The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-05-22
GRAVE AND GAY.
IMPORTANT SCRAPS sCIssoRED WITH
DISCRETION FROM BRIGHT
EXCHANGES.

ENCnANhES.
The largest bell in the world is the
great bell of Moscow, at the foot of the
Kremlin. Its circumference at the bot
tom is nearly Us feet and its height more
than 81 feet. In its stoutest part it is 90
inches thick, and its weight has been
computed to be 443,722 pounds. 1t has
been hung.
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A PECULIAR accident occurred recently
at St. Johns, Arizona. Mr.. A Tenney
was blowing in city lot in which was a
dry well about ten feet deep, and passing
round the well he threw his pillow out of
the ground and it dropped into the well
and dragged both the horses IN with it,
The horses were one upon the other and
the pillow under both. Quite crowd of
men gathered in few minutes and the
horses were dragged out, to the surprise
of all present, uniniured.
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AT THE meeting of the Troy Confer
ence, at Pittsfeld, Mass, recently the
Rev. Dr. Strong, of the Drew Theological
Seminary, said that Harvard had gone
far astray, and the money of John Har-
ward was not being used for the purpose
he intended. Andover had only two
men, Phelps and Park, who are ortho-
dox. At Yale they were no better than
they should be, and there was only one
sound man at the Union Theological In
stitution.
AMHERST students tried to break up
the performance of theatrical troupe in
that village. They guyed the actors,
threw beans on the stage, blew fish horns
and yelled in chorus. The manager Or
dered a policeman to arrest a student.
This attempted and the students made a
rush to rescue their fellow. The mana
ger sailed in with chair and club. An
old negro took hand, yelling "Im over
60 years old, bnt I'll take care of any
four of you" Several citizens also took
part, and when the fight was over the
students were so badly used up that they
didn't even dare to give genuine ap-
plause.
Two drummers drying from Grayson
to Pawnee, Kan, lost their way and fin
ally came to a shanty. In it were two
beds f; on one lay woman who looked
like living skeleton on the other was
the dead bodies of man and five child
rem. The woman could talk and told
this story any husband, Howard Bal
linger, had been sick long time. Five
weeks ago we were very nearly out of
provisions and l sent my son. % years
of age, to Grayson to get some. We
waited and waited for his return, but he
did not come. After awhile the child
rem got sick, and one by one the little
ones died. My husband was the last one
to go, he dying last night" The drum
mers had a lunch with them, and, giving
it to the woman, went out to find help.
Several people from Grayson said they
had saw young Ballinger in town and he
said he was going to San Francisco.
A FATHER sitting on the stoop with his
little son one evening, desired to ascer-
tain how well he knew his grammar.
So he asked: "How many genders are
there, my son ?" "Three masculine,
feminine and neuter," was the reply.
Fright. What gender is man ?" MAS
culine." Correct, my boy. Now, this
stoop we are sitting on, to what gender
does stoop belong ?" feminine" "No,
no, my boy stoop is neuter, because it
is the name of a thing" "But there are
stoops that are feminine, are there not?"
persisted the boy. 81 read on a theatre
bill the other day. She Stops to Con-
quer,' and if she stoops are not feminine
1 would like to know what they are"
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A YOUNG boy who recently left his St.
Paul home to attend preparatory school
is not much taken with the change. He
is suffering from his first case of home
sickness, and naturally desires to return
to his home. In making known his
desires to his father in a recent letter he
said "Dear Father Life is very short /;
let us spend it together. Your OBJECTION
ate SON."
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A BAKERS dozen of boys at n school at
Arcola, Illinois, struck for shorter hours
of study, and refused to come in again
after recess. The teacher, who appar-
emily is born diplomatist, called up the
thirteen largest girls in the room, told
them of the state of affairs and ordered
them to march out and each bring in a
boy. Within three minutes and half a
bakers dozen of lads, with very red faces
were trying to study holes in their books
and have been too busy since to talk
about the sad affair.
Murder Will Ont.