Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-08-05
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do you enjoy good health. Zachary?'
why, yes to be sure who doesn't7'
One reason for the small vote in Mon
tana IS that nearly all the males there are
miners.
Queen Victoria has entered upon the
thlFty-fourth year Of her reign.
Admiral Tachmann, of the Prussian
Navy IS a very handsome man.
The telegraph lines in Russia are all
most entirely worked by female opera
tors.
Russia has sent an exploring es,plor-
ing expedition, including some Of its
most prominent scientific men, 20 the
North Pole.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln still wears deep
mourning at the Bohemian watering
place of Marienbad.
Simon Cameron is the oldest member of
the United States Senate, being seventy
two years old.
Miss Kate Field is said to be able TO
drive pair Of horses, swim half a mile
at a stretch, and row boat all day.
Iowa is said to be the only state in the
Union that has not student in the reb-
el Lees University in Virginia.
Cleveland is hard at work excavating
/ its lake tunnel for a water supply. One
fifth Of the work is completed.
Weeds grow. cattle brouse, and hogs
root, about the grave Of Thomas Jeffer-
son, a well known Democrat late Of Vir-
ginia.
The sympathy Of Germans in America
for fatherland may be Teu-tonic but
not on that account whit too strongly
bracing them up.
Jeff. Davis is to be at White Sulphur
Springs next month-which suggests
! that, having been thoroughly white
washed, he is now to be bleaChed.
The difference between the French
army and an apple is, that an apple has
the core inside, and the army has a
| corps or two on the Rhine.
It turns outthat the woman who hasn't
! spoken to her husband for twenty years
never had one to speak to.
The weather is so hot and dry that
the ice has shrunk up until ten pound
lump isn't bigger than corn dodger.
The chances at the theatre Of war
may compel either Of the contending
parties to get into a bad box at any time.
Two shoemalzers out in company were
asked their profession. Says one Of them,
Il practise the heel-ing art - land H.
says the other, Labor for the good Of
mems sOles T.
The man who was found dead in the
streets of Cincinnati the other day, and
who was supposed to have been sun
struck, was afterwards found to have
been struck by another man.
The Emperor Napoleon s favorite sad
! dle-hOrse is black mare. named Maren-
go. The saddle on her is made express
ly in accordance with the physical in
firmities Of the Emperor.
There are eight girls in the Michigan
Agricultural College, and they have to
work in the field three hours daily, the
same as the young men.
A gentleman in Indiana says in a note
accompanying letter for publication in
the Louisville Courier journal: II SUM
times miss-spell a word, and its possible
l have spelt sicefant rong.
"TaIk Of climate r' languidly exclaims
the New York Worlo-"the thermome-
ter has got so high it is impossible to
climb it.
A Boston writer, alluding to the mu-
sical taste of the hub, says. "Our ears
have been cultivated till they overshadow
our other organs.
DR.. Whitefield was accused Of ram
bling in his discourses, by one Of his
hearers, to which he replied "If you
will wander to the devil, ] must ramble
after you. %
Mamma. said a little girl to her
mother. do you know how get TO bed
quick p "No," was the reply. "Well
said she, in great glee, Il step one foot
over the crib, then / say rats. and
frighten myself right in
A man passed through Council Bluffs,
Iowa a day or two ago on his return 10
Missouri, after having tried to live in
Minnesota. Don't like it up thar, said
he. Have nine months Of winter, and
the rest Of the time it's id late in the
fall"
Mother" said a little girl who was
engaged in making her doll an apron, 81
believe / shall be a duchess when grow
up" "How do you ever expect 10 be-
come a duchess, my daughter p her
mother asked. WAY by marrying q
Dutchman, to be sure, the girl replied.
A chemist in Albany, while ezpatiat-
ing on the discoveries Ofchemicalscience
announced that snow possessed consid-
cradle heat. An Irishman present said.
chemistry must be valuable science,
and asked the lecturer how many snow
balls it would require TO boil a tea-kettle.
OF phosphorus. every adult person
carries enough lone pound and three
fourths) about him in his body to make
at least four thousand of the ordinary
.two-cent packages Of sulphur matches,
but he does not have quite sulphur
enough to complete that quantity of the
incendiary combusuble.