Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-12-10

bring so and rs cents for the feathers.
A natural bridge has recently been dis
covered in the Tonic Basin, A. I which
is 200 feet long, 500 feet wide and 40
| feet high.
The Baltimore l. Ohio railroad station
in Philadelphia is TO be after the plan OF
that at Charing Gross, London, with
| fine hotel at one end.
| A Somerville, Mass, teacher punished
little boy by making him hold red
pepper in his mouth. Burns were caused
which resulted in illness and death.
Paper is now used as material for pic
ture frames. The pulp, mixed with glue.
oil, and whiting, is run into moulds and
hardened, after which it may DO gilded or
bronzed in the usual way.
A stage line that was established 100
wears ago is said to be still in operation
between Skowhegnn, Me-, and Quebec, a
distance of 200 miles. The stages (six
, horses) leave both termini every morning
1t would seem that Nut6eld, in Surry
county. England, is the most healthy spot
in fine world, as the rector has announced
that, with population of ], 200, only one
male died last year, and he was 50 years
old.
Two men seated themselves on large
blocks of ice in Americas, Ga, early
this fall, on freeze out" One of then
hunted warmer quarters after sitting II
out As minutes, and the other contestants
got the belt.
Within the century ending in 1927, a.
persons died in the town of bingham
Mass, aged 90 years and upward. Two
of these were crItenalinns. The com
piler of these statistics himself died II
lSl7 in his 9lst gear.
1t is calculated that there are in Canadi
from 10000 to $4,000 lacrosse players
5000 curriers', 1000 snow. shoers, 5000 o.
1000 cricketers, 1900 football players
LOO rowing men, 900 base-bal.ists ant
1000 bicyc!ists.
II i Il curious commentary on tn
alleged impeeuniosty OF tile Englisl
landed gentry that they manage to sup
port us many puclls of hounds as ever, evei
!. In those counties which are asserted TO b
:, The most distressed.
e There appears to be an agreemer
d among recent medical writer's that waite
Il is tattening, ur al least fnvors fulnet
and roumdness of the body, II shout
a be drunk at its natural temperature an
% in considerable quantity.
lie The Ossergdt0re Romano states as IL
d results Of the estimes made by the var
it Gus missioners that the total number
ID the members of the Roman Cathol
church throughout the world is betweC
p 275, 900, 900 and 100000, 900.
T, A druggist Of Lancaster, Mass, h
W taken II contract to keep the stately o
III elms of that town free from canker worG
y for year at % cents per tree. The
" are about 400 of the trees III all, and il
~ does not succeed he is 10 get no none
~ A donkey which there seems eve
ha reason to believe was more than hunar
ee years old died lately at Cromerty, Sc,
~ land. Since 1878 it had heen in
~ family of u MIR. Ross, and how old it v
ri when it came in that family is not know
ok A new hypnotic rethan has mt
AN its appearance. its discoyerHr belle
as that ,it agrees with the patient" .
ID "produees II sleep closely resembl
ten physiological sleep" But they say tn
use things OF all hyinotics whilst they
zen new.
the It gives notion of the cost of TO
travelling in the lust century that the
of George ", ut The Hotel d'Horscai
Namur, for one day was 5000 fra
(s6Ol 500 The head waiter received
rue charge at the tut,ic d'hote ut
NJ, titde was two francs.
mn An editor in Kinsior \. O., whodoc
rA object to good produce iu lieu of I
subscriptions, gives emphatic and poii
notice that he sill draw the line Mt "
10 year.od ROSTERS which some
scribers have been in tho habit of pas
on him for chickens.
n ar If there be something indicatiN
last the philoprogenitive temperament no
his able in Mr.. Swinburne's poems, it mi
issue accounted for on the hereditary the
y IN His ancestor, Sir John (temp. CHI
e ~ L.. ind 80 children by his wife, da
row, ter of Mr.. lawson of Broush.
10 of II is estimated that Connecticut
,rous pay moro rev nue. tax upon cider BIZ
'lo Ls this year than upon all tue tobacco
o,n- dustrics. lii western Maskach1
thousands Of barrels Of apples lie 10
il and on the ground, though M enorl
say to quantity Of cider was made.
,Y ~ we In formally putting out his sfing
would Boston, genuine Chinese ply sicia
uring lieyes he has adopted the desert
d ne phrase in vogue among the most enl
nority ened portion of his contemporaries.
nagis- sign reads: "Dr. Lee Sing Sung.
c ,han, cure diseases where all Others fail
Ilated A large pelican was shot ON san
TO the A., ,l-t,,,,..,, ,;,.,,,. ,,,,, NV;ob;to !,
measured feet from tip to tip
ces MS wings, and which IN life stood 6 feet
licans Its bill had capacity tohold two g
politi- of food. Its feathers were two i
9 sec thick, and capable of turning off
u tthy shot.
n and A cltizen OF Geor9la hai
hen II arrested for fraud i'll selling him
les. ration for preserving the scalp, d
the use of which he lost all his hair
the uuack escaped. II did not pref
retail he said, ''to sell you Il preseryati
,ebeen the hair, but for the scalp. Your
lectric remains intact, does it not 2"
oE t IW9 Butte City, Montana, has popu
Itisfac. of 5000, 1000 to 5000 of whol
lderful employed in the mines at $3.50 pc
in this while fully as many men are idle.
4 CON town supports five daily newspaper
~ use brass and string bands, and Is gan
~, mIt establl hments, four variety theatre
s"15 hy one opera house, which are doing 0
Shipley ing business every night.
The French minister of public ii
ton is doing all he can to put pr,
on large families. An old law
Convention has already been re
young whereby every ninth child of
either is educated free, and now it la,
trt was decided that in the case of the lyc
lething high schools, the fees should be T.
lliantly when several brothers attend.
matter Prof. A. Landmark, director
Norwegian fisheries, has studied til
Q these hilities of salmon to jump waterfall
z meant has seen n SALMON jump IG feet |
because tlicularly in the DRAINS river,at Hau
re pros where two great 'mlsts have been
OF that across the river for the studyof tn
llemnly of the salmon, so that exact measui
'ald she may be effected.
Sc they Speaking of the triumphs of
AL. lie surgery, n writer points out n nul
ut door men now walking around in the
le shock with ouiy n fractional part of thei
tive organs. Some are referred
being without q spleen, or havir
| AS single kidney, others lack gall
and several meters of intestines, v
'pcs' climax is reached by ''the man W
stomach
The moderation in drinking p
,sitS 's s by their American visitors tells he
Nh great the profits of the great hotels in
Z" various and other cities frequented b,
One proprietor felt that he ha
cause for complaint when Mr..
Chinese engaged an expensive suite of 70
six weeks, and yet drank only TIN
ings and sixpence worth of wine
viii make the time.
,xt year. II is comfortable to know,
J. London Daily Neaos, speaking
oldiers fashions, that the needs of small