Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-30
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Brooklyn has won the more or less
proud title of 1.-THE gum-chewing city of
the world!'
Seven colored converts were baptized
in creek in Atchison, Kan, a week or
SO ago, through hole cut in several
inches Of ice.
The bronze cents of the year 1877
have become so scarce that coin dealers
pay premium on them. They are the
only ones of the cents issued since the
war that have anything more than their
face value.
All the mountain sheep in Colorado
are owned by the state and carefully
protected. The penalty of Staying a
mountain sheep in Colorado is 10 years
in the penitentiary. This is probably
the severest game law upon the statute
books of any state, but it is occasionally
violated.
A conch shell was picked up recently
by herder on one of the highest buttes
in the John Day Mountains, Ore, some
5000 feet above sea level, and far from
human habitation. The most likely cX.
PLANTATION of its presence in such a place
is that some bird carried it there from
tine seashorc.
The savage patience shown in the
beauty with which the negroes of Africa
and the Indians of Alaska ornament
their weapons also marks to some ex-
tent the negroes of the south, and a
southern nGgro's fishing tackle is some
times made in u fashion to excite the
envy Of the most enthusiastic northern
sportsman.
The yellow jasmine will soon be in
bloom at its northern limit, possibly $50
miles south Of New York 1t is the
marvel and charm of the far southern
spring, and it is said to be well anthem
ticated that the pollen Of the blossom
has blown from Georgia into Virginia
| days before the plant had bloomed in
the latter state.
Besides scrapplo, the Ledger, and In.
dependence Hall, the city Of PAiade-
| phia is noted for palms. 1t is the great
| supplying station for the Northern
states. Palms have to be slowly acc!i.
mated when removed from their native
habitat, and il is in the Philadelphia
| greenhouses that this process of adapta-
ton takes place,
actorsays that women are "quicker
studies" that is, learn their parts moro
quickly, than men. al plug along
through q part for three days" said he
"and then | feel sIaky when 90 on the
first night but u woman lust reads a
| part over once or twice, or sleeps with
il under her pillow, and shes got il
letter perfect before the first rehearsal
1t is hard to believe that blooming
fruit tree is a rarity anywhere in the
United States, but there are parts of
Colorado where such is the case, and a
| Coloradoan confesses TO having driven "A
miles down into New Mexico 10 see dwarf
pears in bloom, no specially inspiriting
sight either to man acquainted with
the apple blossom and the glory Of the
peach.
When the news of lIoke Smiths ap,
pointment reached Monongahela county
West Virginia, there was great excite.
ment among the friends of local celeb
rity named Polk Smith. They thought
a mistake had been made in the name
and the excitement was not quelleL
until the Morgantowu Post announced
that 'lt was Huke Smith Of Georgia
and not Polk Smith of MUn-er-ga- hail. >
Every steamer that plies along thu
Atlantic coast is a refuge for birds tina
are blown out to sea, mostly small anC
not strong of wing. When disturbed D
frightened by people on the deck the,
fly into the air and fall behind the ship
and after several such disturbances the,
become SO tired that they can no longe
catch up. After hopelsssly chasing III,
vessel for several miles they tlutter int,
the sea and drown.