Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-12-27

1t takes $4,000 lamps to Light NJ
York.
A Vermont girl has been arrested 4
beating her fsther.
The Lowell Coarsr calls them 'knl
plus Ulster" overcosts.
-Vassar girls carry on desperate a1l
lions among themselves.
A New Orleans man shot horse 4
driver for driving over his dog.
An exchange calls the cook aud !.
doctor ministers Of the interior.
The man who marrles a ChinaWouA
IN Montana gets IL suit of tar and feaaet
"A couple living in New York I'd
have been married for seventy four veal
do one who has any regard for I
own health will smoke before bieakiai
The enemies of James Parton reol
to know that there will be no paHin'
heaven.
"A woman Justice Of the peace
Wyoming Territory fined her husband
drunkenness aud paid the lne herself
A turkey being baked at a Cuc1Hl
hotel exploded the other day and scaltl
be cooks face so that be will be ugl
for life.
Sc Koo rswen Choo is the naioal
encyclopedia Of China. II Is not quite
pocket edition, as it numbers lGOO'
volumes.
"A young lady recently said that y
could marry any man she pleased \
only trouble was that she didn't plea
any man.
"A newspaper Office In western low
rents part of the Office for cheese ia
tory, aud thus exhibits double claim
The power Of the press.
Commercial drumwers are IS bad
ar mechanics. New York alone has d
Charged five thousand Of them. AdV'
Using has not decreased.
A Boston court has de2idel that .
woman lends money to her husband
cannot get il back. The decision "
not be- new to many wives.
"A Florida railroad engineer ran
train twenty miles In an hour, and
was discharged for recklessly cndang
Ing the lives of passengers.
Tie New York Herald calls It's
porlers representatives. aud
Chicago T''8.sS the gentlemen Who 81
its local Ink ambassadors
An obituary notice in Wes,ei
paper contained the touching intelligent
that the deceased chad accumulated
little mouey and ten children -
An " old citizen wishes 10 info
the public that there's 10 use trvl;t
break those iron coal hole cover by
ting down on 'em." lie knows.
To determine whether a man is dlu
OF not get him 10 say, "The scenery
truly rural" II he says, "truTal raI
you may put him down as drunk.
THE trustees of the late Sir Y. la
seer have decided 10 sell the whole Of
collection Of pictures. and they vii
disposed Of in the coming season.
The Chief Of Police of Mamp
has taken a census Of the "roughs
fluids that, Of one hundred aud lhirty't
all but three survived The epidemic,
A Philadelphia book keeper Cd,
the year 1872 To his column Of l-ul
and, as he conduit account for The
iiclency in receipts, he was arrested.
A man VINO claimed to be Jl
/ Quincy Adams, President of the Va
States, got weeks board aad ml
attention from Green Bay landlord
-Geueral Fremont has cancer Of
stomach, hut has, until lately, kept
llattcr secret from family and irler
His physician says that he cannot lis
year. 81
"A Danhury woman, hearing tina
former neiehbor, who had once tried
lnlnre her. had been seen in New Ha'
Inquired with burning ewes ard chez
what did she have on"
The 81, James and Grand q
Hotels in New York are 10 the hand
receivers, their proprietors being ba
rupt, The affair Is said TO be the
growth OF the recent panic.
A pious old lady being aske5 by
pastor what she thought Of TIC dOct
! OF total depravity, replied ehe thOugl
u most excellent doctrine, and had
doubt it bad been the means Of SAY
many souls,
The British Prime Minister Gladst
and the philosopher Herbert Spen
have been INDUCING in an iHtellec
tit. Gladstele thinks Spencer b
many of his theories upon utterly ms
cient grounds.
! 1t is stated that ore Of the Win
ton bank robbers was a graduate Of l
and vet he did not succeed as well in
I burglary business as some men who
never been inside of college, No
oWn Hsrdld.
"A Titusville paper says man ca
/ at one of our shoe stores yesterday
vainly essayed to get on either NUM-
II, - or IS shoes. The stotekeeper
suggested that he should put on THU
pair of stockings and try ON the box.
Two Americans did honor to
land Of their birth by cheging up
programme in q Berlin theatre
throwing them at the actors Tor wi
playful eceentricity they were eye
from the house.
That is a good story of q little