Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-01-20

Rich music-A million air.

The sweetest thing in bonneis-A
pretty face.
The Chicago Cattle Yards pen 10000
at one time.
Metallic-heeled shoes are said to ruin
drawing-room carpets.
A history Of tobacco +. announced I'm
press, illustrated with fine cuts.
Itis a noticeable fact that people who
change their mind often never get
good one.
Some Of the small cities in Massachu-
setts want to be villages again.
The inn-expenenced make the best
hotel servants.
The great lakes cover one hundred
and thirty thousand square miles.
A topers idea Of hard drinking
ting on a rock, and sucking icicles.
Anna Dickinson is having great sue
cess with her lecture on mems rights.
Friday is the most fashionable for re-
ception day. Thursday is next in favor.
'What is a smile p" asked man Of
a little girl. "The whisper Of a laugh,
said she.
One thousand FIVE hundred and seven
ty-four registered letters were stolen last
year.
Believe one-half the i'll one woman
speaks of another; but credit twice the
good she reports Of her
Philadelphia consumes 100000 tons
Of coal annually, and her demand con-
stantly increases.
A learned physicist announces that
this globe viii support life for 10000, 900
years longer.
Mark Twain receives 81, 400 a year
for being periodically funny in Tie Gal
lazy.
Spurgeon thinks some ministers would
make good martyrs-they are SO dry
they would burn wei.
Prof Tyndall, the English scientist. is
enjoying himself on the top Of Mount
Kna.
Wild cats are so plenty in Alabama
that dogs come home without any hide
to speak Of
Politeness is like an air cushion-there
may be nothing in It, but it eases our
jolts wonderfully.
An epicurean philosopher says chat
the way to become round IS eat good
square meals.
A petition to the Detroit City Govern
ment ends: "And your petitioner VIII
ever pray-if praying viii do any good.
The greatest effort OF friendship is not
to bear or overlook the faults Of our
friends, but to pardon the superiority Of
their talents.
! Since the papers told Of that girl who
/ got married by washing Child's face
in the street, all the sensible girls carry
towels with them.
The Waco (Texas) Regtstey notes the
fact that tour parson has prudently e1,-
changed his shot gun for a revolver.
The Chicago Republican" is out
/ against the custom of a general kissing
Of bride at a wedding, and calls it
"relic of barbarism."
"How can expand my chest p an
/ extOrionate man asked Of a physician.
'By carrying good large heart in it.
replied the doctor.
The very latest idea Of ultra-fashion-
able ladies is to have their boots and
] shoes padded at the instep, so as to give
the foot, at that point, high and grace
full curve.
Scientific experiments, made by Prof
4 Rood. Of Columbia College, demonstrate
the duration Of a fash Of lightning 70 be
| about f-5ootn part OF Z sec0ii1i'
Uhlan jackets for house wear are just
about the most dashing little articles of
| exterior costume a lady can don. They
are rather gorgeously embroidered and
slashed-whereas genuine Uhlan jackets
are not!
A witty writer says Lawyers and
clients remind me of the two rows of
people at a fire one passing along full
buckets, and the other empty ones.
The shortest discourse ever delivered
in Chicago was when preacher under
took to tell What He Knows About
Heaven.
! Mrs. Ingham, Of Iowa, viii live In his
/ tory as the woman who delivered
i Thanksgiving sermon while her husband
proudly sat back Of the pulpit holding
the baby.
/ Gloves are now made in England with
/ a pocketon the inside of the palmi 20
suit the habit INDUCED in by the fair sex
of carrying money in that position
The report that Billy Mungen bought
his head of Grant at the leather store ln
/ Galena is disputed. Grant never sold.
any such leather as that. His calf was
the best in market - Ohz0 .SkTte Joi77ak
| There are cighty-six different mission
airy societies sustained by Professionalism.
supporting four thousand missionanes.
at on outlay Of $4,000 annually.
Fanny Fern has been writing about
theatcrs in Boston when she was
/ girl. The New York Democrat don't
| believe theaters were known at that early
day.
A minister asked a tpsy fellow lean
ing up against fence where he expect
\ ed to 90 when he died. "If I can't get
along any better than do now, hc
said, 81 shan't go anywhere.
The Cinnamon in California, whose
means would allow, have an gone home
to celebrate the beginning Of a new
thousand years, which comes in Febru-
AIRY. The last celebration was in so.
Xenia (O.) girls are said to have a
pleasing habit of kissing strangers IN
the street, and then wildly screaming.
"Oh, my thought it was cousin Char
liel"
That was a rude doctor who advised
his female patient after feeling her pulse
tliat she only needed rest. "But lookat
my tongue, doctor, which he did. re-
y marking, 'that needs rest, too. He lost
that patient.
A distinguished clergymen in one of
our eastern cities was met by a dilapida-
ted looking individual, with flask OF
whisky in his pocket who inquired
'Sir, is this the nearest road to the aims
house p mo, sir, replied the clergy
man, pointing to the bottle, "but that is.'
Many Of our fashionable young ladies
have adopted nick-names, which they
use on their cards, preicuing 20 bc