Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-12

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It DOESN'T follow that a man disliizes
{! Ri' bed because he turns his back upon
why is praising children like pre-
pRratiOn Of opium7 Because 20 is
'laudin 'em.
! When a bird's wing is broken by
fowler, can 1t be said TO have a defec-
tive few?
The object some wives have in blow
( ing up their husbands is, doubtless, to
have them come down.
A cruel wag turned a bald-headed
friend into an enemy by advising him
20 have his head TTescOed
Grants letter strahgling the inauFu-
ration ball is called his first veto mes-
sage.
The last Partisan idea is TO cover vs-
lOcipedes with advertising.
Mrs. Grant is a member Of the ATotha
Odist Church.
Wire-pullers-the telegraph men now
before Congress.
About S31, 600 900 was received in-
to the Treasury by the Government du-
ring the month Of January
Fifty Missouri Legislators are willing
to submit the female suffrage question
to vote Of the people.
DalEe's bakery in Chicago consumes
40,000 barrels Of aour annually, OK four
times as much as any other IN the Uni-
ted States.
Hon. Alex. II. Stephens declines the
/ Professorship pf the University TOT
Georgia, on account Of i'll health,
All Methodlsts, whether male or f.
male, are to vote on the question OF lay
presentation, which comes up in the
churches this year.
There are 1--WE HovereignB I'm Tlurope
VINO are unmarried six widowed ; one
| divorced; twenty-five married and
one (the Sultan) much married.
During the late dangerous illness OF
! Prince Napoleon, telegrnphic INQUIRIES
1 concerning his condition arrived from
all the courts of Europe, except those
Of England and Russia
Under his own vine and fig tree The
/ Hon. William Mungen, Nj. O., OF Ohio
| is known as Fiddler BilI.D
An exchange says, 'it cost ten dollars
/ to knock down ones sister im MObfle.n
| 1t is not long since Ii cost a thousand
dollars in Mobile to "knock down"
ones sister on the auction block.
One witness, in a Pennsylvania con-
/ tested election case, Michael ElaVeu bv
name, sWears that he voted the Demo
cratic ticket twenty times between 8
O'Clock, a. m, and $50 p. M. "A clear
case Of two-and-a-half hours wasted.
John F. Scott, the new United States
Senator for Pennsylvania, shouldarsd
the musket of private in the militia,
for the purpose Of welcoming with
bloody hands to hospitable graves, the
henroOst rObbiug rabble, headed by
Robert q. Lee, which raided into the
State in 1868.
A man tried on a pair of pantaloons
in a New Orleans clothing store, and
while the proprietor's attention was
distracted he slipDed out, leaving his
old garments, and a forgotten porte
monnaie containing 500 ia one of the
pockets.
The British House OF Lords is now
the only hereditary chamber IA Eu-
rope.
At a recent party at Grants residence
in Washington, Venturesome fair one
said, General, now, won't you say who
you intend to put In your Cabinet g"
"Wells Mrs.=,' y said he, ''nny wife has
asked me that question already, but i
have not told her yet"
The Toledo Blade mentions the ar
rest in that city Of "two diseased meat
peddlers." We cannot see why q poor
unfortunate man should be arrested
just because he happens to be a victim
OF disease. If the Blade man meant
UEu4A5E8 OF Qu18taa4 AN0HEH WHY UNHn'H
he say so ?-lCleveland Leader.
Said youngster, in high glse, dis
playing his purchase 10 a bosom friend
ON the sidewalk, HTWO cocOamuta for
ten cents that viii make me sick to-
morrow, and I won't have to 90 10
school"
''There now" che tyrant man y7ilIex-
claim, 81 told you So" The Chicago
sorosisters have quRrrsled among them
selves, and will hold two Woman SUI
frage Conventions instead ofOne. Anna
Dickinson will address both.
The Prince Imperial Is learning TO
play the fiddle. his tutor urged the
Emperor to have plano lessons given 90
him, but Napoleon decided In favor Of
the violin. The Emperor himself ia
quite an excellent fiddler.
Queen Victoria wears her hair. In
private, as English ladies were won't TO
wear it five and twenty vsarB arot On
the rare occasions in which she appearH
in public, she bands her tresses undera
diamond Golf, after the manner Of
Mary, Queen Of Scots.
Rev. Mr.. Trask's antidote for tobacco.
is: Resolution, gentiHn, and the
grace Of God" The gentIan root
coarsely ground, is to be ehewod Inc
stead of tobacco, until the appetite for
the latter dies out, ,and can be purchased
at the apOthecary's.
st. Petersburg has a sOrosis which
demands for their sex a participation ia
the various branches Of higher hiBtori-
cal, pathological and scientific educ0-
ton, including the practical art Of med-
icine.
We have acquired another indian
war. The redskins in Alaska have
hoisted the flag and hidden General
JEFF. @. Davis and his squad OF soldiers
defiance. It will not last long, az no
indian has huDrn = f-Hran~
there to distribute arms, powder, shot,
and other hunting materials. The
Alaska Indians will, therefore, light at
a disadvantage.
There are now ave inebriata asy-
lums in the United States one in Boa-
ton, opened in 1867, called the wash
ingtoniau Home; one In Media, near
Philadelphia, opened In 1867, called the
Sanitarium one in Chicago, opened IN
1865; one at Binghampton, N. w.
called the New York Inebriate Asylum,
founded in 1858, and one in San Fran
cisco, founded in 1857.
The oldest Sovereign in Europe ls the
Pope-seVeuty-si1, The average age Of
the thirty-eight monarchs now on Eu-
ropean thrones is forty-five. The
youngest is twenty-five.
A Milwaukee velooipedlst vvaeera
81, 900 that he can make forty miles On
an hour,
Michigan has one female Notary
Public. She has just been reanpointed
and confirmed by the Senate, after enc
joying the privileges and smolumantg
Of the office for four years,
Question for the next meeting az the
Boston wOmRn's olu bs''rhe capacity for
Whistling Is In general masculine, not
feminine. How would you account for
this ?" We account for 10 on the ground
that AsHursa nfalNn tho MHHN
time Ewes dry goods bin was sent in
to him.
General Butler has just discovered
shat our government has paid a salary
for ffty years past to q man whose sole
duty Is to sit from a. ma. to 8 D. m. tu
watch the Crypt under the Capitol.
where WashinRton's rem aims were to
have been-but were not-huriod. The
present incumbent has held the place
forty years, and his attention has been
concentrated ON the endorsement Of the
rule that only one gas burner should be
Iiwhteu- An unrrntnffrH rnunfrr frr-