Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-05-31
HERE AND THERE.
Rye is getting tall.
Our figure at Vienns-0.

Oysters breath easier now.
st. Louis claims colt with fms.
-Gounod is writing church music.
Lip service-teacups aud saucers.
"A 'bully" drive-The Boulevard.
Maine Holsters get smaller every year.
Smallpox still RACES in Washington.
"A serious tuna twist OF ones neck.
Figures don't lie excapt when cooked.
The dark blue (magazIne) is dead.
The harbor at Duluth is clear of Ice.
Rich but honest is a new way to put
1t.
The Khedive has eighty children, SO
far.
An Engllshmau has set Algebra to
rhyme.
Buck beer Is about times as strong
as lager.
| Coming to the surface for blow
the dust.
-"Modoced" is the popular name for
bald heads.
Field, of cable fame, is worth
q, ,0Oe, 900.
May Duke cherries won't be ripe
until June.
London is to have comic temper
ance paper.
Most women who kill themselves
take poison.
Enough, with most men, is always
a little more.
-Bright's disease Of the kidneys is not
always fatal.
Dubuque talks of running its town
clock by water.
One hundred thousand cows supp ly
milk TO Vermont.
Southern planters are preparing for
big cotton crop.
George Francis Train Is master of
twenty languages.
"A clock at Knoxville, Ia, hasn't lost
an hour since 1874.
There are forty German newspapers
In the United States.
Japan talks Of having q Universal
Exposition next year.
Life In brief-Man respires, asplres,
couspires and expires.
"A Hartford man has left $4,000 for
lame horse hospital.
Sediments make good emigrants.
They are sure to settle.
utilizing natures forces-Teaching
swallows to skim milk.
Kate Field is working at Hap
Hazard" It is a book.
Queen Victoria has outlived officially
twelve OF her Premiers.
How can man see the point of
joke when he Is the butt.
The United States raises $40, ,000,0 900
worth Of SILK per aunum.
--Ralsed embroidery on spring dresses
is novel, but takes money.
Vice President Wilson is engaged on
an extensive literary work.
The New Orleans Herald calls
Semmes q man Of Marque.
"A Poltsvllle citizen eau hoist hal
barrel Of sugar With his teeth.
Albany Is going to try to make its
bread In cooperative bakery.
Detroit, Mich, advertises for s'large
lumber of marriageable girls"
French druggists put anlidote labels
on packages containing poison.
"A New Orleans church lately had a
baby show to Increase its funds.
"A polecat dispersed Texas picnic.
They all went home mile apart.
Five counties In Iowa have female
superlntendents in public schools.
The stove which warns the capitol
at Richmond is over 100 years old.
An industrious convict OF Elmira dug
his way out Of Jail with a teaspoon.
Land in the burnt district of Boston
Is held at higher prices than before the
fire.
-Agassiz will be 67 years old on the
, 2Sth inst He has been % years in
America.
= The proposed removal OF the bars In
) the Mississippi Is not to stop the flow 4
: the liquid.
Strange there should be so much Bit
. terness in Louisiana, the land Of the
, sugar cane.
! Tho New Orleans Pieaysns puts the
/ lowest price of q Mississippi legislator at
! five dollars.
a "A clap Of thunder restored to con-
e sciousness New Orleans child laid out
4 in Its coffin.
Oxford University, England, is l 200
!, years old, and its annual revenues amount
to S1, 100000.
The MSS. Of Balfe, which his widow
: lately presented 70 the British Museum,
NIL Oh volumes.
n "A Western musical editor says that
d local singer " has magnificent voice for
a a fog-whistle."
It An illinois newspaper styles sensa-
It tional clergymen performers on the
,, moral trapeze."
Ie Judge Test, of indianapolis, ties the
= wedding knot for single test of the
u taste Of bridal lips.
y Whittier says be guards well his
~ friendships, as worth more to him than
- any conceivable fame.
,e The death Is announced of Herr
! Friedehart, of Stuttgart, the German
!. Translator Of Bret Harte.
ID The Marquis of Butte, the wealthiest
Is nobleman in England, is TO pay the United
ut States visit this summer.
70 George 8. Phillips, a writer well
" known by his pen-name of January
y searle," has become insane.
= Philadelphia dentists give their
Ia patients the morning papers instead OF
as chloroform.-M Y. Graphic.
he "A California lover, who expected
1v sack from his sweetheart, sold his good
will 10 rival for a waistcoat.
of The grand essentials Of happines
be to love, and something to hope Cor.
w Robinson, the circus proprietor, ad
mitted newshoys free until he found tbeI
nd were several thousand in each village.
e. An old border man says that In th
ne case of Indian troubles, whisky may b
OF set down as one Of the "aTticles of war
e1 The appartion of a young lad
~, driving dog-eart aud smoking cigarette
,n na astonished Central Park the other aftel
"a noon.
me "A Minnesota man lost a glmlet thrs
he years ago When he found II, recent,
err, Il had grown into a three-quarter inc
ted auger.
lg. The New York Graphic says that
vi, correcting children we should appeal
so the intellect before resorting TO the oth'
ar. extreme.
US Very fashionable ladies' find II Ia
sal possible to navigate Fifth avenue unle
ng they are towed by acknowledgement
o's spltE dogs.
ny The seleetmen Of New Englar
H. town have agreed not 10 make any repaf
KY 70 the graveyard sunless the occupant
80 complain"
"A Waterbury man has christened b
eon daughter Glycerine. He says II will
ras easy TO prefix nitro If her temper resen
M. bles her mother.
ltor The Columbia Law School, Of N,
,us- York, turned loose over q thousa
EN-. young lawyers Te,ently. There was
rest statute against Il.