Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-06-24
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Charleston S. G., recently, aged o.
Kansas has seventy newspapers, thir
teen Of which are dailies.
Philadelphians boast that they devom
one hundred tons Of Strawberries q day
Frederick Grant. the Presidents son.
will be graduated from West Point next
year.
The Connecticut House Of Representa-
tives was recently opened with prayer
by female chaplain.
An exchange remarks that George
Augustus Sala eXempliies his initials in
a new book on England
Dakota contains one hundred and 90
thousand square miles of fterritory-ninety-
four thousand more than Illinois.
Professor Cox, the state geoIoeist Of
Indiana, has found block coal in the
border Of Pike and Dubois counties.
Professor Agassiz intends visiting Fort
Ancient Warren county, Ohio, this sum-
mer, to make scientific explorations.
Dr. Mary Walker has lately been in
Texas, and one Of the newspapers de-
scrrbes her as Of "gentlemanly appear
ance."
EsPartero is blind In one eye, which
induces his adherents to think that he
Will have single eye to the public
good
Neither minister, lawyer, doctor nor
rumseller has local habitatiOr or a
name in the town of Westport, Maine.
with population Of 200.
Mrs. Motley is pronounced the best
dressed lady in London: that Is. she
dresses in the best taste. Next TO her
ranks the Countess of Seton
The principal occupation Of the girl
of the period is said to be to sit at The
window and watch for the looming
man.
Rev. Abel Stevens is named AS the
probable successor of DR. McClintock.
as President Of the Drew Theological
Seminary.
The trustees Of the Illinois State In
dustrial University have voted to admit
female students as soon as suitable build
ings can be provided.
Mcfarland now denies that he is or
ever was insane.
This verse is upon a miseri
A cautious,lOok around he stole,
His bags Of ohink he chunk,
And many a wicked smile ne smole,
And many wink he wunz.
So plentiful are the grasshoppers in
Salt Lake City, that the stencil arising
from the accumulation Of their dead car
casses is terrible, and is seriously affect
ing the health Of the city.
A Richmond wag sent an extract from
the Songs of Solomon 10 a CITY paper.
as original. The editor published IL as
a 'fair specimen of the trash daily con
signed to the waste basket"
Brigham Young has officially am
nounCed that he has but sixteen wives
and only forty-nine children. How that
poor old man has been slandered!
The Harvard Advocate says that this
is the last thing from an imprisoned
lover to his mistress: Would you
were an exclamation point and la par
enthesis G
When the war ended Kansas had no
railroads at all. Now she has more than
a thousand miles Of railway witain her
own limits, and an abundance of rail-
way connections with every part Of the
country.
Miss Susie Meter, very smart "girla
of the period, having arrived at the
mature age Of l3 years and 8 months
elOped from home in Rush county, lndi-
ana, last week, and was married 60
man named Richards.
Topeka, Kansas, will soon be Ghe lar-
L. 4 -N-- q il Ha
In addition to the millions Of acres now
offered for sale there by the railroad
companies and real estate agents, ID is
estimated that one and a half millions of
acres will soon be placed in market
there.
College students have legend of
and perhaps sleepy parson.
who prayed at morning prayers rhat the
inefficient may be made efficient the
temperate, and the indUs,ri-
ous dusuious.
A New York paper speaks of General
O'Neil as a descendant Of Nilus, the
son of Nihil." The Fenian leader did
not do his ancestors much credit for
Mill Fit, and ONeil didn't.
The Postofice Department rules Jhat
letters addressed to fictitious persons or
firms, initial letters, or postofhce boxes,
are not to be delivered, but forwarded 90
the Dead Letter office.
When you are asked to dinner, If you
think YOU are wanted, stay, and when
you have had enough, signify il by put-
ling your knife and fork on yolw plate,
and your spoon in your cup. When you
-hink you have worn your welcome out
go
A stranger in a printing office asked
.he youngest apprentice. what his rule of
was. 81 set up as long as
can hold my breath, then I put il a COM
ma when I cape ] insert a seuIi-colon;
and when / want chew Of tobacco ]
make a paragraph. ~
Cesar go catch my big horse there.
''Yes, sar. What you cali he maine sar.
Olympus. Don't you know what the
poet says about high olympus ~ don't
know about Hio but he lmpus nui-
dat's for sartin.
'What is the size of this place o.
gravely asked q New Yorker OF the con-
ductor Just after the brakeman had CALI
ed out O-pe-li-ka at a Southern station,
where not a house was visible among
the pines except a rambling smell called
an "eating saloon" It's about as big
as New York, was the ready answer.
'but it isn't built up yet.
In his remarks upon Dickens sudden
death and the desirability Of going out OF
.he world in a tRinkling, Henry Ward
Beecher said, Gle should never pray
that God deliver him from sudden death,
He did not want to be like an old har-
ness tied up with tow strings, and all
ways breaking, and always up for re-
pairs, always good for nothing
Perhaps the most perfect bull of its
kind is that recorded Of Madame Tolley-
rand. "Ah am so glad. exclaimed
the lady, one day at table, "that don
like spinach" "Why are you glad of
it {" good-naturedly asked Ialleyrand.
Because don'g you see. the lady re-
piled. ''if liked spinach, then j should
and hate III