Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04
HERE AND THERE
What Is % bel Why, a verb.

-''How TO pick dog"--Use a piok-axe'
The greatest army contractor lie Peece,
A hot water gun has made It's appear
ance.
--water--A A clear auid once used as
drink.
-James Fisk, Jr,, Is Savannah mer.
chant.
The whipping.post Is aoahAhiug ia
Canada.
--Glteho Cameo Is indian tor Lake
Superior.
-7An English women ia running iO'
Parliament.
--Thurlsw Weed has 9uit indaigIsR "
hls laAt name.
Monday, ten years ago, lbs Monitor
was loet, at sea.
-oasnOacbs footy music putss5,oooin
hls pocket last year.
Harvard students have got permission
to smoke.
The season for skatlug into air helss
10 at band.
swedish acorps are being planted 10
Mlnneseta.
The Iude?endsht Ia going to iOubis up
Tito 90 pages
-Presidert Lerlo, n Mexico, 10 forsy-
lve years Of age.
--Esquire-Everyboiy, set noeody eqOal
10 COlonel.
Think of eamellas forty fest high 10
the Bay VI Yedv
--secoud thoughts are ths adopIed ehp-
dien Of experience.
--MassaehuIetts has q turkey that has
laid i39 eggs this year.
Christ ingle is the old Csltish term feF
ChTist-of-the-hearth
An Iowa editor slipped down a1d
btoke his scissors arm.
Tile Austrian Elnpress spends csc, 900
a. year for her wardrobe.
Hunters 10 Wisconsin sell bear meat
a, four dollars PER hundred.
There are ove hundred female post.
masters 10 the United statee.
-Edltor-A poor wretch who erhptiei
his brains 10 fill his stomach.
Local option mInce pies, with no
brandy therein, are a novelty.
-Beef is only two cents a pound in
Texas, and the kidneys are gratis.
Fashion dictates that window shades
should no longer be of linen but Of lace.
One hundred aud fifteen criminals
were recently beheaded at hatow, China
Two thousand new houses are being
built In Rome.
New York pays one million Of dollars
yearly for gas.
About 30 persons will wintet in the
Yosemite valley.
In his youth Gen. Banks tried 10 play
Melnotte aud failed.
-Madame Hyacinthe 10 a loser by the
Bowles Brothers failure.
Josh Billings has led q fovtog life,
and been most everything.
There are only twenty-seveu candl'
dates for United States Senator in Missouri.
The new army knapsacke are to be
made Of seal-skins with the hair left on.
La Crosse, Wiz, will build 100000
hotel. Zen dollars of the stock has been
paid.
A new brass band al Greepville, Ala,
has put stop to immigration 10 that
place.
-Barzain-A ludierous transaction, In
which each party imaglnes he cheated the
other.
-PArtiidges in Illinois ore tame enough
/ to eat from the hand-wheR properly
= cooked
in what case is II absolutely impos-
, sible TO be slow and surel In the case Of
/, a watch.
The dearest object 10 a man should bc
: his wife, but Il is not unirequently he1
clothes.
"A pure lie squabble-The dlheulty
J between the producers and rehners oi
| petroleum.
t BY an austcie school teachers How
0 10 make scholars stick 10 their lessons
, Use whacks.
The Newport "Mereury" was started
2 bv Franklin in 1853, and has never missed
an issue sInco.
--Lawyer-A learned gentleman who
rescues your estate from your enemy and
: keeps It himself.
p. "A Paducah small boy was tined IS cts
10 the city court the other day for crylne
o "fire" without cause.
c Nilsson, at one of her recent appear
!: ances, In Berlin, was called before the
# curtain twenty-five times.
Washington Territory boasts a publi'
3 library containing 351 volumes, ''prlno
pally Patent-ofiee reports"
q of all thugs 10 the world thst as'
/. Shelter la;e than never" going 70 PED Ger
. tainly ranks frst.
' The Frisco Celestials make eoneilia
II tory offerings TO their new aud dreaded
n god King Huodlum."
= When the enierprising bu'eher's as
ie slstant ''set up on his own hook, did d
N liud a comfortable seat !
y Two hundred colored Atlanta cit'ten'
: who didn't pay their street tax are nov
n called upon 10 WORK II out.
u -Goyernor-eeot Hendricks, Of Indiana
ls nos dig gai1ed by the added title OF "th
D.. net result Of the tidal wave"
!. -When Jonah's fellow.passengertp pitch
X ed him overheard they evidently regarde
a him as neither prophet nor loss
IL China manufactures twice the eun
&C powder Of any other country, but use
il more for fireworks than for war.
a. Cheap limitations Of ermine arc 8
.e common that fur dealers say they threate
p to nd."ermine" the trade in the real a
A., licle.
IA -u1iform for lciter-carrieTs-a coat
~ mail. "Yes," says a sufferer, land ther
ss is steal enough in The Poslohice 10 mai
Il, 'em Of"
ID Pay your little bills at once. Ther
ly arc thousands of small dealers who stan
10 III nNch VI lhN f~''J ~
Ledger.
n "A charge Of Is cents for admission
Il, church weddings, in Missouri, furnishes
ke fund for the young people to staIt hous
keeping with.
~ The assasslu's bullet is called
u, transfer ticket TO Lone Mountain" in g
a' Francisco. They are all "dead-head'
ck by that route.
of A man who was trying to shelter hil
on self 10 a doorway from the rain had y
mounful pleasure Of seeing i've OF b
own umbrellas go By.
The shakers, In their new organ, P
their deaths under the head Of "HaTvea
cd" When they are buried they probab
call II "Planted."
a. A guiieless man al Danbury, Gont
saw a beautiful chrome advertised
6fly cents" and sent on the money q
received the Jack Of clubs.
"A glutton while prostrated with iAuel
timldly inquired Of the doctor "where
would 20 when be died, and the mercile
90 physician laconically replied, Cincinnati
o.o TO buy of an advertiser Is to buy Of
''' man most likely 10 have a fresh stock
90 goods on hand, from the fact that bis a
vertisements have enabled him 10 sell
30 previous stock easily and rapidly.
90 The recent death Of an eccentric Ct
zen recalls the fact that his brother, wi