Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-04-12
NO. Is.
HERE AND TIER E.
Minnesota has a Scat county.
Cuha orc,ht ~ talya tha cbonoa

jumping rope is not good exercise.
The smallest hair throws shadow.
oliver Optic has shed another story.
The children's kingdom-Lap-.and.
The malady that is incurable Is folly.
"A very dry tap--the tap of the drum.
Connecticut has fifteen female Select
men,
"A "trying'' sltuation-a seat on the
bench.
A movement In real estate-Earlh-
quakes.
An Oregonian tried to steal two
grindstones.
"A colored youth in 81. Louis speaks
German only.
Thousands of Texas cattle have been
winter killed.
"A Wagner wave is rolling o'er the
musical world.
"A degraded scamp stole New Haven
policeman's club.
Paris comes up to the scratch with
nnger-uail artists.
When is charity like beer When
1t begins to hum.
Fowler, the phrenologist, is humping
London audiences.
Astronomers have an acquaintance
with 100 asteroids.
The Cincinnati Commercial believes
Train to be insane.
Timothy Titcomb is on the New York
School Committee.
"A Connecticut OK can make three
minutes to harness.
The Greeley statute fund amounts to
ten thousand dollars.
Full dress for an Apache bride is an
oyster-shell necklace.
California oranges grow north Of SO
degrees well enough.
"A shoemaker's lap-stone, In Lynn,
has been used 1877 years.
Northern capitalists are building
street railways in Texas.
-Bsltimore's trade, the american says,
is going to Philadelphia.
-Abolishing the gallows hasn't ame-
liorated Iowa one particle.
Horace Greeley has escaped from
the Tennessee penitentiary.
Parliament Is Illuminated with s90,-
900 worth of gas annually.
Dangerous acquaintanees - Those
who stake life" cheerfully.
"A pannier-a ''todist basket" for back
numbers of old newspapers.
"A volume that will bring tears to
your eyes-a volume of smoke.
The poems of Mary Queen of Scots
IRE to be collected and published.
Where might you expect to find a
cows pedigree Tin cattle-log.
A number of women assisted at
lynching recently at Fort Erie, Canada.
Count Joanues proposes to go to the
! Vienna Exposition TO exhibit his badges.
WHY is shoemaker the wisest of
men Because he possesses awl know
ledge.
, 1t took $4,000 yards Of carpetlng to
satisfy the new Sherman House In
Chicago.
4 The Delaware Legislature does not
p take Pride in Its deliberations.-N0fri
) torn Herald.
f Vienna is said to be the worst drained
r city m Europe.
n A folrteen-year-old Utica girl is the
: mother Of twins.
= The number of Irish In the United
States is just about one-tkird of the num-
q Der In ireland.
| The old fogy editors Of Dubuque are
% solemnly arguing against dancing al
1t church festivals.
(, Grape culture IN New Mexico Is said
y TO be more successful than in any other
le part of the country.
a "A novel by the Princess Mathilde
~ Bonaparte is announced as soon to be
" published in Paris.
n A chiropadst bears no relation to a
II clog-dancer merely because he is in the
IA healin' toe business.
e. -"Deadly quarrel with life" is the
head adopted by a Plttsburg paper for al
1t account Of q suicide.
S, -Quip says that the rat who rattleI
5, around over head every night is only
~ beating rat-tat-too.
y For red striped vest a Californit
s1 youth transferred his betrothed to a rival
q, q, and all are happy.
H. "A new toothache remedy is to injeC
he chloroform into the gum.
be -Ristori has engaged to make a pre-
IT, fessional visit to America soon.
-Piitsburg gents hang their boots ou
Nv the window at night, and they al
blacked by morning.
en- A yonng widower in Connection
'u- picks flowers from his wife's grave I
-, present to his lady friends.
'ne ne Carloads of old hens from Iowa a.
an shipped to Chicago, where they re-appel
I'D in society as spring chickens.
be- The school hours in the Albau
lis. IN " public schools have been reduce
VS. TO hve-and-a half hours daily.
lp- The Persians say of noisy, unrease
Ip ! nb1 f..1l hs, %
pi- stone, but l see no meal"
lSs The fashion of wearing Cashme
,,s shawls wrong side out, to show that th'
10 are genuine, again prevails.
say "A Montreal dentist pulled the wrol
rhe tooth out for patient lately, and had
but pay seyenty-fve dollars damages.
ard Ridiculous enough A two hundr
lity pound poeless is writing about what 81
ad- would do " if she were a sunbeam"
hey What an ass the fellow must ha
lgh been who made a donkey-engine and
can pected to get horsepower out Of it..
i in%, "A bill is pending in the New Yo
is5, Legislature forhidding the sale of pr
Packages on railroad trains in that Sta
iour How can an Englishman have a
OF aspirations toward heaven, when he
rant fuses an aspiration to- the first lett
are of it
are "A wheel for the utilization Of I
him power, recently invented, is to be put
ara in Connecticut, with force of 1000 hoi
lpn- power.
| ! as "A new drama, founded on the
=, us peachment trial of Ex-Governor But
aoae .sS of Nebraska, is holding the local boa
'snsr @ out there.
no Mrs. O'Leary that owned the {
vic. that upset the lamp that fired the b
con. that burned Chicago, has recently ope
own a millinery store.
the "A Western paper informs the pu1
the that board for the summer can be
been tanned tat a large and shady brick
han tleman's residence"
keel, An applicant for pair of boots
e ex- asked what number he wore, and repl
re 10 as soon as he recovered from his surpI
men "Why two, Of course 20
7 ioa The st. Louis Republican rec
nS sas mends an ambitious debating soclei
y ,,arr ar Kansas TO take as its next subject "w
mi is the butt end Of goat I"
aring "A man advertises for comps
person to undertake the sale Of
An, medicine, and adds that cit will p
highly lucretive to the undertaken"
"A theological student with
headed cane Is shocking the moral 8
of Providence people by begging
money N pay his seminary expenses
Providence tempsrs tho infan
tough beef in Iowa for at Preston