Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-02-22
HERE AND THE RE

| -Fr0nde Will lecture on America.
Disciples of ox-Prlze-hghters.
-Bayard Taylor has a novel in hand.
A disagreeahle relative-a carb uncle.
-Therearo no sleeping cars in England.
--Engllsh oysters are small and bitter.
England produced 46s novelslast year.
"A prodigall'y Of earthquakes is noted.
Aimee ravels with one hundred trunks
Girls crinp theiF hair with clay pipe
stems,
New York convicts cost 81 cents q day
10 fed.
-Gov. Hoffman sailed for Europe on
the sth inst.
The worst thing "under the canopy &"
"A mosquito
-BncIcault saw the light IN Dublin
in 1929.
Tea importers have not been lucky
this year.
Book of great intsrest-the note shaw
er's ledger.
---silk cause Is favOrite material for
ball dresses.
In Arizona there ore many meu Of
many mines.
The man who made the Cardifi giaut
got $500 for 1t.
"A doleful green is the favorite hue for
umbi elias.
"A Kentucky dame of 1ls is called a
"Matriarch."
Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, only
seated 975 people.
The biggest house ever drawn 10 Hart
ford was by Lotta.
-smalley. Of the Tribune, is Wendell
Phillips son-in-law.
One of Galveston's councilmen ls
colored wood-sawyer.
"A Connecticut woman has Just cele-
brated her tin divorce.
In Manila the women at clgar-maklng
get seven cents per day.
Why is the letter like young lady
Because 1t makes pa pay.
1t costs 5000 to whistle for your dog
in the Mobile c1urt room.
The next Episcopal bishop In this
country will be the Tooth.
-Gilroy, Cal, has got tombstone fac
tory-"a long felt want"
-seal-skin chairs for smoking rooms
are the latest extravaganza.
"A Minnesota genius has invented
machine TO darn stockings
1000 acres Of timber are daily shorn
from tho face Of our republic.
Kansas Pomeroy is known everywhere
in the Slate as " Old Beans
-lmpeuinent men-Those who manus
facture sauce from cheek-ory.
What is the riddle Of riddles Life,
} for we all have to "give II up"
Kansas ice is nine inches thicker this
year than any previous winter.
--Rattlesnake tails, mounted with gold,
are the latest variety of earrings.
"A Racine, Wis, girl encrusted a faith
less lovers head with melted glue.
Miss Kate January is the champion
cook Of Murireesbero, Tenn.
Mr.. Ralph Kcelcr, author of "Vaga-
bond Adventures" Is in Egypt.
Why is a goose like an elephants
, trunk Because II grows down.
Stanley has a thin voice, but it Is three
, in ped compired TO bis lecture.
Nearly all the onierrs Of victor Eman-
, uel's A0useaoll haze Ane.can wiyci.
The Khediye of Egypt is reported to
s have proposed to build a new pyramid.
The New York Epsninq Pos, speaks OF
e Napoleon as "the great European Tweed. >"
-"The word impossible is the mother
l. tongue Of little SOULS" said Lord Broush-
man.
S California claims to make better
blankets than any other State In the
g Union.
-Resdlng is soon to add to its other
Il industrial enterprises a spectacle manu-
factory.
z The French Greuadier Band in Paris
Is TO give a concert in behalf Of the Boston
/. Relief Fund.
We read that Miss Louisa Alcotl gets
: $4,000 copyright on her writings-and we
hope it is true.
/. The eonvlcts in the Joliet (nlinois)
penitenliary make tue belts WON by the
h Chicago police.
Prime IS Beatrice OF England is re-
# ported 10 have told the Earl of Aberdeen
" 10 "ask mamma"
A Welsh poet has an entirely new
Il image. He boldly calls the maiden OF his
love "white as lime"
= The death is recorded in Taunton
IL Mass, OF gigantic rooster weighing six
teen pounds, four ounces.
T "A Detroit woman recently drank q
> wine glassful of lludanum TO cure the
toothache. She succeeded.
ir 1t is SAID that lame dog Is like al
inclined plane because he is a slow pup
-. while the other is slope up.
II -Creswel says that he will not be salts
fed until a letter can be sent to any pal
. Of the United States for penny.
,r A new process fer preserving meat
- consists in Dipping the meat in mtlteC
butter and then packing II in salt.
y The fashion of long gloves CARRIE
desolation 10 the rat holes of Paris.
An Englshman has discovered tina
IN there are fifty four distinct varieties o
feas.
-, A waiter in New Jersey, has beer
y, fined s25 for putting dishwater into oyste
stews.
70 They give the baby hippopotamus #
In London a section OF gam hose to cut hi
n teeth on.
The New Orleans Tineshas increase
n its circulation 5000 siuee it was "suT
" pressed"
IF An Iowa girl with hair siyty-tw
inches long is a capillary attraction Il
m Washington.
V Thousands of young women practic
er at the bar in England. They are know
as bar maids.
Ite If Boston absorbs her suburbs, as
re proposed, she will then have an area {
be ll0 square miles.
le- Boys in tie West continue 10 pla
with r.vOlvers, and attend their sister
On. funerals soon after.
Ilv The Orange crop Of Louisiana is o
I'M dict-d with new disease, which caus,
Ic- the fruit TO turn black.
The erizoolic cat.arrh has extended {
ire the feliues In Minnesota. Doctors say
.he presents an analogy to tables 10 the huns
err subject.
,I9 -Laporte, Ind, affords a circulatio
III for periodical "devoted TO the interes
Of opium CATERS" the town containing
di ioad-on-'em.
The Boston Post thinks It would
n,, wrong TO disturb the "ancient solita
uos reign" Of the bird Of freedom on Il
National coinage.
H.. Louisville asserts thst Cincinns
~ whisky will "kill ut forty rods around
corner;" whereto Cincinnati retorts, "n
If you drink it straight"
1a1 a A man in Rochester, Ind, pitched in
'eu young fellow who wouldn't pay Tor I
coal consumed in counting his daught,
an and came out second best.
sc" "A cahalislic plaeard on a book-st.
DOWN town auuOuuceg - Tuunarsa Wnf