Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-10-22
PERSONAL.

Fillmore and johnson are now the
only ex-Presidents.
A weight on Democratic shoulders
-Pendle-ton.
Does a man who plants himself on a
principle ever come up before the peo-
ple2
JEFF. Davis thinks that, after all, he
will take up his bed and board again
in Mississippi.
Olive Logan has had an oil well at
Kitanning, Pennsylvania, named after
her. 1t runs pure Olive oil.
Geo. Francis Train is an alchemist;
he transforms that base metal, brass in
to gold.
Rev. Olympia Brown is to preach at
Bridgeport, Connecticut, hereafter.
Mrs. Lincoln, is living unpreten-
tiously at Frankfort, Germany.
Winnie Ream is at work on the bust
of Father Hyacinthe. So is the Pope.
Aver, by virtue of his pills, might
make living run for Congress.
Geo. w. Curtis gets 81, 800 yearly for
his editorial work upon Harper's Ma
gazine, tits said.
Anna Diekinson's new lecture on
Salt Lake, might be named Across
the Inoontinent, but it isn't.-LBos-
ton Post.
It is now thought that when Richard
III offered kingdom for a horse there
roania in tho
''Ha'n't your at sleepy?' asked a
boot-black of seedy- looking clergy
man ''it looks as if it was a dreadful
long time since 1t had nap"
The Detroit Tribune remarks that
Democratic prospects in Ohio are not
bright; a General Hayes obscures them
all"
An undertaken having apartments
to let posted his bills upon the cofhns
in the window, announcing, Lodg-
ings for single gentlemen"
An Irishman is never at peace but
when he is fighting a Scotchman is
never at home but when he is abrnad /;
an Englishman never is happy but
when he is miserable.
An Iowa paper says: Its all a
mistake about Henry Clay Dean being
a vain man. Soft soap has the least
effect on him of any man we ever saw. p"
General George B. Mcclellan will
spend the most of the winter at Wash
ington It is not the first winter the
General will have spent mostly at
Washington.
Mary AIMS young man wants to
know whether this Low of California,
who has been appointed Chinese Min
lister, is any relation to Lo the poor
Indian. Also, what denomination be
is minister of.-OhiO State Journal.
The James Lynch, colored," as he
is described by telegraph, who is now
running for Secretary of State in Mis-
sissippi, was for long time the Rev
James Lynch, Methodist clergyman
in Philadelphia, and is spoken of by
the Press of that city as man of mo
ordinary abilities
A miss, who felt slighted at having
received no invitation to neigh hbor's
funeral, on meeting daughter of the
deceased soon after, said to her: "We
shall probably have a funeral at our
house one of these days, and you may
rest assured you won't be invited"
Old Shafer, of Prairie Ronde, re-
ports very fair growth of corn this
season. He states that in July it was
so dark between the rows that he was
obliged to carry a lantern to see to
plough it out.
Mrs. Partington says she did not
marry her second husband because she
loved the male sex, but just because he
eas the size of her first husband, and
could wear out his old clothes.
A New England church was in need
of a pastor. A deacon supplying the
pulpit one Sabbath prayed for the
coming man after this fashion: Send
| US not an old man in his dotaRe, nor a
young man in his gosliughOod, but a
man with all the modern improve
ments.
"John," said pious uncle to his
nephaW who was paying his first visit
to the city, John, we're in the habit
of saying something before we eat.
"All right" said John! You can't
turn my stomach II
an Undertaken upbraid a mute who
had laughed at a funeral. you ras-
cal, you. | have been raising your wa
ges for the last two years, on condition
| that you appear more sorrowful, and
the more pay you receive, the happier
you appear"
An old soldier, whose nose had been
cropped off by a sabre cut, happened
to give a few pence to a beggar, who
exclaimed in return God preserve
your eyesight - why so 2" inquired
( the veteran. Because, sir, was the
reply, "if your eyes should grow weak
you couldn't keep spectacles on them. F."
A cynic by the name of Wright, in
WTightville, Wright County, out West
recently writing on woman's rights,
said THAT it is SO seldom that women
do right what is right, that it is no
more than right that when they do
what is right that it should be rightly
done" - Now, if Mr.. Wright is not
right, then he had no right to write the
above.
Mother wants to know if you won't
please lend her your preserving kett le
cause she wants TO do up some apple
sarse." II would with pleasure, boy,
but the truth is, the last time we lent
il to your mother she preserved it SO
effectually that We have not seen il
since "Well, you needn't be sarsy
about your old kettle. Guess it was
full of holes when we borrowed it, and
mother wouldn't have troubled you
agin, only we seed you bring home q
new one."