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

Darwin is Oh.
Father Burke is still poorly.
California has five gold banks.
"A trying business Soap boiling.
-Incendlaries are swarming Texas.
Somebody send bell-man after Mast
Time is telling or the Empress Of
Prussia.
--"Honest John" is a street in Evans
VILE, Ind.
Brazil has 1900, 900 slaves, but Fash
lon has more.
"A Baltimore saloon is shingled With
oyster shells.
Bret Hare Las been parodied in a
London book.
There are ten poems Oh snow to one
about slush.
The most frequented watering places
-Horse.troughs.
Cincinnati street lamps cost the city
S33 each year.
"A mermaid wriggles her llnuy tail in
Los Angeles, Cal.
-"Roost-stripper' Is more polite term
than chicken thief.
Sleeping cars are to be run between
London and Liverpool.
AT Scranton whisky is mildly adverted
to as "damp gr0ceries.1
-"Wanted, a buggy-boJy maker" is
recent advertisement.
Evansville Ond) pall-bearers offer
their services at 81 an hour
Browning has given up dinner parties
for the sake OF his new poem.
Physician man expected to recon-
cile health with intemperauce.
"A Chicago German advertises a sbasc-
ment to let On the third story"
A Muscatine, Ia, dog ate S. bill,
but post mOrtem recovered IT,
"A Chicago tailor offers wedding suits
at 10 per cent. OFF until March 1.
A st. Louis girl advertises for the
man who saved her from drowning.
The Michigan rats are using the frozen
friths Of Lake Superior for migration pur-
poses.
A Kentucky horse thief speaks seven
languages, writes three more, and walks
Spanish.
The Chicago Tribune includes quack
architects and builders among the danger.
Gus classes.
Besides Beechcr's $4,000 salary, he
makes about as much more yearly editing
and featuring.
Alexander Stephens has recovered
enough to make two hours speech.
A Maine paper reports a midnight
performance by cats as n Thomas concert.
A well-bullt woman is probably she
] nf the ala buetar uanlr rb1 4
arch expression.
1t was Julia Ward Howe who said
that an umbrella, like a good ehurchman,
always keeps lent.
Madame Jenny Liud Goldschmid
lately sang in the choir of the American
chapel at Florence.
james Tyler, aged 1916, was fined S.
recently, IN Chicago court for beating
his own son, aged so.
Honest farmers in Iowa hl ducks
with water and let them freeze before
taking them to market.
The Rev. John Tecumseh Jones. an
Ottawa Indian, has left 100000 TO the
Baptist Church in Kansas.
What's the difference between the tor
OF monument and song for one voice I
Ones so high, and the others solo.
The difference between sealing wax
and women, says Reuben, lie that one burns
TO keep a secret and the other to tell it.
The foreman Of Georgia jury refused
TO render IL verdict until he had a guarau.
tee that the fees of the jury would be paid.
Luther Lamb, Of Winslow Me, lately
celebrated his golden wedding with his
third wife. He has raised a flock OF hf-
teen lambs.
Wild cats are so plenty at West
Hickory, Pa, that a young lady who has
not full set of 'catamount'' furs is
ashamed to go to church.
A man in the West lndies claims to
have discovered tree from the iruit of
which juice is obtained which will make
the toughest steak tender.
Fools continue to rush in where angels
fear to tread. The Honorable Ignatius
DOnnelly is lecturing 10 Minnesota upon
what he terms The Authorship of Shake.
speare."
1t having been given out in Memphis
that Charles Dillon had fallen heir (,
Sl2,000,00O and an earldom, he was imme
diately elected con table, so much do We
worship wealth and power
"A lad in Michigan did not believe
half the stories he heard of nitro-glycerine
and kicked "A can just for fun. lie has
learned to hop about on one foot quite
well, but has given up base ball and tag.
Sheridan, when soliciting the votes OF
the Ehoemakers of Stafford, nightly
offended the obtuse sons of Crirpin by
proposing a dinner: "May the trade OF
Stafford be trampled under foot by all the
world"