Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-12


be felt.
Another Grant man going abroad-his
name Is Olive Logan.
1t Is not so difficult to take Afghaniatan
as 1t is to let go of it.
Don't despise the lowly. The under
jaw does all the work"
Musicians are known by the ''accom.
paniments they keep"
DIR. Tanner certainly has more patience
than most doctors. York World.
An exchange says; ''David Davis's vest
looks like a Sibley tent" Make him pull
it dtwn.
By this time DR.. Tanner ought to know
az much about true inwardnees Nv Henry
Ward Beecher.
1.-The De Golyerites have adopted AS
campaign badge gilt acorn" We sup
pose it means Cakes.
Mrs. Hildreth committed suicide at Des
Moines. Ia, because her husband wouldn't
take her to the circus.
No photographer can carry on his husi-
ness without little son.-Neo York
World. That's so, sonny.
The horseshoe is suppose to bring good
luck. The little horseshoe clocks are con-
sidered lucky il they keep time.
A man froze to death on the hottest day
this summer at Carroll, Ia He got into
refrigerator Car while drunk ard was
locked in.
A citizen of Louisville. bitten by
licensed dog, brings suit against the city
for $40 600 damages. The point involved
is one of interest
An advertisement appeared in PEilAd-l.
phia for "a young man rs ticket seller to
travel with variety troupe" The humid
reds of applicants were each told that an
advance of 81 to buy ticket to Boston,
where the company was to gather, would
be necessary. After collecting large
amount of money in this way tho swindler
fled.
Mistaken in the Crop - A traveller
stepped into western hostelry before the
place had its morning sweeping done. He
congratulated himself and the landlord on
having arrived at place where he recog.
nized such large grapes strewed about the
floor "Them's not grapes" said the
landlord; ''them's eyes gouged out last
evening. - washington Star.
A rather grim joke has found its way
into print which the "mos, eminent states
man of tho late administration" is said to
have perpetrated about his rival. Accord
ing to our contemporary, this eminent
| statesman was asked a few DAYS ago
what is the difference bet tween mishap
and misfortune ?" His answer was.
well, [ should call it nlishap if MIR.
Gladstone were to fall into the Thames,
! nd mi of ii
him ont again. London Court JGHraai.
A pair of lovers idly strolcd
AdOwn an avenue:
Said he "Now tell me what il IL
That You would like TO dog"
| She tossed chip into the brook
| Beneath the cooling shade,
Said she, "Id like TO shed my shoes
And git in thar an wade"
- DeadwoOd Pioneer.
There! said Vogle, the other evening,
as he entered the room, ''that jobs done,
and now for good, lazy summer" OF
course all wanted to know what the "iob"
was. "0h, it is nothing" he said "only
my diary, you know, I've just finished
writing it up till mex. November. "-IlOst0n
transcript. ...a
She sirolcd along the sandy beach,
And ripping wavclGs tried to reach
And clasp and hug and tumble DER
The brace of pretty feet that wore
A pair of number 'leven shoes
That made Il track like number twOs.
London is interested in the saleswoman
question, and Punch puts the following
under picture: Taking the law in ones
own hands. Fair but considerable Gus.
toner (handing chair over the counter to
tired shop GRID pray sit down. You
look 80 tired. I've been riding all the
afternoon in a carriage and don't require a
chair"
lady at a Long Branch hotel sent the
following note to the caterer of the Stock
ton: please send 10 room 800, for my
dear little Jupiter, one tenderloin steak,
very rarely broied, cold chicken wing,
and pint of new milk " My dear little
Jupiter" is one of those sguint-eyed little
terrier pups.
A tOm-cat sits upon Il shed
And MARBLES wildly TO his mate,
son, when the world has gone to bed,
| love to sii and new till late"
But while this tOm-ca sits and sings,
lpsprngs II bOurdcr, mad with haze,
VINO shoots that Get to ildde-striags
lie also loved to mutilAtt
A Nantucket man has experienced 0
lucky hit in the eye. lis had been blind
in one eye for 20 years, and in now 81
years old, While he was cutting somt
pine twigs splinter flew into his blint
eye, penetrating the film over it, and he
can now see with it az well as with tn,
other, having had the film taken off. II,
a began to see as soon rs the splinter brokt
the film.
The Chicago 1riJtne says: CORE
spondent wants TO know if we can REGAL
I the rest of that beautiful poem commenc
ing;
A farmer sat in his easy chair
l. Smoking his pipe OF clay,
[ While his hae Old wife with busy care
Was clearing the dinner away
) A sweet little girl with fine blue eyes
Y On her grandtnthers Knee was catching flies.
Mrs. Domesticity calls at the kitchen
! furnishing store. Have you Cook
= stewers2 2" she asks. The dealer is dumt
:, founded till he is shown an advertisement
= of Cooks Tours, when he directs her t
!" the nearest railroad office.
n Twas picture rohcl in beauty, which mother
o heart would bless;
: Violet eyes so full Of loyclig. rosy cheek, ~
|, golden tress,
Crimson lps like ripe red berries, tiny palms lii
Game the little three year darling To her mother
Ie rhe fell:
IN "Mamma mamma plea e" she whispered, ski
tile place anti make II " II!
Ia A Galveston gentleman's wife not bein
- in very robust health, he called on doctt
to prescribe something The doctt
- thought while and said she must tai
), some pills or English ale three times
day "All right responded the husban
-. who was thorough business man, 81
= try the ale first" why don't you tt