Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-09-20
NO.S8
HERE AND THERE.

Stirring times tea parties.
brandy county is in Nevada.
Nervous people bite their nails.
Some one calls a butterfly Autterby.
Nearly all tue Mormon girls marry
Young
Paul Morphy Is playing chess at
Vienna.
London has Shakespeare sewing
machine.
There are more Harper nephews than
brothers.
An Iowa girl sings all night while
sound asleep.
Boston has produced thirteen-year-
high wayman.
Iowa has l0,5OO,O00 acres Of land
under cultivation.
Caleb Cushing began lf1 with the
nincteeoth century.
Adirondack Murray has been killing
deer out of season
-Rosewater is the name of the Omaha
Be's fighting editor.
Chicago has a Dlmonico restaurant
without any Delmonico.
A dog in Oakland, CAL, steals news
papers from off dOorsteps.
Prof Dana is said to incline to the
belief that the earth is solid.
-Barnum thinks the Vienna ExhiDl-
tior is "a bigger fraud than he is.
"A Newport eating. house takes IN It's
checks overa secondhand pulpit.
There are 500 little worms to gill of
Springfield, Mass., aqueduct water.
a Dubuque father chains his sou up
at night and lets his dogs run loose.
A woman's moie,ty is like her color
extremely becoming if not put on.
Nineteen hotels and three hundred
and fifteen cottages enllven Cape May.
A six-year old girl appeared in a 5000
lace dress at Long Branch ball recently.
Fires have been found necessary in
the Boston hotels for the comfort Of the
guests.
-Govcmor Woodson, Of Missouri, has
A-"u fined frvi,,lting the game laws Df
kanras.
A dredging machine ia one of the
ie = things that always " to the bottom
Of affairs.
A Wisconsin thief stole parsons
sermons, but gave them back after read
ing them.
A Fort Wayne baker has cast bis
bread upon the waters by driving OFF
canal bridge.
The fashionable London BARRIERS are
said o hav5 introduced the American
shaving chair.
-Grcund has been broken in Washing
tor for the site of the new building for
the British Embassy.
Why is Il mlkman like Pharaoh's
daueht Because he takes a great
| prophet oui of the water.
A down East genius has invented a
mu ical locomotive whistle which inii-
taios the sound of sixteen Instruments.
A dvc thousand dollar libel suit
against a country paper in Illinois has
beer settled hy the payment of fifteen
dollars.
Win. II. Stewards memory is to be
pcrpytunled in bronze A fund of twenty
1--WE thousand doliars for this purpose has
been rai-ed
An ignorant old lady was asked by
minister visiting heI If she had religion.
3Ae replied: have snght touches o
10 occasionally"
-phrb. Cary made this joke; Why
wa Robson Crnsoe's man Friday like
roo Jer! because he scratched iCr him
self and Cru.soe.'
~ ornuegs ~ iuest at East Brady
W. .lro.ss was asked What was The
.ng seen by the deceased /" "Ker.
4svlc," was tht reply.
"A camping ont party from Boston,
= finding the r. water supply run short, were
icduc q TO thenecessity Of boiling mess
of putstue, in ginger ale.
( Mr.. Arthur Snllvan's oratorio of the
Prodigtl Son has been produced recently
In London. Imagine the prOdisal son in
tress coat aud y hlle necktie.
y mammoth toadstool, three feet
, seven inchc In circumference, aud weigh-
iug seven aad quarter pounds, was re-
Gently exhibited in Rochester.
The Chicago Times says hat one Of
Senator Carpenters " Websteriau quail
ti,.s is TO pe calmly and seriously in debt
. 10 every one who viii trust him."
i "A Pittsburgh man rejOices in the
. possession Of "a wife who is so aft ctOnate
That SIZE always kisses him good bye
= when he goes into the yard to feed
e tuc chickens.
g -Oue morning recently, a Chicago
Ii woman borfowei $500 of her husband
e and in the afternoon hnttered under hls
e 'o-e divorce that had cost precisely
that amount.
e "A youth stretched prone upon the ground
3, Half buried in the dust was found;
}. An empty bottle still he grasped
# And IN lUw, iuUurniul tones. he gasped,
, "Histedl"
L Here is the Inscription on a tomb
" stone in Pennsylvania: "In memory o
1r Tdblhu, beloved wifi Of Josenh Wright
l. Thomas Andrews, Eben Halsted, Edwarl
be Murray, and Charles Dean, by her dc
d voted husband, Cyrus Morgan"
ii An Indiana LADY of an original tur
10 Of mind bases her hppl cston for divorc
1f Cu the circumstance that her husband
= legs are too long for her to keep step wit
linn when they take walk together.
"A country boy having come to Louii
VILE for an education, being asked
Niat is strait ~ Mortified his teaeht
"l hy a swering, /" Il beats two pair" II
OF is nov on the editorial staff of the COUrt
e- Journal.
I,S An Indiana woman whose suit f
=, divorce had fingered along until she va
a. completely out of patience, burst into b,
D LAWYER. Office last week her face radial
=. aith ] y, and exclaimed, esquire, Il
~ o'd aus dead -
b. -sccpe in Fort wayne dry goo
ho store: Lldv--" How much for tn
)" print ~ Gentlemanly and ObllgiI
,rs clerk" cents, num-" Lady
lr- Nineteen cents I'll give you eighteen
Clerk" Nine cents, mum you misu
lerstood me" Lady" Oh nine cent
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