Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-11-11
HERE AND THERE
You can tell dog wood by its bark.


All very dresay costumes are trimmed
with embroidery.
Iassels OF oil kinds, including lace ones,
are fashionable.
Both square and round trains are worn
in evening toilets.
Balls of silk, instead of tassels, finish
many scarf-sashes.
As with woman, so with the horse. His
back hair is his name trouble.
A sick man il considered put Of danger
when the doctor disconinues his visits.
The Belltelephoue s not effected by the
weather Ii is not such an old Bell wetiler
AZ that
| Plush bands will be worn on the bottom
of plain skirts of rich satin and silk
dumasses.
The "Vera" is a new hat, named for the
heroine Of Ouida's last ard wickedest
novel, Moths"
A deter animation to be auliable i'd an ap-
| preparation for the improvement of the
river of the life.
Nature should mend her ways. English
tourists think American autumnal tints
entirely too loud.
|
sack suspended from them ia the latest
form of fancy ball pin.
"Give me the hand that will never de-
ceive me-" sings the poet He wants the
cards stocke d so as 10 bring the four aces
into his fist.
81 believe in bananas in tho abstract
but not in tho concrete" said the old
gentleman as he painfully arose from the
asphalt walk.
| Beware of PickpoclSets,' was one Of
the decorations on the wall before the
eyes of members of the recent Pan Prosby-
terian Council in Philadelphia.
A woman near Cairo dressed up Us q
man to see how much bluff her old hus-
band would take from stranger. He
lodged 46 bird shot in her legs.
Two Ohio boys killed valuable trotter
by rolling heavy stone down hill upon it.
This proves that the old say, "a rolling
stone gathers no hoss," isl mistake.
The Concord School of Philosophy won't
admit women over 30 years of age to its
classes, though no one wants to be phil.
osopher until too old for anything else.
The only special attraction at Niagara
Falls this month is customs officer who
can answer civil question i'll civil man
ner. He isn't there to stay, of course.
'Never borrow trouble" said @ husband
to his wife. "Oh, let her borrow it if she
can,' exclaimed the next door neighbor,
she never returns anything you know.
Now that the Cologne Cathedral is built
the next thing will be to send for Debt
Kaiser Kimball, that, at least, would tie
the next thing to be done in this country.
The Japanese never employ piece molds
for ornamental articles aud are compelle d
10 remodel every article, go that they do
not produce succession of pieces eutieely
alike.
The Madras IUdiL asserts that Golconda
has obtained its fame VIGOROUSLY, inasmuch
as the diamonds cut aud polished there
are usually brought from Partial, in the
Gapjam district.
What has become of the phoncgraph |?
Any one seen it laying around anywhere
lately Can't be that it has been taken
away in mistake for a sausage stuffer-
Huntington HaWkeye.
al wish was geese,
All iorlOrn, all fOrlorn.
For they possess their sOnls in peace,
And accumulate much grease,
Eattn corn
A man at Binghampton, N. ", wanted
to have some fun with an old lady by
playing ghost The only mistake ho made
was in not finding out beforehand that
she kept a sho; gun in the house.
An American lawyer is now Attorney
General of the Sandwich Islands. If in
two years he doesn't own the entire
country and hold the Kings note for a
large sum he ia no credit to the American
bar.
kings / Have Met" is the title of MIR.
Archibald Forbes's lecture. Some day
MIR. Forbes will come across three kings
and rair Of sevsns. Then he will learn
something about the resources OF this
country.
When the press of this country will dc
one-half the free advertising for widowed
seamstress that it will for an immoral
actress u great start will be made toward
Furnishing up the jewel of consistency.
-Sh0e and Leatter Rep9rter.
A meddlesome old woman waa sneeriun
at II young mothers awkwardnesa with hei
infant and said II declare woman
never ought to have a baby unless she
knows how to bold il - ''Nor tongue
either" quietly responded the young
mother.
A poet young and hearty
Went merrily his way
Alutt unto the sluc.um Of
, An editor 80 gray.
| have here an epic"
Remarked the laureate,
(which would like to have you print
AT some convenient date
The poets lovely widow
Strews flowers DER his tomb;
The willy editor still keeps
A bull-log in his room.
A properly conducted journal will moi
! publish poetry which describes unfashior-
able garments. Hence the Chicago
Iri5uae, with its usual sense of what is
! becoming, writes to "Lurline: "Yom
poeln about gray hooded eve cannot be
published, because it lacks fidelity to fact
BY looking at any fashion Journal you viii
discov, that gray hoods arc not fnshiona.
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