Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-03-08

. "A Kentrckv dentist had TO paw 81 TO
have a notice of his death corrected.
"A brother of Oakes Ames diedin 81.
Paul recently. We don't blamehim.
r--A .Nerrstown man deelares hisinten-
lion to vote against Local Auction
"A devoted husband says that he can
sweeten his tea with his wife's smiles.
A complete edition of Lowell's poems
is announced by Macmillan in London.
A Connecticut woman will celebrate
a tin divorce, and more would be glad to,
st. Louis milkmen put tallow in their
milk aud sells the compound for cream.
-sOrder slate'' is the injudicious ad-
vice suspended before certain coal offices.
The Marehioness de Noailles [lu
Washlngtonl owns an entire white lace
dress.
The cultivation of the sugar cane is
attracting attention in Northern Aus
tralia.
Speaking of eggs as having "surviyed
their usefulnes is a delicate way of put
ting it.
"A youth of seventeen was married to
a woman Of fifty, al Bagdad, Kentucky,
recently.
Fifty one new operas were produced
in italy last year, Of which forty-nine were
failures.
1t is estimated that the drowning
capacity Of the Erie canal averages five
boys week.
"A Kentucky liquor dealer advertises
whisky "that will cut hair without being
strapped"
-Froude announces to the apprehensive
public that he will not write a book upon
America.
-Horseaesh as an article of food is
taking so well at Geneva that the demand
| is Increasing.
An Atlanta journalist finds it neces-
sary to refer to himself as We, the asso-
eiate editor"
"A married couple in Switzerland eele-
brated their golden wedding by dying on
the same day.
Why is It not good TO beat children
hard and often Because you may beat
oft and harden.
A Baltimore couple did their counting
in adjacent cells, and were engaged before
seeing each other.
A sharp young man counting girl at
Portland won her by tippng her mother
hve-botte castor.
Martin Tupper administers doses of
proverbial philosophy at ten cents a glass
In St. Louis saloon.
An exemplary but impecuious church,
gOer IN Houston, Texas, put his revolver
in the plate recently.
"A Lynchburg, Va, man let out the
! buckle in his vest. aud swallowed eleven
! dcNen oysters last week.
, A man in Oregon has calf with
/ wings. lie keeps IL chained in order to
prevent "a rise in veal.
Apple fritters containing gifts of jewell
, nv are the latest inducements held out by
i Kentucky restauraieurs.
% You must not tribe with some things
] for insiauce-a woman's opinion or the
D business end of a wasp.
o Owing to the stormy weather on sa-
8 turday Of last week only five ladies went
? to be divorced in St Louis.
! Five abe-bodied men in Spencer
i county o., prefer to i've in the peuiteutiary
: while the cold weather iasts
f Western North Carolina has a monster
S that looks like bear with lions head
e and name and elk's horns.
!, The latest miracle-A blind bishop ID
# reported to have obtained a see from the
If Pope in Switzerland. - World.
IS -Oakes Ames' defence is said to have
: been written by 4. j. P1ppetOn, attorney
for the Union Pacific Railroad.
" A man who slips up on the street and
=, breaks bone is said, by the out-westers
nj to have been side-walked."
m a musical critic lately remarked of al
5 orgduist that he not ouly could Handle
es Bach, hut actually Beethoven.
a. An Indiana woman threw a burgla
down stairs aud broke his neck, under thi
impression that il was her husband.
The English translation of Barol
Stockmar's Memoirs is reported to hav
been made by the wife of Max Muller.
Il. Married women in Illinois have nov
n the privilege of being sued without havir
TO depend on their hu-bauds to pay thvi
debts.
W 1t is mmored that Henry Berr
Aow,ry, tn North Carolina outlaw,
Ae not dead, as repO ted, but is living i
Now York.
so 1t is stated that the fashion of orna
menting the walls of rooms with draper
M of oil cloth, silk, or stamped leather, ha
been revived.
ed -" S ider," in the Boston CoBmsrci
Bulletin, thinks that King Richard II
ms was a prohibitionist, because he stoppe
King Henly's bier.
n Letting the earth in the rot beeon
dry and then pouring on boiling wat
i'm will. II is said, force tue most obstinate
barren cactus to bloom.
sr. "A reporter Of the Macon Telegraj
shot drug clerk while trying to pepper
dog, and was Allowed to write up the ite
l"e before hey took him to jail.
=. A man stole ride on top of an EXPIRE
'A' car from New Haven to Hartford, Il
oher night When he gets new pair
IN ears perhaps he will try it again.
1t is not in an Irish paper but in Il
ted Indianapolis Sentinel, that the announc
:. Iuent is made that - Blind Tom Will S
to Rushvllle on the fifth of March"
'cr. An Illinois juryman refused to sign
ill petition for comInutation of a murder &c
les teuce because his father had the contra
for building the gallows.- Chicago Post.
Law The good people of Andersouvi
res (Ga.) keep themselves from idleuess /
the tween churches on Sunday by bring
wildcats to the scratch for small wage
red A floating hotel is said to be buildi
ne on the Allegheny. The first order of {
Nj. captain Of the craft will be, " Prepare
receive boarders. ."-CoHlnlercid Bullet
at The Chicago EUeTing Post say
kest Women in Louisville, are, as ru
.on. pigeou-toed, and wear washing copp
on their big toes so as to prevent accldei
tor when they interfere"
5 of "A Nashville thief recently stole
ided steam engine and got clear away with
pluuder. The owner thought it wal
,o,, stationary engine, but it unexpecte
last '"'n.u 0us ~ '' Ss'"o''s
was Senator. He threatened, the other
to take Professor Patterson over to
a.. patent office and deposit him as " mo
thv of a id foOl.'
ssev "A Chinaman who had become sn,
tbe blind while working on the Central Pao
Railway applied at San Francisco po
station on the 80 inst. for official perm
rIies sion to have himself shot.
arts "A small boy in New Haven mad
lued sensation for a short time by quietly trs
ped. ferring a card bearing the words T
per one" from lot Of handbills in front I
rfnra IN q haEEat af OranUoa