Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-16

A bridal reigR-ah oney-mOon.-JlJdgE
A color diAicaIt to see-Blindman's
buff
How to shorten life-A Bridget.
The most suitable laborers for warm
Weather-CoOlies.
George Peabody will be seventy-five
years old next February.
The weevil in wheat is complained OF
about Dayton.
Brigham Young celebrates every
birthday with new wife.
SiII-houses make the dweE4ers of 9TH
er houses noisy.
Toledo casts {, 1868 votes for Railroad,
to only 20 against,
The exports Of grain at Toledo, since
January 1, amount to :, 7,409, 900 bushels.
7. W. Higginson bas been mentioned
for the vacant Presidency of the Uni
versity of Michigan.
Anna Dickinson is said to be the he
roine of two hundred deelinBtions of
matrimony, and the cry is still they
come. She keeps declining.
A bore meeting Douglas Jerrold, said:
''Well, what's going on to-day P' II
am, exclaimed JerrOld, dGrting past
the inquirer.
The Sun praises Hay, who has been
appointed Secretary of Legation to
Madrid. Secretary Fish has made Hay
while the Sun shone.-[New York Tele-
gram.
An ex-Afderman, of Philadelphia,
attempted suicide the other day with a
hatchet-doubtless an AK he despaired
of ability to grind.
The Confederate dead are being re-
moved from the Chickamauga battle
field and re-interred in the Confederate
cemetery at Marietta, Georgia.
''see hero, nnister,a said lad of sew
en- summers, who was driven up a tree
by a ferocious dog, Hif you don't take
that dog away I'lI eat up all your ap-
-gles."
The grasshoppers are again begin
ming to stop trains in Utah, and we
should forever bless them If they
would only stop George Francis
Which is the most profitable busi-
ness Shoemaking because every
pair of shoes is sOled before 1t is finish
ed.
''What shall [ do to keep warm p"
asked a shivering, slightly dressed
lady. "I don't know" said a solemn
Quaker, ''un1ess thee puts on another
breastpin.''
Geo. D. Prentice has not abandoned
writing almost altogether, and he is no
older than be should be, at sixty-siX.
A California butcher is described as
owning dogs enough to make an At
lantic cable of Bologna sausages.
Grant, says Andy, is a good man for
a CROSSROADS. He always was a good
ms Mt Nor "A
NEW York Herald.
A verdant Cape Colder, upon. seeing
locomotive for the first time, threw up
his hands exclaiming, "By thunder,
what a darned great stove -
A desperate of the press says that
Mr.. COlfax and Mrs. Colfax weigh Just
one hundred and ffty-eight pounds
each, though she was Wade before he
was, and her uncle's Ben. Wade.
An Ohio editor lately betook himself
TO the hardware business. He had
served an apprenticeship at the hard
wear business previously.
Somebody says that Mrs. Stanton is
the salt, Anna Dickinson tl1e pepper,
and Mrs. Anthony the vinegar OF the
Woman's Rights Movement.
Kisses are like creation, because they
are made out of nothing, and are very
good. They are also like sermons, re-
quiriug two heads and an application.
A sentimental chap intends to- petit
ton Congress for a grant to improve
the channels of affection, so that hence
forth the course of true love may run
smooth.
Nasty is in troUble-the guilloteen
hez fallen-hs is no longer p. Ma
cussid Niger hez bin appinted.
A boy having complained to his faith
er that Bill had thrown the Bible at him
and hurt him on the head, the father
replied swell, you are the only
member Of my family on whom the
Bible ever made the least impression" !"
That was a graceful sympathy shown
the "R S 20 k ng s" by the
Philadelphia young ladies', tipping
their skirts as they passed their hotel
to show dainty ankles encased in their
coiOrs.
A Chieagoan, while on an Eastern
visit, was asked how he liked the water
out West. "Really," said he, after a mo-
ments reflection, II never thought to
try it."
Miss Mitchell, the astronomer. with a
party of young ladies from Yassar Col
| lege, viii visit Iowa, for the purpose OF
observing the solar eclipse, in August.
An auotioneer, while engaged in his
vocation, Thus exalted the merits of ),
carpet "Gentlemeu and ladies, some
/ folks sell carpets for Brussels, but I can
most positively assure you that this ell
pgant article was made by Mr.. Brussels
himself
Since 1874, VIM. H. Seward has built
one hundred and sixty houses in Au-
burn, New York, and sold "a them, ..t on
easy terms, to men of moderate menus
Conant, successor Of Raymond as
chief editor of the New York Times,
is a son of the distinguished Hebrew
scholar and Professor Rev. T. J, Con-
ant.
oliver Wood, Democratic lawyer In
Auburn, New York, has taken young
negro s, udent into his Office. Wall not
his friends have somewhat to object TO
this negro in the WOodpilef
A white-piner writes that thew have
| considerable difficulty out therein hurry.
ing a man for whenever they under
take to dig hole for the grave, it is in
stanlly claimed as a mine, for valuable
looking ore is invariably thrown out,
A grocer in Middletown, Ohio, sent
TO TINS city Tor sOme smoked haliOut re-.
Gently. A box came marked 90. .. D.i =,
| Whereupon he grew pEoIaue, saying tnh1
he had ordered balibut, and not ooo'
Mr.. Beeoher preaohes with vase OF
! choice flowers ON each end Of the stand,
! aud to supply these, winter aud sum-
mer, 1t takes $500 yearly which be
thinks Is q good investment.