Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-09-06
NO. Sc
HERE AND THERE.


Harrisburg dlscourages base ball.
The Potomac river is full of surgeons
"A knee too proud to bend-Chlmney.
Jenny Lind's hair is brown and white.
Massachusetts has 172 saving banks.
England wants to make Tennyson
haron.
Goldsmith Maid has reached sweet
sixteen.
boston has licensed 200 organ
grinders.
-"Elocuted' is the last and perhaps
the worst.
-"Kissing through the bars" amuses
mosquitoes.
Cincinnati is to have a cribbage
tournament.
All but oarsmen are content with
single sculls.
American sardines have taken
Vienna prize.
English thorn is the fashionable
umbrella stick.
No wonder emigrants from Cork
take TO the bottle.
The Arch labsr agitator is coming
over from England.
-Tortoise-shell jewelry is said to be
increasing in favor.
When is lawyer the strongest
When he is fee blest.
Lobe or stud ear-rings have largely
superseded pendents.
Ladies who are anxious for overtures
should visit the opera.
An old minister out west has eleven
sons who are ministers.
The monument to Greeley ought to
be an imposing stone.
Turks are going to discard the turban
and adopt the stovepipe.
Thirty New York churches are
CLOSED for the season."
As charity covers, so modesty pre-
vents, multitude of sins.
A Pennsylvania p0stmistress employs
her husband as head clerk.
In Nevada they call geological ex-
plorers "rock trappers."
An old maxim says, "Treat your
friends well but not often"
True Love, the oldest vessel in Phila-
delphia, numbers 104 years.
"A Danbury man repairs lewelry,
bleeds horses and digs wells.
-Lucca and Wieniawski have been
giving concerts at Newport.
What coin is like the going up OF
balloon ! It's cent (ascenO.
The New York Witness reports prayer
meetings to the exclusion of news.
1t cost Sunhury, Pa, $54, 25 to bury
its dead cats and dogs last month.
"A marriage on railroad train may
properly be termed railroad tie.
Ladies' of modern Greece never go
ont calling without their work.basket.
1t is proposed to introduce the Slaw-
son boxes on the Jersey City ferry boats.
"A woman recently inquired at book
store for Warmers Summer Enech Arden.
"A colored woman down South shouted
herself to death at u recent camp meeting.
"A General shouldn't stand too
straight; ne ought TO lean little on his
staff.
| boston has refused to rent its COM
mon at the rate of one dollar per foot per
annum.
1t is said that Prof. WIse's obituary
is in type in all well regulated newspaper
offices.
"A man will defend his weak spots a
great deal nCre sharply than he will his
strong ones.
An Indiana reporter tells Of case
Of poisoning by the use of 'coHosive
supplement-"
How natral il IL for man, when he
makes a mistake, TO korrect it by kussing
somebody else for IL.
-Chatclain chains for fans have been
discarded for velvet or ribbon strings of
the same color as the dress.
A bottle of water brought from the
Holy Land, was sufficient to baptise
twenty-eight Buffalo children.
A Jersey paper describes a man as
being "as sOciable as batch of candi-
dates two weeks before election.'
"A young Jap IN Paris killed two birds
with one stone by embracing Christianity
and French bride at the same time.
-" Equality" says a French writer,
"means desire to be equal to your
superior. and superior to your equal"
Beavers are said to be again appear
ing on some Of the Canadian rivers where
| they have been extinct for fifty years.
An Iowa bride pulled her husbands
t hair while going home from the sacred
altar, and he walked straight to lawyer.
Three letters, instead of the custom
/ ary six, will make the name of the most
eminent of French naturalists, to wit,
|, QVA.
A Kentucky editor speaks of a local
genius " no has been persevering con-
n trihutor to the waste basket for several
= years.
2 "A sOnambulist of West Utica, N. Y,
!. dreamed that he was in swimming, and
e making a dive, scalped his eye on The
# bed-post.
"A Milwaukee woman on being con
Z vicied of forgery, applied TO a Newspaper
II for the appointment of penitentiary cor
e respondent.
: No man is admitted to Georgii
4 prayer meeting until the presiding eide
- searches him for concealed shot-guns an.
!, carving knives.
A Wabash editor returns thanks 70
y centipede sent kim by mail from Texas
.e being the first cent of any kind he haf
~ seen for month.
10 Two couples in Kansas entered int,
It a courling match for the championship
At of the State, and the victorious couple sa
d up forty-nine hours.
A Nebraska man who heat his wifi
lr by fourteen women, a crowd of me
e. standing by to see fair play.
r. A cat in Springfield, ILL.,, noticing
kerosene lamp blazing up in Il dangerou
A., manner in the night, walked the maste
~ ~ Of the honse and got him to fix it.
As A Western woman applied for d
e. vorce on the ground that her husband r,
fused to walk with her, because she wa
too short and could not keep step.
boston has been preserving I" Ger
al Lafayette's camp table" for these fft
m wears, and has just found out that it be-
by longcd to a colonel, unknown to fame.
oI -''Ilow does your husband get alongi
le inquired a friend OF an undertaker's wife
70 Nothing tn complain of, thank th
10 Lord. lie had twelve funerals yestel
ne day"
IN Indianapolis claims a model sewin
A. girl, who has lived % months in on
"a family and has only had one holiday
of Er. But is it model family TO offer b,
M none
a. A local geologist of Terra Haute say
IN that any person having taste for gol
he mining can clear from forty to sixt
al cents "A day almost anywhere In Wig
NJ county, Ind.
of -"My man; what's your charge fo
ea rowing me across the FIRTH ~ Boatma
lte -''Weel, sir, | was iist thinkin' cam
lie break the Sawbath day for no less tina
M fifteen shuln'sW
''s Miss Harriet Martineau has WRITE
49,, an autograph letter to the Nat.on TO pro-
~ that she has not died, as Il said she ha
in The Nation hoes not even argue the poir