Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-01-27

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cue with skill
A Chicago sausage-maker with un-
usual candOr advertses his wares as
dog cheap"
Reputation is what men and women
think Of us. Character is what God and
angels know Of US.
Why are birds melancholy in the
morning? Because their little bills are
all over devil
A reason why a piano was not
saved at fire was because none OF the
fireman could play on it.
Massachusetts, is the only State that
adheres to the Puritan custom Of an cleo
ton sermon before the Legislature.
Gladstone spoke I78 times during the
last session of Parliament, and his
speeches occupy eighty columns Of the
Times.
The oldest man in Montana is said TO
be "Old Hanks, who carried the infant
Abraham Lincoln in his arms, and pos
sesses his first watch.
The whole length of the Hoosac Tun-
mel now opened IS 3.62z feet, which is
a little more than half through the
mountain.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has deci-
ded that if a juryman drinks intoxica-
ting liquor during trial the verdict may
be set aside and new trial ordered.
Mrs. Blanche Butler Ames, wife of the
young Mississippi Senator is reported to
be among the recent converts TO woman
suffrage.
The latest expression Of approval is
ghastly-as follows "Kaas, had a
ghastly time, by JoveP' "Ghastly little
creachaw, isn't she7" and the like.
The Rev. DR.. S. T. Spear. of the
Brooklyn South Presbyterian Church,
has accepted the position Of editor Of
the LIdebeHdeAk
A clairvoyant doctor of Hartford pro-
claims his superiority over all other
soOthsayers, astrologers, prophets, and
by advertising that he "foretells the past
and present, as well as the future.
7. Horner writes: ssI want a receipt
for grouse-pudding." BY all means.
Nothing easier. Send the grouse-pud-
ding here, and we'll return you a receipt
for it by bearer Punch.
We are told 'the evening wore on"
but we are never told what the evening
wore on that occasion. "Was IT the
close Of a summer day? asks an exc
change.
Can't Bear Them.-'I never could
bear children, said crusty old maid
to Mrs. Partington Perhaps, If you
could, you would like them better,
mildly replied the old lady.
The authorities Of Harvard College
have issued a circular announcing that
in 1872 the requisites for admission into
the Freshman class will be considerably
increased.
DR.. Holmes says: Walking is a
perpetual falling, with a perpetual self
recovery. Itis a most complex, violent
and Perilous operation, which we divest
of its extreme danger only by continual
practice from a very early period Of
life. "
Pittsburg, in the opinion of HAIRS
90z2UaL0f kzealkh, is the heathiest city
in the country, San Francisco alone eE-
cepted. Il has neither the ague nor
sharp lake breezes Of Chicago, nor the
long, hard winters Of the cities on the
Eastern seaboard.
A Kansas City merchant gave his
wife $500 to buy herself a Christmas
present, and started for Texas. She se-
lected young clerk as her present, and
left for Chicago with him.
'sYou are very stupid. Thomas" said
a country teacher to a little boy eight
years old. "You are little donkey. and
what do they do to cure them of stupidi-
typ They feed them better and kick
hem less, said the arch iiitle urchin.
John Bull: "Got all the arms you
vant-all the ammunition?-au the
coal France; YES, all B,
And you don't want anything more
Then I'thiuk it is time for me to inter
ere.
seNWhat is the difference between sixty
minutes and my youngest sister, asked
4 precocious boy of his grave uncle. 81
don't know; what is il" was the uncle's
-eply. fWhy, ones an hour and the
Jther's our Ann, was the stunning exc
olanation.
The fashionable trimming for dresses
and cloalzs this winter is called Alaska
iable. 1t is a beautiful fur Of a grayish
brown shade. Many people are proba-
by unaware that it is the SKIN Of the
1ZebHtkia 14nze1zcaHG or AbeNakt SsggN-
sN, famiharly known as the skunk.
In an orangery at Los Angeles. Cali
ornia. there is a lemon tree planted IN
he midst of an orange grove The fruit
IF this tree is neither lemon nor orange,
put in shape and flavor it partalSes of the
of both orange and lemon,
II is a c0rnn1efe hvbrid
"Never," says q henpeelled man,
marry a woman worth more than thou
.rt. When I married my wife K was
worth fifty cents, and she was worth SIX
y-twO cents; and whenever any duier-
nee has occurred between us she has
brown up to me the odd shilling
The ladies of Illinois and Indiana are
aid to have taken kindly 10 new ar
cle Of wardrobe. ii is called the di-
-orce travelling suit When q woman
Ions one of these suits, her husband
,nows that trouble is in store for him.
Soiourner Truth uses this argument:
Did Tesus ever say anything against Wo-
nen Not a word. But he did speak
.wful hard things against men. You
.now what they were. And he knew
hem to be true. But he did mt say noth-
ng 'gainst de women.
"EIow dismal you look. said a bucket
, his companion, as they were going 20
ne well. "Ah {" replied the other "I
ras rejecting on the uselessness of our
eing filed; for let us 60 away ever so
al, we always come back empty.
Dear me! how strange 20 look at IL in
nat way" said the bucket; "now 1 en-
oy the thought that. however empty we
ONE, we always 60 away full Only
ook at It in that hight. and you win be
S cheerful as I am.
A clergyman was preparing his dis
curse on Sunday. stopping occasional
y to review what he had written and TO
rase what he was disposed to disapprove,
hen he was acoosted by his little son,
-ho had numbered but Ave summers:
Father, does God tell you what 60
reach7' Certainly my child. "Then
hat makes YOU scratch it outf'