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

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BieaR, m Dam
New Landlady-No, boarding house.,
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The instruction in Mexico seems to be
| rebellion for revenue only Pittsbttry
Chronicle.
A French paper, lie Ooarierde LOndreS,
has just appeared in London.
Germany devotes 9, 000, 900 acres to the
| cultivation of the potato. The yield last
year was 23,000,000 tons.
The population of Oregon, acco riding
/ to the county assessors, is 204 900, being
an increase of 28,800 since 1880.
A rustic visitor to Burlington, VT,
spent Thanksgiving Day on the horse rail-
way, making the trip of four miles %
times.
A reef known as the Culaberas, sixty
miles from Tonga Island, in the South
| Pacific, has become an active volcano 800
feet high.
As soon as q man gets perfectly ia
miliar with his own name he begins to
write it 80 that nobody else can read it,
Chicago Telegram.
Mrs. Leland Stanford's collection of
works of art will be presented to the city
of San Francisco and placed in q building
in Golden Gate Park.
"It is absolutely impossible" said Lord
Rosebery in recent address in Scotland,
THAT in the future war, would ever take
place between the United States and
England"
The man who receives the most letters
day in Washington is not the President
or any member of his cabinet, but q
pension attorney, whose daily mail fire.
quently numbers 500 letters.
Stephen Bennett of Montpelier, Vt,
has a greenback stained with blood that
was in his sons pocket when he was
killed in battle 21years ago.
A Chicago street corner lot that was
bought 80 years ago for less than 80 900,
, has Just been leased for SO years at an
annual rental of 1886, 900. A 10-storied
building, to cost round million, will be
erected upon it.
! The Prairie du Point levee, near Eas'
Carondelet, ILL.,, just reaching compile
| ton, will protect 10000 acres of choict
I bottom lands, the flooding of which las
summer caused the loss of $500, 900
This levee will cost $12, 600.
9 During the recent cold snap at st
0 Louis mon were watching along tn
!. levees all day and night ready to step o.
the ice the moment it was able to bea
. them, and stake out "claim" to an are
a for cutting. Such claims are always re
spected.
Ordinary army signalling, by wavinI
flags or torches, can transmit only Il
! words or 30 a minute, spelled out b.
q letters but an adaptation of the Mors
4 Geographic alphabet, now generally EN-
!. ployed, has more than doubled this rat
! of speed.
ri Judge Hilton wishes to know if, whei
the Early Closing Associations have &C
+ complished their work on the shops an
It manufactures, they will tackle the news
Ii papers, and if they do 30 and are success
}, full, where will we go for the news in tn
morning?
d The late M. Bailliere, publisher of som
r of the most important of modern Frenc
medical works, personally conducted hi
n business for nearly 70 years, and woke
is until within few days of his DEATH
lie his seth year-although he had becom
te blind during the latter part of his life.
n Cardinal Panebianca has just died i
Us Rome at the age of n. He was not
/. Society OhTulnhit no no hfou hnAo ht>
Is slept on the boards, his board being ais
IL simple bread and water, with morsel c
70 cheese now and then by why of luxur!
He despised riches, and has died rici
10 It is believed that in 10 years Yanktor
d. t., will be an inland town. In fror
of the city, where the river ran 20 fet
deep five years ago, there are now IL
m acres of land six feet above high watt
mark.
al The physicians of Sanford, Florid
It. have signed an agreement not to visit an
,n patient who will not pay their bills 9
no the first of each month. Those failit
nv will not be attended until the bill is Sc
e. tied.
ed An object of public curiosity, near Ne
To- Philadelphia, Ohio, is man who new
er shears the wool from his sheep, or pluc
he his geese, or ''rings" his swine. He SO
int it is sinful to interfere with nature. II
own hair and beard are never shorn, n
ity are his nails cut. Every utensil abo
of the farm is home made.
he The residents along lumber flume
the mountains above Chico, CAL, have
novel way of getting their mail. It
started on q raft from the head OF
fiume at regular dates, and the peoI
to below watch for it, take out what belon
nd to them, and then send the raft with
ing precious cargo on the way.
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