Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-02
MINOR MENTION

4 5awi reOm-fha nurgefv.
A mantle shelf-a lady's shoulders.
japanese bamboo thrives fnsly ia
California.
Maroon colored bonnets are beoom
4 ing popular
Why is a balloon Ike silence? Be-
cause il gives ascent.
Imported Irish Swallows cost two
! dollars persWail0W.
Kansas has a paper printed ia the
Cherokee language.
Ex Senator Wade predicts q large
Republican majority iu Ohio this fall
NJ Blot, the lecturer on ooohiDr. b.
a sufferer from dyspepsia.
California has beat us on heat-ons
hundred aud ten degrees in the shade,
August 2.
The Sonoma county (California)
wine crop for this year Is estimated at
l,OOO,0O0 gallons.
General Spinner is called "tho mau
that writes a name on the ereeubaokE
that looks like string Of eels."
Napoleon, 10 view Of recent cvents,
may well adopt as bis motto. 1--WE
have Metz the enemy ard We are
theirs
Some Of the Paris journals, only
three weeks ago, headed an their war
correspondence With the words From
Paris to Berlin"
Blank forms Of proposal are used By
Minnesota ladies when their young
men are slow In coming to the point.
On gate post 10 trout Of a frame
house near lndian0plis Is a sign which
says g. No life Insurance nor lightning
rods wanted here"
A Chicago lady dropped one Of her
eyebrows 10 the church pew, and
dreadfuIIy frightened a young man
sitting next to her, who thought it was
his musJache.
A young man recently married ia
Beloit, Wisconsin, helped his wife,
while courtiUg, 30 sew together Iugs
enough TO make sixty yards of carpet.
AFTER HEARING TANNHAUsER.
"The music oflhe future, eh9
Well, some may think it pleasant
But when such trash again they play,
III for the future hope may
Not be among The PRESENT. Punch
Putnam's Magazine calls Napoleon
THE Imperial Jack Sheppard, the
most stupendous Of public criminals,
the shabbiest Of private intriguers, the
most moustrous of egOtists whom
the whole race Of man should v0mit
forth as its greatest opprobrium aud
pest
BE you good ?" asked a bright little
chap of N ISIS Bud, bis Sabbath-school
teacher, the other day ..t)h, no,
was the becoming reply. Ynu aiu'fI
Well, l knew you wasn't pretty, but
always thought you was good.
It is estimated that over one hun
dred yonug ladies are at present study
ing law 10 this country. Probably they
will come mothers iu-law one Of
these lays
Young ladies should not 90 rowing
with gemIemen aulsss they are erpgbI5
Of managing boat A lady was upset
in the water recently, aud dress cost
log six dollars @ yard wns cnm gletely
ruIEed. The LADY was drowned.
A correspondent amoug the lakes
of Maiue writes that he asked a boy
which was the best of the several emafl
lakes for fishing The boy answered,
IL e Pissaqust sttisaqufquap passamo
- Az this point the
CORES pondeut walked away, reacl ed
lake, f-hed three hours,
aud returned On his way home he
met the boy where he bad Ielthim, siiH
looking on the ground, aud just finish
ing the uame-"uloo ikuhugenni-Dug-
ei. The writer dates bis letter mo
Lake Muukatuukoobogsquroitako0-
loonatic
Two little girls we're heard on tie
stFeets Of Boston discussing rhe war
10 Europe. They we're divided iu
opinion az 10 the result, one contend
ing that Prussia would whip, and the
other asserting with equal confidence
that France would be The victor. At
last the champion of Prussia settled
the question by an uouuswerahle argu-
meut. Il kuoW, said she, "that he
Duichmen will whip. Ny p b.
Frenchman aud my ma q Dutchmau.
They ight every niehr, aud ma alWays
.icks"