Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-12-28
HERE AND THE RE


Louisiana didn't give thanks.
Kansas has a jewsharp band.
Metal wall paper is the latest.
-Nature's tailoring-A potato patch.
Yale students are studying shorthand.
Can plain cook also be pretty one
"A youthful warrior-A baby In arms.
Mrs. seott-siddons Is graceful skater.
Silver boiled into steam becomes green.
-Epizootic is the way to pronounce 1t.
Emily Faithful wears her hair short.
-sealskln and beaver make nobby hats.
Pies that suit the Celestials--Pup pies.
-lutents exctement-Panlei in circus.
California indians suicide on pounded
glass.
"A rare flower-the pink Of politeuess.
"A convention of gooseplckers is an
nounced.
The condiment for late dinners
Ketch-up.
-"All's qule. on tie Potomac" Irs
frozen up.
Carlyle has Just completed his 77th
year.
Kansas puts towers 140 feet high on
ner hchOOlnOuse.
-Bouecault saw the light ln Dublin in
1929.
The Davenport brothers have gone to
farming.
Mrs. Thomas Mast is a Phlladelphlan
by birth.
If a man is a mister isn't woman a
mystery
A Californian Is making wine from
watermelons.
Patience is the key of content
Mahomet.
Edwin Booths daughter is almost
"grown Ut"
Too much gravity argues a shallow
mind Lavatsr.
Boston and Chicago run smoking cars
upon the street railways.
Grizzly is the pleasing title Of new
journal in San Francisco.
When the rain falls, does it ever rise
again Yes, in dew time.
King Oscar, of Sweden, is the TALES
monarch In the world.
The Melbourne Argus yields an in
come of 100000 year.
Duluth now answers TO The Undis-
I
A ve.powder reddler is the leading
candidate for Mayor Of Cairo, Ill.
"A game Of pitch aud toss-A life on
the ocean wave.
Patti draws nearly $4,000 night for
singing 10 Russia.
Stokes, the assassin whlles away his
hours ieading Marmion.
! Americans carry on two.thirds Of the
business houses in Honolulu.
-Ciyility costs nothing and buys every
thing Lady Mary Montague.
-School-houses are the republican line
of observation-disclosures Mann.
query a dumb man always
keep his word
Lies arc hiltlcss swords, which cut the
hands that WELD them.
Why is the letter Y like young lady
because II makes pa pay.
"A Legitimate Inference That det-
lists office Is a drawing room.
Brigham Young has captured over
5000 EHgllshmcn f within year.
--WAy IS q Sickle like an aversion
Because 70 g-,- against tae gain.
"A Young Parsim advcrlses that he
is willing 10 he adopted by Prince.
~ man who was never troubled with
pi- mo,hcr m-law--Adam.
WHY are elections like tents Because
the canvass ends al the poles.
An ounce Of mother, SAYS the Spanish
proyerb, Il worth pound Of clergy.
"A blacksmith camoionly shoe horse
himself, hul he can make Il horse shoe.
If a'toucr and a quart of whisky were
0 D, 4 l 1rtts.1s dee ,
When may ship at sea he said not
TO be on water! When shc is on fire.
"A housckeepcr saws there is no venison
10 the market, bat plenty of dear meat.
Fine sleghing in Minnesota, lut
nothing except oxen 10 hitch s!eigh-bells
TO.
A poor humble street preacher In Lon
don killed man for disputing his theory
of the creation,
Michigan will whisper to Congress
that S4UO.OO0 worth of harbor improve
ments would be acceptable.
KING Oscar H.. of Sweden and Norway,
will be formally crowned at Stockholm on
the 18th Of May next.
-Iona, Michigan, has but 1000 inhabi-
tauts, but bs each one feels equal 10 thste
, they want city charter.
+ "A Buffalo paper announces thatby the
recent burning of an ice-house there 10000
tons Of ice were "reduced to ashes"
. Superior woolleu blankets, made in
2 California, are now displayed in Broadway
stores, New York.
The announcement is made that Col.
John S. Mo-by, of Virginia, is TO marry a
Philadelphia helress.
~ small family in Petersburg has en-
, ployed cighty-hve colored cooks in the
r course of twelve months.
Z Before they could decide she was in-
/ sane the jurors IN the Laura Fair trial
S drank three gallons of whisky.
S Indiana factories band together and
sauer kraut factories on the same principle
j. that cheese factories are conducted.
Carl Pretzel says Atam and EfeY got
into der garLen of Eten in der shbring
dimes, but got shaked out in der Fall.
Michigan is reviying through her
borders he old-fashoned spelling schools,
to couuteract the decline in matrlmony.
9 An exchange is talking about "the
4 next worlds fair" just as if we didn't
v have trouble enough with this words
=. fair"
. What Is the worst article in the mar,
y ket to speculate in Do you give 1t up
II Tea, of cou Sc, because il is always sur'
le TO go to pot.
le "A naturalist thinks, that if a cat wer'
T. properly fed twice day on tortise shel
j. scraps, she might ultimately produce {
h litter Of cataeombs.
~ -"I 20 through my work, " reprovingll
said the needle to the idle boy. "But no
till you are pushed through, triumphant!
replied the boy to the needle.
Montreal young ladies play the sooth
to irg air Of "iome Sweet Home, about tn
n hour Of retiring, when their sweetheart
81 SHOW signs OF lingering.
c. A venerable divine thinks that som
~ ~ lhe young clergymen Of the preseu
day would make good martyrs-they ar
w. sud.y they would bum well.
-, "A man adyglt.ses Tor ,ompsteu
h, person ID nDdursk, tho sale Of a ne'
,e medic nc. anl addr that 10 will prov
NJ highly lucrative To- the uudertakerl'
Jf ~ lady aslcd an up town geat.ema
at who rah suffering irom the inhuenz'
ii- My d,tt sir, what do you use for a cold :
lg Five hsndkegeliois day, nadam."
al Worthy Pastor. "what, not remen
i'' De. your catcchsm, my boy You're bette
fed than .augnt, ! think :" BOY. SEC
W sir You teaches me, but father feeds M
~ ccntlcman coming into the room {
1l.. b1ftsu fold him that Mr. NoWfi We