Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-05


The price of vinegar is said TO be
rapidly declining. Probably on account
of the sharp competition in the business.
Puck. There must be some mother
reason.- Boston Commercial Bulletin.
First citizen-''Have YOU read Five
Acres Too Much |" Second citizen-"No,
but attended the Republican mass meet
ing last night, and am convinced that
Foraker's too much. IN Y. EoeaiHg
Post.
The odoriferous molecule of musk is
ininitesimally small No power has yet
been conceived to enable the human eye
TO see one of the atoms of musk, yet APP
| piled to the organ of scent il will make a
horse balk or drive a man to drink
Boston Post.
DR.. Sundstrom says that the elder duck
does not take her young during the summer
into the ocean, las is SO generally supposed,
but remains with them among the islands
ON the coast. The elder duck has greatly
| increased in the south of Sweden during
the last few years.
The only red-date palms in the United
States are said to be in Placer county,
California. The tree is native of China
and the fruit is highly priced by the
Chinese. They call the fruit chung
choy." The imported article sells at from
So to so cents per pound.
A favorite pastime in New Jersey is
gambling on the seeds watermelon con-
tains. Each player puts in 25 cents and
makes his guess, then the melon is cut
! and the seeds are counted, and the best
guesser takes the pool. Something over
600 seems to be the average number.
Before the invention of dry-docks the
Bleaching, or heaving down ships upon
their beam. ends by shifting weights or by
tackles made fast from barges to their
masts, was an everyday event The
laundering of the Royal George was due
to reckless carelessness in an operation of
the kind.
The original lease of the little farm
Ellisland, which Robert Burns tried TO
work in Scotland, and where some of his
choicest rural poems were inspired, is in
the possession of n gentleman in Chicago.
This document and the subsequent re-
lease which accompanied il are in Burns
own handwriting.
DIR. Venablc, in n paper read before the
American Chemical Society, has shown
that water passed through 200 yards of
galvanized iron pipe took up 4.29 grains
of zinc carbonate per gallon. The gnl-
yanized iron water tanks on the French
war vessels aud elsewhere should, there.
fore, be discontinued.
At Liskheard, Cornwall, man has
made for himself hat, coat, trousers,
cape aud shoes of rat skins. The number
of rats required to make the suit was go,
and the person, when thus dressed, up
pears like an Esquimaux. The cape is
composed of the skins Immediately around
the tails, containing about 600 tails.
A French physician, Delnunay, has
found that dreams which come to the
sleeper while on the right side are illog-
zeal, absurd, full of yivacity and exaggera-
ton. Those which come to the sleeper
who lies ON his left side are not only less
absurd, but also more intelligent. They
are apt to be concerned with recent
actual events.
The can ratherth heaxeappears to be
the pioneer of civilization, us there is not
mountain peak in Colorado, on the top
of which there is not tin can. Noun
tain climbers have habit of taking up
with them tin can to be left at the
summit for the disposition on slips of
paper of the names of all who ascend the
mountain after them.
1t is said cells leave the ponds in the
woods of Vincennes in large numbers
every spring, and are found struggling on
their journey to the Marine and Seine.
They take advantage of rainy weather,
when the herhageis wet, aud then instinct
guides them directly to their destination.
The same migration has been noticed in
the marshes of Picardy.
- In Kingston two little girls wished
much for n baby, and having great faith
in prayer, they took basket, lined it
with cotton and put it under the back
piazza, and then each night prayed
earnestly. As the baby did not come the
children have lost faith. 1t has been
hard for their parents to explain why the
prayer was not answered.
A London visitor thus describes the re.
ception given guests by Queen Vict.ria nj
luncheon at Windsor Castle: "When
the guests assembled there was no Queen
in the room. When the meal was half
over tho Queen entered, walked the length
of the table, spoke to each and pissed
out. Her manner is described as cold,
uusympathetic and naughty"
There is n mnn at Americas, Ga, saws
the RecO'Ttcr, who, when n child, lost an
eye. A cat was caught and while under
ehloroform one of its eyes was transposed
to the boy. After many months he found
himself possessed of perfect sight, being
able with his cats eye to see MS well nj
night NJ in the daytime. The pupil OF
the latter will expand and contract Ms
that of cnt.
. Small Boy--"Ma, do the people on the
Fifth avenue want horse railrond ?" Ma
mo, my SON." Small Boy-"Do the
public want one there z" Ma-"No, nv
SON" Small Boutwell,, then, there
will not be n railroad there, will there ~
Ma-"O yes, my son." Small Boy
Why who wants it there ?" Ma-"Mr.
Jake Sharp" Small Boy-''Does he own
the city," Ma-"No, my son; only the
streets thereof. "--1he World.
The most sanguinary bull-fght of
modern times was that just had at Mines,
France, in the presence of 25 900 people.
Frascuclo, famous toreador, was thrice
pierced in the thigh by bull which had
disemboweled horse. Six bulls were
killed. One of them flung picador over
the bounds of the arena. Seven horses
were ripped open. The ground was
covered with blood and the entrails of the
slaughtered animals.
Said rich guest to her gracious Union
Park hostess "The tea is most delicious.
| have never known its flavor equaled. VI
Pray let me serve you another dish. y
mo, thanks | can never drink but one
cup" Zone cup! Why, you remember
When Samuel johnson took ten with Mrs.
Ihrale, he drank Mt least 10 dishes. i
The lands l should think that would
have killed him long ago." gloom has
fallen on the literary circles of Union
Park.-C Chicago Herad.
Mr.. Cable, the southern novelist, give,
IN MS adhesion to woman suffrage by say
ing II our mothers arc not lit to vote
they ought to stop bearing sons Il,
,hlS brilliant logic, rs our fathers don't
bear SONS, they will bu deprived of the
right of voting, -4Ne,iciian Miss. Mer
cry MIR. Cable evidently means that
only mothers among women should vote
Old maids and others not mothers should
not be allowed to come to the ballot. box
-NeD Orleans PicnyuRe.
Wife Ito husband "a boy nj the doc,
just left this note. It's addressed to Won
and marked Present,'n Husband
present l don't know who could h,
sending me present. Did the bow brint
anything else?' Wife excited =" No
Perhaps the present is in the note. Ma,
be it's check Husband (opening tn,
note)-" No such luck us that fRend
ing) " HIN. Please pay boy nmoun
! due' This mint mn ,,rogy,,. MI A.