Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-08-16
HERE AND THERE.


Peaches, small and full-bearded, have
appeared.
"A street In Berlin has been named for
Beethoven.
--Feehter is loahng around Bucks
county, Pa.
Saratoga fans are thlrty-si1 inches
across the top.
"A young duck in Chester county wad-
dies on four feet.
The peanut business all over the
city Is at a stand.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines ls spending
the summer at Memphis.
MIR. Butcher is one Of the sharpest
knife manufacturers Of Sheffield.
"A suburb of waverly, ILL.,, rejoices In
the eupheuious name Of Shakerag.
An Indiana boy, three years old, has
a long beard. Where's Barnum
-Brigham's seventeenth doesn't pro-
pose to die Young If she can help 1t.
TO strip well-dressed children Of
their clothing ls common crime In
London.
The Lowell Courier considers DR..
Mary Walkers performances breeches of
the peace.
Illinois has the largest railway mail
service of any State in the Union, being
5,526 miles.
"A female horse car conductor Is on
trial in savannah.-Ezchdnge. What Is
her ofieHse.
Can an edifice that weighs two hun
dred and fifty tons be properly called
light house
"A visitor at Saratoga by the name Of
Bacon has a running porker painted on
bis carriage.
The Shah has resisted all invitations
thus far to leave his $l,000,000 overcoat
on hat rack.
"A man with a glass eye applied TO
the Superior Court, the other day, TO DO
natural eye's-d.
Uncle "Now, how did the mother
of Moses hide him 2" "With a stick,
uncle l"-Piinch.
"A Cincinnati brewer is In trouble
because his wife papered a trunk with
revenue stamps.
Butler says that he=lost his character
ten years ago, and has been perfectly
happy ever since.
Ida Leggitt took a notion to "leg lt"
out of Wisconsin Jail the other day, and
did so accordingly.
The income of Henry Ward Beecher,
from all sources, amounts 10 fifty thou
sand dollars year.
"A Missouri man has a barrel OF
whiskey GA years old, and has repeatedly
refused $500 for it.
A Afit,ya,ivaa ,,-o fas.or ,,rao~to r.. a.
prove that Christopher Columbus was
Of German ancestry.
Military authorities are to be found
everywhere, but civil authorities are not
TO be found anywhere.
"A convention of photographers at
Buffalo decided that its members are en-
titled to be called artists.
The freedmen recognize, now, no
massa" but Massachusetts, and no
"n isis" but Mississippi.
-Hetfron was the seventeenth man
hung by vigilance committees in Southern
Indiana within three years.
Since the beer riots, Bismarck has
given the Good Templars permission to
establish lodges in Germany.
Benz. F. Butler is the lowest bidder
for furnishing the granite to build Con-
necticut's new State capitol.
"A clergyman says that modern young
ladies are not the daughters of Shem and
Ham, but of hem and sham.
The married ladies' of Western city
have formed a Come-home-kusband
Club" 1t is about four feet long.
Buffalo is to have Union Railroad
Depot, with which it is designed all rail-
roads entering the city will connect.
"A Brooklyn girl of fashionable tastes
but limited means says she never realized
her necessities until she got husband.
"A New York paper says in its marine
news that "the ocean is white with the
neckties of outward-bouRd clergymen.'
When a mau won't Keep his word
aud nobody will take 1t, what is TO be
done with III Why let it lie where il is
An OK recently killed by lightning in
Iowa was afterwards discovered to have
every bone in its body broken in many
places.
"A colt in Michigan resented the III
treatment by its master, by taking the
law iuto its own heels, and kicking the
man to death.
"A new kind of stone mug for lager
beer has been introduced. II is so thick
that it keeps very cool, but ii does moi
hold much beer.
The British Aeronautical Society Il
discussing the prOpriety of substituting
balloon power for steam and horse powei
in running engines.
"A Florida paper has ascertained tha
a healthy alligator can eat seven negro
children in one forenoon, and not display
any symptoms of disquiet.
-Club-handled parasols have thei
uses. A young lady al Morristown re
Gently "laid out" savage dog with ont
in the most eiilgetual way.
Princess Josephine, a cousin of tn,
ex-Queen of SPAN, had her baggage re
Gently siezed by a milliner as securit!
for an unpaid bill Of Sl059.
The girls in a Springfield (Mass.
factory arc supplied by the proprietor
with chewing gum, in order that the
may not waste time in talking.
Robert Laird Collier has a new de
scription of hell. He says 1t Is hell, no
because 1t is fiery, but because there is N
fire there-no warmth, no love.
"A young man in a Titusville hotel
put sulphuric acid into his hair oil bottle
and the result has been that one Of III
chambermaids has to wear a wig.
The question has arisen as TO whethe
the Emperor of Austria declined glas
OF American champagne because he hR
or had not tasted the liquor before.
There is an effort being made in Bot
ton to establish the fashion OF recelvin
callers is the kit chen, SO that pie maxim
aud gossip may go on simultaneously.
Chicago printers are In a huff b,
cause the Chicago Relief Society hAy
, sent their report to Boston to be printeC
They consider it typographical error.
Some of the Long Island dAmse
don't see why their papas mean to ~
,, the railroads for damages for merel
! dropping few sparks along the route.
When Ben. Franklin was aske,
eighty years ago, "Of what use was
/ balloon " he replied; "The same as
/. new born babe. 1t is destined 10 grow.
"A fashionable lady has been con
s PEELED 10 leave Long Branch, in spite
1 Its attractions, because the moist sea q
C takes the "crimp" out Of her poodle
front hair.
The Charleston Nsigs says that Il
White sulphur is probably the only fAs
ionable resort where life does not mater
y ally depend for It's support on the brib
d given the walters.
/ "A theatrical manager, who has
s nice little place In the country, has D
r up on his garden fence, since the cherTi
p ripened, signboard, reading, "Free II
: absolutely suspended"
# If your srrand boy takes an unusual
Il long time to bring ysur morning mi
} from the post office, don't reproye hi
q for being slow till you find out how ma