Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-08-02
NO. 81
HERE AND THE RE.

Reading has 35 policemen.
Hens are very eg-o-tistical.
Best size for a man-Exercise.
The learned pig ls at Saratoga.
West Chester don't grow much.
Theodore Tilton Is writing novel.
Hope Rolling Mill, Allentown, is for
sale.
Most any landlord Is host in him
self"
Water is an expensive luxury in
Paris.
Madame Ristorl is playing in Man
chester.
"A man in Newark, N. j., sells "lemin
IL gream."
1t is the good swimmers generally
who are drowned.
-Dana's favorite song" Gentle shep-
nerd, tell me why "
The Government has adopted a new
q cent? piece policy.
"A Michigan girl of eight years sets
1000 ems Of type daily.
-Wachtel will soon be on the high
C's on his way TO America.
"A Farmers Grange has been estab-
lished near Wiliamsport, Pa.
Alexis is about to publish the letters
from his American sweethearts.
Bees have been found in trees on the
Sierras al an altitude of 5000 feet.
Memphis has a population of 10000
inhabitants and 1000 liquor saloons.
Harvest hands in Illinois, in some
cases, are paid as much as "a day.
Walt Whitman is suffering from Ill
health and is living in Camden, N. j.
Ross winans, of Baltimore, has Just
finished a splendid palace at Newport.
An Indiana curiosity is a girl whose
left foot is ten times larger than her right.
An Iowa man wss sent to Jail for
six months for splitting tobacco juice in a
horses eye.
The highest salary paid teachers Of
Harrisburg is $1,000 per annum, and the
lowest $3.50.
The length of the school day ought
to be somewhat proportioned to the age
of the pupils.
A Keokuk damse entered a store re-
Gently and asked for " a deck of them
postal keerds."
Summer travel TO Mauch Chunk is
getting to be enormous. Who discovered
Mauch Chunk
Lager will soon be the American
beverage, despite George Sheppard Page,
Esq, of Stanley.
An Ohio reporter, desperate for an
item, has given the world the aY0irdupOis
Of the Grand Jury.
-Intemperance and poverty 60 hand
in hand, because Bacchus and 10 were
companions of old.
| Worcester, Massachusetts, is TO have
the largest fre-bell in New England.
Weight, 1900 pounds.
Blind Tom, the negro pianist, owns a
farm near Warrenton, Va. He Will
spend the summer there.
Tho Sardtogian says that not one
person in fifteen who comes TO Saratoga
drinks the spring water.
The question is, in the Goodrich
case, according to the Grdphic, whether
Katy did or Katy didn't.
Mr.. Froude has engaged to write the
" ANNALS of an English Abbey" for
ecri5ner's Monthly, for 81 900.
"A Western theatrical critic speaks of
a popular actress as "slinging thirty
yards Of store clothes behind her.
Grace Greenwood was charged 81 at
the Clifton House, Niagara, for the use
Of a room 10 wash her hands and face.
-" There is no place in the county
(Bcrks,) except Reading, In which there
S SO much business stir as Birdsboro."
Mark Twain says the Shah, in his
ball.dress, looked like Chicago confa-
grafton Of precious stones and gold lace.
"A county clerk in Ohio refused to
issue n marriage license because the man
was only four feet high and the woman six.
We are now able to understand the
chief industry of the American Indians.
They are chiefly engaged In raising hair.
"A lady from a benighted region,
| hearing for the first time that matches
were made in heaven, said she was ready
tO go.
"A techy Wisconsin man stopped his
subscription to the local newspapers,
just because the editor eloped with his
liwiie.
The Court at West Chester has re-
fused to admit TO probate the will re =
Gently discovered upon a slate in that
town.
When money is what the Wall street
people call "drug in the market, ("
wouldn't we all like to be druggists Z
Rather.
1t is reported that Anna Dickinson
will appear on the stage in the fall, in a
play based On Hawthorne's "Scarlet
Letter"
The fact that DR.. Mary Walker has
again been arrested for wearing bifurcated
garments, proves that she still pants for
renown.
"A. r. Stewart is said to be worth
$lO0, 0,0OU,OOO, and he thinks he would be
rich if he had gone into the real estate
} business.
Mrs. Tracy Titus, popularity known
in this country as Mrs. James A. Oates
is organizing a new comic opera eompan y
in London.
The society formed by the young ladies
of San Francisco for the suppression OF
slang, is reported by the secretary to have
! "gone up"
! "A muscular Pittsburg woman recent
{ ly threw man out of the seeond-stOrl
! window, who had entered uninvited int
: her apartment.
0 The New York World speaking o
v crowded streets, says some of the Broad
way crossings arc the jammedest
o spots in the city.
i II has been discovered that no cross
eyed man was ever hanged in this coun
try, while many such have filled higl
places of trust.
i Never make the mistake OF pay I'M
for things by the quantity instead of thu
!; quality A single diamond is often WOrtl
u cargo of bricks.
=, The free mate of captive owl II
4 Lower Providence township, Montgomerl
= county, Pa, has been feeding the latte
= with rabbits at night.
o "A young man recently popped tn,
J. question in a new Kentucky court house
q and now boasts Of having held the frs
e court in the building.
II An Ohio boy ten years old Jagged
is train just in time to save il from cul
II vert, and has been given a free pass 70
II five years and gold watch
e "A Pittsburgh girl, 10 years old, mad
II her father drunk, stole $3.50 from hin
l. and ran away with a sailor, and tried Il
, commit suicide when overlaken.
m "A Lawrence, Me-, girl was going t.
y sue talse-hearted lover for breach o
- promise, but she agreed to compromis
a the matter for SOL and new switch.
" A young man, while hunting in IN
le woods near Fort Wayne, Ind, recent,
r was struck by lightning, and had hi
ie head completely severed from his body
m "A New York divorce LAWYER adyel
% tises; Hymenial incompatibilities as
e. specially delicately adjusted. 'Tis SLAYER
l.. 10 q N1s.. ~