Daily Republican., 1883-08-13
STATE AND PENINSULA.
News I'm Brief from the Towns and
villages.

| V1luoGeos
The neighboring towns are still an
noyed by the festive tramp.
Crops in the lower part of Kent Coun
ty are suffering greatly for want Of
rain.
John Mckee, Of Christiana, Del, re.
Gently threshed q acres of wheat that
averaged 40 bushels to the acre.
DR.. Lober, ,an old and highly esteemed
citizen of Newark, has been seriously
III, but was improving when last heard
from.
The Rev. A. j. Snyder, of Christiana,
Del. has declined the call to the Presby-
terian church at Orbisonia, Huntington
County, Pa.
1t is stated that the work of extending
the telephone wires to New Castle, Mid
dletown and Smyrna will be commenced
at once.
Mr.. Frederick Wilndolph, of Dover,
returned home last week from trip to
Germany, much improved in health.
He had been ailing for some time.
The Railroad force in the yard and
Offices at Clayton now amount to TWEEN.
ty-seven men. Tranps outnlrmber
them by the hundred.
Revs. j. b. Qnigg, j. A. Brindle and
A. ID. Davis, and w. G. 7. H. w Nor
row will be present at the picnic meet
ing in the Camden camp woods.
The Smyrna Record on Saturday con
tained an illustration Of the new school
house Of that town. The building is a
handsome one.
Leong Pok Hing, President Of the
Sam Zip Chinese Company, San Fran
cisco, Cal, endorses the great pain
banisher st. Jacobs Oil.
Personals.
Oscar Wilde arrived at New York
from Liverpool on Saturday.
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, is
passing he month in Holland.
Miss Mary Anderson will begin her
London engagement on September 3.
Theodore Thomas will give concerts
in Milwaukee this week and on the 22d
he will sail tor Europe.
Denis kearney was greeted by a
ubhGl upLFlI Vi duuCIVu'S vi HlS an
val at San Francisco the other day. He
had lost his hold.
j. A. Ubsdell, who has been appoint
ell to the Annapolis Academy from st.
Louis, is a grandson of Captain James
+. Eads, the engineer.
NJ. Talbot, ex-societaire of the Come
die Francaise, has accepted from Ma.
dame Bernhardt the place of stage
manager of the Porte Saint Martin
Theatre.
Senator Butler and family have start
ed in covered wagons from Ashevile'
IN. c., to explore the mountains
as far as the summit of Mount Nit
chel.
Ex-Governor John D. Long, of Mas
sachusetts, is travelling through the
White Mountains in his private ca
riage. He is accompanied by his wife
and two children.
S. R. Stoddard, of Giens Falls, N. Y,
has started on canoe voyage of two
thousand miles along the New England
coast to gather material for volume
similar to The Adirondacks.
Som eth Ing About Summer Drinks.
The Medical News in recent issue
says
While protesting against the cur
rent abuse of iced beverages in hot
weather, which we feel bound to do from
observation, and experience of their bad
effects, We should recommend more
temperate and rational employment of
ice. 1t is not necessary that fluids
should be cooled to the freezing point in
order to be acceptable; the ordinary
temperature of cool spring water is usll-
ally as low as can safely be drunk in
summer with due regard to the stom-
ach Soda water as commonly sold may
be not much better than poison, as it
too often is contaminated to n danger
GUS degree with copper, as stated by
correspondence our last issue. Koumyss
ought to be more popular as a sum
mer drink and fresh buttermilk, or
sweet milk and Vichy water, would be
very acceptable, and at reasonable
temperature, not injurious. Sweet
cider in moderate quantities, genuine
raspberry vinegar, lemonade, are also
grateful and refreshing. The only OBJ.
lection to lager beer as a summer drink
is the alcohol which it contains. The
great desideratum for a popular summer
beverage we should consider to be one
that shall have the pleasant bitter taste |
of beer without the heating effects of
alcohol. The bitter is a pleasant tonic, |
but in this form the drink may be re-
garded by some as too tonic"