Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-11-19
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Lincoln is a srapdpother.


Mrs. Lincolp il a erapdpother.
Napoleon has lost his war-horse of
Alexander Fl Stephens is now too
i'll to leave his bed.
All the Southern papers have long
eulogies of the late George Peabody.
Rich. Chinamen in San Francisco
pay FIVE hundred dollars for a first
class wife.
General Sheridan invited Prince
Arthur to visit Kansas and hunt buff
faloes, 2a
A Nevada editor says he can look
into q nest of rattlesnakes from his
bedroom window.
Miss Jalia CI.Addington has been
elected school superintendent u Mich
ell County, Iowa.
Liverpool adyerti es for an organ
blower, powerful and pioas man,
whocan bloRa fugde at sight.
Cotton Blankets are made at a
factory in Columbus. Georgia. They
are saidato be white, soft, warm and
durable,
TIE names of common drunkards
are posted up in Galesburg, Michigan,
and saloons forbidden to furnish them
liquor
IL is reported that George Pea body
has left an estate of 81 500, 600. which
i distributed by viii among twenty.
nine persons.
a Norfolk (Eireinia) paper says
There Is man ia this city SO ugly
that with six frowns be can Kill bull
dog
California has developed new ia
dustFy 1t ships bales of chaparal
leaves to China, where they are boxed
up andsent back as tea
4 Burlington, lVG) paper thus
closes a marriage notice No cards
no cakeisno western paper need copy.
EfaVen satin corsets were among the
goods which a Mormon Elder attempt
ed to smuggie through the New York
Custom house
Here Is a .persoual advertisements
in a French newspaper Eliza
You can return 20 the house. The
bolton my nose has gone
Richard Weaver IS rhe latest popu.
lar lay preacher IN London, and his
hearers EASILY follow the thread Of his
discourse.
In The late freshet,3the postmaster
at Norway, Maine, lashed the post
Office 10 II large elm, bur the flood
came aud broke the rope.and ianded
~his ofieeein the etuwu of Hanoyer
Professor Kerr, Of NORTH Carolina,
thinks thatth Black Mountains iu
that favored State were the first dry
land to appear above the waters on
this-SpheEe.--aasz----s--4-s--zz--
The largest farn6ih sEOgland con
tains three Thousand acres ]. T.
Alexanders's famous farm, near He
mer, Illinois, consists of twenty six
thousand five hundred acres.
Don't take hold Of man who at
tempts to elope with your. daughter.
by the leftieR, lAnsold fellow tried in
Des Molness Iowa, last week, and his
capture amounted to one boot
Jim, the Hermit ef. the Platte,
lives IR8 straw hut near Platte City,
Missouri. He never speaks to any
body, aud his diet is kroasted apples
and river water.
Itisn't always bestto be too famil-
lar with lady travellers A defuded
JerseYman offered to hold baby for
a young widow, on the Southside Rail
road, whiles6e went 10 see her uncle.
Minus. watch aud pocket book, and
with an India rubber dOllin his arms
he has been waiting for her return ever
since
The Columbus J Jouraafrelates thai
General |, r.. Sherwood, Secretary o.
State, during asTeceIt sQiourn at an
Oberlin hotel7 stripped to the buff il
the courseS al making a change .ot
clothes, aud then opened what he sup
posed tu be the doorof a closet. In,
stead OF. el0sett a sitting room filled
with ladies burst on the General:
troubled vision. Fourteen screams
drowned the noise Of one slam
What appetites The weekly con,
sumption of provisions at tie Noun
Holyoke Female Seminary, is six hun
dred and seventy quarts OF milk
thres hundred pounds of butter, eigh
barrels of -four, and six hundret
pounds of beef, together with min,
tunsof sugar per year, eight hundred
bushels of potatoes, one hundred
bushels of turnips, and thirty thous
and pounds. of winter squashes.
The Bishop of Exeter was enc daJ
visited BY a clergyman, clad in ligh
fancy trowseFs and black neckcloth
The Bishop glanced with reprovin,
eye at the trowsers, and then observed
Not quite a cleTiea garb, think, M
dear Mr.. Dornton.H Well, my Lord. +.
replied the confused rector, 'the fac
is that my trOWsers were Of muct
darker hue, but repeated visits to the
laundry baye made them look lighter
And, rejoined the Bishop, with an
upward glance, Il suppose the color o.
the trOWsers has run into The neck
cloth
What is to be- tbe costume Of tht
emancipated women? Miss Diokin.
sOn, having lately traversed a contin
ent, bears a "reminiscences Of its broad
acres bebind her in her train. Mis-;
Logan was mildly censured by her pre-
siding officer on one occasion for hel
personal splendors. and she now ap
pears in heavy black velvet, heav,
silk over SKIRT and panier. and go1C
ornaments. Miss Field, on the 9th