Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1883-12-20
HERE AND THERE.


ny plece VI notei mlnce pie railing on lts
foot.-N. y. Nail and Express.
There are 5000 ballet girls at London.
II you go there don't bother yourself
aoout 4 .999 of them.-Boston Post.
10 school in Nebraska novel custom
has been introduced. The reading lesson
lie given from the daily papers upon sub.
jeets OF Importance on the news Of the
day.
Bright electric lights of the New
World" is what Mes. CORVALLIS West
call9 the American photographers. Mrs.
West, by the way, is deliclously pretty
woman. Boston Post.
man who has been west and seen
how the aborigines dress1 and behave
says, I'D like to have some one tell me
what III re is reserved about an Indian
reservation. " Commercial Advertiser.
Isaac Sprague, the living skeleton, has
been married seven times. The cares of
family, of course, will reduce mans
weight, but the care of seven successive
families! No wonder the poor man ID b
skeleton HurDud POST
Tue days of fabulous rates of interest in
California seem TO be past. The savings
banks III San Francisco are lending money
on mortgages ut per cent. and paying
the mortgage TAX, and yet they cannot
hnd market tor more than third OF
their money.
A recent return of the Financial Board
OF Cambridge University puts the in, once
OF colleges ut 81 |, l56, 900 Trinity has, tn,,
largest, over S23liOOO; MAgdalen thu
smallest, S23, 5OU, The colleges con-
tribute go, 900 10 the common uulveIsit!
nd-t~oaud d quarter per cent, about
AT Bicup, in England, recently a girl
aged I, died from Inflammation Of IN,
oralu, brought on by oVerwork at school
The medical utfi Ter Ill reporting the cas-,
strong y condemned THE practice of max
lug young children do nome lessons IA,
night. He SAID it worried them and maa>
them restless In their sleep.
The Venus of Milo will not be seen b.
visitors to the Louvre during the mex
twelve months. The dampuess of tn
loom which 1t of late occupied has neces
STATED alterations, and meanwhile tn
statue, in three fragments, IL deposited OF
a bed of straw. A cast of it, however
has been placed in the Llcaze collection
A writer to the London Morning PJs
says that, except IN tine leading streets,
ID unsafe to walk In Paris ut night uu
aimtd d, or without taking very good car
10 keep suspicious people NJ distance
be adds that the streets are now badl
Kept and badly lighted. The writer EN-
phstlcaliy denies the ayerment that tn
city is safe.
Among the notable bridges in the worl
| 10 ana NJ I,unUapu in china t. arnaa.
An arm of the China sea. The structur
is some five miles long aud has not les
than 300 arches. Over the pillar of eae
arm reellnes lion made out of a singl
block of marble and yet twenty-one fee
long, The roadway of this bridge is seN
enty feet wide.
Work is to be begun this week on th
great canal that is to irrigate the San Ln
valley, in southern Colorado. Tho CAM
is to be seven miles long, and al the TO
tom sixty feet wide, and there are to b
many lateral canals from it-all to irrigai
800, 600 acres of land now almost wortl
lsss Several colonies are to be organize
to occupy this land. -.
I'm thoroughly disguised with ever,
body, 4" said cynical fellow. what
wrong noT2" asked friend 'Oh, ever
thing! Why, I don't look in any direotic
that don't St fool 4" '1udeedl The
. why don't you throw the mirrors out
your room? I'd have some comfort, eve
If 1 didn't get to see myself for g
= months "-He,chInt JiGreiier.
AT the installation of the lord may,
Lord Coleridge, referring to the new la
courts said: ''Ws have to receive you (
= day IN a building which, speaking as
- free citizen of n republic of tasts, is,
- must say, uncharactt ristic, uuat :racti'
aud announcement Fortunately for po
r. Mr., Street, the architect. he ID beyor
4 the reach Of criticism, having died befo
the completion Of his work.
Ia the neighborhood of Agra, in Indi
sixty-tve children from u few months
four years old are stated to have been ca
ried off by wolves during the recent h
weather and the rains, The ravines be
u dering on the Iumms ard Clumbul rive
~ are inf 9sted by these animals, which a
" parently become more daring year
rs year The British government is offeri
rewards for their exurpstiou,
:, According to the calculations of the Il
> giAu Association with regard to the abu
- of alcoholic drinks, the annual cousuu.
- 'iou Of spirits is now y aud that of be
j- GA mr. mr. inh.b,tt,+ mo .1,,r.
n ,,hopt one and three nnar.,rs = ,uii
= puts The sun spent aunuslly N 1
'l pubic houses is estimated at AS 600, q
l' fraucs. The retail liquor trade is y,
~ fectly free IN Belgium and anybody G
n open public house where he pleases.
~ Milan and Tnrin arc DISTINGUISHED 4
III thar .vo.llent schools of which a rama,
" snta fantnra is tba .,+acbm.,,t ~ o,,,,,
N sums for Informed cbildran Tbs ev,
rise. rsopira car.frI aoinstn,ept IN ,
dtfferari rnsos bnt tbn system is fouDd
III h.. Wv s,,ccessfnI Il, ona school n,,.
IL 15p nat,.,,ts r.ce,y.d durirg tbo ,,,
y. fnry-fuur were completely cured fife
no left partially cured aud most of the
20 meirdsr we're reported 10 1T way TO
., cured
'ii AiItba d;f;c,,t,Jos rasnoo,i,,,, tho ;,
I'D ,,.yp tn.L,,, Mps.,,T, ~, 81 ~ :
lie 'ns,.r -sr,ovad T., ,sca,'t -.
I'D g,,,s ,yn,,.n ,Lo' .no,or ~ Shaei ia /,
ad Mn NJ R,,k,,, tha iattar r-a,,irn,o5
liill w,tI,nynss. IN vsst tba bu,Idinns and
az ca,t',ta in trnstees for the tnwn md
.. ,,lay lb, r,pssrm ~ be erscted ,nr
v'. s,rer rba csr,ra IF the tov,, ,bsn 10
on is,lus mo- ouarantee fnnd NJ ~
ina. 5.e,, ohta,,',,d n, .ac,,ro ti,a
nd ,t, now ,,,,s,,,n,
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'r' sSa I'll ~tA'lh III Il eIaua LAS Ut
,n- more r4plu man tne u cfeaSe u Popl
ID. tion' "a 100" 'ne Wehl'h OF EntiAuc
- h'n VAS qua 10 ~" heaui III ls i"
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