Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-05-17
HERE AND THERE.

The poor mans story-the garret.
Stanley will discover the Khivans.
An Indiana horse ls a raviug lunatic'
-Counter-flts -Ready-made clothing.
Drink for IrisLmen -Celt zer water.
Ohio has two old-fashoned log jalls.
TO protect the chest-Put lock on
II.
The Delaware is alive with dead cat
fish.
Sheep fed on corn yield harsh, brittle
wool.
Ram. page-The one made of parch-
ment.
collector of the Port-A wine mer-
chant.
Leather stair-rods are an English
notion.
-spinsters-slngle old ladies who new
er spin.
-Boston's boot-blaek-prince has $500
In bank.
-Lucca has made $4,000 in six
months.
Opium is what ails Charles Algernon
Swinburne.
Quilting parties are called "picce"
jubilees.
The most useful thing in long run
Breath.
A criminal court-sparlSing another
mans wife.
Young Fred is as much a asmoke.stack
as his father.
What is higher when the head is OFT
The pillow.
-Jumpled up hair is said to be in style
for bellies heads.
An Indiana girl married her grand
mothers husband.
"A Mormon church has been estab-
lished In Florida.
Colonel E. l.. Drake, the first petro-
leum borer, is dying.
Paul Morphy is to play chess at the
Vienna Exposition.
"A complaint not to be made light of:
The gas strike fever.
The salaries of postmasters are TO be
re-adjusted on July1
-Epizoot has converted All Sin into a
mule In San Francisco.
"A third Of the U. s. Supreme Court
will visit Europe this summer.
-Euchre Pandis, what a name, is IL
censed to preach in Kansas.
=" How to make both ends meat''-
Bee that neither end is bone.
What ls the riddle of riddles Life,
for we have to "glve 1t up"
Does II clean a carpet any TO spread
1t on dusty lot and cane III
A Dubuque sportsman was gone all
day and bagged three fingers.
Involuntary suicide" Is the invention
Of Rochester coroner's jury.
John Smith las had twenty-one fune-
rails 10 Tippecanoe county, Ind.
| Illinois proposes public castigation
as a penalty for wife beating.
-Sneaking by the rd-Correspond-
Ing under the new postal law.
"A San Franciscan has a patent
process 70 make darkeys white.
1t costs s75 for whispering TO a lady
In church in Murfreesboro', Tenn.
Ladies' rainy-weather round hats are
now trimmed with Russia leather.
Butler, our late consul to Egypt, has
espoused the Carlist cause In Spain.
George Shoe of St. Louis, is praying
the divorce court to unbuckle his shoe.
1t is said that the Wall street bears
have their clause in the New York charter.
"A Rochester, Mimi, wedding gift
was an accident insurance policy on the
groom.
Insanity has increased since Rarper's
BaEdr began to print railway maps of
dresses.
king Williams bells, made from cap
tured Sedan guns, ring with French ac-
cent.
George Mead, of Elmore, Vt. aged
10, played hang" witch fatal effect last
week.
True love never did run smooth. A
Kentucky gander has fallen IN love with
Il COW.
The COngrega,isnalia thinks that
"the coming woman comes faster and
faster"
-" What is a smile - asked a man of
a little girl "The whisper of sugh,'
said she.
"A Minnesota hen has got into the
newspapers by laying thirty six eggs in
sixteen days.
"A Western printing Office adverlises
-" small pox signs neatly aud hand
somely printed
Amber jewelry Is becoming very
fashionable again it looks very well
with light spring dresses.
die from the effects of the recent palaver
with the Modocs was Dyer
As tho picnic seassn approaches.
visions OF lost spoons aud missing table
cloths haunt the materual mind.
-"JOe I've great mind to bow nv
brains out" "Why don't Won l'' said
Joe, ''no5oiy would ever know it,
-soiourner Truth is heard from again.
- fIrmf n nruahnA 10 Il.
The eternal years of God are hers. {"
= "A man congratulates himself on the
death OF Shakespeare, who "can't get UP
q any more of those dreadful tragedies. !"
= The reason for the existence Of the
great number Of muttOn-heads Is that so
many children are "perfect little lambs. ."
"A eoroner's jury in Kentucky took
the Liberty of finding a man guilty of
. murder, and sentencing MIN TO Jail for
|, life.
7 st. Paul Gas an ecitoro is the snb.
= iect OF a treatise ina Cincinnati religious
e paper.
d The London Graphic SAYS that the
p Democrats carried their candidate, Inger-
=, soil, tor the goyernorshlp of Philadelphia,
I by 800 votes.
a "A Danbury bride received, among
her wedding gifts, receipted bill of
. eight dollars for gate hinges from her
y father.
n Hens are all ready TO begin their spring
e gardening, and are disposed to complain
e because the gardens are not yet con-
!. structed.
They tell Of man in London who
y has not missed attending the theatre
a single aighi, excepting Sunday, for
o seven years.
l. "A Missouri beldame sans mercl re-
D. Gently burned off her lovers whiskers
e because their color did not match that of
le her best dress.
y An obituary notice in New England
'e paper concludes with the information that
= the deceased "leaves two infant daugh-
q ters, both girls"
IA "A lyRn man has invented a substitute
I. for sole leather, which be claims is
1. cheaper In price and superior in durabll-
n ity to that article.
,r james Brooks, who was married In
% lS4l 10 Richmond lady, insisted on her
l. emancipatlng several household slaves
70 before the wedding.
L Immense white sunshades-small cir.
3 Gus tents, In fact-are the correct thing
r for fashionable demoiselles who intend TO
.s visit the seaside this season.
y AT Wilmington, H., horses that were
y supposed to be sound and well OF the
:. epizooty are now either dying or becom-
= ing useless from the effects Of the disease.
"a "A boy of the period astonished his