Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-11-01
HERE AND THERE.

byrons n. l.
An Insurance Office in London employs
80 female clerks.
"A Chester county man boasts OF .
cat 23 years old.
Hereafter newbaven Is to be spelled
without any capital.
-Unhappy Kansas Ia being dosed with
homemade castor oil.
Fall River, Mass, IS putting s20o, 100
In three school houses.
People are always wanting something
new, should try neuralgia.
The hardest agricultural work on
farm-raislng a mortgage.
jeff Davis is proposed for Chancellor
of the L University OF Georgia.
Louisville has bid the panic dehancs
by opemng n $780, 900 theatre.
1t Is said that tlne morocco is 10 be
used as dress trimming this winter.
Miss Fay, an Ohio Lac y, is making
herself aH fat at the carpenters trade.
The mocking-bird cannot Initiate the
bobollnk, and It's the only bird II can't.
Lake Champlsin is ,hown by recent
soundings to have water 40 feet in depth.
If a topper and quart Of @hiskey
were left together, which would be drunk
first
DIR. Lyman Beecher's old church in
Litchdeid, Coun., has been turned into
dance house.
"A bad marriage is like an electric
machine; makes you dance, ana you
can't let 20.
Three Of St. Louis citizens are worth
over SO, 100000, and seven have more
thun sl,OOO,00O.
-Itis maintained that Richard III. was
a Good Templar, because he stopped
King Henry's bier.
DO not run in debt To the shoemaker.
It is unpleasant to be unable to say your
sole is your own.
"A good natared spinster used to boast
that she always had two good beauK :
they were elbows.
Letter carriers state that young ladies
generally write "private" on the corners
Of their postal cards
Mr.. Froude is said to have made only
$500 after paying all expenses, by his lee
tHriag tour in this country.
GA man can't help what ia done
behind his back, as the loafer said when
he was kicked out of doors.
Mr.. Barrett, of Battle Creek, Michi-
| gan, wants law TO punish reporters for
rldiculing free love conventions.
"A man in Peoria claims to have
stone that Washington threw at wood
pecker on his fathers cherry tree.
The baby to whom the prize at a
recent Iowa baby show was awarded, was
the tw, niv.seconf 'nfau' of ils mC.,ier.
% s.riy thousand Americans perma-
r,i, residing in Paris, twenty-five
and are said TO be from the South.
BY rigorous enforcement of the liquor
law Boston has managed 10 reduce the
number OF i.s barrooms 10 little over
1000.
In Wisconsin, a man reported that
he couldn't find . word In the dictionary,
because the blasted book hadn't got an
index.
Gle is dead, but he pays just as well
as he ever lid" was the reply news
paper publisher received to q dunning
letter.
"A Connecticut thief who stole a
farmers watermclons sent the seeds back
In a letter requesting him to plant them
next year.
-Proiessor King took four newspaper
balloon reporters nearer the skies the
ether DAY than they will probably ever
90 again.-Grdphic.
"A pin, swallowed a year ago by a
y0uBg lady in Franklin, Kansas, lately
came out through her left eye, entirely
destroying the sight.
"A tea merchant at Peoria had his
advertising wagon follow funeral pro-
ccssion, and it was very properly tlppel
INTO the ditch by the mourners.
"A Detroit boothlack has bank ac-
ount of 81 100, much to the surprise of
nj, who kuOS how much Dlacking is re-
guired by .e average Michigan boot.
Some diaholiral wretch asserts that
this Is the way O1t fashionable bellies
, warbie a wel-kuoWn sCng "ho, mug
gin, ho, mIsgin, from fur-hin sho. .hore."
A msu il Georgia recently hung
himself TO punish his wife for flirting.
Her new mourning dress becomes her ex-
ceedngly we., but she Girts just as bad
.s ever.
"A gentleman having his hair cut,
/ was asked by the garrulous operator I;
How he would have il done" eli
I possible" replied tue gentleman, "in
silence"
The following ambiguous paragraph
appeared II au Edinburgh paper: I" We
regret to End tnat the announcement OF
tae death of MIR. W. is a malicious
fabrication"
While a cOmpositor on the Montresl
! Witness vas setting up an advertisement
b Tor "a lost canary, the bind few in at tho
q office window, (which shows the value Of
Advertising"
I AT hotei table one board der.remarScd
to his ueighbor, "This must be q healthy
plac for chickens.' "Why :" asked the
othe,. "BCcause l never sec any doad
ones heresbouts."
Queen Victoria, while at Ballaculich,
/ Scotland, slipped some mountain dew .
from a small silver cup, out of which
Prince Charlie drank when a fugitive
after Lulloden, in 1916.
&c When you are my age" said q
y widow to her daughter, " 1t will be time
p, | enough to think of a husband" Yes,
/. mamma" was the answer, Z" for a second
. one" Mamma dropped the subject.
\ There is man in Troy who has
done business about year without ex'
= pending dollar in advertising. He has
: at length consented 10 advertise. His ad
+ Vcrtisemsnt was headed "Sheriff's sale. -
D The churches were well filled Sunday
S | The shape Is an Improvement, but the
. ! trimming is not wholly satisfactory
They sit little further back on the head
;han the summer styles, We think.-DdR
8 bury Neios.
b Far Western papers, as a rule, spare
4 neither age nor sex when Joke Il wanted
. For instance a Carson City Journal says
= " Our Comfy Clerk can boast OF wifi,
S with the biggest feet aud the longest nos,
+ OF any female in tht Territory.
Husband, who has been out West on
j "a iu,-s and has left his wife some blank
j checks; ''Mary, hnd you have consid-
2 erably Overdrawn at the bank" Mary
-''Nonsense, John how can that bel
I've two ofthose blank checks left yet
The ST. Louis Democrat SAYS. "Our
+ experience and the history of the past
! eighteen centuries incline us to the belief
1 that no matter how well You treat a shot.
C gun. nor how you bring IL up, 1t will
l. bang the stuting out of you the very first
time it gets chance"
"A rather amusing indication of the
season was given on Sunday in Dsnbury
> | Wheu one OF the congregation on being
: uudged with the contribution box
abruptly cried out, "drop them melons,
BLAST yel' Then he awoke, looked
around, blushed and scooted.
Says the Danbury Nsps; "Mr. Eth.
E eridge has put up handsome monument
i on his lot in the Slawson Cemetery. He
: has his name and birth on It's face, and
I beneath the space left for the death is