Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-02

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A frantic Boston man advertises
" Jubilee beans" for sale. ~ e..
Disgusting raeanness-Tot tan dogs
hide with his own bark,
What did blind wood-sgE take
4 90 restore his sight2 he took hll
I and saw.
S. S. Cox has discovered that he 90
| eighty per cent water. The remaining
per cent. is milk.
1t is said that Nasby made $4,000 by
lecturing last winter.
What is a husbands promise about
| giving up tobacco apt to end in2 In
smoke.
Secretary Borle has resigned. There
upon the whole country Is resigned
With some ladies the difference i6
/ very slight between fainting and MAX
/ ing a feint.
| States Treasury now amounts TO over
| $50, O,O90.
There is a proposition that the ladies
I shall themselves decide by vote Wheth-
er they desire the ballot.
/ A Mrs. Mansfield and her husband
/ have been admitted TO. the bar as prac-
\ ticing attorneys, at Mount Pleasahtf
4 Iowa.
Greece had its Achilles, and Cinein-
a natl, erst-while known as the chief
City of Grease, has its Nesmith.
Twenty-seven printing presses ia the
| Treasury building are now kept run
ming on beer and whisky stamps.
Three thousand duels were fought in
the German universities last year,
most Of them very harmless affairs.
Paper petticoats in London for six
! pence VIII not some one make an-
other cheap (dear2) sensation by an
| importation
The late Henry J. Raymond's son fs
| TO be the future editor of the Times.
he is young man of promise and a
/ born journalist.
An inebriated man walking along
the street regarded the moon with
sovereign contempt; You needn't be
| so proud, ole fellow" he said
!" You're ful only once month, and
am every night"
4 Mrs. Mary Thomas Clark, an Indiana
Il spiritualist, thinks that spirftualism is
needed in politics. Its need was long
| ago recognized, and spiritual influences
have long been used. II is found to
work well in electiOneering.
General Sherman had the audacity 10
| speak Of the Peace Jubilee, which
]
/ drumming match ~ Sherman VIII
have to be educated up.
| We have heard of an individual uvbo
/ buys one or two shares Of stock iu
every railroad and bank, 30 that he
may go to all the annual elections and
eat all the annual dinners.
The Boston Sunday Times gives the
dimensions of Parepa- Rosh's voice as
follows; " 800 feet long, 800 feet wide.
and hfn-tTzz-un fHa fEr'Ifraar
A valuable BED Of bloodstone has
just been discovered by Prof. Shepherd.
one mile from st. Mary, st. Gen6veivs
county, No, on lands owned by NJ. A.
Gilbert. There is only one other place
in the United States "a small deposit i'm
Ohio) where it has been found.
A cOckney, who went out rabbit
shooting, observing don key PeePing
over hedge, Immediately levelled his
piece, eXclaiming "By JoVel that
must be the father Of all the rabbits"
Colfax is Doctor CoIfaT henceforth,
the college at Hillsdale, Mich, having
hOnored him with that degree. The
Vice President is, however, one of
those who don't grow great by degrees.
New York is going to ask Congress
for another appropriation for the iln-
| provement of Hell Gate, on account Of
the renewed rush through that entrance
we sup pose.
| A correspondent suggests that the in-
! ebriated person who proposed to escort
/ his girl to see g CrossingtOn Washing
the Delaware, " should do so on 50 Birth
/ ington's Washday."
1t is said that William B. Astor's an
nual income is 5000, 900, yet he never
assists any charity, helps the deserv-
ing, or does any good with his money.
Everybody viii be glad when he is
dead and pUt out of sight.-CNL. Dram.
ReUjesU.
" If any man wants to be an old
bachelor, and get sick at a boarding.
tavern, and have back room 10 the
fourth story, and have a red-haired
cham mbermaid bring his Cruel to him i'm
tin wash basin, he has got perfect
right to do it."
81 How old are your asked a rail-
road conductor of a little girl whom
her mother was trying to pass on a
halt rare ticket. " am nine at home,
/ but in the cars am only six and half.
An English chemist has discovered
/ a preparation which viii petrify hue
man bodies, and suggests that By his
method one can make excellent build
/ ing material Of his ancestors. But this
is of old use in modern houses.
The New York World is Iaboring to
show that at one time Edwin M. Stan
ton sympathized with the rebellion.
It is only fair to say that the rebellion
does not sympathize much with him,
Rip Van WinkIe has turned up in
Florida, appearing at st. Mary's, the
other day, out of the depth Of the ever
glades, bringing two negroes for sale.
He rubbed his eyes and didn't believe
when he was told there had been a war
and that his negroes were free.
At young ladies' seminary, recent
| ly, during an examination in history,
one of the most promising pupils was
interrogated Mary, did Martin
Luther die natural death G' No"
was the reply; " he was eNcommuni-
Gated by bull"
Commodore Mutt and Minnie War
rem were married ON Thursday, at the
| residence OF " Tom Thumbs mother
| Mrs. StrattOn), at West Haven, Conn.
Tom Thumb and his pretty little wife,
| once Miss Lavinia Warren, the sister
of the bride, acted as grOOmsman and
bridesmaid.
A handsome young bride was OBJ
served to be in deep reflection on her
wedding day. One Of her bridesmaids
asked her the subject Of her medita-
tions. " i was thinking" ," She replied,
which Of my old beaux should mar
ry if / should become q widow
The house of Barbara Freitchia has
been torn down. The authorities Oh
FREDERICK IN order 90 get rid of It.. ur-
dered the Strengthening of q creek, and
decided the house was in the roHd.
| The Frederick Examiner saws theu-
have, in strengthening the creek, abb
sOlutely made three sharp angles to
strike the point at which they aimed.
There is no accounting for taste"
I We chew tobacco, the Aindoos lime,
and the POtagonians guano. Our chill
! dren delight in candy, the Africans i'm
| salt, while the EsQuimauN leap FOR
/ a savorv dish the French revel on
! frogs and snails; other sovages on
/ snakes.
] A lady I'm Rhode Island subscribed
| for a Newport paper, the other day, Go
be sent to neighbor who worried hor
| by borrowing her own.
Nature VIII look as gay on the day
| of our death ns evor 10 did The bust.