Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-03-03
HERE IND THERE.

Split straw work is q new fancy work
to employ idle fingers.
A "Non-Cursing Society" mas been
organized in Scarboro, Ga.
The dog that wags his tail is giving Il
caudle lecture.--P. L. Man.
Mrs, Hayes disapproves Of the ean-can,
and yet she never saw it. Is this fair
The Boston i5St wants S. 7. Tilden
sent to Congress to ill the vacancy caused
by the death of Fernando Wood.
AChinese Christians preaching sermons
to his countrymen in Virginia City, and is
trying to convert them but they threaten
to kill him unless lie stops.
Eve was thelittle side show of Paradise.
-Nem York Ners. And her daughters
are yet the greatest curiosties in the
wOrld.-NeD Hucca Register.
know what good society is! | reckon
do " cried Mr.. Griff. "Why I've been
put out of more than 20 as swell affairs
as ever We're gotten up in this city
One who is given to much study Of his
prayer book may become one of the salt
of the earth, but inside that inspiriting
volume he will find a psalter.-Pick
At Phoenix, Arizona, the Sheriff orders
suspicious looking strangers to leave town
before sunset, under penalty OF arrest.
This plan Of prevention is said 10 work
we'll.
Massachusetts has her Fast day APP.
pointed thus early, though it will not be
until April It'll. 1t takes about six weeks
for Bay State man to prepare to pray
.Nec Hacen Register.
Says an English physician The un-
certainty of meal taking brings with it a
craving for stimulants. That's the way
it is with the tramp. He's uncertain
about his meals and always Graves stimu.
lants.
Among rude tribes in America, Africa
and Australia, it is forbidden that
man should ever see or have anything
TO do with his mother-in-law And vel
we boast of our superiority to those people.
Boston Post.
Mrs. Darlington was recently induced
to make u trip from Chelsea to Boston
and her nerves were so agitated by tile
excitement of the trip that as she jumped
ashore she exclaimed Thank heaven
I'm again on vice versa"
The Syracus HeraA says - Senator
ingalls, is the handsolnrst man in tn,
United Stats Senate" Ii We live rs near L
Utica as Syracuse, We should never dar,
to say that.-BoStoa Post. Not you owned
a shot gun a-.STdcuSe Hlrpid.
OF course Chicago was going to bea
that st. Louis woman who had been
divorced eight times, but the woman thel
selected to beat her with likes he
seventh husband so well she won't b
divorced from him. That's lust tn
aggravating, uncertain way women act
A Detroit man has his nose bitten OF
and refuses to prosecute the bitter. II
thinks he couldn't recover any more 70
the nose lost than the other man coult
get from him for the ear he chawed III
and the eye he gouged out. So they hay
agreed TO call it good time and squar
stand-off.
, ''Do You know, young man, that card
are the DEVILS books '' asked solemn
, looking parsonage Of fellow who wa
: shutting the paper" ''Oh, yes yo
J shall have them, sir, as soon as we hav
had our little game, replied the youn
scapegrace, turning up a jack,-Bosto
Transcript.
: Henry Ward Beecher, in his sermo
: last Sunday, said to his congregation
80 Is there anything this morning tina
( seems to you meaner than lie pr whic
!, reminds us of the old conundrum; "Wha
makes more noise than a pig under
, gate l' The answer is 1.-Two pig
. under gate. PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.
My wife doesn't believe in my bein
= attentive to other women, - said Ragbap
: 81 wish to the Lord mine didn't" sal
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