Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-28
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IL ~ huu Dceu oue VI tus hppieh steu VI
the public fruit stand neither Adam or Eve
would have coveted it for a moment
Boston Transcript.
Michigan people put the name Of Jane
Grey Swisshelm on their door plates and
a tramp takes Just one look at it, AMI with
a scared look tears away across lots, clear.
ing fences on the jump.
A lady told Gen. Schenck that a friend
had given her five vasea, and somehow
the General didn't seem to understand, for
he remarked that it was fraud, there
were only four in the pack.
What is life? la infancy, battle with
collie in youth, struggle to keep out OF
mischief; in manhood, a struggle with iu-
digestion and in old age, the prelude of
a contested will case.
From the satisfied expression that often
Eliminates lady's face while she is
gazing in the mirror, the superstition has
grown that mirrors are in the habit of CIV
ing women 'teffy. ."-And,esoS Bazadr.
The Detroit Free Press gives long list
of definition OF words from the thieves
dialect" This will be great help to new
settlers in Detroit who don't want to
appear ignorant in good society. -I'ostOn
Post.
A reverend doctor said every blade of
grass was sermon. The next day he was
amusing himself by clipping his lawn,
when q parishioner said 'That's right,
doctor. Out your sermons short, >
Syracuse Herald.
NO." said the lady of society, They
can't be married. To be sure, they're
both rich aud socially equal, but they're
in love with each other, ald nobody Can
be 80 out Of fashion as to marry anyone
he or she is in love with !"
A lady and servant girl enter the post
office where the former buys postage
stamp. She then beckons to the maid.
The latter sticks out her tongue. The
lady moistens her stamp on it, sticks the
stamp on letter and both depart.
The Democrats seem to think it pecu-
liarly smart to decorate places with 1920
marks. PhiLddelphia Ne,os And your
party doesn't seem to think there is
anything enjoyable about the joke. But
it isn't because you don't see the point Of
it.-B0st0n Post
A man named "Dapper" Fawcett, a
well known poacher, who escaped from q
police officer while being conveyed 20
Richmond Station, Yorkshire, some weeks
ago, has returned the handouts with
which he was bound at the time TO the
superintendent OF the police there.
In accord: "Rsther hot, isn't it ~ said
a Sunday school teacher to one of his
'heathen Ohinee" pupils, the other day, by
way of salutation. The washmau locke d
up at the teacher with n face Illuminated
by a oherubic smile, and emphasiz ID an
affirmative nod with ayes, dance hotee!
Dance hotee!"
Oscar is very rich. but little "near. "
On his wife's birthday he presented her
with some beautiful diamond earrings A
few days after they took boat ride on
the river. All ut once Oscar, parceivirc
the costly jewels giistening from his wife's
ears, exclaimed "What a fool you were
to wear them on the water What if you
should be drowned 7"
gentleman Just returned from India
tells about the ildolence Of the natives and
the great number Of their servants. 81
my self kept four servants" said he
when | wanted to smoke the first
brought my pipe, the second filled it, the
third lighted it'-"And the fourth p
"The fcurthT 7 Oh, hn smoked it, cnnt
benr the taste of tobacco"
Jones was saying 10 group OF friendi
that he lived on beautiful flru in Wes
Chester county, and one % the friend
who knew that lie came away early in thu
morning and went back late at night askot
him to give description of it II eau.
not exactly do that" sHid Jones, but
think know what railway tits oasunime
To tell you the truth, | em n sort of twi
light farmer "...a
The last problem in social Euclid read
thus: List A BU BIZ Bn eguiateral triangle
of which A. a loader of fashion, gives
ball B is anxious 10 be invited but @
who together with A and B is equal to tw,
right angles being the centre of the cirel
d f +, is not on speaking terms with g
and if the equal sides bo produced vii
offend Il, who is equal to the square q
O ID L f what ought to dog
Nestor Roqueplan's patent idea for con
ciliating company of strangers at
political banquet, whether they be Rsdi
calls, Republicans, Legilimists, Oreanists
Bouapartists, Believers or Free Thinkers
''Rise when the roast is served, seize you
glass and cry, TO the triumph of ou
ideas . Sit down again and 90 on wit
your dinner hungrily. You will be tn
mo-. popular man in the room"
IAN acute Observer" said DIR. Boreum
'can easily detect the nationality of
man. Now, one could easily tell tha
yonder fellow unloading the cart wa
Hbernian." Here the horse twisted hi
head around and shock off some of hi
harness and the unloader shouted, MAX
pehave yourself nit your head dere yo
tuyful will your p which rather shook tn
doctors reputation as physiognomist.
On the other side of the Atlantic thtr
are people who love oysters as well as W
we do. Epicures in Paris like ther
''green" in color. From Ostend ar
Marennes green" oysters bring the be,
prices, because the oyster eating public i
Paris desires that they should be gre n.
1t has been been found that brisk aud er
terprising oyster farmers have been feeC
ing their mOllusks on copper salt in orde
tc produce the green color.
Two spurtsmen on the way to the huu
ing grounds fell into q quarrel over III
respective merits OF their dogs. Th
difficulty was so serious finally, thl
nothing short of duel would satisf
either. On arriving at the grounds tb
beiligercnts were placed and the word wa
given to tire. AT the instant when the
pulled their triggers u hare ran betwee
them and received the two hullets in b
heart, The duelistG, struck by the irciden
thought better of their foolishuess ant
coming forward, congratulated each otht
on escaping death by single hare.
b, an humble clerk comes home with
radiant face. His employers have mao
him present Of % LOUIS "Ah, no
good" exclaims his wife, 81 have bee
wanting a new dress 'ihe devil
groans B. ~ saw lovely one to-day f,
only $50 francs.' Always the way.
'rhen l can get a perfect duck of
bonnet for 100 francs B groaps agai,
"And / want a new fau-pretty one I,
louis" "Ihere remain 100 sous" saN
B. "You can buy yoirself cane vii
that 1t isn't right that should thir
only of myself.
COQuETRY.
Srlf-tcc.ving Dolly Warden,
When she understood her fully,
linmby sought Joe Wllets pardon
And dspcGd her mclanbhny.
e.. rtt e"s-knowlcdgc does moi aoiw
Every tOullsh-hcartcd Dolly.
And II mutual passion often
... Never has sweet finale. s-.
Two friends from the interior put u
at Galveston hotel and were given oil
room. The man in the next room owe
heard the following conversation abo,
daybreak the next morning: 81 sa
R;lt ara unu oNpaka 2f t,Tiya haat, nj,