Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-11-05

Swings basket to and fro,
Vastly different from the one
T9St z99s 8 s1e 1o, swung S,I,9 u years agone;
And has rockers at DE side.
PERSONAL.
A son Of Brigham Young runs
menagerie in Salt Lake City.
When Josh Billings breakfasts on
mackerel he dimes on water.
Ida Lewis talks of establishing a |
rowing school for young ladies.
The turkey cholera" is spelling
Thanksgiving dinners in PenDsylva-
mia.
Fred. Douglass will lecture this
winter on "Our Composite Nationali-
ty.
One New York doctor has sent six
brokers to the Insane Asylum since
the gold panic.
Garry Riggs, of Seymour, Ct., pick
cd, the 18th ult. his second crop Of
Strawberries.
The Prince Of Darkness is the title
Of Mrs. SouthWOrth's latest-we do
not venture to say last-novel.
A lady recently had a dress made
in three hours in New Haven. 1t re-
quired twenty-five yards of silk and
trailed eighty inches.
Now that blonde hair is going out, it
is safe to know that soda and lemon
juice did the business.
Governor Peter p. Washburn, of
Vermont, sets the example Of short
lnaugurals, aud denounoes usUry laws
and private legislation.
The Empress of Russia is 40 i'll
that some st. aersburg physicians
say she cannot live more shan few
months.
A model wedding" is shortly to
@sccur IN Massachusetts, town, the
announcement being, IN. C.-No
cards, no cake, no company"
A clergyman in New York took
S0,OOO wedding fee last week.
Brigham Young has four thousand
five hundred pounds of mother-in-
law.
An ingenious suicide in Wisconsin
bent down a sapliBg, hitehed himself
to 1t by rope about his neck, then
letgo.
A Woman's rights paper. TO be pub
1lshed at Charlottesville, Indiana, will |
bear the terrifying name Of The !
Avenger."
Joe Jefferson lived in Galena when
a boy, and is remembered by his
schoolmasters there as all irrepressibly
witty urohin.
Lord Holland, who lived in the time
of William III, used to treat his
horses to a weekly concert in the sta
bic, on the plea that music cheered
their hearts and improved their tenn
pers.
A woman saved the life of child
on the Lyons Railway. in France, risk
ing her own by snatching it from the
rails as train passed, and the direc-
tors awerded her one franc for her
heroism.
j. W.Jones, of Portland, has put
up at bis different establishments in
Maine, this year, nearly 100000 cans
of green corn, berries and peaches
Six thousand persons were employed
six weeks in canning.
Mrs. Partington is of the opinion
that that ere gold ring they're ma
kin sich fuss about in New York
must be mighty han'some." Ike says
ITS 'mense." /"
Yulee, the Florida rebel, and ex-
United States Senator, offers a site
for every school house which may be
built along the route of the Florida
Railroad, Of which he is President.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor has settled on
the title of his novel for next years
Atlantic Monthly-not very strik-
ing one at first sight" Joseph and
His Friend" It is a Pennsylvania
story.
"Stubbs, my dear fellow, isn't it
about time you repaid me that little
loan p Augustus, my boy, it isn't
a question of time, but question of
money"
Prof. Mantegazza looked for six
teen hours, without Winking, through
microscope in search Of the begin
nings of organic existence in a solu-
tion of his preparation. He didn't
find them.
Jefferson Davis has disappointed
his friends by ygoing to Mississippi via
Charleston, instead of through Wash
ipgton. as he promised. JEFF never
could be depended on at Washington;
in the last eight years he promised to
60 there several times when he didn't
go.
a New York omnibus, and equally
New York street car, are places where
the little amenities of society are cul-
tivated A Young Lady" writes to
the Times speaking of theamiable hab-
il Of men of putting their hands be-
Bind the backs of ladies.
Returns have been received from
more than tWo-thirds of all the Pres
byteries of the Presbyterian Church,
ratifying the proposed union of the
bodies. The Assemblies will meet in
Pittsburg, on the 10Th, of this month.
to count the votes and declare the re-
tult.
President Salnavc, oc Hayti, in
whose dominions gold recently advan-
eed to 10000 per cent, or 81 800 for
one. nut the brokers in prison, and
nressed a score of them into the army.
Result, temporary panic in the col
ored republics gold room but pro-
visions refused 10 fall, and pork is.
still quoted at $50, 900 barrel.
Sonora Oviede, Of Guanabacoa, Cuba
(formerly Miss Bartlett and the heroine
Of the once famous diamond weddIng)
has been lately making sensation IN
Cuba, by forcibly refusing TO allow
Spanish officials to enter her room in
their search for a Culouel Ouesads,
who they suspected had lately return
cd from New York ou iusurrectionary
thought intent.