Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-08-16
HERE AND THERE.
Pineapples are only Ave cents in New

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York. ,....-
Men with one ear are painfully common
in ArkansAs.
voracious hordes of cats infest Central
Park, New York city.
The phrase s'as impossible as round
triangle" is Theodore Harker's.
Not one Newspaper reader in ten knows
there's big rebellion in Japan.
In Aroostook county, Maine, they still
have strawberries at eight cents quart
OF Princeton's one hundred and ten
graduates thisy syear, ,one-half mean to study
law.
Netts made Of real hair are an expensive
invention to keep the crimps and 'frizzes"
in order. r-.,
Texas beef Ia sold for fourteen cents q
pound in London, and for fifteen cents in
Galveston.
The travel to the White Mountains is
said to be about twenty per cent. greater
than last season.
Los Angeles, CAL, is elated over gusAer
that squirts one thousand two hundred
barrels Of oil day. ....
Silver necklaces in the form of flowers
and leaves are fashionable and costly, some
selling as high as $50.
The Newfoundland seal fishery for tine
season has resulted in catch of four
hundred and twelve thousand seals.
At Brighton, just at present, the town
has sheepish air. The best restaurateur
is Mutton and tho Mayor is lambda.
Farmers of the vicinity are visiting
Milwaukee, Wis, every day in search of
field hands, and Offering such $s per dhy.
Nature seldom makes a phool. She
simply furnishes the raw material, and let's
the fellow finish the job to suit himself.
josh Billings.
It is estimated that nearly seven million
pounds Of steel wire will be required to
build the bridge which Is to connect New
York with Brooklyn.
Since June first, 1876, twelve million
pounds Of dried apples have been exported
from this country-nearly twenty times Is
many pounds as the year before.
A four-year-old miss adds another to the
list of remarkable juvenile speeches. She
was asked where she expected to go when
her mamma died, and replied, ITO the
funeral, I sposc."
The aggregated exports Of petroleum oil
this year are one hundred and twenty-ono
million against eighty -four million gallons
last year. Over million gallons are daily
exported from New York.
One of the most heartrending incidents
of the great strike at Philadelphia was ..he
cutting of of the supply of Milwaukee and
Cincinnati lager. Drinkers were forced to
i,nbiha fho hnvnapnada ovttc1o
We read of Burdette of tho Haukeye
and Bailey of Dan6ury having books in
the press. We have book in press, also.
1t is called the pocketbook, and is pressed
for funds Whitehall Times.
A lady advertises in the Liverpool
Morning Post for the loan Of live
Colorado beetle for q few days. Sho
promises to take the best of care of the
bug, but does not tell what she wants it
| for.
Among the valuables that a burglar
found in Sacramento house was an active
bull dog, which bit him until he yelled,
and then held him until persons.
aroused by the noise, came and captured
him.
Send Moody and Sankey among tho
rioters. They will soon disperse them.
~ Y Herald, We don't believe they
could 'Hold the Fort" against 'Ninety
and Nine" infuriated rioters.
Herald.
Philosophers did wisely when they told
us to cultivate our reason rather than our
feelings, for reason reconciles us to tho
daily things of existence; our feelings
teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult,
the unseen.-Bul,oer Lytton.
A large burial plot in Mount Hope GEM
etery, near Boston, is completely covered
with flowers, 80 arranged as TO represent q
book lying open on the ground, with an
inscription referring to scriptural text.
Love may exist without jealousy,
although this is rare but jeslousy may
exist without love, and this is common, for
| jealousy can feed on that which is bitter
no less than that which is sweet, and is
sustained by pride es often as by affection.
Cotton.
The kind of verses that are read in a
Kentucky school exhibition:
'.1ao, my son. and shut the shutter
| This heard mother utter.
"Shutter's shut" the boy did mutter,
| Meg York Sun.
Logansport Qnd.) Journal head lines !:
Busted !"-There Was Mob tlia Strike
Made-Heres the Law that Bridled tho
Jaw of the Murderous Mob the Strike
Made-Three Times Three for the Brave
and True, Who Battled SO Well for Mo
and You-Enforcing the Law that Bridled
the jaw of the Conquered Mob the Strike
Made.
Dynamite has been used in Australia for
ploughing purposes. Holes from one and
a half to two metres deep are made in the
ground with crowbar, dynamite put in,
the charges connected, and exploded stimuli.
tancously by electricity. The ground is
well mellowed to the depth of the charges.
This method is, of course, employed only
in very tough places, and is very expen-
sive, but better and cheaper in the end
than the old way.
A reader sends us the following: What
is the reason that when speaking and
writing of the United States as o person.
,lity, we always say ''She?' Is it be-
cause Columbia is tho tutelar genius and
symbol OF the county, instead Of Uncle
Samp Most people think the latter claim
is better that the former. 1t appears to
be, however, Madame Columbia and the
Goddess Of Liberty against Uncle Sam
and Brother Jonathan. - N0T7ist0nn
Herald.
The total number of emigrants which ar
rived in New York during the month OF
July was six thousand, Ave hundred aud
forty-five. This il decline of two thou
sand, four hundred and thirty-four over
the arrivals during the same month Of
1875, and of eight thousand, Ave hundred
and one as compared with the total ar
rivals last year to August first. The total
for 1877, up to the present time, is thirty
eight thousand, nine hundred and eighty
two against forty-seven thousand, four
hundred and eighty-three for o similar
period in 1876.
On Wednesday party of Communists
called at the Office of Robert Law, the big
coal man. "You must pay your men So Is
day, or Wen shut you up said the
spokesman. sand who the devil are you,
sir?' demanded Robert. "We represent
the labor strike ana must be obeyed.'