Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1874-02-28
HERE AND THEIR E.

Iowa has built 1,946 schools In two
years.
Wisconsin is making ane imported
cigars.
joaquin Miller continues to amuss
London.
-whitelaw Reid is not engaged to be
married.
-AGrand Rapids woman keeps seventy
ive cats.
Bavaria kept 5,9l7 brewries going
last year.
-Perambulatlng prayer meetings are
increasing.
Missouri legislation costs seven doll
lars a minute.
She said it was the wortht walking
she ever "thaw."
The ex-King of Neples lives In the
outskirts of Paris.
WHO says that Chang and Eng were
q singular couple
cincinnati has just turned eighty-one
and no wrinkles yet.
-Talmage now prays for those who
sit In editorial chairs.
The New York TribNns's circulation
Is set dawn at 10000.
Mrs. Stowe has taken up the cudgels
for Irish servant girls.
--Towa's 100000 dogs sacrifice $4,000
worth CT sheep year.
"A grandson of Benedict Arnold re-
Gently died In England.
pennsylvania is tue only Stats that
makes knitting needles.
-Irregularity In meal times will test
the most amiable temper.
"A fist Weighing FIVE pounds Double
it and it will ten, wont il
-"There's raisen in everything" as
Pat said of plum pudding.
1t is stated with authority that
Washington wore false teeth.
"A New buryport won an and her ten
children weigh, together, ton.
The cost Of the L'udon underground
railway was el, 600 QUO per mile.
--lI$ barrels beer to each inhabitant
is Lancaster's yearly production.
Mrs. Partington always arose with
the shril note of the chat dtller.
"A little old maid says that the small
est women look hopefully to Hymen.
1t is suggested TO frame the pictures
in the rogues' gallery in gilt frames.
-Fuur new paper reporters are ckndl-
dates for the Nova Scotia Legislature.
California has opened a watch factory
in Sacramento with capital of million.
The Chicago Times says; "The new
year found no unied mouths III Chicago"
An Indiana man was fined Sl4 for
immo1erate laughter al public enter
tailm,nt.
When is a scolding woman most
of-euceivel When she's as deaf as u
post, and rails.
Ii tailor agrees to put braid on a
coat, does he always consider the agree
ment binding
The City Marshal OF Davenport, Iowa,
has sued 2193 free and enlightened voters
/ for their poll tax.
Tho Jersey City man who proposes
rats as an article oil food, is getting rats
| from all yirtuous people.
Princeton, H., has limited the num-
Der OF its liquor saloons to seven, and
charges them $3.50 license.
"A Nevadi postmaster has written to
Washington to know if he can rent part
of the oflice for a faro bank.
"A letter containing 81, 500 in bonds,
but no address, awaits the owner at
Brooklyn On. W postoilice.
"A man won a horse in a Worcester
rsfilr, and within week it cost him u
fine Of $50 for cruelty in driving it.
The Leugle brothers, eight in mum.
Der, residing in Dauphin county, Pa,
average SIX feet four aad-a-half inches in
hight.
The Tpencrschs zsit,ng says that
throughout mis- recent illness the Emperor
William has not taken q drop or grain of
physic.
The Duke of Hamilton has got to
put up with S200,u0O a year. This Is
unfortunate for maH who has Just been
married.
Charles Lamb, when speaking Of one
of his rides OF horseback, remarked that,
"all at once his horse stopped, but he
kept right on"
"A Michigan newslealer recently re-
ceived this order from young lady ;
"Send me A Novel called buffalo bill and
the dals doins."
"A little boy at his first concert lnno-
Gently asked, when a singer was encored,
What's the matter, mother-dinn't
she do itrlghti"
AT the recent sale Of the effects Of an
amateur instrument collector, ii. Hans
mann, of Hanover, violin by Stradua-
rius went for e32G.
"A Detroit female OF Just twenty five
was married to her tifth husband lately.
All the gentlemen are alive, aud the first
four are doing we'll.
There is a man at the Kittery Navy
Yard who has whistled continuously for
nine years, and why somebody has not
killed him is mystery.
Last year, a man lost terrier dog in
Paris, and few days ago found the ami
NAL in New York. How the dog crossed
the Atlantic is mystery.
-" Came to his death while being bit
Oh the head with long handled stewpan
. in the hands OF his wife" was the verdict
in recent case ia Illinois.
"A lady who was not a Shakspearian
) scholar hearing the "Merry Wives oi
, Windsor" highly praised inquired lhoW
many wives Mr.. Windsor had.
, "A girl, hearing her mistress ask bel
husband 10 bring "Dombey and Som
, with him when he came home 10 dinner
,, set TWO extra plates for the expected
+ guests.
, DR. Livingstone says that the Vic
/ toria Falls, gu the Zambese, are siI
, hundred feet wider than the falls of Mia
CARA. lie had better not tell that TO al
| American.
e Over twelve hundred bills, mostly OF
: private claims, siand on the calendars o
= the House and Senate. 1t Is estimated
S that a hundred millions of dollars would
l not meet the demands.
= --Beu Montgomery, a colored citizen
{ pays un annual tax Of S2,447 on " Hare
Times" and s'Hurricane, the two forme
!, Plantations of the ex-chief uf the eX Con
= :vderate States, in Mississippi.
! "A lady recently asked at the Britisl
J, Museum il they had a skull OF Olive
n Cromwell. Being ans weryd in the uega
4 tive, " Dear me,' SAID she, 4" that's YER
i. strangei they have one at Oxford"
h An old negro woman in Kentuck
r was heard TO exclaim: " Thomas j, flel
o son, you and James Madison come int
u lhe house, and bring Abe Lincoln alon
Is with you, or I'll reach for you suah."
y MIR. Newton, of the British Museum
y has gone to the supposed site Of ancien
Troy to inspect the objects dug up b
(. Professor Schlieman, which are believe
r to include tue treasures Of King Priam.
t. Smith has a novel way Of putin
!. things to his young folks. He says
u "Dou't catch cold nor get the measle
P and such things this winter. Times ar
is so hard we can't afford a funeral" Smit
4, ought to be Congressman or an au'
VI tioneer.
u, An Indian doctor in Washlngto