Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-02-04
MINOR TENTION.


/ The blowing Of the advertisers rs
what makes the trade winds. d.
At a recent reception in New York,
a golden bee was placed in every bou-
quet.
Governor Hayes, of Ohio, Is the
champion ge-Writer.-[B Bos-
/ ton Advertiser.
! The area of timbered land in Kansas
is estimated at 8, ,50O, 900 acres,
Several young women are said to be
preparing to enter the Amherst College
next summer.
Rev. Or. Osgood estimates that a
person can make q trip to Europe for
six dollars in gold day.
Parepa's mother was the only music
teacher she ever had, and the warmeBt
affection existed between them.
The Legislatures Of Iowa, Kansas
/ and Wisconsin, have each elected
woman as engrOssing clerk.
The Toledo Blade thinks it "meet
that the State Of jeff. Davis should
send the first cOlOred Senator to Con-
gress."
A man in Mystic, Connecticut, called
his neighbor "a cOnfOunded muttou-
head, and was lined one dollar for
not being more forcible.
Simon Cameron has Just fallen heir
to 81 200, 900 by the death Of his father
in-law, James Mccormick, Of Harris
burg.
''AEa," whispered little Boston girl
ttwhat does he want Of the President
when he says "'Grant, we Deaeech
Thee2'"
Why is a dog longer in the morning
than at night? Because you take him
in at night and leave him ont in the
morning.
How many girls win reach from Col-
um bus 90 FrankintonF 9n@-pccaase
miss is as good ss mlle.--o 2. 8. 39Nr-
nal.
A Kansas City CAIoD paper Of the
18th instant prints marriage notice
followed by the words enc cards, no
cake, nobOdy's business"
'AEother,D - said Jenima, ''sam wants
to come cOnrting me Tonight" .tWellg
what did You tell him7' ''Ohi I told
him he might come. felt anxious 10
see how he would act"
A little girl thought the spinsters
must be a very popular family. She
heard in church almost every Sunday
that some of them were going to be
married.
The merchants Of Appleton, Wiscon-
sin, have an organization 20 protect
themselves against bad debtors. Those
who do not pay at one store are not
trusted elsewhere.
Cure for freclzIes.-A fellow In New
Orleans is said to have eaten a box Of
CASTLE soap to get rid Of freckles. Ee
still has a few on his face, but inside
he isn't freckled a bit.
The Paris, Kentucky, Statesman
says Mr.. Senator Stevenson is ''a man
of massive intelIecI." D" The asguranc8
would be more gratifying if they did
not say that Of almost every politician
down that way.-LNew York sun.
at a church fair in Kansas City set
of bedroom furniture was voted to
young lady, with the understanding
that, if she was not married in year
the furniture should be returned TO
the church She Is now on the war
path, armed with bedstead.
The Detroit Post Is not otcOmplimenta-
rv to the American Colonization So
1iety. 1t styles it, "Ihat eminent
aumbug which sends out American
5olored citizens to AFRICA IoL P4ltp ~ oaes re-
unknown to anybody outside tne
soterie of superaunuated and helpless
.ndoIents who get their living out OF
such business"
An English Bishop querulously re-
marked to his servant that he was dying.
'Well, my lord, - said the GOOD telioF,
tyou are going TO q better place-''--
aTohn. s. replied the prelate, with an
Air of conviction, "Ghere's no place
like Old Englandi'
A vounp man at Muacatine, fowa,
Iateiv erayyIed into a boil or TO clean it
out, but the engineer, being ignorant
of the fact, closed the door and hred
up. The young man became umcom-
fortablv warm, and to his horror dis
Il 3 HHrs-a
His shrfeks were unheard, but fOrtu-
nateIy, the engineer opened the door
and the hsIf-sufooated prisoner was
released.