Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-07-22


Red Cloud says the white squaws pu
on too much var paint
A western female college has pr0hibf
ted the girls from whistling in the halls
Elizabeth Paterson Bonaparte is writ.
ing an autobiography.
Anna Dickinson is to attend the Kan
sas State Fair and lecture.
a Philadelphia paper has for its edi-
torlal corps a father and five sons.
a bronze statue is to be erected 10
General kawhns in Washington.
It is said that Crispinisn in AIassachu-
sets ''shrlyels with the light Of publicity
given to it by the press.
All efforts 10 make hay by gasliqht
have failed; but Il is discovered that wild
oats can be sown under its cheerful rays.
Somebody furnishes a basket Of dow-
ers to decorate Rev. Mr.. Beccher's pull
/ pit every time he breaches; but when
ever his place is filed by another clergy
man the basket is nan est.
President Grants special train out Of
| Washington last week was preceded by
/ the regular express train bearing Gener-
al r. E. Lee, on his way TO Baltimore.
The late Partisan luxury at aristocra6c
bekI S0zslbefS consists Of parrots tongues
stewed with trufles. This however, IS
scarcely up to our American dish Of
quaiIs eyebrows on toast Detroit Free
Press.
The Philadelphia Post says : zone Of
the most brilliant writers in the city now
the editor Of one of our best known pa-
Pers, some ten years ago used p write the
sermons Of a clergyman In West Phlia-
delphia, for five dollars a week.
A Boston paper gives the lament Of
an "attic poet for the want Of air and
rain in "long days, which closes thus
pathetically
''And II I don't obtain thoun soon
a funeral there viii be;
The hacks Will with my friends be filled,
Hutthe corpse it VIII be me-"
Tom Corwin once said THE people
of Kansas ought to be born with ballot
boxes in their bellies" That wouldn't
do in Ohio, for everybody would be lis-
bic to the charge 'Of stufing the ballot
box
A very polite Frenchman applauded
vehemently at the close Of an exceeding
ly tedious performance by fair but
wretched musician. "Why do you ap-
plaud p asked a bystander. "Mon
Dieu ! because IL is eHdcd g'
The "Crispin" strike in Marlboro,
Massachusetts, has assumed formidable
proportions. The Crispins employ in
timidation and other means 90 prevent
Mr.. Howe, the manufacturer, from OBJ
tanning workmen. One man had gone
to work, when a "Crispin' agent piled
him with liquor, and secured his arrest
and Imprisonment for drunkenness and
boasted that no other man had been got
ridqof SO cheaply.
The Louisville Courier-J Journal gives
tbis incident: "a gentleman seated in
front of the United States Hotel, yester-
dav evening, was approached by a young
man who was very decidedly the worse
from the invention Of distilled spirits.
Did I understand you to say, said he
to the gentleman, that you are from
Tennessee ? Yes? was the reply. do
YOU know a man out there by the name
Of Smith, What, Nebuchadnezzar
Smith? No, said the young man, John
Smith. well, no, said the gentleman,
there is nobody in Tennessee OF that
name. T"
Some years ago a delegation Of prom
inent Delaware Republicans called upon
President Lincoln, and with a due sense
Of their own position, took occasion to
inform him in the course Of the visit that
they were all influential citizens, and
among the heavy men Of the upper
end of the state. $50 you all belong 10
the upper end Of the state reflected
Mr. lincoln. with a rogueish twinkle IN
his eye and then, with a look OF esEIlest
inquired: rs there no oahsSt
Of the state tilting while you are away
II one Of these "heavy men is asked
now, when about departing from nome,
if he is not afraid the state viii TILT he
does not seem TO like 1t.