Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-31
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sheef-iehtning-Curtainl lectures.
Chicago fashions-Divorce suits

ghtning-Curtain lectures
Chicago fashions-Divoree suits
Alabama is the fifth state in produc-
ing wheat.
Motto for an old baehelor-Be just !
and fear knot.
New Orleans is experimenting vita
street cars propelled by e'4''isiisss. -
BYLAW, first cousins in New Hamp-
shire cannot marry in that state.
Indiana has a school fund of more
than eight million dollars
The proposed. canal across Cape Cod
viii cost about SIC, 200, 600
The nobbiest thing out-a door knob,
it is always out.-hr.
Scientific research reveals that the
Cardiff giant was originally a ''plant."
Des Moines, Iowa, has twenty-tyso
miles Of sidewalk.
Digging potatoes with crowbars was
enc Of the hilarious incidents GI tall /
farming in Canada.
Lucy Stone says that boys arc like
vinegar the more "motherD in them
the sharper they are.
The shingles cut in Western AIichi-
gan, this year, viii exceed eighty n1ii- |
lion.
a western paper discovers that the
Pacific HailWay has brought the Oe-
Cident and Accident tcgether
A good many callfornians and Ore
gonians decline to consi1eF matT1fnony
one Of the Pacific states.
A eonscript being told that Z was
sweet to die for his country eszeL-A /
himself on the ground thag ne hefSH
did like sweet things.
A new play in New York is called /
inThe Devils HOof.' The people q
that town want to get used 70 thelI
hereafter by degrees.
A son Of oliver Wendell Holmes is
Clerk of the Senate Committee on For-
sion Relations, and also private secre-
tary to Senator Sumner.
There VIII be a good many omissions
in the autobiography winch the ex-
Queen Of Spain is now writing
They heat piano keys in London by
means Of cylinders filled with NOT no,
water, so that the player warns VIII
his theme.
Bean swift hearing Of q carpenter
fafiinp through the scaffolding Of a
bozse which he was engaged in re-
uairfnp. drvIy remarked that he liked
10 see q mechanic go through his work
promptly.
IN descfiBiffg a new organ, e eountEy
editor saws tarhe swell died away IN
delicious suffocatiOn, like one singing
q sweet song under the bedelothes."
TheState EntomoIogist in Illinois
has collected more than thirty thou
sand bugs, and it is surmised that ne
intends to open hotel in chicago
Nes0 York Post.
Immense droves of cattle are al
ready in motion in Kansas going nortL-
ward. the laws of Kansas permitting
the passage of Texas cattle from De-
Cemoer LIST to March 1st.
rather Hvacinthe submitted to a
chronological examination before ms
departure. His temperament IS SET
down as Iynphatic, and he possesses
liberal quantity Of self esteem.
sWhy did Joseph's brethren put him
furs gSit9'' asked a Buffalo Sunday
school teacher. And the reply he got
was. because there was no room tol
him in the family circle 2"
1fhe engine "Canada,n OF the Yer.
mont Central Railroad Company, has
run during the past nine years oVel
three hundred thousand miles, o1
twelve times the distance around the
earth.
A JUNIOR SEuQelb al OOlAC41 OA44NOA
sitY, in rendering an account TO hi
father of his last terms expenses, en-
tered as an item tsCharity, $50. Eli
father wrote back: sfI fear that chari
ty covers multitude of SINS"
A Massachusetts paper says: 9Th
good old style of things is coming
found again in Berkshire. A farme
pays for a barrel of Hour, which ma
not been the case before in nearly tel
years"
Kansas, BY law, offers to any on
planting and successfully growing 70
three years an acre or more OF toreS
trees, or a half mile or more of fores
trees along any highway, bounty al
nually for twenty years OF Nv
dollars per acre or half mile.
At an enthusiastic meeting anon
the co1ored people in Blount County
Teunessee. when the mourners' benc
was crowded with pemitents, one Q
them. 8 full-grOWn damsel, was s
powerfully coflV erted that, jumping t
her.fset, she shouted aloud Lord, !
dis xigger had de wings of June bus
she'd ~ right up to heaven"
Rev. Jedediah Burehard was holdin
a protracted meeting, and Colonel Bal
attended one night. As he wake
lightly along the aisle for sea
B1rchard cried out ssThere goes Il
aged sinner against whom shall be'
testimony at the bar of God" Ba
turned toward the pulpit and replieS
SCI have been in the practice Of law f
almost half q century; and l alWa,
found the greatest seoundrel to be Il
first to turn states evidence"
There is q story, told by Coleridg
somewhere, of q beggar in a Swiss v
1age, who came regularly to certa
house. where his wants were kind
looked after One day when he car
the house was full of company, and
one had time to attend to him. 4
application was refused. He waited
while, and repeated it, only to be I
fused again. Very well, 2 he said,
am going away now, and 1 shall n
Eeturns and then you may see Whe
you viii get another beggar."