Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-11-26
PERsONAL.
Nc Sue canal oost as4. .OOO.OOO.

The Suez canal cost S64 ,OOO,OOO.
A North Carolina preacher has made
$ll 900 BY inVenting q rat-trap.
Gladstone owns villa near Stolt-
zeafels, on the Rhine.
a swarm Of gnats lately broke up
French cattle fair
General Hardee is talked of for
President Of Alabama University.
10. Jefferson is hunting in Ohio
He is recreating, but not playing.
The best board Of health-A light
diet.
Men Of mark-Those who can't
write their own names.
The hog may not be thoroughly post
ed in arithmetic, but when you come
to a square root, be is there,
Talk about croeodiles weeping"
said an old salt, why, blast my eyes,
haven't | seen a whales blubberr
Senator Morton, General Butler and
Judge Bingham are in favor of Cuban
independence.
The average weight of the thirty
six thousand persons weighed at q
Boston fair, was one hundred and
thirty three pounds.
Newark complains that her street,
lights are 30 obscure that the boy who
puts them out in the morning has to
carry lantern.
Six young ladies Of Minnesota went
one hundred miles in q lumber wagon
to hear Blind Tom.
The Chicago Tribune speaks Of Light
ming as a subtle fluid. This does not
refer to the Jersey lightning some
times sold the soldiers, for that was a
sutler fluid. ~ r. Ledger.
An Irish absentee il said 10 have
sent this comfortable message to his
steward TELL the tenants that no
threats to shoot you will terrify ale."
Jones said to Nibbles. "Poor Luoin-
da took the circumstance very much to
heart" Nibbles replied: Did she
indeed? The dear girl f! wish I was
that circumstance"
A Spaniard 10 the first pages of his
English grammar, desiring one evening
at table to be helped TO some boiled
tongue said: I will thank you, miss,
to pass me the language.
How came such a greasy mess in
the oven?" said a fdgety old spiuster
to her maid of-ali-Work. "Why," re-
piled the girl, "the candles fell into
the water, and l put them ia the oven
to dry"
1.-The brass upon your face, 2 he said.
fWOuld make four-uuart skillet"
your honor's head, /" the girl replied.
HAS sap enough to iii It,"
Hornets are long -lived-I kant state
jist how long their lives are, but I know
from instinkt and ObserVashen that
emmy krittur, be he bug or be he devil,
who is mad all tue time, and stings
every good chance he kan git, general
ly outliVes all his nabers.
The following was posted on the
door of a church In Hertfordshire
This is to give notice that no person
is to be buried in this churchyard but
those living In the parish. Those who
wish to be buried are desired TO apply
TO me, Ehpraim Grub, parish clerk"
Whats that? asked Mrs. Parting
ton, looking up at the column of the
Place Vendome, during her visit to
Paris. 1.-THE pillar Of Napoleon, she
was answered. Well, / never did l'
she exclaimed; "and that's his pillow
he was a great man to use thatl But
it's more Ikea bolster. And it'sm made
of iron, do believe. All, Isaac, see
what it ia to be great How hard his
head must have rested on his ironieal
pillow I"
The Springfield Republican relates
that Hon. Charles Summer, who lee
tured at Greenfield last Thursday
night, had a rather singular experience
in getting there, which proved his de-
termination to stick" TO his engage
meDts. Finding himself left at Rut-
land By che tardY train from Benning-
ton he chartered an engine and rode
thereon at lightning speed TO Brattle-
boro; there another, and rode TO South
Vernon, where he took freight train
which had been delayed By telegram
for his accommodation. He arrived
at Greenfield only q few minutes be-
hind hand.