Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-03-11

Irving has not yet seen the advance sheets
of General Logans book.-L0aiscitie
C0uFieF-sjOurnGi.
Between New York and the Gulf of
Mexico there are only four natural en-
frances to harbors where the depth at
mean low water is over 10 feet, while the
largest ships draw from 2G to 2S3 feet.
At the Antiquary's. - Collector of
0urios. Have you any genuine Roman
falchions3 Dealer (of his guard).-I anu
sorry. but they're all being rusted and
won't be ready until next week. Detroit
Free Press.
The New York World needs new
chestnut editor. 1t prints as "a new
poem the lines of Walt Whitman on the
death of Abraham Lincoln. beginning |
so, captain! my captain &c.-BoStoa
Bsrd6.
"What is soul food " inquiries CON
slant reader in one of our religious ex-
changes. Sonl food is what Keeps an
editor fat when he tries to publish
newspaper according to his honest CON
Nictions. Chicago Ledger.
Edisons patents have now become so
numerous that they have IA special series |
of index or reference numbers in the |
patent ofiee-the only case in which |
such separation from the general index |
has been thought necessary.
Birmingham. England, still makes flint
| lock muskets for use in the interior of
| Africa, where percussion caps or any form
OF fixed ammunition would often be i'm
possible to obtain while powder can
always be made and fints picked up in
the desert
The best way TO stop the carrying of
fire. arms is suggested by the Neto Orleans
Christian Allocate, Everybody is to be
allowed to carry arms, but every pistol
must be three feet long and worn openly.
Wearing short pistols to be punished bya
fine of 1000.
A Compunctious Criminal ii udge, in
dignantly--"These sums which you stole
fruits of long years of honest work, you
sQuandered in wretehed fooleries." Pris-
oner, with emotion II could not keep
that money. II weighed too much on my
conscience. Vie Figaro.
Art matters are handled by the Chicago
papers without gloves. Thus the Chicago
Mems remarks that there is q picture of
Shakespeare by MARTIN Drosshant Soul
, pit" When artists figure in the Chicago
Mems they must do SO under their maiden
| CDNntttNtttNs
S ow-shoeing has not amounted toimuch
in the neighborhood of Montreal this
: season, owing to an extraordinary scarcity
Of snow. The country is so thinly Gov
4 cred that little cross-country tramping
cone of the especially favorite exercises
of the various clubs) has been attempted.
Perhaps the best way to settle the vexed
question of the tall hats Mt the theatre
will he to divide the house like Quaker
meeting, putting the men on one side anG
the women on the other. If this did no
abnte the nuisance il would at least con
fine lis Inconvenience to the offenders. =
BOstOR COWrtfr
cigar drummer explained to Nor
wich customer that his firm was enable,
to sell as good cigar as other firms, a
lower figures, by using very chea
tobacco for filling near the mouth end
The smoker throws the cigar away befor
the fire has reached the poor tobacco
That's trimming pretty close !-HarttH
Times.
Nordenfelt has now built torped
boat 100 feet long to carry two White
head torpedoes of 300 pounds each, an
capable of accommodating crew of 81
men under water for six hours. Thes
y: boats would cut through the strongei
steel nets. and its torpedo would abolis
=, the greatest iron-clad.
Three new French academicians ha,
lust been elected-Leon Say, the distil
guished economist, who succeeds Edmon
About: Leconte de Lisle the creole Poe
who takes the pluce of Victor Hugo, an
w, Edounrd Herye. the journalist, editor
ne the Grleanist Solicit, who will occupy IL
seat of the Due de Noailles.
> fThf II 4nltlI EtatistipG for Salmn Ala
town Of nearly 10000 people, more tbs
half of whom are negroes, show that Il
death rate among the blacks was near
twice as great as among the whites (2S.l
VS.. 1874 per ,000), except in diphtheri
which was three times more fatal to viii
people than to negroes.
Every copy of the Sun is rich wi
the golden treasures of democratic trut
and the principles of democratic COVER
ment. .K0deSt Neo York Sun. Why d
not the Sun say silver instead of colder
paper which believes in silver monom
> allism should not thus stumble into
admission that gold is better than sily
10 to = B0St0n Commercial bulletin.
= i,d IN ave feel writes a western edit
You that an apology is due to Wild
rs Grimes. In orr issue of last week
stated that she had eloped with an 1S.ye
Ola lnnu1 L he trutl was tlat Bne
\. thrown from an Swear old mare. VIII
the she was riding in lope, and VIII
zen ,t. slipped and fell Mistakes will hapl
ths in the best-regulated newspaper oiiic
'o?A and We are confident that when we state
~ - item WAS sent over n telephone wire,
DhiS other apology will he needed"
" Wanted IIim-The general super
nv tendent of great railroad was sitting
leStH his Office when n well-dressed man
ANY tered. This is the superintendent
y ne Yes "Glnl to see you. sir. My n,
nave nay. is Balkeers mud want n job 'In W
Nl1a VIA department." "Want q position as {
seps+ ductor of passenger .rain.n do
,Pol- understand your business Y TRY
,,;ms, once II suppose y"n would turl
m'us every cent that belonged to the c
W aS pany Z" No sir hut ia whack |
i9 isl.. "About how much would you take
nov now dayfn lowing to business" "Y,
III always make it point to bring in S
sa, iiI1 little money, wouldn't y0u n "Well
'onl I'M help myself, first, aud then f"
~ ~ friend, said the superintendent, Il i
!, Nne YOU. You have told me the first 1
LII ni that have heard for years. '-Ar&a'
,.t'tra Traveller.
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