Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-11-15
HERE AND THERE,

Russia has l42 theatres.
Tight garters are injurious.
Pittsburgh has 2l0 churches. Cd.
Smallpox changes the voice.
The balloon business is quiet.
Vanderbilt looks like a parsou.
-Nisson goes back to Europe In Msys
Charleston ls afflicted with lottery
shops.
The Masonic Order Is largely on the
increase.
Children are often aent long distances
by express.
Railroad tickets are used as currency
in the South.
William Morris goes to Ireland every
year to cooi of.
Carl schurz thinks Of risking resi-
dence in Chicago.
"A baby was born In street car In
ST.. Louis recently.
-"silver coated resumptioR," Is wis,
the Tribune calls II.
Antonio found shYlock to be "a man
after his own heart"
The frosis are eradlcating the pucksF
from the persimmons.
Brigham Young Is building palace
for himself and wives.
"A machine for playing pianos Is said
to have been invented.
The Kansas 1Hqgasine is no more, and
lis editors know more
An apple tree in Maryland has beoo
bearing ever since l1g5.
The British railroads carried 42S,-
10000 passengers In 1879.
-Pere Hyaeinthe's baby Is spoken OF
as the little Hyaclnthe bulb.
Forty thousand French people make
a living by the sardlne trade.
Oysters are advertised at rs cents the
half dozen in Salt Lake City.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has q
locomotive to every mile OF road.
-Omaha is the name of the last child
Of Norrls;own family Of twenty.
"A meeting Of extremes-when a dog
brushes a fly of his nose with his tall.
A rious organ-grinder has the motto
"God loves a cheerful giver painted on
his organ.
An Iowa town offers a bounty Of two
cents for every rats tail left at The
Mayors office.
Manner IL far more attraktive than
matter-monkeys are watched clnsser
th IN eagles re.-BRings.
-Saco, Ne, offers TO rent Its poor
house TO any respectable family, having
no pauper tenants therefor.
In Cincinnati recently, widow LADY,
her two sons and three daughters were
al married on the same day.
For little State, Rhode Island man-
ages to make her full share of noise in
the financial world, don't she
1t ia said that Barnum lets sick tigers
and toothless bears escape from his ma
nagerie for advertising purposes.
The Kentucky boys, it is said, are
not allowed to carry pistols until they
have entered the grammar schools.
The jury in the Tichborne case have
been embalmed by Il new process, and
will sit il out.-St. Louis Democrat.
A Michigan man has written to Mrs
Bergh to know it folding doors In hog
pens will be in fashion this summer.
When travelling In Vermont, II you
meet stranger II is safe to ask him
"Whoso patent churn are you selling 7"
An enthusiastic admirer of nature
says, "nuw is the time 20 read the book
of nature, while autumn is turning the
leaves.
"A child was scared to death last week
by the clamor Of the fiery, untamed
hackman, at She steamboat landing In
Detroit.
The times must be sadly out Of Joint
when 1t is announced that "the New
Haven Clock Works can run only eight
hours day."
Speaking of a new novel, an enthu-
siastic Chicago critic says =" The incl
dents follow each osher like shovelfull
Of hot Goals"
John Hay, one of the Tribune editors
and q well-known author, will shortly
marry the daughter Of AmRsa stone, q
wealthy Cleveander.
Tho japanese government prevents
cruelty to animals by forbidding dog
fights and killing all dogs that partici-
pate In canine combats.
Two pairs Of stairs are necessary to
every newspaper office in North Carolina;
one for the editor to go down as the
caller comes up the other.
1t is estimated that Commodore Yans
I derbilt's enormous fortune has sustained
a shrinkage since the panic equal to
] tMNNlN AuliliuuH oA uul4hArs
Two little girls, aged ten and twelve
years, recently arrived at Green Bay,
Wis, having Travelled all the way from
Belgium, aloue and unaided.
"A California paper of late date con
tains the following advertisement; "Born
in Eureka, August 10, to the wife OF
, D. Mannheim, soma Is FOUNDER.
"A manufacturing company in Merl-
, den, Conn, pays its wofkmen in "a new
currency" Of its own invention which
D passes generally throughout the town.
The rabber dams used by dentists to
hold up the gums and prevent the access
Of saliva during the operation, are known
in the profession as - elastic prOianities. "
b Sir Charles Wentworth Dilks, the
radical member of the British Parlia
5 mcnt, has become a member of the Inde-
, pendent Order OF Odd Fellows in Eng
- ladd.
o A Georgia "craker' was offered foul
dollars per day TO labor, when he az
claimed, "Sir, aye s'spose I'D work
when l'ye just dlscoved a fresh coor
@ track ?"
D., "A gentleman once met a very quie
newsboy selling newspapers. =" Is Their
4 any news p" inquired the gentleman
o Lots OF news" replied the boy, "bu
S nothing to holler."
5 Scene in court Judge" Have yoI
i anything to offer TO the court before sen
81 teaee is passed on you l' Prisoner.-
s Z" No, Judge [ had ten dollars, but m,
" lawyers took that"
b. kate hates mustaches, so much hair
- Makes every man look like a bear;
. hut Nellie, who no thoughts could fettei
ls Biuuts out, the more like bears the bette
l. because, her pretty shoulders shrugginl
j. Bears are such glorious chaps for hugginf
If Tho Chicago Times says " Prooabl
lr the poorest paid and most illiterate set Q
y miserable devils in the newspaper busi
l. ness in tho country are those who al
)f hudiied together in the editorial room
ID Of the EUs'iHg JoiTRdl.'
y chicago wants to have the nex
" worlds fair held there. ''In the fri
place. says the Boston Post, "lt ism
l- certain that the next world will have
~ fair, and in the second place those who
'i be likely to attend it will prefer NOR
~ pious town in which TO celebrate"
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