Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
BIINoR MENTION.

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in Jackson, Mississippi.
Street paving in Chicsgo cost last
year 81 100000
The Tribune calls the Independent
Gods acre sheet"
Plymouth Church pays $1,000 for
mu-ic aud s12,500 for Beecher.
Theodore Tilton says he drinks vine
for the sake Of his brains.
New York has eighty thousand ska
ters, eight thousand Of whom are
ladies.
II lakes thirteen gas companies to
supply London with gas.
The Woman's Suffrage bill has pass
ed both Houses Of the Wyoming Leg
islatUre,
Why is a balloon like silence2 Bo
cause 1T gives ascent
Two and oue-half inches is the eZ-
treme height Of ladies' bOot-heels.
Leavenwortb claims to be the Pork
opolis Of Kansas.
Connectieut has produced one di-
vOree to every ten marriages.
Those sedate Yale students are call
/ ed "hOWling dervishes," ia New Ha-
ven.
It's said that so, 900 has been offer
ed and refused for the Cardiff giant.
Autumn" says wag, lis the time
to read big books, because the season
turns the lea7es.
boy, what's your name r. Robert
1 sir" Yes, but 4 mean your pthee
name?" Bob, sir"
Olive Logan says she never cav q
I pretty girl but she wanted to take her
in her arms and kiss her.
The girl Of the period is increasing
the size of the steel buokleson her hat-
band
Ladies wear SO much false hair with
their own that It is difficult 10 tell
! which is sWitch.-BOston Bulletin.
A Boston Church has set aside e pew
for reporters. Seats for fashions re-
portefs are provided all over the house.
An e.. newspaper man and q piano
dealer are going to erect ten-million-
dollar hotel in Chicago.
] What is the difference between an
accepted ard rejected lOveTf One
kisses his miss, and the other misses
kiss,
DR.. Livingstone, who was 30 long iu
be nighted Africa, is 10 be knighted iu
/ England, If he ever gets back.
The catalogue Of Oberin College
for 186970, shows that ! ,llI studenta
arc engaged within its several depart
ments, 634 male, and Az femole
The yearly mortality of the globe ia
/, / 80, ,333, ,333 persons. This Is at the rate
of 81 ,554 per day, 9, $50 per hour, 62
per minute.
In Chicago husbands are said 10 be so
fearful Of Gu rtain lectures that they
add TO their announcements Of future
movements the letters w. p, which
means wife permitting"
Main street. Columbus, south Caro-
! lima, was lighted one night last
week for the 6rst time since Mr..
j Tecumseh Sherman turned off the gas.
A New York Democrat.
Roast turkey stuffed with boiled
I | chestnuts is considered a very choice
dish at fashionable dinner parties 20
: New York.
e Minister Washburne thinks that The
= Treasury Department has never been
so ably and honestly administered
since the days Of Hamilton.
The "girl Of the period. 100 years
ago, wore a sharp needle TO the end Of
her stays which pricked her chin uu-
less she held her headup.
The wife Of Samuel n. Pike, ESQ,
rs said to have worn $4,000 worth OF
q diamonds az a recent hop in New
York.
Henry A. DeIiIIe (Olive Loqan'l
r hUsband) is the Paris correspondent of
> the New York Express, and has never
f shown any disposition to shoot.
It is now said when the Cardiff
giant is alone at night, he removes his
right hand from its customary position
and placing the thumbron the end OF
his nose, Fibrates his fingers IN the
4 air.
4 They have a town in Colorado nam
ed PurgatoTy. The name is perhaps q
hint to travellers that they may 80
further and fare worse.
The Quebec Mercury tells it's Legis-
lature that the arrest of the tide of em-
igTation to the United States Is q sub
ljeet which cannot too soon or toe fully
occupy its attention,
How the governess said grace u on
what we are a going to receiVe-el-
bows, elboWsl-the Lord make us
backs in and shoulders doWn-truly
thankful-and no chattering-a
Brick Pomeroy boasts that he once
worked at case alongside Of o negro
printer, and says he is proud Of Che
fact. Now let US hear from the dark
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