Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-04-01
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springfield, Mass, proposes 10 turn one
Of its ettete roller Kinks into an armory.
kossuth, at "a, amused hiaself hugely
with the late carnival festivitiesat Naples.
Governor Robinson says Massachusetts
has spent ! ia, 900 900 in soldiers aid since
1851
Mrs. Elizabeth Shirley, who died at
Walnut, Iowa, few days ago, had lived
Jog years.
Gen. Bazaina is described as tagged,
stout, and bloated, shutting painfully
along the public streets of Madrid
The scarcity of able seamen along the
Sound Is such that captains now offer $23
month, while the ruling rate heretofore
has been only &18.
Minister Hubbard, now IN Japan, is one
of the funniest story tellers OF Texas, and
playfully calls his wife Mother Hub.
bard"-behind her back.
A worlds fais in 1882 in the capital, to
commemorate the fourth centennial of
Americas discovery, is just now agitating
the Washingtonians.
A monument 10 the late Senator Ben
Hill il TO be dedicated ia Atlanta next
month, aud the dedioatory speech is to
be delivered by q Virginia orator.
Deacon Asahel Lear of South Sunapee,
N. H., has been skating this wiAter on
pair Of old.fashioned Dutch skates that he
bought in 1916, and has used every winter
since.
Canvas bnclx ducks have been hard to
secure on Chesapeake Bay this winter ow-
ing to the legal prohibition against big.
long guns, and have been steady at 81
pair in market.
The late Governor Seymour said: Il
never yet made or procured an appoint
mont for young man for clerkship
which did not in the end do great in
jury TO him."
Mr.. Arch appeared at the recent Par
liamentary banquet given in his honor in
pepper-and-salt suit and scarlet tie. lie
sat beside Mr.. Chamberlain, who was in
full evening dress.
The ''Maine law is still supposed to be
in force in Maine, yet of / 1888 arrests re-
ported for last year by the city marshal of
Portland, 81 800 were for crimes directly
resulting from liquor"
Willie Bradford, five years old. strayed
away from his home in the Cherokee
Nation the other day, and the next day
what the wolves had left of the poor littl
fellow was found in mountain glen.
Poor Lord Butte, having spent
81 900, 900 on his new honse, can only
affordssto give 10000 of that sum to the
widows and orphans of the golfers who
were killed while lately working for him.
Makers of brooms report an extraordi-
nary scarcity of broom corn, which now
brings an extremely high price in the
wholesale market, and they predict that
the price of brooms will soon be doubled.
After chasing fox all day a party of
| ii hunters from West Rutland, Mass,
brought up at a hole. The dogs howled
and the hunters dug for two hours and a
half and at last unearthed woodchuek.
The largest steel rifle ever made in tlis
country has Just been finished at the
Washington navy-yard. 1t Is of S.inch
bore, 30 feet long, and throws a bull
weighing $50 pounds with 175 pounds of
| powder.
Boston experts criticise Howells' last
story, where he gives carefully elabor-
ated scene in a police station, but repre-.
sents the captain as asking the young
woman who makes q complaint to him,
what her age, hight, aud weight are.
In a late lecture at Yale Professor Ar
thur T., Hadley stated that no less than
$1,000 were injured annually in the United
States from the single duty of coupling
cars This estimate is made from Stats
tics of surgical aid given to such cases.
A marine governor has been patented
which. consists of float hung over the
stern and connected with the steam valve
by chain. When the stern of the vessel
pitches high out of water the float falls
and closes the valve.
Canadians are beginning to worry over
their loss of forests. In the more thickly
settled part of Ontario only 10 per cent
of woodland remains, and wells must
now be dug to the depth of 40 or SO feet
where formerly water could be reached at
six.
The frogs on the estate" railroad
through western Massachusetts are being
tiled with wood, in order to prevent acct.
dents like that which happened lately,
where, by catching his foot in frog a
brakeman was run over before he could
get loose.