Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-08-31
II ERE AND TIL Z R E

I - 4 utIt - NhtAl uuN't DNhlAAs
Men are scarce at Saratoga.
Arizona has large coal deposits.
| Kansas is full Of salt marshes.
| Chattanooga has a two-lcgged goat
American hot-corn is Il Liverpool sido-
dish now.
-Beecher brags that he once shod his
own horse.
twenty-five cents bushcl for peaches
in Kansas.
Chicago enjoys her daily ten divorces
suits again.
Dresses with trains arc ignored at
Long Branch.
| "A Western Jury returned a verdict OF
| "iustiilablc suicide"
The "bump Of .istruciiyencss "A
railway collision.
Judy says postmdsters ought TO bo
buried in postscript.
Miss s-constructiou-W wGd-
ding, powder and paint.
---''2th picks " appears On vase in q
Danbury boarding house.
Who lives for himself alone lives for
mean fellow.
Worcester, Mass, is to be lighted by
an electric light.
ID, Etroit is the way the 5wcdes origi-
nally spelt that city.
Presidential elections don't hurt busl-
ness like they used to.
"A man with very large feet cannot Lc
said to stand on trihes."
An Iowan traded his wifi, for Il mat
tress and bottle of mucilage.
-" A marble heart" is not a bad thing
provided 1t is quarry that has it
Omaha has 10000 Inhabitants.
Eighteen years ago IL had not one.
"A Kansas damsel of II eoped, lately,
and was caught by her grandfather.
"A Portage Lake, Mich, lady still
owns the umbrella she was married in.
"A patent for pocket matchbox was
lately sold for $500 gold.
What is taken from you before you
get it Your photograph.
White mountain tourists complain that
the prices are higher than the mountains.
Steam soda water, whatever that is,
is Pttsburg guzzle.
Little Jerry Bell, of Paoli, Ind, play
ed fatally with his little pistol.
Those days are lost in which we do
NJ koou hhooS WSAoS hA"h Abob ~ NAANh
we do evil.
is it impossible to say how many dog
days there are in q year, because cUcry dog
has his day
1t was stated in the obituary of
Western man that he "was fOrty-three
times in love-"
The proportion of marrageable girls
TO young men on the Island of Nantucket
is about ten TO one.
81 the toast be, dear woman" as
the man said TO his wife when he wanted
to eat It all himself.
-Garibaldi is preparing for the press
novel, the scene Of which is laid 10 France
duriug the recent war.
An old rat in Chicago caught a young
one by the tail =nd dragged him away just
as he Was stepping into trap.
When may young ladies' he said TO be
economical When they resort 10 tight
lacing to prevent waist-falaess.
In Washington, d. c., recently, a rat
bit the hand o: a baby so severely that tic
child narrowly escaped bleeding to death.
Baron Rothsenild, Of Frankfort, will
voyage TO the Holy Land in his own steam
yacht.
--Oli'e Logan's new lecture is on
''sncccssfnl People," Of whom she cOgnl-
herself
An injured husband, Major McCraith,
has been awarded S35,O 900 damages by ml
Irish court.
There are no less than five Yankee
girls studying in Milan, Italy for tie
yric stage.
"A good many trades people only give
fifteen ounces to the pOund-it is a bad
weigh they Lave.
Arlington, Ala, had a regatta which
wasn't decided success, because almost
! ali the boats upset.
"A "relic of the fire F" is what Chica-
gonian calls his wife, who was widowed
by the conilagratlon.
Twelve thousand mosquitoes To eacli
| cubic foot of atmosphere is the allowance
at Key West.
An Iowa man cut mules lcg OF by
trying to ride him and carry scythe at
he same time,
Lillian Edgatton ia at work on a lee
ture on female dress-From Fig-leaves TO
Dolly Vardens.
A tcnder-hciitcd Chicago bus driver
| says he hates to run over man--he
| thinks it hurts tie springs.
AT the banquet to Mr.Stanley,n Paris.
| Mr.. Washburue toasted him as 'fThe mau
who discovered the discovcrcr
Mr.. Whittier has entirely recovered
from the effects OF the slight lightning
stroke which he underwent last week.
One lady won four boxes Of gloves
and another lost champagne supper bet
ting on the recent Long Branch races.
"A colOred sportsman in FlOridais said
i hu Ca
in one day.
| "A Georgia outlaw named Cain las
escaped from his cdptors, and they are not
Able TO find him.
"A New York dairyman is to exhibit at
the Tennessee fair this fall cheese that
weighs over ton.
Alcohol aud whiting make simple
and ethcacious compound for cleaning
plate glass windows and mirrors.
When the married couples at the sea-
side resorts enter the dining-rOom il is u
good time to see the tied coming in.
1t has been found that in nearly every
civilized country the tree that bears the
most fruit for the market is the axle tree.
The Lond du Lac girls bestride their
horses. Ez. 1t seems to us that girls of
this style so fond, do lack sense of pro
priety.
The Ncbraskans want the Nationa
Capital moved to Fort Kcamey. For a
young people, their modesty is remarkably
vigorous.
An Indiana hog with a taste for
mining lately rooted up four silver
watches, two breastpins, and some other
yaluabes.
The native Alaskans are very skillful
in distilling liquor from Hour and sugar
called "quass." II makes drunk come
beautifully.
The Smiths had dinnerat Pittsburgh
a while ago. The first toast was-Poco-
hOntas Heaven bless her for saving the
Smiths to this country.
? The man who never told an editor
5 how he could better his paper has gone
out west to marry the woman who never
| looked into Il looking glass
, "A Leayenworth editor sat down in a
reserved seat already occupied by hornet.
We stands up When scissoriug his editO-
T rials now.
"A Milwaukeean drank quart of ice
water To get cool, and he got 80 cool that
II | his friends, not being ahlr to warm him
. up, have couciddcj 10 bury him.
There il no more truth thlu poetry in
| the follow inu line fra M an pfti.rmrut