Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-07-26
NO. 80
II ERE AND THE RE.

A filthy age-Garb age.
Carl Schurz is at Vienna.
-" Fire escapes"-Volcanoe
Cattle and girls gore dresses.
Glass bonnets are advertised.
-MacMahon is always smoking.
"A popular beverage ginger pop.
Jean Ingelow writes before breakfast.
Flying isonkeys are Florida novel;
ties.
Dana has been sued for sun-dry
things.
Agnes Ethel's clothes are worth
$4,000.
-Thitty persons make a county In
Illinois.
Balloonatics are unusually plentiful
this year.
Green apples have been decided a
cdslis bfHi.
People who pay cash belong to the
nobility.
The Bank of California employs
female clerks,
The dog tax in Washington Territory
Is S25 per pup.
jay Gould sells ice cream in Cynthi-
ana, Kentucky.
The idea of transatlantic balloonIng
dates from 1874.
An alligator recently stopped train
of cars in India.
An ex-Quakeress leads the ton Of the
Prussian capital.
More women than men are employed
In making paper.
Chicago wants to father dancing
school for orphans.
White wines are the chief portion OF
Germany's vintage.
Some tailors are never oYer-worked,
though they seam 30.
A cat epidemic is making nights
pleasant in Tennessee.
charleston is rejoicing over her first
lamp post letter boxes.
That old joke about Amos Quito Is
going the rounds again.
The Danbury Ns,Os man will be out
with a comic almanac.
The Khediye eats off Of dinner set
studded with diamonds.
An accommodating saloon-keeper an
nounccs Irish lager beer.
In Texas ice costs five cents pound
and beef costs three cents.
St Augustine, Fla, is to have a
grand bull-dght next winter.
"A young man who never told lie
has been engaged by Barnum.
Long Branch has inaugurated a new
beverage, known as "Sea.slder"
"A floating bath. house is to be erected
in the Schuylkill river at Reading.
The Duluth Herald invites the Shah
of Persia thither with "his harem."
The last census of Palestine shows o
total Jewish population Of 1898 souls.
"A Berks county man reaped bis rye
field with the old-lashloned sickle last q.
week.
-" Promiscuous and variegated va
grants" is what they call loafers at
Omaha.
If you want TO make drunken man
sober, hold bottle of hartshorn under
his nose.
"a San Francisco paper recently headed
It's leading editorial, "The Truth, for
Change"
ALI Omaha farmer went out TO dig
horse radish, and struck kettle contain
ing $1,000 in gold.
Brewers will be glad to learn that
hops" are very plentiful this season, at
the seaside resorts.
Ulysses loitei ed on the Beach several
thousand years ago, bat his last name
wasu't Grant, then.
- can fit you with rosewood
cotiiu," is a standing advertisement In a
Corydon (Ia.) paper.
"A well-known circus proprietor gives
all btbles named after him a perpetual
free pass to his circus.
"A New York lager beer saloon keeper
oilcrs huttermilk aud sacred music for
Sunday entertainments.
-ihe ceremony Of marriage among
the Florida Indians consists in handing
the bride an ear of corn.
The depot of the p. W. & B. R. R.,
at Ridley Park, ia the handsomest In the
State. Philadelphia Herald.
"A deposit of asbestos, in the vicinity
T of Lowell, Mass, Is said TO cover space
OF nearly twelve square miles.
"A New Yorker, having had one felon
on his finger, felt another coming and he
, cut the digit OIL with hatchet.
: An Indianapolis, Ind, negro threw a
4 dead snake across a woman's shoulder,
D and she tainted away and died.
e A good ego OIL '-to 20 of as soon
D as you iind yourself not wanted. This is
I one Of the great secrets OF life.
Mr.. Moses Dupont, Of Holyoke,
!. Mass, and his twenty-three brothers
have between them 322 children.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tiscr calls the 4th of July the "safety
valve of our national condenser"
j. A local journal complains that in
DrlNNH aNHHI In F1aan go
> stolen with aggravating regularity.
The famous "Continental Dam" Is
= not worthless but cuts OIL the outlet of
q Loon Lake, MINI, very effectually.
II 1t is the Kate stoddards and Charles
{. Goodrichs Of society who write matrimo-
e NAL advertisements-Neindrk Register.
?. The appearance OF a fashionably-
hosed lady crossing muddy street Is
that of a zebra standing on its hind legs.
!. The girl of the period does not OBJ.
a iect to love in cottage, when the cottage
/, is at Long Branch or Newport, and costs
e 1900, 600.
&c Fine conelias are found among the
b pebbles on the beach near Peseadero, Cal.
1t Some of hem are said to be worth from
le S25 to $40 apiece.
Il -Rutlaud's (vt.) big elm is 100 yeart
= old and measures 20 feet in circumference
Dr two feet above the ground. The top II
Is l2O feet In diameter.
"A "A mansion in course of erection 10
No New York will contain croquet gallery
'd The carpet will be green and the wall
.. ffescoed with summer landscapes.
San Francisco "hoodlums" I'LL key
holes with powder, fire crackers, etc.
. ring the door bell, and light the fuse Jus
" as somebody comes to open the door.
d. Justice Hunt, OF the United statel
ne Supreme Court, perpetrated but one jokl
OF in his life. 1t was at Canandaigua
Is, when he asked II she had "anything v
ne say"
~ -"Mamma, this is very old butter,
M said a little 3-year old girl at the break
lIs fast table. ''What makes you think 50
~, my deari" because 1t has gray hairs /
ue iii"
he -"I'll pay you for these drinks-it'
lst my treat" were the last words Of
ng stranger who was picked up MORTAL
ed wounded from a railroad track near Fol
Wayne.
Lafayette, Ind, has street cars, bu
they don't make money, owing to th
he habit which the passengers have Of lyin
a down on the seats. Each car can onl
! carry four men.
Its "A lady at Pottsville fell asleep Il
". church one evening recently, and was no
a discovered until hve o'clock the mex
il morning, when she awoke and her erie