Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-10-11
NO. Al
HERE AND THERE.
-salvini is bald.

! hhuNhe II uiEElHB up clepnhntbs
Striped gloves arc the latest horror.
-Goudge is a Nova Scotia politician!
barney Williams left eye Is paral-
yzed.
"A stone mug for lager has been in-
vented.
Deer dlsport themselves In Kentucky
cornfelds.
The largest farm In England is 5000
acres in extent.
Women prisoners sweep the streets
Of Mobile, Ala.
Some modest people will only cat
dressed tomatoes.
Thinning Is the talking of the soul
with itself.-Plato.
A Virginia child has a pet frog which
eats out of his hand.
A New York lady ate fourteen soft
shell crabs at a sitting.
Mrs. Lemon solicits lemon aid In her
race for office in Illinois.
"A sentimental young man Is making
a collection of hairp pins.
The hardest agricultural work on a
farm-raising mortgage.
Miss Kellogp's English opera opens
at Philadelphia October 9Th.
Sausage is said to be the connecting
link between man and beast.
"A RELIGIOUS Saratoga has started out
in opposition to the other one.
Field, of cable fame, has realized two
millions on his crops thus far.
Always locate the bedpost in your
mind before putting out the gas.
The citizens of Norristown have sub
scribed $4,000 for a new town hall.
The six chief officers of the Erie
railroad divide $4,000 salary per annum.
1t is good suggestion that people
who advertise on fences mix little SPELL
ing with their paint.
An old wine-bibber says that an
empty champagne bottle Is like an
| orphan, because it has lost its pop.
What some country newspapers
ought to do is to firmly turn their backs
ON Latin and keep their rollers clean.
"A who'C fam IL Monticello we're
vacc uded with the virus from hooking
-o~, which has resulted in kleptomania.
"A Western girl keeps light burning
in her parlor all night 10 make her rival
across the street believe she has beau.
"A Cairo pound-beeper has resigned
because the common council made fuss
ihont his writing Hon." before his
name.
"A chief of police in Japan was dis
missed the force and his estate contiscated
for extorling fine Of one dollar from
coolie.
There is no base ball club in Dam
lury, and so Pine street gentleman was
obliged To fall from a sLoop to break his
th umb.
"A popular doctor in Oswego gave a
prescription with directions to take tea
| spoonful every three years. The patient
recovered.
-"Any woman who wears false hair
is not fit person to sit in the house of
the Lord" said an Indiana preacher In
| his sermon.
Repeated duckings in the river dis
possessed an eighty nine-year-old citizen
Of New York, Of his purpose to marry a
girl of fifteen.
George Law is the solidest man in
New York. With all his millions be
weighs 3l2 pounds, and stands six feet
our in his stockings.
"A Boston gentleman, who disllkes
formally, offered a lady $4,000 if she
| would marry him without the usual pre-
liminaries of courtship.
"A letter addressed to "The Devil 4" is
lying In the post Office at Lafayette, Ind,
and the postmaster thinks he'll have to
send it to Washington.
"A paper in Dixon, Ky, complains
that the hogs scraping their backs on the
door joists of the church put solemn
thoughts to hasty flight.
"A Chicago paper tells of a couple
VINO married in that city after three
hours acquaintance, but doesn't explain
why they waited so long.
Harvey Birch, the hero of Cooper's
novel Of "The Spy" really moved, lived
and had being IN what IS now known as
the village Of Mamaroneck.
Mrs. Malsprop, good soul, proposes
to distribute tracts among teetotalere,
who, she regrets TO hear, are living in II
state Of destitution.-Iuach.
They are starting a Farmers Grange
in the city Of Boston. We always thought
the farmers OF that town were an op-
pressed people.-NOrDieh Conn Adv.
AT a late conference session clergy
i man gave the reason why the Baptist
Z Church is like beavers hut "There Ia
e only one entrance to it, and that is under
] water"
e christine Nilsson and Kellogg, 1t Il
said, will both run opera in this country
7 in the Fall. 1t is to be hoped that com
I q petition in this field will lower the pric,
u of reserved seats.
A brilliant young man when h,
began business in New York crossed th'
, ferry without his shoes aud stockings, 81
he could say that he " came barefooteC
l. into the great metropolis" etc.