Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-30
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The P0polo Romano lately printed the
following advertisement in English: "a
Roman gentleman wishes to marry
English, American or German lady. Very
serious affair. Apply W. W."
Henry Sigourney, of well-known
Boston family, has married one of the
coryphees in the ballet of Boston
theatre. Mr.. Sigourney is about 80 years
old, and has an income of nearly $50, 600
a year.
The following notice appears in a
Georgia paper: Il wish to inform the
people that will close out my bar by the
last of April, and now is the time to have
your jugs filed to use for snake bites.
Come q once. A good lot of whisky on
hand"
IAN ideally pure water" said Prof.
Willis G.. Tucker, in an address before
the Albany Institute, the other night,
SHOULD be clear, colorless, tasteless and
odorless, though little such exists in
nature, md these properties are not
necessarily proof of purity. Water may
be as clear as crystal, and yet carry
typhoid fever from hamlet on one side
of mountain to jewellers nn the other,
~ in the celebrated case ut Lausanne,
| Switzerland"
Abouta year ago an English gentleman,
| travelling in Germany, came across an
officer employed in experimenting some
| details of military railroad transport. He
had been captain during the Franco
| German war, and had allowed his COM
pany to be surprised. After being inn
prisoned for Is months he was placed in
the military railroad transport service,
and told that he was never to receive pro-
motion. Being surprised by an enemy is
the one objectionable sin for the Germans.
Nine. de Kalomine, the divorced wife
of the Grand Duke of Hesse, who is now
known us the Countess Czapska- Romrod
has left Dresden, and will probably settle
Mt Florence or Naples. II is understood
that an arrangement has been made be
tween the countess and her late husband
and that she is TO receive hnndsom,
allowance from the Grand Duca
Treasury, while, on the other hand, nj
papers and correspondence have beef
given up, and she undertakes not to re-
turn to Darmstadt .
Sir Peter Lumsden, who hns waited il
by no means comfortable quarters nen
Herat through the dreary winter for hi
Russian colleague, Lessar, until remoi
strnnces for his non-appearance could II
longer be delayed, is well qualified h
ability and experience for his preseI
position. Born in 1929, and entering til
! Bengal army in 1919, he has continue
since then to see nctive service in lndii
He hns served on the Northwestern
frontier in numerous expeditions, on
political commission in Afghnnistan, j
: central Indian military operations
. 1858, and in all the army grades upward
DIR. John j. Moran attended Edgt
! Allen Poe in his dying moments. Il
now writes that the habit of intemperanC
did, to some extent, cloud the poet
early life, but not his later years. Poe
constitution was such that he could IL,
{ become a drain-drinker, and for fol
l. years previous to his death he was pc
Il fectly temperate. His death was cause
Il by ill-treatment and exposure sutfert
y from party of Baltimore roughs, wi
). caught him, cooped him up, drugged hiI
= and voted him during I'm excited electiO
1 In attending him during his Inst Hines
l. DR.. Moran saw that his patient gave !
n signs of n debauch. He refused glass
Al spirits the day before he died.
z, The report of the superintendent
:, public schools in Boston discusses t
n experiment of manual training for boy
!, Two hundred boys, from 10 differe
r, public schools, have been under instru
IL. ton in carpentry two hours n week sin
September. They were selected by I
masters from among those IA years
age or older who had the permission
their parents to take the instructio
1.-The experiment has already gone
o. enough to prove that work of this Xii
can be Joined to the ordinary grann
school work with good effect, y says
D superintendent, and he advocates I
o making of provisions fer industrial ira
ing for girls ms well ms boys.
The Baltimore appetite for terrapin
of recent growth. Thirty years NJ
with the hardest kind of labor" say
wv dealer, ~ succeeded in selling 81
worth of diamond-back terrnpin Mt fro
$S to $40 dozen. III the season viii
closed on the LIST of April | sold o.
100000 worth, and my sales would hi
reached half million if / could hi
gotten the terrapin." There are seve
methods of catching the terrapin. On
by dredge, another by ii seine, anotl
by a net, and still another by thr
pronged stick. With the latter the catcl
prods in the mud until he feels somethi
move, and then he reaches down for
diamond-back. The element of luck ent
Oh largely into terrapin catching, but exp,
ence frequently shows where they IN
abound. Good catchers know
creatures peculiarities, and when Il
discover luxurious growth of WI
cress they lie low for their prey, Ms t
is sure to prove terrapin feeding grou