Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-10-21
BREVITIES.

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| Sun rises GIT, Sun sets 6.i3.
Light moves 900 miles per hour.
New fall hats at q. S. Humphreys
Electricity moves 2s8, 900 miles per heur.
More drums and flower stands at 90. store
Stationery at cost, Sherwood's. 100 W. 7th
street.
The first steamboat piled the Hudson /,
1907.
The man who wakes strong every day-Th'
shoemaker.
Farmers bring on your grist. to the Front st
Steam Mill.
Oupping and leeohing at No. 1os X. Second
street.
Pure cider vinegar at Weldin & Lloyd's
Seventh and King streets.
| You can buy as cheap at Adair's as any
other iuralture house In Delaware.
"It is well enough for children to b,
lambs" says moralist, s'but 1t is not gooG
for them to grow up Sheep"
There isn't much difference between a grass
widow and c erssshopper, alter ALL Either
will jump at the first chance.
1t ia as natural as life that women should
he fond OF ribbons. Because, you see, the
| frst woman was made from rib-bene.
Qusry--No woman was ever known to mar.
~ man whose first remark on being intro.
duced to her was about the weather.
More bread and less whiskey would have
barrel or 9S ibs of first grade fresh ground.
tIood flour Tor $500. VIM. D. Piokeis, 4O7
King st.
Notice to the Publio.-I will half-solo and
heel boots and shoes for 81; other mending in
proportion, John e. Bailey, 8, w. corner OF
Seventh and Tstnall streets.
A railway man accused of drinking beer
While on duty, calmly assured the superln-
tendent that he was the victim OF color blind.
ness, and supposed he was drinking water.
A wag, seeing door nearly off its hinges
in which condition 1t had been for s0I Q time
observed that when 1t had fallen and killed
some one, 1t would probably then be hung.
At q. X. Baugh, 6O7 $ hipley street, y ou will
lind the best assortment Of chromOs and pic
ture frames in the city. Come and zee for
yourself.
uDick, did you ever soc the church bell
that hangs in the towerf' "No, James, but
i've seen the church belle that sits In The
right hand front pew"
lfyou grasp rattle snake firmly about the
neck he cannot hurt you, says o contempo.
rary paper. To be perfectly safe, 1t would be
well to let some one else do the grasping.
Fresh ash, always fresh, cheap and good,
aud the best oysters and largest measuI 0 In
the city, at McOlure's fish stalls In Eighth
street market.
Alta Notwithstanding mamma ito her
marriageable daughter:) "virginia, dear,
don't lose sight Of that gentleman in nc urn
ing. He may be widower."
The last thing.-A contemporary says: "The
last thing o man wants to do is to die" Then
bis wishes are gratihed. tits the last thing
he does.
Among the languages Of civilized rations
Englisb is the most widespread. 1t is ,he
mother tongue OF about 50, ,O00, 900 people, Ger
man. Of between 50.00o0oO and 600, o, 900;
French, Of between 10000 600 and 500 0,OOO;
Italian, OF 28O00,0o0 ana Russia, OF between
81, ,000, 900 and 60,000,o0e.
She read all the books OF science,
Her fingers were covered vii h ink,
She hooted at marriage alliance,
she taistd Of tins missil 9 link.
She quoted savans and preachers
vi greater and less ieaOwn-
Platonio In all her features.
She get mash on circus clown.