Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
slENoR a1nNr1or.

MINOR MENTION.
The coming man The boy baby
An inn-vocation Tending bar
A bad debt--The owing Of grudge.
A heeting shOw-A travelling circus.
Baby-clothes-"Bawl dresses.
Woman's rites-Matrmony and di-
vorce.
Sweet are the uses Of advertise
ments."
The dearest spot on earth The
store where they do not advertise.
There are one hundred and eighty va
rieties Of pills for liver complaint
Beecher thinks It win never do ITO
preach cream and practice s<im=milE."
A large property in Scotland has
lately fallen to Mrs. General Williams,
formerly wife Of Senator Douglas.
Miss Kate Field says she received
! $500 from the publishers of the -AklaHkc
/ 11z0RkkLY for her article on Mr.. Fechter's
Hamlet.
Etiquette-An adherence to eating
with a knife. and no aversion to robbing
another mans wife Of her affection for
her husband
Fashionable Parties-An uncomforta-
bic game in the parlor, and a hoggish
scramble in the supper room.
An eastern beau is under treatment
for lead collie, produced by kissing
young lady Of improved complexion
Mrs. Blanchard, recently appointed a
Justice Of the peace in the Stateof Maine,
is styled in her commission 1nez a. Blan-
chard Esq.
The harvest in Germany this year has
been gathered largely by German wo-
men, assisted by men too old or too
young to join the army.
"Ho for the Land Of Flowers" says
the Savannah NezVs Exactly right,
adds the Atlanta MAJ Era the 'fhoe"
is the only thing that viii bring it.
An American editor cautions his tall
readers against kissing short women, as
the habit has rendered him exceedingly
round shouldered.
An Irishman in recommending a COW
remarked, "She will give milk year, af-
ter year, without having calves, because
she came of COW that never had
calf
Anna Dickinson says she is tired Of
being abused by newspaper men. She
gives fair warning that hereafter all such
shall receive tic for tat. This is our tat.
Now, come along, Anna.-OAf0 STATE
Journal
Evangeline: "Ganpa, dear do tell
] Al. D. ~ "a
Grandpa, (deIighted): "And why not,
nv darling ?" Evangeline: Because
want to kill it myself. IT Punch
First Old Loafer: THE papers say
there's a chance of the Bourbon reign
ing in France again" Second ditto;
, "Bullyl If there's anything I live for,
it's a high old rain Of Bourbon. Let ii
Pour!'
A young woman in Sacramento, Cali
/ fornia, is threatening to get divorce on
the novel ground Of "prouacted festivi-
ties" She says her husband celebrated
his marriage by getting drunk, and has
kept up the festival ever since.
Koopmanschap is financially lucky.
He has orders on hand for two hundred
thousand Chinese Iaborers, who are TO
90 South as cotton-pickers and farm
hands. His profit is about $40 on each
man imported.
s'About forty feet Of rope induced a
gentleman who was engaged in the horse
business to try another sphere Of opera
tions, is the way a Kansas paper an
nounces the hanging Of a horse thief,
A Sunday school teacher who had
| become almost discouraged over the
IIistlessness of her class, at last felt re-
5 warded by an interested look TOm a
, little girl. The reward was lost when
the little creature touched bracelet on
a her arm and asked Teacher, are them
a threaded or 'lastic p
Conversation between inquiring suan-
o ger and steamboat pilot: THAT is Black
! | Mountain p 'fYes, sir; highest noun
, tain about Lake George. "Any story or
+ | legend connected with that mountain
a Lots of EN-. Two lovers went up that
mountain once and never came back
+ again. Indeed why what became of
5 them?' 'NWent down on the other side. '
! Henry Ward Beecher had thirteen
babies to baptize in Plymouth Church,
:. last Sunday, and Of course he made
/ some remarks about it. ga woman
2 singing at her cradle, said Mr. Beech
er, ''is doing a higher work than as Dc
S she sang like Jenny Lind on the stage
? No oratory and no artistic work is like
e the carving she is doing in the living
. soul of the little child. SOrosis is dis
It pleased with Mr. Beecher for this inter
), polation, but then the ladies Of that or
I der are not devoted to domestic sculpture,
4 A worthy old clergyman in neigh
e boring town is very absent-mnded and
) has a short memory. It is a common
/ habit with him in the pulpit TO forget
something, and then after sitting down.
, ! to rise up again, and begin his supple
;. mentary remarks with the expression.
q by the way" A few Sundays ago he
v got half through Il prayer, when he hes
q itatcd, forgot what he was about and
n sat down abruptly, without closing, In
]. a minute or two he rose, and pointing
, his fore-hnger at the amazed congrega-
; ton. he said: "Oh by the way
/ Amen Z!
n An Indian came to a certain agent to
procure some whisky for a young W1r-
It rior who had been bitten by "a rattle.
e | snake. At first the agent did not credit lnl
r story, but the earnestness OF the Indian
e and the urgency Of the case overc3me
Il his scruples. He asked the Indian how
{. much he wanted. -Four quarts ana
e swered the Indian. "Four quarts re-
T peated the agent with much surprise
''as much as that :? "Yes replied
e the Indian, frowning as savagely as
Q though about to wage a war of cNtcrmi.
# nation against the whole snake tribe s.
e "four quarts-snake very big.
e ---s---
d COURAGE IN EVERY DAY LtFU,
e Have the courage to discharge d deb
" while you have the money in your pocls
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