Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-02-03
MINOR MENTION.

A Detroit man shot at his wife's shad-
ow the other night thinking it a negro
burg( (hic) liar.
a Virginia girl Of 10 has died of home
sickness at Richmond boarding school.
Jean Paul says Of children: The
smallest are nearest to God as the
smallest planets are nearest the sun.
The King of Hollands chief accom-
= Plshment IS reported to be a 6ne appre-
f citation Of champagne
Hiram Powers will visit the United
States this summer. He has not been
I home for thirty-three years.
Intelligent Pet.-''Ala, dear, what do
: they play the organ so loud for when
! church IS over? Is it to wake US up p
Lecturing is not always profitable in
the West. In Toledo, Ohio, recently
feminine orator took but SIS at the door,
and the feVer-and-ague in the hall
A medical journal estimates that the
people Of the United States pay $685.
600 900 yearly for physicians service
and for medicines.
It is not strange that Dio Lewis
should be deeply impressed with the
importance of health when his name Is
a perpetual invocation to his own fiIner-
al.
An indignant father in Galveston sent
his daughter a bridal present In the
shape of patent burial case when she
married against his will
'Benevolence, " said Sidney Smith. in
a charity sermon, 'is a sentiment com
mon to human nature. A never sees B
in distress without wishing c to relieve
him"
A paper has an article headed with
the conundrum, ''Why do wives fade p
We suppose it is because they wont
wash. Don't it?
A leading lecturer classi6es his audi
ence as follows. The "still-auendve.
the "quick responsive the "hard-to-
Lifts, the won't aPPlauds, " and the
''get-up-and-go-outs." !"
The conjoined capital Of all the bank
! ing houses of the Rothschilds Ia London.
Paris, Frankfort and Vienna is said 10
be, in our money, no less than $780,
600, 900.
"Boy, why did you take those shin
giles last Sunday? Because mother
needed Some kindling wood, and
didn'twant to split wood on Sunday"
Lesson in geography. Schoolmarm
to little 1osie: "Where is the North
Pole, Josie?" TOP of the map, marm,
replied the pupil.
The drunk room is a feature Of a
| Louisville hotel. Transient guests,
overcome by Bourbon are cared for
therein till sober.
Of Webster's SpelIer more than co.
ooo, 900 copies have been sold. The
present rate of production is 100000
annually. DR.. Webster received one
cent upon every copy
A Western journal recently published
this extraordinary notice: Married at
the residence of the brides father, by
the Rev A. NJ. Lyons, John p. Ellis,
esq, all of this city. That is what IS
called in euchre, going It alone.
Never chew your words. Open the
mouth and let the words come out. A
student once asked, "Can virchu, forti-
chude, gratichude, or quiechude dwell
with that man who is a stranger to rect
ichude?"
King, or Emperor, William is said to
have become SO impatient at the pro-
racted siege of Paris that, detester of
tobacco as he has been all his life, he
has begun to smoke for consolation.
There is a machine in operation in
East Sumner, Maine, which can make
thirteen thousand tooth-piclzs in a min
ute; yet the demand is greater than the
supply.
During Gen. Phil Sheridan's recent
visit to Naples, a special exhumation
was made for his benefit at POmpeii.
Generals frequently receive ovadons
but this IS one of the rare occasions
when they are honored by excavations.
"Shell pink" "ciel blue" "chryso-
Erase green, "guanO gray, and "Frou-
frou buff. D are this seasons names for
some fashionable shades Of color.
Ladies paper skirts, costing but fifteen
cents, are becoming common. The pa
per IS of great tenacity, and does not
easily tear. 1t is of various cOlOrs, from
snowy white to doleful black.
There is in a Western State a woman
so cleanly that she rubs the dirt of OF the
ire-wood before she puts it in the stove.
Another women tries to beat this by
pulling the growing beets out every
morning and washing the dirt of them.
A sealed can Of oysters carelessly
left on the embers in stove, in Owegos
exploded with tremendous force. burst
ing the CRATE to atoms, shaking the
house, and severely injuring abystander
Won't some kerosene man now give us
a patent non-eXplosive OYSTER
Some one speaking probably by au-
thority, says that the women in Detroit
have feet like raisin boxes, and are
to buy shoes at home, ordering
them usually from the prairies of the
West, where leather is cheap and where
here is plenty Of room to manufacture
hem.
A Boston minister says he once
preached on "The Recognition Of
Friends in the Future " and was told af-
ter service by hearer that it would be
more to the point to preach about the
Of friends here, as he had
been in the church twenty years, and
didn't know any Of its members.
Let us 90 to Mr.. Simpsons s wedding.
my dear" said a newly-married wife to
her husband. "Oh, no. Let us stay at
home; it will be a dreadful bore. FBut,
ny dear you must remember Mr.. Simp-
ion attended your wedding" "So he
lid" {grimly); 81 had forgotten that"
81 shall be there"
An ingenious wife in Des AToines cured
ler husband Of snoring thuss She has
4 gutta-percha tube with cup shaped
ends; one she puts over his nose and
mouth, and the other over his ear. He
consumes his own noise. as a stove
ioes its smoke, and wakes up fgShgTfe'r
A Scotchman's definition Of meta
,hvsics: "When the folks wha listen
lima ken the meaning o what they
lear. and when the mon wha speaks
lima ken what he means his ain sell
hats McehyfSSickS.