Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-10-04
HERE AND THERE.

Laura Fair wears short hair.
An Oregon cat catches snakes.
-Currant red is the new fall color.
-Counter-irritants-R salesmen.
"A dog never goes to c in his bark.
New York makes its own absinthe.
Boston girls sling their pr aver book
at their sides.
The London Times netted 81, 900, 900
in gold last year.
Ancient Rome Is suffering from the
speculative fever.
-" Elderly maiden lady" sounds older
than "old maid"
DIR. Murray denies that he shot any
deer ont Of season.
New Orleans has prize poet as well
as the yellow fever.
A ohoneymoon car" ia now run on
the Pacific Railway.
Children often get of the track owing
to misplaced switch.
Stoves should be up in every we'll
regulated household.
Reading thinks of building home
for Indigent old people.
-"Little Women" ia almost as popular
In Europe as In America.
Over one hundred ladies are studying
law in the United States.
Cornwall, VI, comes out strong with
a crop of $1,000 bushels of onions.
A 5000 dress didn't quite cover
little girl at a recent children's ball.
The Fkited States has SSH periodl-
Gals to all the rest of the worlds 7,742.
A white feather and orange blossoms
will be the hair dressing of bride elect.
The man who steals s2O0 ia thief,
while he who steals S2OO,OO0 is a defaulter.
Don't tell an editor how to run a news
paper. Let the poor fool tiud II out him
self.
The champion postal card writer, Of
Charleston, $. c., has reached 20l4
words.
Two Texas cattle men in Wachita
recently played a game Of marbles for
100 steers a side.
The man who horrows your umbrella
never thinks to return il until storm,
aud then he wants to use it.
A prudent clergyman, unwilling to
accuse citizen Of lying, said he used
the truth with penurious frugality.
The too inquisiiive wife of post
master in Wisconsin was recently held in
bail for opening the letters of her hus-
bands Office.
J A "dastard rival " of the West, states
that the editor of the -- was kicked
last Saturday and now stands up to do
his scissoriug."
"A colportegr in Kansas was told that
"ihis 'ere gi5u amt much on Bibles,
but if you want to make money bring US
out load Of shot-guus.
William Winter thinks the greatest
enemy Of the stage is the Black Crook"
as now performed in New York. The
costumes we're not made for Winter.-Ez.
The Danbury Neirs man, being COM
= pletely demoralizrd in preserving time,
wants to "Jam the jammed things to
jell."
"A western paper explains Joaquin
+ Millcr's irenzied stye by saying that he
, has had three wives. Some men die
: under it, and some go crazy aud write
, poetry.
5 AN old lady from the country, with
e six unmarried daughters, went into
b Augusta, Ga, the other day, hunting fol
5 the Patrons OF Husbandiy. She mean
E business.
70 ~ aNNW AfAAHt NAi yuan vas AMY
J by the Judge If he ever read the papers
c lie replied; ayes, your honor but /
Ie you'n let me go this time, Pll never do 81
any more"
- An enterprising chap who is organic
,e ing brass band Ct twenty women, say
~ that if they learn half as many airs a
70 70 they put on. the experiment will prove 4
~ complete success.
q Lord Houghton adds the following Il
N the long list OF sidney Smiths jokes. o
1f Lord Macaulay he said that Macau'a
Is "not only oyertlowed with learning, bu
lie stood in the slop."
Of Two young ladies of Ii Crosse wer
<, standing by the side Of ditch thrice
st feet wide, which they didn't know ho'
al to cross wheu their esel.t said - Snakesl'
ir and they cleared It at bound.
e. The vitality Of some people is simpl
n astounding. There is long haired yOut
ll at Buffalo, who has written 700 verse:
IN the refrain to which is "rm dynl
no mother, dying" and withal ne isn't deaC
le Nebraska named town Vanderbi
"a and then wrote to the Commodore. II
"a replied that he didn't care a d-n, an
a., a. the way they changed the name Of thi
a5 town would have made his hair stand o
Nv, end.
he A lady, in rapid pursuit of health q
~ Saratoga, boasteG TO her physician, who
I'd she met as she was leaving the spripg,
by have Just drank live glasses Of Congress.
I'M "Then dou't let me eetaln you," was Il
quiet reply.
,ss A Paisley haillie, in speaking of OF
,ct of his cOadjutois in office, whom
me thought a little cracked" said : Z"
all they dinna keep the rszors face that ma
rot he'll commit suicide on himself, or
ese come ither body !"
"a Owing to a war among the dry goo
NJ, merchants at Denver, calicoes were I
~! duccd to two cents per yard, and eve
"a l9i editor, reporter aud minister in the pla
"a, "a. now wears a shIrt-gaudy in some
~ ~ stances, but stall shirt.
sut "A Georgia bride Is described in o.
md Of the local papers as loaklng We
fhe lily cradled in the golden glimmer
I'M, some evening lake-a foam-hake, snow
{ a yet sun flushed, crownmg tie ripplin
Of some soft Southern sea"
us The editor Of a new paper in \
his braska, begins his Introductory artil
eri. with the following sentence The obj
lied in view in the establishment of this pal
ad, is the procuring Of means wherewith
for, buy bread aud butter and good clothes
Old "A Clay couHty, Kentucky, auction'
nn- pulled out revolver and announce
Iuls IF any man goes to.frollicing arou
ha' while the sale is going on, shall int
tne rupt him In his career. Put them sh
sn guns over by the fence am leave =
red thar :"
WI "A Georgia paper recently contain
TX. the following item in its society goss
The amiable aud delicious Miss Pi
ington, whose charms of minds and 7
son have turned the heads OF our gsllat
,;os nov does up her hair in braids, and ,
sH ronizes this paper exclusively in her =
M M, sonal makeup"
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