Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-12-16
mINOn mENrIoN

Generous young ladies give ul-m 20
their gentleman friends.
Early rising is now declared u De
very unhealthy, especially IF there amy
one at the other end Of the rope.
The height of a Pi Utes ambition IS
to marry woman with a winter supp
of dried grasshoppers.
Justice Samuel Nelson, Of the United
States Supreme Court, has been upon
the bench for over forty-nine years.
A little Buffalo girl wants to know II
fieas are white-because her uncle told
her that Mary had a little lamb with
] feas as white as snow 90
After a wedding it was formerly a GUS
tom to drink honey dissolved in water
I for thirty days-a moons age Hence
the origin Of the honey moon.
Singular Fatuity The reason why so
few persons emigrate to this country
from Poland, is the general belief pre-
vailing there that we have throughout
the Union a heavy Pole tax.
Small nursery drama Now. I'lI be
papa, going 70 fix the furnace i' Sallie-
''Oh, yes rand I'll be the new nurse, and
you must kiss me behind the cellar
door Y
"OliVia1 is an -ths-trr.il -1-7 T,rztfr--
Carthy whom she calls a "cistern Of in-
telleet' 'as taut and graceful as a yacht
with complexion like strawberries and
cream.
II is said that Ex-President Lord.
when he closed his labors at Dartmouth.
after thirty-hve years Of service, had but
fifty cents left Of his salary.
Bazaine. as he lately appeared to a
letter-wTiter, was a short, fat, old fellow
who would weigh far more heavily upon
care, than care would upon him.
"Afr. Jones, I understand you said
sold you a barrel Of cider that had water
in it. = NO no, was the reply, "I only
said that you sold me a barrel OF water
with little cider in &"
The graduating class ofthe University
Of Iowa have placed upon the college
grounds a boulder weighing six thousand
and sixty pounds, with the class records
cut thereon.
Atmospherical knowledge, says the
Danbury Massachusetts, News, Is not
thoroughly distributed in our schools.
A boy being asked What is mist p
vaguely responded, 'An umbrella"
''What tipsy again ?" said wife to
her husband. "No, my dear" said he
mot tipsy, but a. little slippery. The
fact is. somebody has been rubbing my
boots till they are as smooth as glass
An exchange. alluding to P. T. Barn
um's coming show, says: ole IS the
gentleman that recently entered land
out West by falling off his horse into a
prairie dog hole. The hole VIII be eE-
hibited among the curiosites. "
Mrs. Agassiz wrote: 'I am never
tired of watching the sloth, he looks so
deliciously lazy" at was hardly nee
essary, says the Christian Register. ITO
go to Brazil to secure this qualification"
A San Francisco Ietter-writer remarks.
discouragingly. that "there is not soli-
tary opening in the state Of California,
vast as it is, for another clerk, book
keeper, salesman. halfeducated doctor,
broker or general adven-
-urer."
mo, my dear, said a mother to her
daughter, who had been taking a nap
before dressing for the evening party.
you needn't rearrange your hair; you
couldn't made it look more scrambled
# you tried. A"
One of the Beecher girls used to say
hat she had three rules to guide her in
copying her fathers MSS: IF a letter
was dotted, it was not an /; if a letter was
crossed, 1t wasn't a {; and if a word be-
gan with capital letter, it didn't begin
sentence.
The greatest joiner-the lawyer He
an place a tenant. empannel a iury
DoX a witness. bore the court. chisel
lient, augur the gains, floor a witness.
ut his board, nail the case, hammer the
esk, file his bill, and shave a whole
ommunity.
The picture Of the battle Of Gettysburg.
rhich Rothernel is painting for the
tate of Pennsylvania, is nearly finished.
is thirty-two feet long by. sixteen wide.
nd in it the Pennsylvania heroes receive
mple justice. The artist gets twenty
We thousand dollars for his work
A Milwaukee widow, on being caution
] by her minister about flirting. said
ne knew that it was wrong for unmar-
ed ladies to fiirt, but the Bible was her
1thority. It said widows mite. She
as flirting awfully at last accounts. her
astoT acknowledging that widows
lite.
A New York politician, in writing
tier Of coincidence TO the widow Of
country member who had been his
end, says; 81 am panied TO hear that
- has gone to heaven. We were
'som friends, but now we shall never
eet again.
That powerful journal. the Svenska
makes this severe criti-
SIN upon Gen. Butler; "Det AR IIart
gen. Buffers uppgift som konrress-
an shall blifva att sOka geno mdrifva
sa sina infer allmanhetcn uhttaladc
igter.
Miami County, Ohio talks Of building
narrow guage railroad, but one of the
tiers on the route objects, I'm these
'rds: The people is gone wild on
IS ere railroad queschine. Hoses
at is wuth forty dollars won't be wuth
e dollars he'd. Wagin makers win
rve to deth. Oats won't be wuth
thin, and we'll have TO quit raisen on
n. Coon skins won't be wuth DAM
d the bellerin steam wagins win skeer
the game out of the country. Iu
/ my forty and git for Arkansaw if
u don't stop this ere railroad.
A child, twenty-one months old, was
play on the track near the depot in
tland, on Saturday, when a locomo-
e SLOWLY backed toward her and the
II end Of the tender slightly struck
child on the ear, and without break
{ the skin or otherwise injurng her
y in the very slightest manner, NOV
her along some few feet the child
lstantly rolling over, until she fen in
a place between the ties which was
newhat lower than in other places. and
this condition the engine and tender
.sed entirely over her without auy
herdamage.