Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-26

WuOs lAlg bCtAA a@AAN
cans every day.
An observant writer once defined so
cietv' to consist of all those persons
who live ON their own estates and on
the ideas OF others,
Scientific meu ia Trance and Ger.
many think the recent conVulslons OF
the earth indicate the ultimate IorIila-
ton Of a new continent
A member oF the French Parliament
invited the electors to take cup OF
coffee with him before the balioblngS
and his seat is now contested on the
ground of bribery.
AzpeeiInen Of gold-leaf was lately
exhibited in Boston, reduced 70 one
6fEieth of its original thickness, or 70 |
fourteen millionth of an inch. II was
quite transparent.
A cynical husband says that the only.
good run of luck he ever had was Wnen
his wife ran away from him.
A Poughkeepsie lover writes to his
sweetheart thus "Leven yeres Is rain
er long to kOrt gal but lie haV you
yit, CATE"
At the last ball given at the Louvre,
in Paris, q most wonderful effect OF IL
Elimination was obtained by use OF Jhe /
new oxy-hydrogenic light.
It has been stated by some one curl
GUS in statistics, that the whole amount
of grain raised in New England eacn
year would not supply its Inhabitants
six weeks.
A scare crow has been invented down
East of SO hideous a character that the
crows are bringing back the corn they
carried away last year
Mr.. Ashmore, n Chinese missionary
SAYS Burliugame took the Chlnese ms
sion as a lawyer takes a case IL hand
for the fees. he gets $4,000 a year an
talks as well IS he can for ms cileht'
Mrs. Senator SDrRgue has just been
paving visit to the backwOOds lumber
men Of Maine. Billy caught trout
for her.-TNeW York World. The other
nanTe Of 'sBilly" is Sprague, .. SIS.
eighty persons have applied for di-
vorce at the February term OF Lhe
Fort Wayne, Indiana Common Pleas
Court, a large per centage are from @d-
joining States.
A music seller was lately overpOwer-
ed by a fastidOus young lady, who
vgaHted to purchase ''Mr. HOODS song
OF a gentleman's under garment"
-C4ibbon somewhere remarks that
man is the only animal which can live
equator to the poles and that the hog
seems to approach the nearest to our
species in that privilege.
-"What is truth 7'' The question was
proposed at a deaf and dumb institu-
tion, when one OF the boys drew q
straight line. "And what Is ialses
hood ?' The boy then drew a crooked
line.
The American Dairyman's Assooia-
tion laid on the table a resolution stat
ing that colOring cheese with annato
was Injurious and fraud on che cons
sumner.
We are able to state most distinctly
and positively who will be the control
ing member of Grants administration.
His name is General Economy.
The largest man on record, in mod
ern times, was Miles Darden, native
of North Carolina, born in 179S. he
was seven feet and six inches high. At
his death, in 1857, he weighed a little
over 1000 pounds
The true name OF Barbara Frietchie,
who's flag exploit at Frederick, Mary
land, in oIS62, has been versified by
Whittier, was Mrs. Qua ltrelle.
a paper published in Kendallville,
Indiana, observes "If Mrs. Grant
should happen 10 get the measles, every
fool woman in the country would put
fire red spots on herface, and commence
taking epson salts"
of the ex-Governors Of Ohio, 1Iessrs.
Trimble, Shannon, BARLEY, Bebb,
Chase, Dennison and Cox are still liv-
ing. Mr.. Shannon in the far West, Mr..
Bebb in Tennessee, and Mr.. Chase in
Washington City. The rest are still
residents of Ohio.
A three-year old youngster saw
| drunken man "tacl1ing" through the
street. sMOther," said he ''did God
make that man P' She replied in the
afarmacive. The little fellow reflected
q moment, and then exclaimeds ~
wouldn't have done it."
The Chicago Advance adv0cates Civ
/ ing three-fourths OF the post-ofdces Of
| the country to women. They may seek
/ to learn the contents of lOve-lettera,
/ but they will steal less money, thinks
the Advance.
A marriage has bean arranged be-
! tween the Prince of Asturias and
daughter of the "Duke de Madrid"
/ The Prince is very young, and his bride
elect is not yet born, Il is sad to im-
/ agine the blight of young affection 10
case she should happen 10 bo boy
| Boston Post.
/ The Richmond Dispatch says; ''Those
/ who can not see that negro suffrage ia
/ a settled question, are like stage-driV-
I er who exclaimed to bis colleagues the
/ other day. "Boys, COnfederick money
i will be good yet-Kirby Smith is still
a-fitin' beyond the Mississippi, and hen
bring it up !"
The New York Post argues that the
best way to get rid OF corruption and
bad management Of the canals OF the
state is to sell them, aud states further
that purchasers at q fair valuation can
easily be found.
81 meant to have told you OF that
hole, said a gentleman 70 his friend
who was wVlkiDg with him Ia his gar
den, and stumbled into q pit full OF wa
ter. "No Natter said his friend,
blowing the mud and water out Of his
+ mouth, 'I've found H."
Beecher says that "the only way to
exterminato the Canada thi1tle is 70
plant it for a crop and propose 90 max, MAKE
, money out of it. Then worms VIZ
! gnaw it. bugs will bite Il, beetles VIII
J bore 1t, aphides will suck Il, birds VIII
neck IL, heat will scorch II, rains Wlli
! drown it, mildew and blight VIII ruin
it"
I A professional abortionist In Montau-
! ban has confessed that she has per-
. formed Operations" on over two hun