Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-03-25

IIary repulsion-a eblgnon

No matter how low gold may gcl +.
VIII never want fiends.-M J. Posi-
The Keepapitchinin is the name of a
comic paper Just started ia Utah.
The artist who is at work on a picture
OF SPrng IS requested TO draw il mild.
A mans position now depends on tbe
PN5Ac. '7'' ''l''''a 4.''
Two-thirds of the New York nick.
pockets are girls under twenty wears of
It il. supposed that WhiHemore's and
Golladay's cadets win be unable to see
the Point
Boarding the lion in his den is not half
SO hazardous as It would be to undertake
California has newspascr known as
the Westonyille Pajar0nian. The news
boys are shy Of It,
Pennsylvania puddIers can boast Of
having cultivated their olfactory organs
to such degree that they smeb ir0n.-
~ = Past
WhiHemore was an artist. as wen AS
Spectator, and was particularly success
tul IN drawing mileage.
How many apples did dour6rst parents
eat in the Garden Of Eden? Eve eight
and Adam two.
It is not yet known whether Niagara
landlords viii lower their prices nesd
season, but the Falls will come down.
anyhow
A young lady in Easton, PENNSYLVANIA
who was eighteen years old and weighed
tlve hundred pouds, has gone the way Of
all flesh.
We like to sec men strike a horse nith
a whip and then yell f'whoa. Itshous
their good sense.
Several towns in Vermont have. atthe
recent elections, elected women AS sf-
Perintendents oftheir schools
London proposes to construct one
hundred and twenty miles of street rai-
ways al a cost OF 81, SOC, 900.
A New Jersey grocer, when complain
ed to about selling bad eggs says: ''At
this time Of year the hens are sick, and
often lay bad eggs.
They have a calico Judge In Wyom-
ing, and don't know whether TO call her
a Justcess-of the-Peace, or a Jusice-of
the-Peacess.
The clerk of the Alabama Legislature
wants more pay. Hehas to hire a school
master to do his spelling, and that costs
money
A young boy in Illinois, a few days
ago, laid a train Of powder through the
kitchen, and then fred il, 'just to scare
ma" He hasn't been able to sit down
with any comfort since.
"A New York paper, commenting on
the high price Of eggs, thinks that "hens
could make piles Of money now by pay
ing strict attention to business.
An Indiana lady, evidently somewhat
threw a lighted kerosene
lamp at her better half She lost both
house and contents, including her hus-
band.
President Smith, Of Dartmouth College
has rented a cottage in the mountain re-
gion of Jamaica, fourteen hundred and
fifty feet above the sea, where he has
high hopes of fully recovering his health.
A Baltimore woman sent her grocer
the following note "Mr. Tuttle This
here thing has got too much hemp ip it
for molasses, and not quite enough for q
so / beg you to exchange it
for purer article.
An old farmer, whose son had lately
died, was visited by a neighbor. who be-
gan to condole with him on his loss.
''AIy 1ossr' exclaimed the father. mo
such thing; it was his own loss-he was
of age"
Horace Greeley takes an extra twist in
his last pleasant reference to the editor
of the El012a, whom he pronounces ga
Lara graceless, shameless. viIlain1us.
detestable liar. There is nothing more
delightful than unstudied frankness
among friends.
The Pitts6eld and North Adams Rail-
road, in Massachusetts, is not remark
able for speed. As a train on it recently
came to a dead halt, a passenger ex-
claimed: 'Well, / wonder what we've
stopped for now" why" explains a
''its to take the cow
catcher off the engine and put ii on be-
hind, to keep the COWS from running
over us"
A few days ago a man entered an i'm
paper on the counter, said 10 the clerk.
That's run out, and want to get it re-
1ewed.' As the clerk unfolded Che
document a broad grin spread over his
ace, and he inquired care you sure
hat this has run out y eyes, said The
nan, "my wife told me it run out yestcr-
lay morning. whereupOn the clerk
handed back to him his marriage GER
i6cate.
A gentleman was chiding his son for
staying out late at night, or rather early
next morning, and said "Why. when
was of your age, my father would not
allow me to 20 out of the house after
dark Then YOU had deuce of a fa-
ther, YOU had, sneered the young pro-
higate. Whereupon the father very RASH
ly vociferated. 81 had a coni0unded
sight better one than you, you young
rascal. "
Some very eccentric expressions were
used in prayers Of clergymen of the last
An Edinburgh minister was
inclined to grumble when he prayed
'Give us not need to think Thee neglect
ful of thine own, for we are thine own
family and we have been but scurvily
provided for this long time. The tol-
lowing is a specimen Of bapusmal
prayer: lord, bless and preserve this
young calf, that he may grow an oE 90
draw Christ's plow" Mr.. Erskinc once
praved thus: 20 Lord, have mercy up-
on all fools and idiots, and particularly
on the magistrates Of Edinburgh" AIr.
once indulged in the following
allegory edible. Thou
the kali Of Thy grace into our hearts
and, ii we grow not up 20 the stature OF
good kali, Lord, make us good sprouts
at least. ~ y EIdebeUdsHs