Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-12-21
Il ERE AND THE RE


Short crops -Conylcts' hair.
Mark Twain has the dyspepsia.
The hsalthiest city is Pensacola.
.-Mush-and-milk sociables in Iowa.
--Pittsburg says "as blue as milk."
-Califomia's orange crop is heavy.
The Pyramid" is anew square dance.
The worst tax Of all-Attacks Of
gout.
Church artillery praetce-Canouizlng
saints.
One Boston church thinks Of coupon
pew tickets.
"A romantic deaih-A young lady
drowned in tears.
Young Charles Dickens is reported to
be coming to this country.
Chinese marriage ceremonies last three
days.
England still burles suicides IN the
night.
-Poughseepsie don't keep streets they
are avenues.
DO ladies obtain bargains when they
get worsted
An American publishes the Daily
News In Rome.
Mr.. Joe jefferson will return to the
stage in the spring.
Among other exclusives which Newark
boasts is a liquohce factory.
When is a young lady very like
whale When she's pointing.
-Chas. Dillon, the actor, has rheumatic
gout, and can't gout the house.
The hight of impertinence-Asking
Jew what his Christian name is.
The Erie canal is damaged hfty thou
sand dollars yearly by muskrats
Indianapolis ''assassinates'' about
100000 hogs every three months.
TO make apple trees bear-Pick off all
the leaves as soon as tLey appear.
Whisky is said to be a hoin of plenty,
because IL will corn you copiously.
The Khedive of Egypt is said to have
an income of $50, ,OO0,O O0O per annum.
Sage green is fashionable color this
winter.
A universal grain vlsvator-Rye
whisky.
The whipping post Is hourishing in
Canada.
Grace Grssnwood's summer house is
In Colorado.
A Boston street ear has besA named
In St. Louis they vaceinate ssrsnaders
with brlckbats.
Plato calls opinion a medium between
knowledge and ignorance.
Bryant has done no work 10 speak Of
for the Evening Post for years.
Strange THE heaviest speeches don't
always have the GREATEST weight.
The fuss over the pronunciation Of
Froude-is an advertising dodgsi
TO give pain is the tyranny-to make
happy, the true empire Of beauty y.-Sfssls.
One cent a quart for milk in Minneso-
ia.
&C. F. Train wears brass buttons on his
coat.
Yale Seniors wear kid gloves to reel
tations.
As astronomers say, this is the cider
ial year.
-Catacazy still fingers 10 Paris, and Is
to be found at the eqfs, club, opera and
hotels.
"A Kentucky farmer uses dead bats,
which he gets in caves around, 10 fertllze
his farm.
The Boston Transcript thinks that the
most pressing need Of the hour is "honest
architecture.".
There are good many bars to the
success of the Sunday Jaw in Chicago; In
fact, about tive lty-two hundred OF them.
Alex. Mcclure was killed the other
day. He was a brakeman on the Erie
road.
-" Uncle Ned" colored, aged ll2, died
In Savannah the other day, after chewing
, tobacco 100 years.
] -The ren,ova1 oF 4, hrr from, th. tor,,,,
Of a Kentucky girl last Wednesday, saved
her from being buried.
"A Kansas Stale prison convict has in
vented two churns and steam road wAgen
since his Incarceration.
I Deliberate with caution, but act with
decision, and Weld with graciousness or
oppose with frmness.
A Georgia schoolmaster shot man
i who contradicted him In the orthography
of word.
What is that from which if you take
the whole some will remain The word
wholesome.
ten, John A. Dix and Thurlow Weed
draw pensions as soldiers Of ls42, the lat
, ter as a tlfer.
In what way should the nations Of
, Europe take rocks as an example : Never
fight without caws.
! There Is negro woman living near
4 columbus, Ga, lO6 years old, who never
nursed Washington.
: An obtuse citizen of Keene, n. H..
had TO draw man four miles in a gi9
because Greeley wasn't elected.
There has never been season wher
/, the Connecticut tobacco crop promised 50
! many Havana cigars as this.
~
1 Tor shooting his father-in-law, Oliver
+ Cromwell.
, Miss Dixon, southern lady of ad
n tlireI skill IN penmanshi?, writes will
both hands simultaneously.
I The London Spectator says: "We shal
. nave 10 hahg railway board yet. Rail
Gus.
, The st. Louis Globe saws tha. n reno,
y ter Of rival sheet having had the smal
a pox, his landlady uses his cheek FOR a put
u meg Crater.
h The Courier Journal publishes list n
i Kentucky towns which cannot boast /
J. small pox. The following is the list {
m full Stanford.
t, The English Secretary of War h.
4. concluded to let the soldiers plav cards /
ID their recreation rooms, and see ii ii won
4 keep them out of the grog-shops.
10 A faithful brother in Fairfield (Ct
church recently prayed for the a6ser
u memb bers "who were prostrated on be,
:, 81 OF sickness and chairs of wellness.''
~ The Litchheld Seatinel saws. ssT,
n new license law Is about as well observe
=. In this village as the Ten Commandmen
,v are In Washington"
ID Louise Kellogg will close her season
be about month, all reports to the contra
III notwlthstanding. She is a canal. bost
the Delaware and Hudson.
.-"lt's forty years, my old friend Joh
since we We're boys together - ,sTs h
1y Wei, don't speak so loud there's m
T. young widow In the next room p -
az These are the latest and sllllest a,-
~ cities In journalistic gymnastics g n
ln mewer-the cat. De-seat-full-fat MAJ,
OF a chair" '' ''"u
in "A Kentucky huckster has over \
tn stall this impressive moral ipinnctio,
ANY Man or Boy that taikes wnn ~, 10
ch Without Leave is littl Roge In
Ir; Mrs. Malaprop, whose acouoir,or 81
oi Elth surgical terms Is evidently someSL
20, Imperfect, persists in saying thai she ~,
knew a man who tvas ,,..l' -. W