Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-01
HERE AND THERE.

has chroma.ic scsles.-Neo Hagea
Register.
The demand for chairs that WASHINGTON
once sat in, is keeping the furniture
makers very busy.
They say that the Bernhard has an
electrifying effect upon her audiences. We
suppose she shocks them.
Coaching is played out and the English
swells are hard at work inventing u new
method for rich man to make an ASS of
himself, fashionably.
Jefferson Davis thinks the Confederecy
still exists. We reckon the census taker
had better not put down JEFF. Hle doesn't
count. - Boston Post.
One hundred and twenty Vassar College
girls went out to fish one day last week
and the result was ninety eight sore
threats and one sunfish. Free
Press.
The Worcester Gazette remarks. aud we
hope its preference will be respected
death by an electric shock is urged as r.
substitute for the gallowa. We should
favor it.
Boston and New Orleans make much
better appearance, singing compliments
at each other, than they would if picking
out each others faults and making faces.
Boston Herald
"Spheric Scientists' is the heading
under which the Boston Herald chronicles
the doings of the professional base ballists.
naturel Inference is that they do not
play square game.
The New England papers are pretty
unanimous in the opinion that too many
good peaches Can hardly los sent there, but
that the green stuff call, d peaches might
as well be kept where grown.
Mrs. Van Colt refused to eat dinner in
the same hotel with Bob Ingersoll, and
Bob was willing that she should go hungry
and spite herself if she wanted to, but he
went ahead and took his dinner.
DIR. Hullah, the eminent musician,
declines to form an artistic connection
with the pianist Bulow, believing that the
name or IA Hullah Bulow combination
would go against il. -SyrdcHse HeraR
The reason that the Republic OF Liberia
doesn't get on better is that two-thirds of
the inhabitants are whitewashers by pro
tession and there are only tive buildings
in the nation that require whitewashing
MT. H., ON the veto you IL NtfyS Ound,
Said admirers meeting his chair around
Perhaps they may say so, IA did poor Pat.
VINO shot All owl and deemed him tat,
But cried, as he telt his body 80 thin,
Yes nothing but sOnnd,yc noisy unld him"
Some of the schools have rule punish
ing n boy who is tardy without An excuse
We wouldn't give much for ~ boy who
couldn't give All excuse for being tardy
He ought to be punished -BOStOH iranS-
cyfpt. ........
Kate Field asks Can man get ul0ng
without chin 7" Well, Judging from the
announcements under the head of Mar
RED III the newspapers, il would seem
that a large majority of him couldn't.
Puck.
No wonder the Prohibitory convention
ad journed after session Of one day. A
gathering that could soberly nominate
Neal Dow for President would naturally
feel ashamed To meet again. - BOSt0H
| HeraM
A Leadyille man fell over bluff and il
| he hadn't been drunk he would have been
killed, and il lie hadn't been drunk he
wouldn't have fallen over the bluff. You
can make the occurrence point whichever
moral you choose.
Silas Waite was too smart man for
Vermont. II he had gone West and
expanded on the bounjess prairies, he
would have developed into the biggest
| thief the world ever saw. But il is TOO
late now.-BOst0n Herald.
a country newspaper out West thus
heads its report of tire: Feast of the
Fire Fiend-Ihe Fork d. Tongued Demon
Licks with its Lurid Breath "A Lumber
Pile.-Are the Scenes of Boston to be
Repeated ?LoHs $50 doll y
40 him that hath shall be given" A
man worth $4O0,0O0 riding on a railway
train, was deprived of leg in al accident
and got So, 600 damages while poor
fellow next to him, VINO really needed
money, wasn't oven scratched.
| There was Il man from Ohio.
| sal IN i convention susy o!
| His heart it was arhcu,
| AS each vote was taken,
For fear the dark horse Would sly q,
| And throw This man from Ohio.
When a Deadwood man fails to chip
into the contribution box, the deacon
grabs him and he gets all strewed around
| No Deadwood man Is allowed TO triile with
the great work OF sending missionaries to
the heather.
The Newburyport He,aid is bothered to
understand why, In the inscruteble deal.
Tugs OF Providence, paralysis takes quiet
| and respectable citizens, instead Oi the
fellow who mades night hideous by
pounding on drum.
"What is blasphemy:" asks the phila-
delphia Ledger. If the Letlger is really
ignorant on this subject, let II put drop
nj IN IA hal 1 t.lt.. - Al.
talk of the man who sits upon it. BOSTON
Post.
The British House of Commons has
only seats enough Tor about tWo-thirds OF
the members, and part of these arc very
undesirable. John Bull sees the difficulty,
but lie thinks to remedy ii by making the
hall larger would ruin tine country
1t is useless to condemn such fellows a!
the wretches who set atloat the bogus
bottle message from the English shin
dtdEaatd, They are too thick headed to
comprehend rebuke, and too thick
skinned to feel one. --BOStoa HeYaH
The Indian outrages" in Colorado are
regularly manufactured by tho Denver
Outrage Bureau. That bureau is cum.
posed of land sharks who are desitous OF
7NuHHhB tAu iunl VI LLe TIE lnulRLS. n
cold blUoded set Of schemer5 arc these
Denver outrage makers - ogiS0Hi,
carrier JOUr7tdl
A Connecticut manufacturer doubtless
highly respectable citizen, is making
cast-iron axes to be sent to the interior ol
Australia. OF course they will be practi
cally worthless. The Norwich BHlletit
thinks lit would he worth while to get nj
Just how many pounds of gospel tracts il
will take in the future TO overcome the IN
iluence of each ounce OF cast iron impose
upon those contiiing heathens III THU
way.
ICCUSED or FRITRICIDE.
Two Cousins in i.oyc with the sam.
Young woman One al phcm
Found Dying.
1owANDA. Pa, June 21.-B roi
Williams and Samuel Phillips of Neatl
Four Corners bradford rnunf, ,y.r