Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-12-23

Florida.
There are now about so,teo miles of
railroad in the United States
There are now more than score of
republics in the world
Sincerity is the leading char tedste
of a really heroic life.
Weakness is a greater antagon ID to
virtue than even vice itself
The best CONSIDERS Of human
may bear broken hearts ia
own bosoms.
No heaven can be found beyond
grave, except we bring il with u.s.
Oliver Wendell Holmes calls q Kiss
isPing cOnsonant. He should haVe
added, also, that it usually follows o.
V0zUeL
AT a Boston golden wedding one of
the presents was golden egg, which
hatched out fifty golden eagles.
An Irish painter declares in an adver-
tisement that, among other portraits, De
has a representation of "Death IS large
as life. F"
He who loses money loses much be
who loses q friend loses more; but he
who loses his spirits loses ALL
Iowa expects to have three thousand
miles Of railroad by the Ist Of January
enough to extend fifteen times across
the breadth Of England.
Fame is like a shaved pig with
creased tail, and it is only after % has
Slipped through the hands of some
thousands that some fellow, BIZ good
luck, holds on to it.
George Kennan is travelling in the Cau-
casus, and writing a new lecture enti-
tied Mountains and Mountaineers Of
the Caucasus
The London Times remarks that
there are not ten Irishmen In Ireland
who do not think of coming to America
some time or other.
The most fashionable colors for dress
es are bottle green, olive green, maroon,
plum color, garnet brown and dark blue.
1t is reported that Bismarck, among
his other accomplishments, is a grand
musical composer. He is now engaged
in making an overture Of peace.
Playing at Doctors-"AIa. dear. Ada
won't take her physic. I've mixed her
dose of vinegar and sand, and she
says / must take some FIRST Doctors
never do-do they, ma =
A man at Knightstown, Indiana. said
he liked to see dimples on the cheeks Of
women, so he tried to put some in his
wife's cheeks with a paving stone.
Fancy" said Sidney Smith 10 some
ladies when he was told that one of the
giraffes at the Geological Garden had
caught cold, "a giraffe with two yards of
sore throat
What's the difference between the
North Pole and and South Pole7
"Why, all the difference in the world,
replied lady, unwittingly; and that's
the answer
1t is believed that Gamhetta has im-
pnsoned George Francis Train from mo-
tives of envy. 1t was found that Train
could generate more gasin given time
than Gambetta. Hence these bars.
How true these simple lines are
There was little girl
Who had q little curl
Right down In the middle Of her forehead
And when she was good
And when she was bad She was horrid.
Big sister-"Oh, papa. i must GO TO
hear Nilsson. You know am so fond
Of music" Juvenile brother, triumph
antly-"Then why don't you let me play
on my drum p
The State Of New Hampshire borders
on Canada a distance Of thirty on forty
miles. and yet there IS not q road Of any
kind across the line. II is q Wild region
on both sides, little frcquentee.a-zt
by hunters.
In his sermon on the importance of
little things, Henry Ward Beecher saws
many men would not blasPheme-oh,
no but they use towards oaths, saying
by Jupiter i when they want to say
by Jehovah u Darn it r. eI swow 90
when they they want to say II swear l'
Gentlemen Of the jury" charged
western judge, "in this case the council
on both sides are unintelligible. the witt
nesses on both sides are incredible, and
the plaintiff and defendant are both such
characters that to me it is indifferent
which way you give a verdict.
When Senator Revels went to lecture
at Norwich, Ct, the other day, the land
lord Of the hotel began to canvass
among his boarders to see whether they
would permit his presence at the table.
While they were engaged Governor
Buckingham took the Senator in his
carriage to his mansion, and made him
his own guest. Who was in this case
the wiser man--the publican or the Re
publican.
In Canada all women, whether maids,
wives or widows, who pay taxes In their
own right, are entitled by law TO vote
for School Inspectors. They exercise
their right on election days without hin-
derance, and are treated with the great
est respect.