Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
Parsnnal.

An Oregon paper calls Brick Pomo-
roy t'ths noted Obscenist."
The London Times asserts that "every
industrious working man in England
carries a pauper on his back"
George Alfred Townsend has settled
down into spinning Washington letters
for the Chicago Tribune at IS, 900 year
An acute observer has discovered that
the Grecian bend is not INDUCED in by
ladies In straightened eircumstancess
Henry Ward Beecher says the women
make the best prayers in the congrega-
ton.
Boston has one doctor who protends
to practice HNa6urepathy," and one
doetress who practices fBaungobeidis-
mus" No wonder it Is sickly there.
The friends Of Madame PRrepa will
be glad to hear that she has ttttLe one.
It is her husband.
1t is considered cool to take q mans
hat with his name written in IL, simply
because you want his autograph.
"There now" said a little girl, while
rummaging q drawer in q bureau,
"grandpa has gone to heaven without
his spectacles."
The telegraph is said to be a failure
in Mexico, because the greaBerB steal
The New York Tribune cleared Sz25,-
600 last year, the most profitable year
Of its existence. The previous year 90
cleared S125, 900.
Thurlow Weed has sold out his inter.
est in the New York Commercial, az
ranged all his earthly affairs, and awaits
the coming of death.
The German citizens of VVinona, Min
nesotas had a tOrchlight sleigh-ride last
/ week-a custom which Is common in
| the old country.
1 The Milwaukee Congressional Dis
i trict has had a United States Senator
/ for tWenty-one years, and in CaEpen-
/ ter's election VIII have one for six Ysaru
longer.
A Havana dispatch reports several
murders 'in cold blood" We feel au-
! thorized to deny the story. There IS no
cold blood in Cuba.
! Bismarck, who has of late suffered
| greatly from sleeplessness, has expert
/ enced much relief through the sweet
tunes Of a magnificent music box.
The criminals of Great Britain cost
$50, 100000.
Gen. Rousseau had his life insured
for $4,000.
Can any one sell how it rs that q man
WHO - TOO PDDE 10 pay Ake CENTS O week
for good weekly paper is able TO pay
fifteen cents day for tobacco and CI-
gars, to say nothing of an occasional
drink.
Grant and Farragut were weighed to-
gether in Baltimore tobacco factory
the other day. The Admiral weighed
l5i pounds, aVOirdupOis. and the Geuer-
al beat him four pounds.
DR.. Mudd, Of Lincoln assassination
infamy, now serving out his life term
at the Dry Tortugas, continues to veE
the air of Washington with petitions
for his pardon. WOuidn'tit be well for
that Mudd to dry up.
Horatio Seymour, having been ex-
biltty, has turned his attention TO cheese
! BE has just been elected President % o.
|. Dairymen's Association.
At party. while a young lady was
playing with a peculiar brillinncy Of
touch, by-stGnder bachelor exclaimed. .
I'D give the world for those fingers. y
perhaps you might get the whole hand
by asking" said the young lady's OBJ
servant mamma.
Teacher.-"Come hear you scamp,
and get sound spanking" Scholar
"You hain't got no right to spank me
and the copy you set sez So" Teacher
II should like to hear you read that
copy" Scholar (rsads)-'Let an the
ends thou aimeat at be thy country's'
A Mississippi editor is compiling a
book entitled, Northern OutraEes dur
ing the War"
New York fashionables have adopted
the plan Of giving entertainments at
hotels instead Of at their own resi-
dences. Lt saves them a vast doal Of
= trouble and confusion.
We see far TOO often in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, matter more befctinF Che
columns Of q Black Republican than
, those Of q Democratic paper. I'm tha
= daily Of Wednesday, for Instance, Wir-
: ginians who reject nigger suffrage, are
conspicuOusly stigmati1ed as "Bour-
bons."-[B [Bucyrus (Ohio) Forum.
Affected young lady, seated in rock
= ing chair, reading the Bible, exclaimed;
Mother, here is a grammatical error ga
the Bible" Mother, lowering her spec
J bacles and approaching the reader in q
very scrudnizing attitude, says "Kiu
= It'll kill it :"