Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-04-15
MINOR aRtrIor.

bufaloes.
Ofice-seeker's cry; ,sOhl that I were
an event, that might take place.
The first English edition Of Dickens
new novel IS 10000 copies.
No farmer can plow a field by turning
1t over IN his own mind
/ A Pennsylvania town has am ante
sianderng society, which is very unpop-
Have the courage to carry CHEAP
umbrella-you viii discover why When
you lose it.
The Hon. Gasaway spHghuy is
member Of the Kansas Senate.
The word debts composed ofthe
initials Of "dun everybody twice" Gre
dit is formed of the initial letters Of
''eall regularly every day-Tn trust"
A Jerseyman lost an ak over twenty
years ago, which he has just found under
his bed. His wife hasn't been made
unhappy by house-cleaning.
AT Xenia, Ohio. a man drank glass
Of whisky, said charge il, and fell
down dead. An argument in favor cf
the cash system as well as Of temper
ance.
The Hartford Times, by very slight
typographical error, made a sad blum
der in speaking of a young woman at a
recent ball who wore ga double shirt
neatly trimmed with narrow satin rib
bon
A letter passed through the Columbus
PostOfice yesterday, directed 20 Gala
zOaHbeAese-which is the longest and worst
spell of Gallipolis we have ever expert
enced.- Ohi0 STATE 1onyuaL
Josh Billings says Before would
preach the Gospel az some ministers are
obliged to, for $50 dols a year, 7 would
get a living as Nebudkennezzer did, and
let the congregashun go tew grass too.
Captain Williams. of the Oneida, was
engaged to be married to a young lady
in Maine, on coming home from the
Japan cruise. Since the first of January
his two children and his intended wife
have died, but the news of their death
had not reached him.
Host (who has just finished carving
turkey you have a small piece
of the dark meat, or a small piece Of the
white meat r. Hungry guest (who is adj
dicted to the habit Of plain spealang)--
Thank you; I'll take a large piece az
60kH I''
Madame de Stael once said. "IfL
were mistress of fifty languages I would
think in the deep German, converse in
the gay French, write in the copious
English, sing in the majestic Spanish.
deliver in the noble Greek, and make
love in the soft Italian"
A Waterbury (Ct) youth, repenant,
but incoherent, over his dissipation.
signed the following pledge I solemnly
promise to abstain from the use of all in
to2icating beverages, otherwise than as
a drink, and profanity, unless prescribed
by physician at least four times a day.
excepting cider.
Miss Anna Dickinson, at her lecture
at Steinway Hall last night wore b
black silk dress trimmed with white. All
the time she was speaking she kept her
left hand behind her back, and made
the gestures with her right. AT intervals
she would walk to and fro across the
platform. She spoke without notes cl
any kind. and was easy and fluent n
her uterances.-N y Pest 6th
Gen. Ames is at length Senator Ames.
Something less than ten years ago he
attracted the attention of his country
men by the gallantry with which, when
weak with wounds, he served his guns
at the first Bull Run. His promotion ln
the army was quick his elevation ln
the civil service has been SUDDEN. we
can wish no better than that be VIII
bear himself in the more difficult though
less dangerous career on which he now
enters with the same boldness and hon
esty that distinguished him In his former
service.-Aea0 K0rk Z1zbANr.
The New York Herald makes this
comparison: On Morissey fate has
put a head" fit for Hercules, the e1-
preston of which is an hard force on
Greeley, one that is all sofness. like a
pippin in December. On MoUssey, the
jetty Jove-lilze curls come down 90 the
very brows, leaving no forehead, as
there was no need for any; and on Gree
ley; the sCant hair, to which nature in
ner economy gave no CDAOLt parts AWAY
from a wild waste of forehead, eloquent
of brain run to seed. Morrissey's head
is indebted to art for the greater part OF
its heroic style partly to the art tom
serial, partly to the art that is for pre-
eminence distinguished as "the manly
ar" Greely's head is as simple and
a piece Of nature as ever
came out of a turnip field.
The Detroit Post says Of General
Thomas after the battle of Chicla-
mauga, and when he must have been
perfectly conscious that he had saved
Rosecrans' army and the whole region.
he sat half an hour drinking coffee. and
did not once allude To the fight No
one would have known that there haa
been any. In battle he sat like % statue.
with scarcely a motion. needless oI bull
lets, occasionally reused to enthusiasm
by the success Of one Of his maneuVera.
but blushing his feeling was discovered
He was seldom moved TO anger, 1ul
when it came It was frghuul. An In
fantry Colonel stole a horse from "a
Union farmer in Kentucky, who came
to Thomas and complained. He poured
out torrent of invecuve upon the olh-
Ger. pulled him from the horse. tore thl
epaulets from his shoulders. made
him return the horse, and pay the taT-
mer for his trouble.