Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-19
HERE AND TIER Il.

malody of that Cat.
When man is intoxicated he should be
merely spoken of IS AMAZED man.
Oorned, you know.
II Eve had beep on forty days fast
when invited to take an apple things
might have been different
An Indiana pedler, sixty-one years old,
has just run away with his third wife. d.
While there's life there's slope
New York has very stringent ordiuo noes
against dogs, and yet wonders that more
people haven't settled in the city.
"a woman is always child" said the
celebrated Alfred de Vigny, who must at
some time have been a census taker.
Vasssr girls want some philsnthropist
to found professorship that must always
be held by some good looking single man.
cratary Schurz is going to visit the
Indians ont West Have no fears for his
safety. Exchange. Mo- worry about the
Indians.
A week or go ago DIR. Tanner WAS
engaged in giving an exhibition of his will
power; and now he is engaged in
exhibiting his swill power.
Galy the gallant ice man
Goes sporting in the sun,
And selleth fifteen hundred weight
Aud charges for a ton.
-Andretos Bdsar.
An advertiser advises people to save
their hair while they have it. That's
business. II your wife wants you to stay
in, don't try to go out.-B0ston Post.
"Sitting Bill' some time ago presented
his tomahawk to missionary, but we
have not heard of the latter raising any
scalps with it. Proably he doesn't know
how to use it.
The soft still dawn steals up the whitening sky |;
The lights arc ont, the music dumb and dead.
Beneath the Stars together she and l.
An hour ago-whal was 1t that we said?
Strange glsdness thrills my h,art as | recall
Her whispered words ~ love you best of ALL"
The only thing that swell Newport
society regrets is that the revolutionary
heroes had the bad taste to declare them
selves independent of England.
delptia Neaos.
If lawyers offered prayers to Heaven
one-half as often as they offer them to the
court. there might be some chance of
one or two of them getting in Baltimore
Eoery Saturday.
They say ladies' hats must be made to
match the costume. This makes lots of
trouble for some ladies, but it doesn't
annoy Lydia Thompson. She merely
goes without hat.
Brightly, sweet summer. brightly
Thine honrs are floating by
The girl who does not picnic now,
x oyego Record.
Nice old Boston has population of
385, 900 A handsome gain of 1000 in
10 years. Chicago Int, Ocean. After
all, Chicago is a fine city, and has beaten
st Louis In lovely STYLE Boston Post.
Murat Halstead's paper publishes a
diagram showing that if Cincinnati
included portion of Kentucky and the
whole of Ohio, it would be something
more than little one-horse town where
they slaughter hogs and music.
George has got his pspa's fsil-pOle
On this sunny Sabbath day.
Ills eturn will be the signal
For woOd=hed matinee.
A girl Just returned to Hannibal, No
from Boston high school said, upon see
ing a fire engine at work "Who would
evah have dweamed such vewy diminu-
tive looking apewatus would hold 80 much
wattah !"
An English physicians says man can
stop his nose bleeding by crawling down
stains head first. Maybe; but he's heap
course, and runs chance of breaking his
neck, besides
Why is il that whiskey straight will
make man walk crooked ?-B0st0n
Globe. Probably because you drink it.
Did you never think of that You leave
whiskey in the jug and it will not make
you walk crooked.
An American girl who marries an Italian
marquis gets on very well until his serene
highness begins to spend all her money
and talk of "her father, ze shopkeep-
aire." Then she fires up and gives him a
little Fourth of July.
The Dramatic Ne,os says that Ted
Seguin is hardly cold yet, although his
wife is married again. As Mr.. Seguin
died last winter, tho Neps makes mean
destination about his future state. -
Detroit Free Press
A shrewd farm hand bought for Sl6C
the big meteor which fell in Emmei
county, Iowa, last year and was laughed
at by his comrades for what they CON
ceivAd TO be his idiocy. He has now sold
it to the British Museum for Sc, 500
Some persons say art is not appreciated
in this country, and yet genuine oil
paintings for Sl2 per dozsn" are advertised
in New York. Plenty of people would
ha ve oil paintings if they had to pay
dollar and half piece for them.
A stranger calling at the house of a
gentleman the other day met German
friend at the gate and inquired of the
latter, '.Is MIR. - in 7" YES" was the
reply. When about to pull the bell. the
! renton called bin back and said He is
in, but he ia det." ".... -a..
Mrs. Julia Dorr has been writing poem
about 1.-The ship that Went Down.
We didn't read it. Who cares anything
about the ship that went DOWN. It's gone
and there's the eud of it. Give us poems
about the ship that has just arrived with
a cargo of peaches Boston Post,
A b ,ston paper thinks there ought tc
be law in this country to compel every
girl who is engaged to wear red bow a,
her throat Depends very much, we
should say, upon the color of the beau
He might he a green one, in which CASE
his color ought to have the preference.
81 am opposed to class legislation. sale
q roaring socialist 81 believe that b aneiit,
ought to be distributed equally" ''rher
you won't care" aaid his affianced, who il
a conservative. ''if 6irt with other boy
some p A new light dawued upon hi
philosophy and he at once filed bill o
exceptions.
"Two more dishes OF cr'Wlli,"
| To the waiter he cried.
| His eyes saring wildly,
I His mouth open wlde
~ love he1most nadly,
To marriage I'm htnt,
And l'll satisfy her appetite
If 1t takes my last cent?
civilian, you have come up agaii
unprepared ~ "Yes, SIR" "But from