Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-08-09
HERE AND THE RE.

"A woman OF nerve-Minerva.
"A New York dog plays poker.
Gen. slckles is in poor health.
Ice is scarce ct Salt Lake City.
Chicago has a blind bootblack.
Texas street cars carry clocks.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is over so.
Why not have Yosemite Cluh7
Capt. Jack is getting melancholy.
Ithaca is building a blast furna..
Schuyler Colfax endor.es chill pills.
Real life-That of spinning Jenny.
Vulgar INSTRUMENTATION currency.
Gen. Banks has editorial aspirations.
THE average Engllshman marries at
81.
"A Brazilian comes to the front aged
175.
Copper toed gloves would be bless
ing.
Nothing rests Ruskin like French
play.
The middies have arrived at New
port.
"A taking paper-The sherlfPs war
rant.
Reading is to have a floating bath
house.
The dearth of thunder gusts con-
tinues.
Miss Urbane is st. Louis street
fighter.
-"Long and successful reign"-The
deluge.
Chicago now claims a population OF
465. .745.
A Wisconsin revivalist revives for $40
per day.
AN editors imperative call-come
write away.
Thoroughbred greyhounds are very
affectionate.
Reading thinks of having a paid FIRE
department.
A Greek banker has bought city on
the Adriatie.
How much cloth is required to make
spirit-wrapper
Lester wallack is cruising along the
New England coast.
The man that "stieks" to his busI-
ness-The drummer.
There is a "damnable iteratlon''
about our humorsts.
Newly married couples are thicker
than ever at Niagara.
Policemen say the best way 10 smooth
a rough is to iron him.
Charles Sumner says that in India,
the die is always caste.
"A beautiful blonde drives the hesrse
OF Grand Rapids, Mich.
The annual shower of frogs happened
this year at Kansas City.
1t makes one nervous to burn light
In the bed.room all night.
Hay is reported to be selling for twice
as much as corn In Buffalo.
Eastern capitalists are 10 start a
powder mill at Indianapolis.
When a man is dead, and can't, we
read his words, 81 will" sc.
The Ddnbtry Nelos man is risking
the danger Of over production.
The 2302d anniversary of Plato's
birth has just been celebrated.
A circulating library for working
lnen has been started in Rome.
The Boston public schools have
36,6So pupils and 1901 teachers.
The mule that killed an Ohio man
carried the widow to the funeral.
-tlnhan helles at Saratoga smoke
cigarettes on the hotel balconies.
-17,00O children, with good prospects
in the future, is the claim of indianapolis.
"A Georgia youth objects to postal
cards, because they are so hard TO open.
You ought not to put a clock at the
head Of the stairs. 1t might run down.
"A Georgia veteran Of 1872 was lately
trilped up by one Of his pigs and killed.
1t is argued against Frank Walworth
that he laid abed until nine in the morn
! lng.
A genius is popularly supposed to he
one who call do anything except make
living.
Mexico claims that che can produce
coffee equal TO that grown in any part Of
the world.
London is said to have paid $3.50, ,000
for the entertainment given The Shan at
Guildhall.
John Morrissey went dressed as a
fashionable young lady at a Saratoga
bdi Hsdsq'is.
"Old Probabilities and HE associates,
in Washington. fcu4gl " the esmifv
signal sery.Oe.
Too many blackberries killed black
boy in Georgia; large blaek-burying
was the result,
We hear it whispered that Parepa-
Rosa will conine herself chiefly to Cradle
songs this year.
Since the Udderzook- k-Goss murder,
the West Chester Nei0s has gained 635
new subscribers.
Philadelphia has made provision for
a host Of swallows. Her new reservoir
covers hundred acres.
The Giialet is the title Of an Illinois
paper, " devoted to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of grcenhacks.
"A little boy in school gave one Of the
best definitions ever given TO economy
"paring potatoes thin"
some folks arc always signing for an
American Punch. What is the matter
with the Claret variety ;
"A young nan in Norristown is so
= opposed to monopolies that he lets all
g other fellows kiss his girl.
d The P. W. " B. r. R. is the best
e equipped road in the United states.--
S Philadelphia Eyeliing Herald.
= Reading has temperance musical
y garden, where music, ice cream and
4 lemonade are the attractions.
n Colonel RomanoG, OF the Russian
!, army, correspondent Of the London
i Times, has committed suicide.
i "A man in Terre Haute, thirty -eighi
v years old, has been widower six times,
+ and would like TO be bereayed again.
The man who comes on the stage
r exactly at his cue Is prompt but the maj
v who does not come at all Is prompter.
a -" A cackling old newspaper fowl" Is
g the epithet applied by one Sacramento
{ editor to another in a recent argument.
n Bret Harte's poems, "Her Letter,
= and "Flynn, of Virginia." have beei
A dramatized for a San Francisco theatre
le "A man who had been to a crowdel
is ball said he was fond Of rings on the fin
e, gers, but he didn't like bellies on his toes
is "A Dubuque woman keeps arsenic an
'e baking powder on the same shelf, an
n her husband is careful how he offend
ID her.
te An Iowa woman painted her celia
" stairs, beginning at the top and goin
down; she had to climb out OF th
window.
Captain Jacks name used to
~ KENT Docs, and so appears on the Hunt
Ie ingdon treaty, which he sigued with oil
< Schonching.
in The young lady who refused to
lg into a rife factory because some OF th
N, guns had no breeches, Is spending a fe'
4e days in the country.
a San Francisco has just had a bah
IT. show lasting three days, at which tw
to hundred mothers entered their blessel
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