Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-12-02
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are not at all certain that they really see
through Philadelphia Times
Mr.. Bergh has been informed that
potato bugs in the West are suffering
greatly on account OF cold weather.
1t was an Indiana man who said he
couldn't ride aaycopedia to save his neck,
but burned If he feared to tackle any mule
he ever saw. !
President Hayes has mountain named
after him, and feels 10 consequences as ii he
were bigger man than old Mr.. Mahomet.
---Elmird Free Press.
A Paris paper has published telegram
from New York predicting that Sarah
Bernhard will ultimately be proclaimed
President of the United States.
"The tongue of woman increases in |
the same ratio that her feet decreases"
SAYS Chinese proverb and the Chinese
go right on COMPRISING their women's
feet.
So far as at present known, the giraffe
is q silent animal, like the Gland and the
kangaroo, ard has never been heard to
utter sound, even when ST. juggling in the
sgonies OF death.
soap.eating contest is the latest. a
Springfield, OHIO, man devoufed yellow
bar recently and received So as prize.
HIS DOCTORS bill will be about $50. The
I've was too strong for his stomach.
A Philadelphia paper tells of gentle
man in that city who owns bootjack
with which he ouce killed cat. The
fact that Jules Verne had entered Phiia-
delphia journalism was not hitherto known.
"My dear" said sentimental maiden
to her lover, ''of what do these sutumua
tints, TINS glowing baldrlc of the sky, tnis
blazing gafnlture of tine dying year
remind your" Pancakes" he promptly
answered.
Talmage il bounded on the north by his
ears, on tne south by bis feet on the EAST
aud west by his elbUws.-BOst0h Star.
HIM Who're does his mouth COME III 7
-Phijadetphid RtcOrG IL Is a yawniug
cavity aud OOund,ess.
Gus Ito Fax, who is chatting him
about his thin legs)-My dear fellow, We
can't all be cart horses. Usefulness isn't
everything, you know, and there must be
sfew tho.ougnbudS here and there, If only
for the sake vt Urnalnent. FuHch.
The defeated candidate is like the old
bachelor, who says he once fell in love
with beautiful young lady, but aban.
doned all idea of marrying her when he
found that she and all her folks were
opposed to ths match-G dloeSt0R Mems.
The proprietor of building site in
Wisconsin aavertises his land for sale il
this wise: the towa of Poggis and
surrounding country is the most beautiful
which nature ever made. The scenery Ii
celestial also two wagons and yoke OF
steers
A computation of the cost of the coal
oil,torches eapes, and like paraphernalia
used IN the late campaign is made by the
Chester (PA.) NtUs The estimate of the
NenS reaches So, 200 co., and it asks
whether the game is worth the candle.
Base ball, it will be rendered by old
settlers, is game played by eighteen
persons wearing shirts and drawers
They scatter around the field and try tC
catch cannon ball covered with raw hide
The game is to get people to pay twp
shlllngs to come inside the fence. Nil
pdakee Sun
new interest in the cause of ten
perance means a new society, aud new
society mems new quarrel, but it ough
to be Understood that tie lighting of thes
good people is not like that OF the cats II
the story. 1t does not mean mr.
temp rance men but lets = OStO
Herald
The Yale faculty has voted that froI
this date thrtw fr. shmau tcret S cletit'
Delta Kappa aud Kappa Sigma Epsilon
should be abolished Nothing was done a
regards the opeu society G4mm4 M tn