Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-08-26
MINOR MENTION.

A pound of ice weighs six ounces.
The last thing out--the gas.-Uudy.
An Iowa man aptly advertises: "Ker-
osene and cofins.
The census is worse than cholera for
reducing populations.
! The lovers Of peace hope to see the
needle gun superseded by the needless
gun.
Judy. says: Clap a blister on poet
and it will make him soar. -rr
The frog diet Of the French army sat
isfactorily accounts for its agility IN leap
ing across bitches.
Iowa boasts an editor II years old
who weighs only 80 pounds.
Troy takes up its concrete pavement
as hurtful to health
According to Gladstone the wealth Of
England increases Bsoo,ooo,ooo every
year.
No wonder eyes sometimes look
| pleading and sorowfuli they are under
the lash all the time.
Omaha disposes of fdesPeradoes hnal-
| ly and ef6ectually. a vacuum IS Hiau1
| in the ground-and filled.
There have already been eight days
tbis wear hotter than single DAY las-
summer.
To preserve cut flowers, it is necessa-
Iry TO cut a piece off the stalk daily ana
| renew the water.
The man who by mistake took
o. l. --F rrrrurfIacrn
has felt stuck up" ever since.
Some of the newspapers are shocked
that NAPOLEON should hang round Nancy
and leave Eugene to occupy the iront
Of danger.
Folks who have pet canaTies viii hnd
they are exravagantly fond OF the seed
produced from the plantain.
Several thousand spinsters in Massa-
chusetts, after long years Of watcniul oo-
servation, entirely dissent from the pro
verb. "Man proposes
Besser the wretch, says:
He laid him down and slept-and from his
A woman in her magic beauty rosei
Dazzied and charm'di he called that Wo-
And his is1fi firs. Sleep became his last repose'
In reply to a young writer who wishes
to know which magazine would give
him the highest position quickest, a con-
temporary advised powder maga-
zine" if YOU contribute a fiery article.
what do you think of our rfesa'
said the King of Prussia TO General
Bourbaki, of tbs French Louaves.
when he was in Berlin, after the war OF
1866. ''Well," he replied, ''it win de-
I IL 1rr a hafnFn them
A man who went fishing in a private
pond complains that he only got one
bite, and that was from dog whose
master owns the pond
A young lady from the rural dis
tricts went to Des Moines TO see an ele-
phant. In the street cars the conductor
said to her: Miss, your fare, ''Weu, u
/ am, she replied, "I don't want any
more of your imPertinenee.
The Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford the
other night after twelve o'clock good
naturedly arose and married a couple
who were anxiously waiting at her door.
"Lenney," said his maiden aunt,
'vou should eat the barley that IS m
your soup, or you viii never De a man.
Lenney, looked up. and innocenuy IN
ouired. is that what you eat it for aun-
tyr"
An Ohioan's potato field was
thoroughly rooted over the other day.
and he thinks he might tell the story in
a series Of articles entitled What an ID
C nose about farming.
Bayard Taylor complains that the
finest scenery along the Pacific Railroad
is defaced by patent medicine advertse-
ments.
Mr. Dickens in his will says ] em-
phatically direct that those who attend
my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black
bow long hat-band or other such revolt
ING absurdity I ConJure my friends on
no account to make me the subject OF
any monument, memorial, or tesnmon-
ial whatever.
Some one remarks that the invention
Of the sewing machine has enabled one
woman to sew as much as a hundred
could sew bv hand a century ago but.
as one woman now demands as much
clothing as a hundred did a century ago
matters are not much changed, aiter an.
One day while clerical gentleman
from down east was saying grace at the
table of a gentlemanin Fordham, Frank,
the Youngest Of his flock, aged 8. did
not like the notion of keeping quiet so
long a time. and finally, being unable 20
wait any longer, burst OUT Wait guy
dit drink Of water. and den you Tan
pray all you want 20.