Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-06-03

MrNon MENTION.
The air apparentof Lowell-the prinu
Of Merrimack,
A San Francisco Chinaman. wishing
/ to purchase eggs, called for chicken
DO others as they would like TO do
! Wall stree"
Mrs. Senator Sprague and Mrs. Fer
nando Wood wear the handsomest icW-
eiry IN Washington
It's a favorite expression with South
ern men that they have never been
3north Of Getgsburg'
Darling, IFS bed time. Am The little
i chickens have gone to bed" "Yes
mamma, so has the old hen."
The New York Tribune says owe
/ demur to the assertion that Bryant Is
our most eminent poet We consider
John Greenleaf Whittier our great poet %
Of the thiry-seven professors at the
I cornell University, eighteen completed
their education in Europe, and only two
are not native Americans.
Louisville burglars have new way of
stealing "a mans pantaloons when DE IS
asleep. They tie a cOrkscrew on a pole,
and run il through a broken window and
screw it into the garment.
The scene Of Mr.. Dickens, new story,
"Cloislerham, is said to be laid in the
venerable cathedral city Of Rochester,
near his own residence.
Don't beat your carpets. Try kind
ness and firmness, and if that doesn't
keep them down send for q policeman
and have them taken up.
An exchange wishing 10 avoid slang.
delicately advises its belligerentneighbor
to initiate the example Of the rivulet in
time Of a drought
Liszt hates the ocean. and refuses 10
cross It. He has been offered a fabulous
price to come to America, but he Cant
sea it.
Mcfarland does not use sugar in bis
whisky. He sweetens it with his wife
love-letters--and then sells the letters
for more whisky. Verdict: Not guilty.
Omaha has a man who lives with his
family in one of the large iron tubes used
in the construction Of the Pacific Rail-
road bridge over the Missouri.
"Why, asked a govemess Of her lit
tie charge, "do we pray God TO give us
our daily bread Why dOn'twa ask tor
four days, or FIVE days, or week &
1--WE want it fresh !'' replied the child.
Two girls named Bennett and Locke,
AGED about nineteen, have formed q
partnership and purchased good farm
in Warren County, Indiana, One of
them attends to the house, and the other
bosses the farm.
Colonel Merriam, Of the United States
army, recently encountered on the Cln-
cha river, in Texas, one Of those water
spouts that are common in that part OF
1 the country. His wife, child servant
and fine team were drowned, and me
alone escaped.
General Thomas left no viii. The
amount ofhis personal estate is reported
to be $40 900. His brothers. John W.
! Thomas and Benjamin r. Thomas, are
still living and also three sisters Judith
T., Ann, and Frances Thomas, who live
on a plantation near Newsman's s Depot
Southampton county, Va
The census takers must be good arith-
QlGuCldllS ~ llSNAN AP AAA~A ---s
They get two cents for every name ta-
ken, ten cents for every farm, and hiteen
cents for every productive establishment
ofindustry, two cents for every deceased
person, and two per cent OF the WnQle
amount for names enumerated for social
statistics and ten cents per mile Tor uaV-
eI
/ Henry Ward Beecher relates that he
[ Irecollects, when little boy, saying 90
! his mother, 81 am never going to get
married. "Ah, why not, Henry He
/ blushed all over land can almost feel
4 the blush now) as he replied We'll. !
/ never could ask a girl, VIII you have
me r As he felt then he never could.
but he succeeded afterwards in doing b.
a Western coroner jury returned
verdict that the deceased came Co ms
death from exposure. "What do you
I mean bv that p asked relative of the
] dead man s'there are two bullet-holes
4 in his skull" The coroner replied. with
a wave of his magisterial hand Just
so he died from exposure to bullets.
The following is given BY one Of the
! journals as grOgshOp comments on tne
! Mcfarland defence: eyes, gen men
! (vehemently), Mcfarland did just fiBht.
i id a done it myselfl You'd a done i-
/ humping up and shaking his hst with
/ greater righteous indignauonl. res
/ Stree. Eff I'd bin a hvIn' on woman
| for FIVE or six years, n another man
came along n got her away from me- be
id If wouldn't shot nlln' n SO
YOU 90 THE silence of conYlcuonl