Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-04-10
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Nathan Sieher, M Iowa enthusiast, has
dfGmatizad, and threatena to bring out q
play based on the Fiaok divorce suit.
Thrae Siberian horrors are too numerous
already. PhiladeipLia Ledger.
Y z,l "the human cannon ball, has
been talking to o committee Of parlia-
mont upon the gnbjsct OF child aogobats,
the committee having before it bill
for the protection o. such performers.
She is said to have made very good
speech.
Tho present King OF Dehomcy was ed
uca.ed ia Paris and Ias supposed to have |
been Civilized. since his return to !
Africa he has distinguished himself BY |
sn unusually rigid observance of The |
detles France.
Ii th6re ia one man In this country who |
regrets that he is an oratar, 1t is Colonel
Jones of the ut. Louis Republic. His
brother editors throughout the country
ara guyin9 him swfIilv on account OF
the speech he mada before the aouthern
Society in Ns- York.
Shakespeare's autograph hes boen
found in an old book in the Boston Pub
lilo Library. The name il written
"Wilm Shakespeare This WINS one OF
the times that the Immortal BaEd remem-
bered how TO spell Shakespeare, hut for
got how to spell William. -N0fa tsto,oa
Herald.
The latest turnout of the German EN-
peror is an open osrsiage drawn by four
white Hungarian stations. Recently he
sat out TO ride in it from Berlin to Pots
dam, 90 miles, and it was expected that
they would make il in about 100 minutes.
Ihoy beat all expectations BY doing 1t IN
20.
). NJ. Huichings OF California, who sx,
plored the Yosemie Park couutry, and
| particularly the Falls, in 1855, and is be-
iieved to hgva written the first de-
Rcription published about the place, was
in Chicago the other day, arranging
California pictorial department for the
worlds fair.
Not many men can boaqt OF having had
three fmpercra aq g1dtatlers Tor tdtse of
\ their sons. rhera isa braWny smith in
the littls town OF Rrandenburg who has
4 ten 8onq Emperor William | was god
faith 10 the seventh boy, Emperor Fred
cries to his eighth and the present en-
peror to his ninth.
Marwood, the hengman, died insolyent.
He made good income gu OF hemp, but
lost it ia land. Ills Investments in prop
erty in and around Horncastle were de-
preciated by tho general agricultural de-
preston, and his estate il 10 be wound
np in the Lincoln bankruptcy court
London Edition Herald.
! Count Andrassy had q splendid nerve
OF the card table, and whom he played NJ
all called for very high stakes He ones
played three rubbsrs CT whist with the
late Count Darn, Prince Peter Schouwa-
lrfF, and Baron Koli4ch-all tirst-rate
whist piayers--:or 900 franc points and
IL, 900 francs on the rab.
Emperor William still retains the
Frenoh COOKS that ruled tho kitchen Of
the imperial palace under his late grand
father, brt ne positively refuses to allow
their French bills OF fare to be put bs-
fore him. Tie cooka draw up the days
list of dishes under their French names,
and these are translated into German for
his maj lsty's table.
Frederick William Evans, who for
many years has been the presiding elder
OF the Shakers in America, lives in rigid
simplicity OF New Lebanon, N T., on toe
estate of 1000 acres which the Shakers
have owned since 1910. He is 80 years old
but ia still vigorous in body and mind
and ia the resi- head of his people. "Ws
live here in solitude" said Mr.. Evans tC
q visitor, land grow up like the trees"
Ivan Petrotf, Russian by birth, who
i has gone to Alaska as an agent OF the
census bureau, was resident of thA
territory when il was acquired by tht
, Uaited States, and in several records o.
the government he is named az "a either
, OF the United States by purchase.
Native IA we'll as naturaliz d voters ever
peter off their citizenship by purchas,
! about election times, but the fact doesn'
!. get into tho utficial archives--more's thu
pity.-Philidephia Ladser.
r r. j. Glove, the artist who is to COCOON
) psry the Alaska expedition Of Frau
o LeSiie's Illustrated Net0spaper, bss hp.
. quite an experience rs traveller 10 thu
{ wilderness. lie went to Africa In 1888;
o With s an.eY, and at the age of 10 he wa
4 placed in command OF one of the Gong
!. stations founded by tue great explorer
4 Aftsrward he lived with Stanley fo= al,
years in the A Tican ,wildg, and durinl
!, that tims he established good repute
: tion as hunter Of big game.
9 Every one knows 8. NJ. Bixby, til
/. manufacturer Of q shoe biGeEiny. mo
Q hun standing in front of his factory, q
b the corner OF Hester and Baker streets
Il New York. ] was amazed to SEQ hin
g busily engaged in eating backing. Il
e had large shining box ia his hand. II
4 w4a vigorously digging out the blackin
/" with Il large bladed knife and eating
l. with apparent relish. Some portions tina
. had escaped his digestive organs ha
10 made black patches on his face and nos.
II asked him what On earth he was doia
&, tina. for. ''Oh," said lie, ''il'4 made Q
IA nothing but lRnpblaok and m9!a5sss an
II way. Ii can't hurt any one l like il
10 It's good for digestion, ~, /. Life.
"a A little colored girl was seen in
Memphis book store. She came IN while
good many others we're il the store and q
q tima stood back. Presently n clerk foun
tnls TO wait Oh her, ana piloted h ovt
!. 10 the school books and asked her wnl
% % ste would have. OF coulse, he imagine
:, that she wanted second or third reade
- or on arithmetic perhaps Imagine u
y dismay when she asked for copy I
=, XDuophon. Yes, she wanted Xgnopho
- ana no other. She had TRANSACTED 9omt
% frOm lid to lid; she had re4d zsn9 AMI j
y. - mere pastime wanted to read X 40 phai
Z That she spoke truly there ia no rsaso
~ TO doubt. She was q quatroon, and pc
"a hsps Is years Of age.-AtiG,stG C9astitl
T. tim.
~ Pears Soap secures absautiiui ccmpleSioi
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