply as 'the inventor of morphine and
other medicines.
-Bridgeport's Comm " hgh-toned
dauciug-master bears the appropriate
name 9i Stamper.
The latest applicant for divorce ln
England is a grandson of Lord Byron.
Blood will tell"
Joe Cobourn has secured a position IN
Brooklyn drug store, with view 10
. pounding mace, probably.
,, The best way to determine a chfckeu's
age 10 to count his teeth Every back
, double tooth indicates year.
! An Ohio dairyman wishes to patent
the application of galyanism for the de-
: struetion Of cheesemites.
e A writer in the Jspisd C1roaicle ealcu
= lales that iu the year 1850 the nation of
4 Israel Is to be restored to Palestine.
d The press of Missouri calls for law
d awarding death as punishment for
7 placing distractions on railroad tracks.
Says the Christian Era Some churches
elect their clerks for life, elect their deacora
a for life, and elect their pastors every year,
u Umph
Georgia issues invitations for "youI
company on Friday evening to a candy
yank. No persons carrying shot-guni
A. admitted"
1t In Colorado, when a lady wears dla.
a mond jewelry 10 any extent, she is alluded
Is to by the local gusher rs being wei
!, ''salted."
ir Now that Hon. Thomas Moonlight Ii
At onthe committee to investigate senator
al Caldwell there is no excuse for worknl
'e in the dark.
10 The wife of a roofer being asked
p p she was not afraid TO have her HUSBAND
's exposed to such danger, trustfu.ly replied
=, "Oh, he's insured "
M M "A reporter of Lewiston (Me.,) seeln
m some boys skating on thin ice, went an
M got all their names and ages, SO as to say
ic them when they got drowned.
ne "A Palmyra (Wis.) lad found broker
a and displaced rail, and, taking OF hi
e. shirt, he signalled an approaching trail
" and prevented serious accident.
nd The Missouri Rspublican asks
NJ Where's that man who knew that th
IL was 10 be an open winter because the frol
of hadn't banked up their houses ?"
,er A native jury at Gale, Ceylon. r
ue Gently returned the following verdict In
yer case of drowning "The deceased can
"a sS by her death by gulping when und
'au water"
mt The circular saw, II is said was I
he vented by Joseph AIurry, of Manhel
-as England, son of an old servant of u
Of Byron family whom Lord Byron speaks
nd as sold Joe Murray"
ate Giles says there are some perso
in whom he always wants to swear at, and
nat Is idle to repeat TO him the iDjuucti
be ''swear not at all, when he has no desl
his to swear at more than one out of fifty.
rry Mrs. Lublu has been installed as past
the of a Western pulpit. Sweet is the say
ar of her name, and sweet her sanciii
the No doubt" says the Boston Globe, 9Th,
'ho will be some extracts from her sermons
ed -"Y You see that Thurlow Weed /
est given up smoking, my son." remarked
me gentleman to bis son. "Well, mean
MINI do the same" replied hopeful, {" when
Was reach his age" The boy had read 1
,eat newspapers.
riul The Spectator points out that WI
log wickshire, which produced by far
enn greatest Of English hauthors-.Shakspea
t1e has also produced by far the greatest