Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-10-14

MINOR A-s NAAoA.
Text for a brews XXX.
The best thing to oin a huug,-noth-
ing.
The Ladies RePository-their CHG
mons.
A green grocer is described as one
who trusts.
Lead foil is extensively used in place
OF lint in the European hospitals
People run" into debt; sometimes
they Crawl out Of it.
Men born blind can't be carpenters,
because they never saw.
The only persons who really enjoy bad
health are the doctors.
Modesty in a woman is like color on
her cheek-deeidedly comely if not put
on.
The side that a good many people in
Paris would like to take at present--the
outside.
There is a foundryman in New Or
leans who is so pious that he viii only
make upright boilers.
Be deaf to the quauelsome, blind to
the sooner, and dumb TO those who are
mischievously inquisitive
Miss Kate Field, the lecturer, is ahead
Of most young ladies-she has one hum
dred engagements on hand.
For Farmersl-The only common
place thing you need not be afraid o
running into the ground the plough
share.
Somebody has discovered that in
forty years a snuh-talcer devotes twenty
four months to blowing his nose.
The way to keep the repeaters from
going to the polls is, to take poles TO the
repeaters.-OHfo Stat journal
Cloves for evening wear are to be
worn Of the same color as the dress,
and red gloves will be very fashionable.
It's nearly as impossible to get money
out of a miser, as it would be for butch
er to get lamb chops out Of a batterng-
ram.
Rondout, n. Y, young ladies are or
ganizing a society for the encourage
ment Of young men who desire to mar
ry.
One of the finest qualities in human
being is that nice sense of deicacy
which renders it impossible for him ever
to be an intruder or a bore.
It is so hot in Iowa City that the cat
fish in the river there come out under
the shade trees to fan themselves with
their tails. This, at least, is western
version Of the facts.
1-.t,.e.-, -.;f1;,-, ,,,-,e 1,efor-~r 60 ,,,r
armament. More than four thousand
such frmaments are visible, and every
increase Of telescope power adds to the
number.
Humboldt was mistaken in saying
"that old letters lose their vitality
nearly every breach Of promise case
shows what extremely lively things old
letters sometimes are.
Wooden fans are much used, cut in
leaves and painted green, with small
sprays ofilies Of the valley painted on
the edge.
Mary Krumpasitizkososlci was recently
divorced from her husband at Jefferson
vile, Ind, and now finds relief in her
maiden name, PonyintamatoWsk.
The most fashionable marriages now
a-days are the simplest. Several have
occurred lately in which there were
neither bridesmaids nor groomsmen,
cards, receptions or display New York
Mail.
A New England spinster, who went
out to Nevada about a year ago, writes
home that she has already "a husband
and a pair of twins, and hasn'treaIy got
acquainted yet
A pair Of blue birds have built their
nest in the large gong used to warn pas
sengers of approaching trains at Chester,
Pa, and do not seem to mind the dis
cordant noises of their singular habita-
ton.
A lady fashionably dressed next win
ter will look like a molasses barrel with
the funnel on top, bottom side up. The
hats are to be the shape Of a funnel
while the hoops viii be the same size all
the way.
Dickens says: Il have known vast
quantities Of nonsense talked about bad
men not looking you in the face. Don't
trust that conventional idea. Disbon-
esty will stare you out Of countenance
any day in the week, if there is anything
to be got by it.
There have been many definitions Of
a gentleman, but the prettiest and most
poetic is that given by a young lady. "a
says she, sis human be-
ing, combining a woman's tenderness
with mans courage.