Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28
Il IRE AND E RE.

gent4.
-Rushvllle, Ill, refuses to license bill
lizards.
Matilda Heron has nearly finished
her life.
-Oalifornia owes BlAhop KIpp s2l 900
back pay.
SENATOR Allison takes Europe In his
bridal tour.
Strawberries are dime a pound all
over California.
"A Kansas dog ordinance has a TOM
cat amendment.
ok sulkies are a popular vehicle at
Calhoun, Ga.
An umbrella man Is fishing for "Old
PIob's" place.
"A Gotham nabob has bought . q, 100
piano for his yacht
Only eleven watering places claim
Lucca for the season.
do not lecture myself; am married.
-DdnbTrV Rsics Nan.
II you want to know whether tree
is hollow or not, az II.
-Dundreary is goin e to England after
visiting Connecticut.
The Washington Critic is another
successful penny paper.
California looks with amazement at
a red headed Chinaman.
President Grant will honor PhIlAdel-
phia on the fiery Fourth.
Crops never grew so fast as now In
the vicinity Of La Crosse.
Newark, N. j., proposes to establish
general city hospital.
-"Love laughs at locksmithsI" Yes,
not at wedlock, though.
Gov. Austin, Of Minnesota says he
can't afford to be reelected.
A Mississippi editor threstens to put
mans nose In pareAthesis.
The Louisville Journal calls Beecher,
Tilton and Bowen, Covenanters.
Two Chicago men have contracted to
build the Canada Pacific road.
John p. Hale will SIMMER at West
Point, hoPiAg 10 beeeme haler.
Mrs Woodruff, 1t appears, has made
Hp her mind not to die Just yet.
The D1nbury News man has arrived
in Ban Francisco wlth.his scalp.
Helper, the Impending Crisis trlbe,is
bronzlng his vlsage TO South America.
Harry Palmer is buying armor In
Paris for another Black Crook dazzle.
Some London publishers make q
specially Of lying low for expired copy
rights.
"A dead baby was recently found
among the debris left upon a New York
| picnic ground.
The United States arsenal at Rome,
New York, is to be converted into u
knitting factory.
lis It dep-o OF dee-pO or dAy-po, or
an entirely different word in French . No
one depOses.
Boston proposes to make the tangled
wreck Of streets in the burned quarters
rectangled.- World.
A New York paper calls the extortlon
OF the gas workman "The Charge Of
the Light Brigade"
Terra Haute complains Of grinding
monopoly, there being but one scissors
sllarpener in the place.
The house in Murfreesboro, Tennes-
see, in " hich President Polk was married
is now used as a stable.
The working population Of the United
States is estimated at $4,000, ,0O0-one-
third of the population.
-O'kelley, when at home, is an amia-
BILE writer of art notices and peaceful
paragraphs about pictures.
At IL coroner's inquest witness was
asked, " What was the last thing seen by
the deceased - Kerosene was the
reply.
"A fellow was arrested in Philadelphia
for stealing fourteen drums. lie evl-
deutly wanted 10 make noise In tue
world.
"A Toronto journalist named Mullett,
has killed himself "because the world
refused him the fame which he had
earned F"
The Boston Tvdpeler says "horss
races sometimes by women" are novelties
presented al cattle shows. We should
tbluk SO.
Detroit has got a boy that dies tem-
porsrily for six hours, but he can't be
persuaded 10 miss meal in the cause VI
science.
Potatoes are now put through a
chemical process which converts them
into an excellent imitation of meeIschaum
uul OF which beautiful pipes are 70 be
carved.
. A thrifty sheriff In Indiana, when be
r has an idle jury on his hands, sets them
J to work moving the grnss round the
/ court house.
' A Cincinnati baby fell thirty hve
e feet from balcony TO brick sidewalk,
8 and il didn't hurt him bit, he was " 80
e lat and squashy."
"A Missouri girl washed all day,
made a supper of twelve boiled eggs, aud
then danced all night. The funeral pro-
cession was nearly mile long.
! chemical Joke from the New Orleans
Herdld-"If Jupiter had not married
Juno a chance would have existed fol
;. her becoming the 'Ox-Eyed' Of Mercury"
II a-Among the attractions for the coming
season at Nahant will be an even dozeI
Of the Harvard professors, half OF whom
n il is guaranteed, skall wear glasses AnS
C be bald.
"A Montana paper reports that tn
servant giils of Helena have struck 70
c eixty-slx dollars month, two silk dreasel
aid the privilege Of the parlor ever!
Sunday.
- "A worthy old farmer who was beinJ
"a worried in his cross-examination by
lawyer In Maine, exclaimed, Look here
Squire, don't you ask a good many fool
ish questions 2 "
"A Chicago college, pleased with Gl
Il more's jubilee efforts, having expressed
II wish 10 confer degree upon him, II ha
D, been suggested that Fiddle d. d. woul
nI be quite appropriate.
ii, Notwithstanding the fact that III
el recent tornado In Iowa blew the frathel
of off from poultry, we have yet 10 hear
ra single instance Of a wuman's losing b,
ne false halr.-St. LoHis Democrat.
ns Miss Owen, daughter Of Robe
~ ~ Fale Owen, who began TO shine as mal
Iy aziue writer a few years ago, has bee
ies compelled by the failure Of her eyeaigh
To relinquish her literary career -.
An Indiana Sunday. school .ms
writes 10 firm IN New York "Bei
le' me some sunday.school papers al
ly. books. Let the books be about plrat
ar and Indians as far as possible" ...
es Before falling eight feet upon a pI
ar, of stones, always take a reef In 20
Mn tongue. If MIR. Seller, Of Louisville, HI
taken this simple precaution, he wou
not have bitten of that useful member.
An exchange says; "When you p
bearheaded man following co
an ~ through the front gate, and filling the :
& "a with garden implements and profanil
~ ,'n you may know that his cabbage plaI
~ baye been set out"
to An Iowa lad, arralgned for aAssu
leir ing and batterlng his sweetheart with
aud kiss, was discharged by the Judge, "
said, " have been obliged to cling
the arms of my chair TO Keep fr0m XII
ng the com plainRnt myself"