Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-01-14
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VIAlES.
Sun rises 7,sl...... Sun sets 4.57.
No ice saved vet.

| sun rises 7,zl...... ..Sun sets ADJ.
No ice saved yet.
Bank elections are booming.
Sleds, skates, snow shovels, 99c. store.
| g. 8. Humphrey, the halter and furrer.
Try Kings Good Samaritan Cough Syrup.
The late cold snap has stopped the January
plow.
Breaches Of trust-Trowsers purchaEed on
| credit,
Dandelions, crocuses and pansies are
showed up.
In 1923 the first boat load Of coal descended
the Delaware.
When the rain falls, does 1t ever rise again ?
Yes, in dew time.
Now is the time to begin to talk about Re-
| hob0th improvements.
The markets were full this morning, and
prices somewhat lower.
The "Chester Evening News IL 81 icy
and well supported daily.
House building until now has cen uninter
rupted during the winter.
Croquet players are looking out for good
level lots for next summer.
Fourth street west from Tatnall should be
either nacadamized or paved.
Look carefully to your house plants now
This Is hard weather on them.
The weather is not excessively cold but
better than no cOldisnap at all.
Rents for small houses should not be raised
until the wages OF wOrkmen are raised.
Sarcasm Is an effective weapon of abuse, but
it is much out of place In every day life.
Oysters, 1t Is said, are going up, but this
will not prevent their slipping down again.
A Boston boy thinks that the dead IAN
guages were killed by being studied too hard.
Cupping and leeching at No. l03 L. Second
street. Residence No. 403 East Second street.
Our brevity column is a general medley of
all kinds OF paragraphs without clAssitica-
ton.
Why is prosy preacher like the middle of a
wheel? Because the fellows around him are
tired.
The blue birds on the way up north are
lying over few days amongst the Carolina
hives.
People are generally apt to dislike persons
who awe Them with display of high attain
ments.
IF all the world were blind" said an
Irish clergyman, what melancholy sight
1t would be. "
The city of Chester is long drawn out, and
we hope soon to shake hands with her Ecioss
the State line.
Those who have been contemplating max
ing gardens soon had better give up the idea
awhile longer.
The contest in the School Board over the
surplus receipts promises to be Lively. The
city wants the money.
Flatterers are the worst kind of friends, be- |
cause they strengthen your impertections and |
correct you In nothing
A lady asked a gentleman how old he was
He rep led: "What you do In everythng?"
What was his age?-XL.
Yesterday was the one hundred and nine
tieth anniversary of the death OF George Fox, |
founder OF the Quaker sect.
A tame buffalo bull recently entered a
Wy oming restaurant, and when he left the
table was pretty well spread.
To see the boys out oOastlng yesterday, one
would think that there was buv one session OF
school or no session OF school at all.
The Norristown Herald" says bv this
time next year there won't be an Unmarried
lady lett In the Media Cooking Club.
Thousands of little sparrows are nestled In
the Ivy vines at the gable end of q Gorge M.
residence, 81 Shipley street.
A Virginia paper describes fence which is
made OF such crooked rails, that every time a
pig crawls through, he comes out on the same
ide.
a NHRtnih coloreu preacher says that the
African race Is the chOse1 race of heaven,
which accounts for their being called culled
people.
The illuminated cotton mills OF Chester and
Vicinity after night are grand sight from
he evening trains OF passing cars, and re-
mind US that business is booming in our
sister city.
No lsnger by the river
We wander as OF yore,
To listen 70 the surging
0fthS ripples on the shore;
Gone are those days OF gladness,
Ofpleasure and OF peace
She's been and gone and married
A sergeant OF police.
-RRADINa TIMES.