Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-06-18
NO. IS

caught in 1928 was pronounced rs sweet
as spring water in 1850.
Mr.. Henry Reed, formerly editor Of
+ of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and recent
ly connected with the Missouri ReDub-
sscGH, has become associate editor Of
the st. Louis Times.
''What is the meaning of lost in
! French ?" said cab-drlver to a foreign
/ gentleman "Rerdu." "Well, then,
er. M 9a-' '''' Ga -U'iN-
The editor o. The Carson Appeal re-
: Gently saw a white boy and a little
darky hitched up together as horse !
/ and China boy was holding the reins
and driving them.
The last case of Incidence is that Of
/ q maD named John Hole, who was so
/ lazy that, in writing his name, he sim
/ ply used the letter 81 )" and then punch |
ed "A hole through the paper.
General @. A. GiIaaore, who battered
down the walls of Fort Pulaski, in Sa- |
vannah harbor, has now been sent to |
mend them again. That serves him |
! right he ought to have been more |
I careful. Let us have peace.
An ivory tusk, six feet three inches |
I long and 29H inches in circumference, |
4 has recently been eXhumed in Monta-
ma. It was found buried in the sand
p feet below the surface.
The counsel, (" said a learned Judge.
viii do well to pluck some of The
| feathers out Of the wings of his fmaR-
I ination and stick them into 5he tail of
/ his jU dgment."
In one of DR.. W. ii. Rdssell's letters
from Egypt, desert bfng the tour Of
the Prince Of Wales, the writer SAYS F; |
. As there were no other asses to be /
found, the A3Eke of Sutherland, Col
Truesdale, Coz, Marshall and I were
Obliged to &rudge on foot"
Jdhn Russell Young thinks that
Kansas is noble, wild, free country,
radics2 down to the grass-roots, the /
germ of mighty nation, and says he |
sees 'tavery thing but trees and old
men."
Lieut.. Gov. Dunn, who makes au ex-
ceIlent presiding officer in the LOUISE
ana Senate, though be has had no ex-
perience of legislative bodies, acquired
his familiarity with parliamentary
rules and usages in Masonic lodge.
The rotten silks now sold have manv
of them been fraudulently made to abb
sorb some foreign substance, generally
metallic sulphur, for the purpose of in
creasing their weight. Id
She tripped along with ribbons ay-l
ing, from bran new hat she'd Fuat4
been buying. She held her head up
very high, and thought, 'tWel9, amt L
just old pie ?'' An orange peel lay in
the track, she tripped, and fiat upon
her bIck lay Miss Maria Slmkins.
A Toledo paper mentions a young
Indian there who considers himself in I
full dress when be has red flannel
string around his neck.
"How fast they build houses now p' !
said III. "They began that building '
last week, and now they are putting in i
hn inh a ,, ,3ef
''and next week they viii put in the '
liver" Ii
The Boston Commercial Bulletin an l
nounces the coming of Brick Pome-i :
roy to the Peace Jubilee by quoting the |
following from the New York Demo-
crat: 1.-The big drum is not the only
thing with sheep's head that is likely &
to be in Boston at the peace humbug.' !
A layman in the Methodist Church, 3
suggests that the unmarried ladies wilt I
not vote on the question of lay delega- a
tion, for the reason that the plan re- q
quires them 10 be twenLy-One years Of {
age, which, of course, they viii not be.
They have Just had an alligator +
race at Jacksonville, Florida. Five :
entries were made for purse Of $50 !
best two ia three. Nimble Jack was +
the victor, Champion Maid coming in / s
second. All the animals are in training 4
for another race. Is
OF Il, ,496 prisoners in the penitentiar- I
les of thirty States, in 1867, according =
% the report of the Prison Association. II
ust issued, seventy-seven per cent, -
more than three quarters. had not y
earned trade. u
James Grant, the assassin Of Mr.. | fl
Pollard, in Richmond, has accepted a "
4 professional engagement with the Il
Opera Troupe. He @
s said to be an excellent basso He
will sing in a New York church choir
Until fall, when the new opera season j.
begins
The Pacific Railroad Bridge across
he American Rivera superior Howe n,
russ bridge-was built at a cost OF
about 10000, including a half mile of oS
restte work on the southern side The in
bridge, proper is 500 feet long, and rests / III
IN four or five substantial piers.
Anna Dickinson asks triumphantly q
whether ladies belong to any of the ~
rings" so much talked about We pl
Lon't know, indeed, Anna, but we have l to
cen many pretty young creature like pa
'ou who couldn't look at a ring with
ut wishing to have a finger in ft.-I sp
louisville COurier-Journal. Ia
There is a little child boru in the ~
'Lio Penite ntiarY, il is said, who has ar
AIKEN great liking to Mrs. Victor, an
rho is imprisoned there for murder by ~
u fs1
ne as mother would treat her own ce,
hild. H.,
The sons of Temperance have 1 .96s
ivisions in operation, with 96,67s la'
1embers and 4O,7Sl lady visitors. The tn
pceipts of the order last year were
1876, ,265, and it has $223, ,693 in cash or
God investments. Nearly 25, 600 men, ill
ers were expelled during the year.
A lady fifty-two years old, whose | cel
usband is in the seventies, gave birth
D twins few days ago at Washington tho
# male and female created he them, nj
nd one is named May and the other ".
I. S. Grant. The veteran father need tai
OF be put upon the retired list. .
''Do you think, Doctor" asked an me
nxious mother, "that it would inn ~ ~
rove little Johnny's health to take lI3S
inn to the springs and let him try the NJ
ater ?' "I haven't doubt of it, -
commend .,SirIi Doctor o 81 AmT Ts4G sDrfS thi
adam, where you find plenty of No
zap" INC illo
The Hon. VIM. II. Seward and party SO
ere in Chicago lately. They have 9Ca
arted on a tour of six months dura-
on, comprising trip by the Pacific p D.,
abroad to San Francisco, where they =,
-Opose taking a steamer for Sitka. -
be party also propose to visit India a. +,
i'd China before their return home. ~
Prof. Marsh, of Yale College has dis oo,'
,vered in the tertiary deposits of Ne NJ
-aslIa the minutest fossil horse vet boL
1tained. It is only two feet high, al Ia,
lough full grown. This makes the a
venteenth species OF Iossll morse dis UR
'vered on this continent. t6e
On Sunday, near Rising Sun, Indiana, So,
!LtUtS E4r5 u4sco EeESu tnS D9uy OF reb
,ates and America steamboat disaster,
r which a reward of 81 800 had been 4
fered. A valuable diamond ring was II
st on one of the fingers. vot
wit
The naughty Star, twinkling abont mat
le ages of people connected with the mel
ress, finally winlxs at the ladies atter ishl
lis fashion g AS near as we can ger n,
the ages here and hereabouts, they ind
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