Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-28
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The wife Of IN English baronet adyer-
hses in London papers for the place of
companion.
F.of. Baird says TINT a fair estimate Of
the annual product of the American
fisheries would not fall far short of
800, 100000.
The late King of Spain is said to have
been heavily insured in United States
offices, presumably at extra heavy pre-
miums.
The divorce cases in Lane county, Ore
gon, for 1885, outnumber the list of mar
rlages twelve to one, according to the San
Francisco Bulletin.
The Oldest editor in Connecticut is A.
=. Burr of the Hartford Times, who has
been ct the head of that paper AZ years
before which he was on the 0otoant
Stoke Park, Windsor, England, the old
Penn place, and associated with Gray's
Elegy, has beon sold, after being months
in the market, NJ a low price to local at
torney.
The butcher bird a small spotted bird,
resembling the common mocking bird, is
the foe OF the domestic canaries on the
Pacific coast, aud destroys numbers of
| them.
London has 67 hospitals, with 6,58S
beds, and 56,493 patients are received
annually. The number of out patients
treated during the past two years exceeds
| 10000
| Trappers in the towns of western Mas
sachusetts have been unusually busy this
winter. Muskrat skins are worth from
% to S5 cents in Springfield, and good
fox skins sell for 81.
An experienced vocalist has, it is said,
during IA years cured any number OF
cases of obstinate cough by prescribing
the free use Of raw oysters as n diet. The
remedy is easily tried.
The Vicar of Masham, England, thus
concluded sermon to his flock: "And
now, friends, which is it to be-Salisbury
Churchill and heaven, or Gladstone,
Chamberlain and hell2"
A bank clerk in Westfeld, Mass, has
ridden 5,056 miles on his bicycle, meas
ured by n cyclometer, during the past
six months, and challenges any one to
produce an equal record.
The Materia NIedica of China requires
IS huge volumes, named Pan IsO, TO de-
scribe it. 1t presents 1855 formulas,
and includes over 1900 substances oil
supposed medicinal value.
| Asbestos cloth has been chosen as the
Jacket for the boiler of new locoulu-
tive built for the Boston II Albany rail-
way. This will not char, as does wood,
and will retain more heat.
1t has come to be q common practice in
| Irish hu1lfQ IN rart, tba nr,1uy1 ueoipSt n
horse that makes too free with his heels,
by tying danger signal in the shape of
red ribbon, on his tail.
Where post routes in Idaho are sublet
for a smaller sum than that by which the
contract was obtained, the government
now annuls the original agreement and
makes bargain with the sub-contractor.
The special collection of l,S40 copper,
wood, and steel engravings of Snake
speariana belonging to the late Richard
Grant White has been bought by Welles.
ley College, Mass, for its Shakespeare
library.
The most valuable postage stamp known
to collectors is said to be one issued by
the postmaster of Brattlebolo, Vt, ii
lS47, which was suppressed after n few
weeks. A specimen is now worth 5000 OF
$500 dollars.
The latest returns published by the
War Office regarding the twenty-four reg
iments of regular cavalry in the British
army show that for upward of 17,50t
cavalry troopers there are only abou
! 10000 chargers.
Gen. Lord Wolseley's appearance is de
cidedly efreminate, and when he speak
he accompanies each remark with nery
Gus halSe of the head. He is disposed
to be sociable, but is not fayorite will
the frank and file"
According to the Prog7e$ Medical,
method of treating rabies by inocuiatiol
was discussed in a .Leipsic medical Jour
nal as long ago as 1919, and the docto
recommending it was stated to be Cor
stantin Herring of Philadelphia.
j An immense number of sea clans, tor
, from their ocean beds and thrown ashor
by the late storm, line the beach at Ocea
i Beach, n. ]. In some places they lie j
! heaps two feet high. Farmers are car
ing them away for fertilizers.
Despite Vermont's stringent fish-pro
Q tectlve laws, some sealawag depopulate
> one of her lakes the other day by explod
i ing quantity of dynamite underneat,
the ice. Every fish. apparently, wa
: killed.
3 Connecticut has less than 900 mile
9 of railway, but these carried last yea
seventeen and half millions of pas
sengers of whom only twelve were il
8 jured. The passengers traffic of 1888
a was almost so per cent greater than tina
Q of 1884.
A peddler in Derby, Conn, fell into til
|. water the other day, and would hay
y drowned but for the timely assistance {
/ two young men. Glowing with gratitude
the peddler opened his pack and gave t
! each a lead pencil This was his modes
self-valuation.
d A severe storm delayed funeral part
in Buffalo church the other day. I'll
> delay finally became so protracted tia
, the undertaken petitioned the organist i
voice that was distinctly heard by al
'to please give us IL little music to Will
q away the time.n
D A fight occurred in farm yard ut Star
: ley, n. j., n day or two ago, between
], mare and bulldog. The mare finall
killed the canine by falling on it, but ha
to be killed herself afterward on accoul
e of the injuries she had received durin
r the encounter.
OF the Duke'os Seville, who has latel
y made himself conspicuous in Spain, it
I said that he once went to ball without
! crayat. The reason was that Just befoi
e dressing he had dismissed his valet fl
! insolence, and did not know how to tie
e cravat himself.
- There is steady growth il the use ,
! the trawl by our fishermen on the Ney
a toundland banks and SO greatly has til
; implement been enlarged and perfecte,
j that some schooners now set as much
Il fourteen miles of trawl at one time. wit
= twelve or fourteen thousand hooks.
d Lily Macallister Laughton, regent
T. the Mount Vernon Association, is said
have 1.-THE smallest and most perfect
le formed foot IN America She once On,
st one of her slippers to Il charitable fgi
re where it was rallied for. The lucky nu,
as Der was secured by a gentleman, wi
lie used his prize MS watch case.
lie Wire or fbrous nails are coming in
h use, and are claimed to be, in some /
lie spects, quite an improvement upon Il
W ordinary cut nail especially on the SEQ
"a OF tenacity they are not only tough b
SUM- anu Will penetrate nard wood Whe
~ cut nails would break sharply off
g. become badly crooked.
r The French Minister of Agriculture
7 about to establish several experiment
:, farms in various parts of the country,
~ order to show the peasant farmer wi
40 can be done in his own locality. Il
y; yield of cerealsi in France is little more tb
"a one-third per head of the agricultu,
u; IN population of what it is in England.