Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-26
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a patent for an Improvement in bicycles.
A number of colored men have organ i
lied anoyster packing company at Annap-
oils, Md, the first in the state.
pio Lewis ruys that wearing large, thick,
heavy boots aud blue hand knit stockings
will improve woman's complexion.
George Barnes, once famous as the
mountain evangelist of Kentucky, is now
o missionary III India for the Church OF
England
An American has been appointed by
the king of Corea to be chief farmer with
a view to introducing our vegetables into
that country.
A single ticket from Boston TO Denver
and return was recently sold i'll Boston
for ", 4Sl. 1t carries n pnrty of nine III
a special car with stop-oyrr privileges.
Encouraged by government bonus, the
people of South Austrllia IRE planting
trees very extensively on their wide
plains, and with remarkable success.
The skeleton Of man was recently
found in the Dead River region of the
Maine backwoods, fast in bear trap,
where he had starved to death.
DR.. Albert Thompson, young Irish
| physician, has been presented with the
| Albert medal for removing poison in u
case of diphtheria by sucking it away.
Bobo, the chimpanzee lately brought to
Paris by friend of De Brazza, the ex.
plorer, has died from the effects of the
unusually cold weather which set in early
| in the fall.
A census of the homing pigeons IN
France is TO be taken this winter, in order
that the war department may know how
many can be depended upon for use i'll
case of an emergency.
English entomologists are excited over
the addition of new butterfly to the
British fauna, making total of Go
| species. The species is IIycena argiades,
a common dweller in southern Europe.
In Santa Clara county, CAL, there is n
rat, allied to tho ground nest making spe-
cies, which climbs small trees and makes
compact nest of twigs among the
branches, something after the manner of
gray squirrel.
The Duke of Abercorn, who died the
other day, was the senior Knight of the
Order of the Garter, position now held
by Lord Granville. The vacant stall will
l pTODuDlJ US given W luo lhte Dhhe hOu-
in-law, the Duke of Buccleuch.
A London project is to make plates by
photo-engraving of the American illus
trated magazines, print them OIL q common
quality of paper, and get them on the for
eign market at half price within four days
after the issue there of the originals.
Twelve life prisoners in the Kentucky
penitentiary work at chairmaking. Not
one of them is under six feet in hight.
Eleven of them are ex-Confederate
soldiers. They are all industrious, ODE
dent, submissive and accomplishing.
Fresno county, California, is, almost
twice as large MS the state of Connecticut,
J four times as large as Delaware, eight
times as large as Rhode Island, just the
+ size of Massachusetts and exceeds the en-
! tire state of New Jersey by an area Of
, 500 square miles.
A man gave himself up to the Alleghen,
police authorities few days ago and as
serted that, having disposed of stock o.
. counterfeit money except one lead dollar
t which he had, not because he did not tt.
. to pass it, he was now ready to suffer fol
the offense.
The telephone has been Introduced int
" many of the hotels and cafes of Belgium
: and guests are allowed to make use of
= without extra charge. Under the cir
:. cumstances the user makes point o
= ordering some refreshment, SO that tn
= proprietor gets his money back.
n The American ornithologists' Uniol
a officially recommend that all public fot
4 tering of the English sparrow be stopped
Il that its Introduction into new localities
4 prohibited by law; and that all existin
Il laws for its protection be repealed, an
d bounties offered for its destruction.
IS Philippe Daryl, French essayist an
y critic, says of Oliver Wendell Holmes
h Everybody who speaks English on til
n planet has been enjoying for the pa
W thirty years the superior productions {
II this Boston Frenchman. And yet IL
r. Latin world remains ignorant of him."
IS An eminent Methodist minister tol
~ the editor of the Christian Allocate tina
d when preaching once at the Sea Oh
camp meeting, he was so annoyed by tv
ut clergymen behind him on the platfor
10 talking about lots and bargaining abo
n lots that he with difficulty refrained fro
III denouncing them.
y An expert who has examined the sixte,
4; bronze cannon owned by the state of Co
= necticut reports that he found but o.
/. gun in servicable condition. Six of d
- pieces were found TO be absolutely da
~ gerous from straining or honey combinl
n four of these form the armament of one
the batteries of the National Guard.
ne 1t is said on good authority that ju
ee before the outbreak of cholera in Toult
ne the swallows suddenly disappeared fro
q the locality. An officer in the Beng
!, -SGsssx.slrv said in reference to this that dI
"a ing a cholera epidemic in India he b
ne noticed that, though many of the dead ]
NO manned unburied, all of the carrioi-efG:ti
as, birds had disappeared.
ell The Greeks devoured the flesh of {
hedgehog. When it has been we'll fed
af- is sweet and we'll favored, and the file
| is eaten in many places in England q
nd on the continent. An American gent
me man, who partook of this dainty, steve
lly on the other side, says it reminded hin
ed, great deal of quail.
NE An investigation of Sunday labor
;. Carroll Wright shows that while the
Llss placement of rest by recreation has vas
w increased in America, thus making VIC
&C. for those concerned in transit and OIL
lsl- means of pleasure, no fact can be p
ler duced to support the statement that
un mere toll for wealth occupies any m
tne' time on Sundays than it did century O.
- A writer from the tea districts
~, northern India defines the differ
ora varieties of tea as follows: The v
.ad coarse tea remaining after the first sift
md (Which ends the "making'') is cal
a. Bohea, and the second quality Soucho
| Flowerv pekoe il the vary vouno, ahf
~ with down on it called the flow
Facing" tea is simply cooking it in
iron pan, by which means princip,
green tea acquires its color.
The great English universities ope
this autumn with large numbers of
the matriculations There are 610 freshI
the at Oxford this term, as compared v
first $40 at the same period last year. I'll
the are Sc at Christ Church, 40 at New
arly lege, and AZ ut Balliol, where the Col
as q Hall has been enriched by very
Uses. new organ, the gift of the master. TT
red. are Al freshmen at Keble the newes
ears the colleges. At Cambridge there are
one freshmen, Trinity College heading
week list with lT9, while next come st. 10
cut? (S2), Caius (5i), Glare (54), and /
|. ! broke (53).
own Bisulphide of carbon, NJ. Pas
ound thinks, will become the most eficae
then of all antiseptics, as it is also the cheal
'ay costing but fraction of penny
COM pound in large quantity. It is like
wing the best insecticide known, and for
that purpose may, it is thought, be usua
lett preserving woodwork in tropical c
nto tries. Some idea of the use II is air
saw put to may be gathered from the fac
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