Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-08-30
NO. 35
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Fat men are shrlnkiHg.
--Levlty is the soul OF wit.
Reel estate--A drunkard's.
The learned pig is in Saratoga.
Canary birds are apt to take cold.
-Eye-doctors never lack for pupils.
The nolsiest body of water-A sound.
"A London artist has sculped the Shah.
An Illinois mule can trot a mile in
22s.
An old established flrm-The flrma-
ment.
Miss Urbane is a 81. Louis street.
fighter.
"A Peoria dog had the dellrium
tremens.
Boston police are allowed two weeks
vacation.
Nevada has named a new county
Brandy"
-Whlte's Club, in London, blackbslled
the Shah.
Time flies fast, but the slowest mortal
can pass it.
Cutting a stick-Dropping a prosaic
acquaintance.
Mark Twain is going to do up Ireland
and Scotland.
1t is always grinding times with the
hand-Organ men.
When is a woman cold as ice
When she is seold.
What part Of a fish is like the end OF
book The fin is.
1t is proposed to put the Chicago
uewsboys in uniform.
-Hetchy- -Hetchy Valley considers It.
self ahead of Yosemite.
FINAL is the last name on the list of
the new Italian Ministry.
The outstanding debt Of Vermont
amounts to only $297, 500.
An Iowa woman found live snake
coiled around the door. knob.
Maine has caught lobster measur-
ing four feet from claw 10 claw.
1t is an indictable offence to import
green apples into Leavenworth.
Chicago is TO have new weekly
paper, entitled The Voice Of Jacob.
Oregon eQuestriennes are said 10 be
addicted 10 saddley masculine habits.
Servant girls in Montana have the
use of the plano and sewing machine.
TO cure nose-bleed, the Scientific
A'neriedn says, vigorously move your
jaws.
"A Des Moines girl, in a fit of mental
depression, has sailed for China TO marry
missionary.
"A collection of 29T varieties OF grass
hoppers has been sent to Washington by
Prof. Hayden.
"A Chicago artist has revenged him
self Oh his wife by painting her as a
female Lucifer.
"A snuff, made of citrate of quinine
and tobacco, is said to be remedy for
facial neuralgia.
james Headley, living at Attleboro',
Bucks county, has reached the advanced
age of 104 years.
"A Georgia gentleman recovered s10,-
600 for staying in Jail ten weeks. He can
afford to go again.
"A Lafayette, Indiana, boy who at
tempted TO amputate a cats tail, now
does his seeing with one eye.
"A Danbury saw-fler always wears
wadding in his ears when at work, so as
pot TO disturb his neighhors.
The salaries of American Ministers
abroad are not enough to keep their
wives in bonnets aud gloves.
The thermometer stood at 100 de-
grees in the shade at Walla Walla, Ore
gon, for seven days, recently.
There are seven newspapers in the
. United States which are over hundred
years old. They all knew George, too.
The father of those fifty children at
Waco, Texas, manages TO keep the wolf
{ from the door BY playing poker with his
SONS.
IA Dubuque congregation owes ita
, pastor IS, SiO back salary, and wonder
why his sermons are not as fervid as they
used to be.
-rhey accuse the Mayor of Rock
Island, H., who, by the way, is the
richest man in the city, of refusing to
pay his taxes.
Yosemite valley has had the best sea-
son this year, since the time it first came
into notice as a noteworthy place for
tourists TO visit.
The people of Atlanta, Ca, arc listen
1 ing to the "deep base notes" of an alli-
1 gator, which is waddling about beneath
: the city in the sewer.
-" What's the use of trying to be
5 honest 20 asked young man, the other
: day, of friend. "Ohl you ought to
A try 1t once to sce," was the reply.
a "A bed of peculiar clay is said to have
i been discovered In Jefferson county, Ne
l. braska, from which bricks are made Of
a blush tinge, aud of great hardness.
The Danbury Ns,Ss says no true
woman will ask a man right after break
=, fast what be will have for dinner, or just
q before dinner to put up clothes-line.
a The Tichborne claimants butcher
. shop at Wagga- Wagga is for sale. The
a owner thinks II would be a good specula-
lion Tor some enterprising Snowman.
Il 1t is said that the lot on which the
1t new banking house of Drexel Il Co., o.
u New York stands, Is the costliest piec'
OF terra trina on the globe.-Boston Post
h "A tramp recently sent 6 communica.
d ton To the Danbury Nstos, warning people
n against making apple sauce in iron yes
II sells, as ii not only spoils the flavor of th
Is sauce, but does not agree with him.
= "A rich old farmer in Steuben county
N. Y, made his daughters husband pa,
-. for two pounds of white sugar, whie
y she used in the weddinp-cakc, and trle
,e m to get the preacher to take a one-handle
~ NJ plow and broken down fanning-min TO
10 10 his pay.
a. "A negro stole the carpet from Ten
nessee church, and cut IL up into hors,
Mt blankets, and the congregation all wen
lk over TO Broad river to see him immersed
a From some unaccountable accident, !
to was held.under the water Just one minul
no too long.