Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-04-08
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Cornell University now has bU lnstfnc-
tors and officers and 635 students 239 of |
whom are freshmen.
Land in Connecticut upon which pine |
trees were planted few years ago, is now
| worth 800 an acre for its timber.
Dartmouth students petitoned to have
the college reading room opened on Sum
| day, but the trustees unanimously refused.
Mazzantini, one of the principal bull
| fighters in Spain, is candidate for the
new parliament of the town of Tudela
and is likely to be elected.
Sugar making has begun in Vermont
and promises we'll. 1t is predicted TINT
the maple groves of that state will
produce 10000, 900 pounds this season.
The Mayor of Chateauneuf, in France,
has been condemned to 80 francs fine and
100 francs damages for calling an Alsil-
tian Prussian. The judges held that tie
epithet was une injure
A line of souudings Just completed
across the South Pacific from New Zea-
land to the Straits of Magellan, by Com
mander Barker, L. 5. N. found 3,002
fathoms, near Chatham Island, the great
est depth.
Mexioans have passion for mirrors,
and a traveller says that the interior of
, some of the city houses look steamboat
. cabins. He remarks also that mirrors
, are among the commonest articles in the
pawnshops there.
The ice of Fresh pond, near Cambridge
Mass, is cut almost wholly for export to
:, India. A late fire Destroyed the ice houses
!, i'll which a supply was stored and the Hin
docs will have to cool their lemonade
with ice from some other lake.
e Young NJ. Pasteur, the son of the fac
d nous doctor, is pursuing a diplomatic
d career and compliment has Just been
y paid to the father by advancing the son
tothe rank of Second Secretary of France
at the Court of the King of Italy.
\ The London Times urges the establish.
:, ment in England of an institution like
&c our Smithsonian Institute, which owes
z its foundation to an Englishman. III,
- writer points especially TO the value i
n, would be TO students of authropology.
10 A new gold countryis said to have beel
IS discovered by shipwrecked Frencl
ed sailOr in Patagonia, between the Strait
ay of Magellan and the river Gallegos. Tn
ID man mad collected from the sands littl
| fortune when taken oil the coast by
he steamer.
A Bangor newspaper says that SO man
a fortunes were made by Bar Harbor M
~ Desert real estate spectators that man
inn of the adjoining islands and parts of til
ON sea coast are being bought up by capita
he lists in the hope that some day the spo
IN. will he in demand as summer resorts
i'm The Stamford Comet, in order to hoa
I'm some Norwalk newspapers that wei
no making too free with its news, startt
cd that story printed the other day of No
he walk man who eloped with his wife
lot sister killed his mistress in Missouri Al
hin then shot himself. II now owns up tn
for the story was lie pure and simple.
ice Maine newspapers report that game
- very abundant this winter in the well-sC
tied central district of that state. he
of 35 caribou, for example was late
was seen making its way toward Mount HI
eep ahdin, upon whose upper slopes the
&c 1 animals find moss of which they a
lief very fond.
A man in Nova Scotia is preparing
u tow to New York next summer mammo
HuR raft of logs, spars and sawed lumb
ntly aggregating about three million feet.
3 {, Of length will be 40 feet, its width 3d. a
70 its thickness 30 feet. II is pointed at b,
SEES, and stern, and will cost 800 900.
ical A Smith county, Kansas, hunter (
sri- into an old dry well, 40 feet deep, 0
ms, day last week. He was not hurt by I
49, fall, and at once began trying to get {
'"H' by cutting steps in the sides with
pocket-knife. At the end of "a hou
when he was discovered and rescued,
eem had got about half way out.
IA laFe A st. Adams youngster, who is
med fayorably disposed toward Sunday a
and day of respite from play, was told
i isrd Gently that Sunday was Gods day a
cold that il was meant for day of rest
and then asked "What does God do 81
ents days ?" On being told that he rested,
e. youugster said "And does he have
sit in chair all day ?"-Messeager.