Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-12-30
ItERE IND THERE.

On one of the postal cars nsar Washing
ton letter was found directed to 'Hand
Over Cart Horse" 1t ;was sent over to
Hanover Court House.
The st. Louis police headed oG a nlan
who was attempting suicide the day before
the census, and Chicago papers indig.
nantly osk il this is free country Boz
TIM Post.
boy that dogeu't know enough 10
joip Sunday school between now and
Christmas, is the best instance OF total
depravity We know of.-Ne@ Hedgea
Register.
"Oan children reason p asks the New
Haven Register They can Else way, when
boy ig found in the pantry, does it always
appear, according to his statement, that
he went in there to drive the cat out2
well known Evangelical clergyman,
on being accused of leading toward Uoi
veisalism, replied that he hoped every body
would go TO heaven. "Aud," said he,
There are some persons | wish were there
now"
The latest rage among young ladies' ia to
possess an old fashioned spinning wheel
for parlor ornament The desire to
possess an old-fsshioned wssh-tub as a
kitchen ornament doesn't rage so much
among young ladies'.
4 man passing a country graveyard
seeing the sexton digging grave inquiries
who's dead ?"Sexton-' Old Squire Bum
blebee "-Man-' What compla mt ?" Sex
ton without looking up)--"No complaint
everybody's satisfied.
The New York Mail asks: 'What is to
be done with the forty-seven million
standard silver dollars which nobody will
have" Have we ever offended the Mail
that it should call US "nobody?" Wair
until the returns are all in before you
announce the result. -NorriStopn Herald
The mysterious gift of money which
Lord Beaconsfeld's hero, Eudymion
Ferrars, receives recalls the fact that to
William Pitt the younger, came on day
from IN unknown benefactor a present of
$50 900, to promote his early career in
Parliament So that the fiction is no
stranger than the truth.
A four-year old Irish child, saying her
prayers at her mothers knee, having con-
cluded, as usual with "God bless papa and
mamma. Rrandpapss and grsndmsnmBs
uncles and aunts,' &c gave great Sigh,
and said: o nanny dear, do wish
these people would pray for themselves,
for l AM so tired of praying for them"
A Galveston clergyman was talking to
male parent about the lstter's little boy
Johnny. Said the fond father "He is
the cutest little cuss you ever saw. He can
swear like trooper, chews tobacco, ties
tin pans to the dogs tails, aud" "Does
he attend school ?" "Wby, parson, he is
too young for that, you know; he is not
far enough advanced"
"Is your programme full, Miss Beetle
crusher p asked young man of a
Western damsel who had just struggled out
Of the refreshment-room with dissapoint-
ment in her eve, on ''order of dances" in
her hand. Programme full?" said the
daughter of the setting sun. "Wasl, 1
guess not. haiDt had nothing but n
piece of cake and an ice cream, an that
don't go far toward filling my programme,
l can tell you"
More than 5000 acres OF land have
been reclaimed from the water in Holland
since the beginning of the 10th century and
the work still goes on at the rote of about
eight acres per day. Since 1920 the Lake
of HARLEM has been drained, and now
the Zuider Zee is to be pumped out, which
will surpass oil previous endeavors.
The leader of the class-s at Vassar Col
lege is Japanese girl. She is probably
the ouiy girl in school who doesn't scream
at tine sight of rat Philadelphia CdrOn-
icle- Herald.
Rome once sat upon seven hills. One
New Years morn the hills turned over q
new leaf and sat upon Rome They like
the change and have been sitting there
ever since, e,--KeOhuk Gate city.
Greedy grocer Ito farmers wife VINO is
supplying him with butter): This pun
o. butter is over lcht, gudewife." GUIDE.
wife: BLAINE yerser, then, L weighed il
wi the pun o. sugar gat frae ye yestreen, y
1t takes Worth whole week of hard
work to design a costume for the French
actress Jude, but Lydia Thompson can
design costume for herself in half al
hour and make nothing of it.-Phila
dolphin Chronicle.
II feel poem in my heart tonight
breaks out sweet rhymer of thought
That's nothing; we can feel fifty poems
in our waste basket and 1t wasn't good
day for feeling when We threw them there
-Ne3o HaDen Register
SILVER LINisas.
There's no life so sad
But THAI some hope ny enter;
No heart ~ altogether bad
| Bul good may IN u centre. .-
There is no night so long
| That suubeams may not scatter;
NJ stOr so loud aud strong
| That Gods will cHnnor shatter.
christian Statesman.
Beruhardt has wonderful picture
called The Young Girl and Death >
There are two figures in it, and you cal
take your choice of the two as to which Ii
Bernbardt aud which is the young GIRL
Ntlo Orleans PicaSune,
Who is to take charge of Mrs. Lsngtry
in Philadelphia, now that it is again set
tied fact that she will come to America
-Progress. Well, il she's as good look
ing rs they sly she 49, we wouldn't Obi sc
to doing it.-B0st0n Post.
hate the winter with its snow
II IL the baiie OF welded life
- I've drank the very dfvgs of woe,
."- For Mary Ann II now my wife;
And BE- II Ger 20 cold and lIcar,
Each morn, at O'Clock or prior,
My darling whispers in my ear:
ITS time, my love, TO light the ilreW
A Uhiuaman's wife in San Francisco
thinks she is pursued by devil, and hei
husband keeps u gongs beating to drive
the tiend away. AND even the most arden
haters of the Chinese in that neighbor-
hood hope the iiend will cease to perse
cute the lady.
Darling" she whispered, as he ben
his ears back TO catch her tender accents
won't you please go buy some of thai
elegant lace 10 Mir. Matthew'S window fol
me z" YES, my ownest," he murmured
He went by it all, and never stopped-tht
unfeelipg wretch!
Before marriage,
with wondrOus care,
She seeks the mirror,
Aud bangs her hair.
After marriage,
With angry glare,
, She grabs her slipper
, And bangs her heir
.-New Orleans Times.
~ think, " said a fond Galveston parent
that little Jimmy is going to BIZ Il poe
when lie grows up. He doesn't eat Ruc
sits ali day by The stove ord thinks, anC
thinks" You had better grease him al
over. He is going 20 have the measles
That's What aiis Jimmy Gdlcesto'
, NfaoS
. . Murder will out. A couple of week
ago it was reported that man had beer
found dead on the door step of Ions
! Branch hotel. It now appears that tn
deceased wore neither diamond pin no
gold watch chain weighing two pounds
and the hotel clerk turned the cold sho al
der on him-that is, the cool reception h
met with fIoze him to death.
: The industrious Swiss will not be RUNE
= by the cheap labor saving machinery o
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