Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1874-02-21
HERE AND Their E.

When is a young lady like a whale :
When she's poutlng.
Breach OF good manners-for ruin 10
stare yeu IN the face.
No other living thing can go so slow
as boy on an errand.
-Beecher is homeopathic in medicine
but allopathic in theology.
"A little girl in Des Molnes wants.ol
know why there are no he dolls.
Bret Harte kindly thinks Mark Twain
the greatest American humorist.
Black silk dresses with holes in the
elbows are said to be much worn.
Love is an egotism of two. The nrst
sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
If a saloon keeper gets rich 1t is be.
cause he makes many good bargains.
An anonymous fish, 10 feet long and
3 wide, has been captured at Cape May.
"A German divine is spending ten
days in this country to write book on 1t.
There are over 1000 idiots in this
country, who are acknowledged as such.
The New York Htrald's personals"
cost Is cents line. [Costs who rs cents
line y
John Bright's expenses at his recent
reelection in Birmingham, England,were
only 929.
The Patrons of Husbandry In Wis.
consln have started q newspaper entitled
the Moping Machine.
Why is a person who never lays a
wager as bad as a regular gambler Be-
cause he is no better.
The Oldest man in Indiona lives in
To L.. MAJ
1859, and will soon be 1l6 years old.
The new Chief Justice s on Episco-
palian. But, says the Boston Globe, 1t is
too late to bring forward objections now.
When Milwaukee paper remarked
recently THE lilac bushes are budding"
a reader said excitedly, "You lilac Satan"
"A Massachusetts, Mayor, whose salary
Is but ninety dollars per year, has de-
livered an inaugural address twelve
columns long.
1t is rumored that the editor Of the
Chicago Times has been converted to
Spirtualism, and that Horace Greeley
writes for his paper.
The editor of the Panama Star apol-
ogizes for the non-appearance of his paper
by saying that he had to haul on 10 dig
buekshot out of his legs.
-One of the Boston ministers preached
last Sunday on the Chang and Eng in
human nature. This is doubtless the
latest phase of Muscular Christianity.
A well-dressed, able-bodied man
astonished the people in State street, Bos-
ton, on New Years day, by walking up
and down with a large placard cn his
hat bearing the inscription, " want
work."
-" If this jury convicts my client"
said a Missouri lawyer, rolling up his
sleeves and displaying his pondeTous fists,
81 shall feel compelled to meet each one
and hammer justice into his soul through
his head"
When Andover Theological Seminary
called Moses Stuart from the psstorate at
New Haven, the loud cry of the church
was, He cannot be spared" DR.. Porter
replied, "a man who can be spared we
don't want"
They have dead-head suicides out
West. At La Crosse, Wisconsin,
recently, a man entered a store and
inquired ths price of pistol. While
examining the weapon, he slipped in a
cartridge and blew his brains out.
-Retributive justice sometimes follows
faster than we could expect. An evil
minded Brooklyn boy propelled a snow
lball at his aunt, the other day, and,
dodging into neighboring area, sat
down on a scuttleful of hot ashes.
They had a wreck on Tuesday at
Johnstown, and the Tribune says; "Some
of the folks who considered that they
had perfect right to capture the goods
at the wreck near the depot this morning
will likely have an opportunity of know
| ing what twelve unbiased men think Of
it at the next term of the District Court"