Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-19


the earth went tip over.
james R, Randall, who wrote 'sMy
Maryland" when he was 20, is about to
publish his first collection of poems.
"a chair OF matrimony is talked of al
Yassar college, OF course il will be a
big rocking chair, strong enough to hold
two.
W. O. Bryant has been expelled from
the Ithaca Masonic Lodge in North Star
Mich, because he proclaimed himself al
agnostic.
There are said TO be co, 900 waltharr
watches sold in England every year. and
the Elgin company are going in for
share Of the trade.
Three young Cuban ladies' who hat
been studying pharmacy in New Yorl
recently opened n drug store in a fashion
able quarter of Havana.
The consumption OF Gsh in Grea'
Britain has considerably increased (ai
shown by transportation statistics) sine,
the great Fisheries Exhibition of 1888.
The municipal Authorities of Rome arr
removing antique works of art from thu
open air and substituting exact reproduc
tions The antiques are placed in tn,
various museums.
An attempt to punish IN unruly boy il
Holyoke, Mass, school last week
brought on such general fight that the
police had TO be called in to quell it, and
the teacher and two pupils were marched
of to the station house.
Masses of deep-sea coral, many tons in
weight, which were torn from their ocean
bed by the volcanic explosion in Sunda
Straits two years ago, may now be seen
two or three miles inland, whittier they
were borne by the tidal wave.
The Indian names of Boston, according
to Prof. Horsford, are Accomonticus,
meaning ''Beyond-the-hill- little-coye y
Messatsoose Massachusetts, "Great kill
mouth !" Moshanwomuk, "Canoe place"
and Shawmut, Near the neck"
Watches may be sent for testing to the
Kew Observatory in London, and GER
tificate of excellence will be given; but SO
extreme is the accuracy required that no
watch can be marked first class which
varies as much MS one tick in $4,000.
Half of the boys in The Dexter, Me-,
high school use tobacco, and whisky
bottles are passed around among them.
A Dexter school girl smokes and swears
in public. These cases were up for con-
sideration NJ a resent local teachers in
stitute.
neutrality-suspicious. in the Russian gov
ernment workshops have demonstrated
the fact that the steel guns for the heavy
marine and coast batteries cannot be
made Mt home, and that, as heretofore,
these orders had better be given to the
Krupps. .5...=. 7=...-. ..-
eff you should allow me ga per week
on which to run the house, she said, as
they sat together in the twilight, "aud i
saved So per week ont of that, what
would you say?" Say? Why, I'd say
you ought to run it on leyen," he
growled, as he lighted the gas.
In Germany the inspection of pigs for
trichin,e is more Thorough than is gen
orally supposed. The Medicinische Woch-
enschrJt states that in one year there were
established in Prussia 20.G36 official in
| specting stations. Out of 1000, 900 of
the animals examined, 1000 were trichin-
| GUS.
The painted rock of Santa Barbara
county, CAL, is $50 feet high, and upon il
are many color paintings in good state
of preservation that are thought to be the
work of Indians. There IRE two caves in
this giant rock, one at its base and another
some GO feet up, and in each of these are
| pictures of animals.
The Germans have nearly stamped out
smallpox. In the years 1S7O-1874 the
number of deaths from the disease pei
| 100000 inhabitants in London, Paris,
Vienna, Prague, and st. Petersburg was
| 1O1.O5. In Berlin, Breslau, Hamburg,
Munich and Dresden during the same
period it was but LA.
| Bromley, You never heard such an
eloquent sermon before, am sure. There
was no tagging of interest. Such brilliant
passages" Yes. Darringer, l admit
that. Still l slept during one of the
| passages" "You did, ell Why, Bromley,
what passage was it z" "The passage Of
the collection basket"
| The Rev. Mr.. Mangasarian of Philadel.
phia says it is possible for man to be a
Christian without believing that Jonah
was swallowed by whale, but the story
about his being thrown out on dry land
after few days sojourn in the interior
department is what wrecks the credultt,
of man. N0rriStorn HeTaH.
Old Block has a l4-years old chip
PA, said he, the other day, "Ive mad,
up my mind where l would like to go t.
college" "Aha," replied his father
land where is it, my boySn ITO Vas
sal" said the precocious child. "Humphn
calculated the proud father ''darned if
wouldn't like to go there myself"
Ready for the fight: Two men ridint
on railroad train. One of them buys /
hook, and after reading it for awhil;
throws it down, turns to his chance com
panion, and says This is the dulles
book ever saw. It is a fraud. Ia liz,
to maui the author.-What ure you tax
ing of Your coat for ~ II am tn
author"
| The French government would like Il
give the army the privilege of wearing
boards. but feels the necessity of frs
consulting several high military author
tiles, as the opinions on the subject ar
contradictory. Meanwhile the press fall
back on history, and finds that the con
querors of all ages were about equal
divided between the shorn and the un
shOrn.
Two young men of Confluence, Pa, re
Gently made a wager MS to which of theI
could suck the most eggs. One of ther
disposed of 40 aud the other IL. An
yet Boston still has the eifrontery to clair
to be the home of couture" An Amer
can Westminster Abbey cannot be estal
lished too soon for the accommodation q
such superior talent as exhibited by tn
Confluence young men, nristo,o
Herald. ....= e..
" George Jennings" % Andromeda
offers a summary account of Oxford b
an American lady; 81 know OXFORD
What struck me the most in Oxford-f
an intelligent foreigner, you know-wf
the length of the days in summer and th
extraordinary ignorance of the undel
graduates. And it seemed the more SUI
, prising because, with those endles
twilights, don't you sect one would sui
pose they had time to learn everything
Saw a man yesterday who has MAJ
e $4,000 this fall in wheat Saw anoth
y man about 10 feet behind him who tnI
me how lie made it. His wife Inherit
r SlO,OOO in cash. She wanted to donb
or lose it. Husband was perfectly willin
e She gave it TO him 20 invest in wheat m
. she lost it. Instead of investing n doll
e he placed the whole in bank, and has Il
l certificate of deposit in his wallet to-da
l Speculative wives are now firm and
| good demand, -DetrOt Free Press.
e THE man who cheats his Printer
l Out Of Il single cent
I viii never reach the heavenly land
o Where old Elijah went.
4 He'll never gain admittancc there,
But be by demons driven,
And made to loaf his time about
Outside the gates of heaven.