Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-05-20

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4he Pittsburgh Directory contains lhe
name Of Johann Goulieb Christ Knip-
/ fenbausenstein.
! Prince Pierre Bonaparte is expected in
New York next month.
Noses Bates, who built the Richmond
Oapitol IN 1892, died in 1898
Colonel E. B. Ward returns the largest
income in Detroit, S18s, s,ooo.
A miserable old bachelor remarI-s
tnat ne looks under the marriage head
for the news of the weak.
Fashionable young ladies. like letters
require stamps. or the males reject them.
ooh, Emma. don't laugh so hard.
said a younger sister Of FIVE years.
/ you'll break blood-steamer F'
Frank Blair is the reputed leader of
the Big Horn Expedition. Blair has a
/ PeHehaHt for big hams.
An Indian near Fort Scott recently
traded two mules for a set Of false teeth.
and proudly wore them, necklace fash-
ion, around his neck.
a Western Editor in response to
subscriber who grumbles that his paper
is intolerably damp. says: That's be-
cause there is so much due on it.
The Times says that what the Repub-
lican party wants is a Future What the
Democratic party wants is to get nd Of its
Past Chicago Po0
Miss Greeley, daughter Of Horace
Greeley, is writing q book, to be called
Tropical Sketches - which viii appear
this summer.
A young lady Of Burlington went to
church and left her waterfall on the win
I dow sill. On her return she found a lit
( tie blue bird sitting in it on an egg.
Gen. Ed. P. Schneider, Of Canton.
formerly Adjutant General Of Ohio, has
started on European tour.
General Pope has gone to Kansas to
/ confer with Governor Harvey In relation
to Indian affairs in that neighborhood.
/ Next month he VIII take a uip. across
the plains to inspect the posts of that de-
parment.
Embarrassing.-"W Won't YOU let me
kiss you, little one p asked a gentleman
Of the beautiful daughter Of a beautiful
mother as he was taking leave of her
IN the cars. Wouldn't you rather kiss
motherf" was the arch reply.
Senator Morrill,, of Maine, denounces
] the railroad spectators who ask Con
| gress for many millions of acres of the
! public lands at a few cents per acre as
white feebooters.
An Indiana editor deprecates the prev
alent habit of killing and eating robins,
and says he would as soon eat a slice Of
ParePa Rosa on toast as to eat a robin.
A lady made reference the other day
to Mr.. Bryants translation of Homer In
| the presence of an old lady, who sud-
! denly remarked with a look of wonder
! "Why, / didn't know this ever but one
besides Enoch translated. ] can't think
Of his name now, but tain { Homer. any
way"
Anna Z. Dickinson s success as a lee
turer is indicated by the fact that She has
/ received invitations to deliver the com
mencement Orauons before Antioch Col
lege, Ohio, Midiletown, Connecticut,
and Ann Arbo riRersity, in June next.
She declined them an for other duties.
A Dutchman, attending to a young
man who tried to play a practical joke
upon him by wrapping himself 10 q
sheet said 81 Just jump of my wagon,
and vip the ghost all the time. I would
vip him if he was a whole graveyard.
Some one asked the young man what
allied his black eye. and be said he had
received bad news from Germany.
as my face dirty7" asked a young
lady from the baclswoods, while seated
with her aunt at the dinner table ON
steamboat running from Cairo TO New
! Orleans. Dirty No. Why did you
! ask p Because that insulting waiter
insists upon putting towel beside my
plate. I've thrown three under the ta-
bic, and yet every time he comes around
he puts another one before me.
Dear, me, " exclaimed Sdggins, Chat
new surgeon gave Squanmm' boy a
new lip from the child's own cheek
| What painful operation it must have
| been!'' I've had pair of lips taken
! from my cheek more than once, replied
Mrs. Suggins, "and it wasn't a painful
/ operation at all.
One Fitz Hugh Ludlow, poetaster
] and editor, was made use Of by the de-
fense in the Mcfarland case, to prove
that, since Mcfarland could not write
an article fit for the press without revis-
! ion, he was therefore insane. According
to this standard there is about one sane
man in twenty thousand.-Ohf0 SI1h
10NUcL
War impends. Men and all women
have acknowledged the short dresses TO
be neater and more suitable than the
| long street sweepers which annoyed
! every one. Yet some "big footed wo-
men to conceal the exuemities to which
! they are reduced desire to restore the
detestable trails. But the maids with
pretty little feet will contend for short
| dresses and good sense in the Battle Of
the Sllirts.-Akr0H Beacon.
AT one time Daniel Webster had o
/ difficult case to plead, and a verdict was
rendered against his client. One Of the
witnesses came TO him and said "Mr.
Webster, if / had thought we should
have lost the case, I might have tesuhed
a great deal more than I did. "It is Of
no consequence. replied the lawyer.
THE jury did not believe a word you
said.
The last method of combining style
and economy occurred at Albany no.
! long since. A man went to an under
/ taker TO borrow a valuable caslgets COW
cred with velvet, 10 use at the funeral of
his brother. proposing to take the body
out after the funeral place 1t in plain
pine coffin and return the casket 60 die
undertaken. The undertaken was near
sighted and couldn't
MIR. CsREEEzvss FAITH IN HuCu-