Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-12-17

The population of Paris IL said to be
increasing at the r~te Of 20 per 200.
Willian.s College has now 25a under-
graduates, Sc Of whom are in the fresh
man class.
Tie latest popular song in Australia is
taid to be "Straighten the Toes of Ny
Buried Leg"
Mrs. j. Saith, P. Mrs. is the way
tile new postmistress in an Indiana town
writes her Official name.
Russia hays 80 400 doctors, Of whom $50
are women. The dentists number but 500
and the pharmacists 1900.
Senators Blair aud Frye are said to be
the only members Of the upper house of
Congress who are teetotallers.
Robert Steele Of Philadelphia has
bought for $22. 500, from L. l.. Dorsey Of
Louisville, the trotting stallion Epaulet
One of the curiosiiics Of Oxford is
much-admired portrait Of Fuller, an
eminent painter, taken by himself when
drunk.
The recent batch of Austrian life peers,
IA, included u cotton spinner, the director
of the state printing office, and three pro
fessors.
An octogenarian attendant ut the recent
English Church Congress said that he had
only heard one sermon against wer
in all bis life.
November was month of unusually
favorable weather in the fox-hunting dis
tricts of Great Britain and the sport was
extraordinary.
Bishop James Duggan is said to be re-
covering his reason under cocaine. Fl
has been in the st. Vincent Asylum in
Chicago for fifteen years.
A million dollars, it is said, will weigh
| IL tons in gold, 90 tons in subsidiary
silver coin, 2Ga tons in standard silver
coin, and 100 tons in nickel.
During the last ~ months Mr.. G Muller
hns received for his orphan homes at
Ashley Down, Bristol, England, Sin
| answer to prayer nearly $20S, 900.
Wildcat hunting is one of the success
full pastimes near Norwich, Conn, just
now. One killed the other day, after q
long fight with dogs, weighed 16 pounds.
Ralph Disraeli, Lord Beaoonsfield's
only surviving brother, has been made
| clerk of parliament tosueceed Sir William
/ Rose. The salary is $4,000 Duty, nil.
The King of Bavaria's debts are esti
mated Mt "a 100000, and it has been
arranged TO appropriate $500,000 a year
from the royal civil list until all his debts
are paid.
Otter hunting with trained dogs is still
fayorite British sport, Notwithstanding
that this shy animal is one OF the most
difficnlt TO preserve" in n populous
country.
Efforts are making toward restocking
with trout the Lea, near London, now an
exhausted stream, but reyered by anglers
because it was there Izalk Walton piled
the rod
Miss Smith, wealthy old Indy, who
died recently at Chapel Hill, N. O., be-
queathed 100 acres of land and 1925 in
cash to each of six of her old slaves who
are now living.
In England there are now upward OF
] 10000 blind persons. The proportion Of
blind people to the population of al
: European nations bears very nearly the
same ratio-1 in 900.
The necessity of maintaining, as a
present. Is palaces when Queen Nictorii
, resides but IN one, and that for onl.
| three months in the year, is likely t.
t occupy the next Parliament.
Liquid fuel is exciting much attention
4 in England. With view to its use Ia
! Russian Black Sea Navigation Compan.
r is building Il large fleet Of tank steamer
4 TO import petroleum in bulk
o The petriied skeleton of n whale owe
It thirty feet long hns been discovered by Il,
t officer of the Coast Survey on range Q
d mountains in Monterey county, CAL, owe
J. $500 feet above sea level.
y The exact expense of the funeral c
5. Victor Hugo has only just been added II
II and given to the world. l. amounts
1t 10l ,532 frames, $40 ,306.40. The chambt
r voted 10000 francs toward it.
se A mushroom described by a physical
d of Portland, Oregon, as having sprur
" up in n single night near his DOORSTEP
III measured twenty-four inches i'll circuI
lg ference and weighed l. pounds,
N The Paris municipal council has be'
e. discussing . motion iii favor of fr
~ pardon for all political prisoners. II
lie amnesty would, il is expected, inclu
as irinre KrapotlIine and Louisa Michel
h. Mine. Modicskn has sent TO The 4,
n Orleans Exposition doll dressed ny
uz own hands ms the Scottish Queen Maj
n The costume is an exact copy of her o.
dress in the Inst act of q Mary Stuart.
The botanist Asa Gray, whose Il
birthday was celebrated II short time af
has sent M autograph letter of thanks
's' each of tie $50 botanists who contribut
in to the memorial vase presented to him
It is predicted that moonshiniI
70: though still carried ON to some extent
M the mountainous portions of South Ca
1Ia lina,i is so beset with dangers that the b
mess will soon he abandoned altogeth
death certificate was so filled in
Chicago doctor rs to have it appear
had killed his patient. He wrote
." own name inadvertently in the SIP:
where the cause of his death is speciE
The Earl of Dysart who married NJ
Florence Newton few days ago. d.
FAX not come of age until he is 40, but he
lys nm allowance from his trustees of coo,
OF a yeGr which will be multiplied by fl
when he Inns his income in his own han
Inu The LTHCet announces that Pril
MS, Charles Theodore of Bavaria, who has
lis voted himself to the practice of medici
v" is expected in Paris for the purpose of
EN- coming initiated into NJ. Pasteur's rec
OF discoveries FOR the treatment Of hyd
Ter phobia,
,ow The nuch-ubused drug clerk is not
ing only person liable to accidents "
not poiaons, A recent case is cited in Je
red nerette, La, in which a father of
sick children gave the medicines
eX- scribed for each Of them to the OIL
rye thus killing both children.
lele Forty years ago 93 per cent. of Ill n
, as riages in England and Wales took pI
APP in the churches Of the Establishing
on Last year, according to the report of
our registrar general, the proportion of i
me riageS elsewhere than III the churches
Will risen from to 30 per cent.
nan A lineman who was repairing a wire
nee, top of telegraph pole in Palatka, /
mat a day or two ago, was precipitated h
ing long to tile ground by the sudden ST
ION, ping Of the pole at the base, but. STIR
Ms- to say, he escaped injury, and after tn
'YeI- a stinllllnt again set to work,
OWL The outrageous inequality Of Scnte
row, inEngland has given rise to the sugges
5eon that y board of revision consisting o
quite tired judges, s. ou!l meet once "
non and submit their report to the home
y 10 rotary monthly Of the cases in which
iiofe deem interference desirable.
may A dangerous counterfeit of Il 50
the piece, OF which hundreds Of thous
own are said "a be in circulation, is supl
ca to TO have btep made through the rnsc
y Mt Of some * employees Of the New Or
het mint Ii wa made with the ger
5old- stamp, is fine gold on the outside
mans filled with speltcr and plutina,
plrds Mime. Modioslla's son, Mr.. Ralph
ieska, according TO the London
JOlFHHi has received special Pam