Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-05-26
HERE AND THERE.

water-spomt---A temperance Grafton.
When hens get in your garden it is sale
to shoe at 'em on the spot.
The question now agitatng Sunday |
schools is how Adam passed his boyhood.
Two girls OF 20 and ~ years manage a
farm of 100 acres near FrOstburg, |
Maryland.
There are | 800 posto1ices in Virginia,
at salaries ranging from s25 per annum
up to "a, 600. !
A Port Jervis cat boasts Of - posterity
of los kittens. This cat has never used
tobacco in any form.
"oh, where are you going, my pretty mail -
"Todu some shoppng," she sweetly sai
And where" asked, i'll glad surprise;
"Uh, anywhere, where they advertise, =
A brave man may face mad bull with
fire in his eye and courage in his heart,
but sign marked smallpox" fptches
him.
Notwithstanding the assaults ofirreligion
lists, our people still reverence the Bible.
You will find it the best kept hook in the
household.
II is said that under the new liquor
law of karsas q mechanic must have a
physicians prescription before he can
buy aspirit level.
The Philadelphia Bulletin hears that
the Gar sleeps, surrounded by 81 armed
Cossacks, with his head on a hassork and
dressed in Cassock.
Pauline Markham, it is said, recently
refused to appear on the stage in mascu-
line attire. Presume she objected tn so
much clothes.-Boston Post.
A doorkeepcr at the theatre would
make II good fortune-teller if he could tell
the future as well as he can the passed.
-cimi"naG Saturday Might.
1--WE appear to have a press OF solid
matter, this evening"" remarked the
editor, as he hugged his fat sweetheart in
the cleaning OF an argand burner.
Beaconsfield was asked how he
managed to become such favorite
with Her Majesty. "Well,'' he said, 81
never contradict,and sometimes forget"
A Camden, N. j., editor says at takes
a trst-class fool to edit Wilmington
paper Evidently he wants Wilmington
newspaper publishers to think they need
his services.
Emile de Girardin had always large
white horse to his brougham, which was
painted yellow. This was to enable him
to find it always on coming ont of recep-
tions or dinners.
A strolling theatrical company was at
dinner. A waiter approached one of the
members and said, ''Soup!" ''No, sir,"
Indignantly replied the person addressed,
II am one OF the musicians. ---4HOntfeH
Star.
why, you dear little girl, " exclaimed
a Quakerly old lady yesterday, seeing
child on Arch street with her head tied
up, ''have you got the headache I" no."
she answered sweetly, ''l'se dot spit
turl."
The Boston Post wonders whether it is
wicked to admire pretty bonnets.-
Hcrald. 1t is not wicked but if there is
anything worth looking ut inside of them
it is u great waste of PHILADELPHIA
Eeeniag Meas.
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes poem
on 1.-The Other World" the first line
reading, sit lies around us like cloud.
A good many people who are going to
that ''other world" are also lying around
like natural born liars.-kMton Times.
In Boston 1Esthetic Young lady-"By
the way. Mr.. (iosoftly. have you read
l3ascon's Science of Mind p; ''N-u-aw.
Pm not reading much NOWADAYS. pass
my time In original thought.'' Ksthetic
young lady (with sympathy)-''lIow
very dreary, to be sure.'' ..-5
The Chicago Times announces that if
will print the entire revised New Tes-
lament in one issue. This will be a new
Revelation to its readers.--but the
Norristown man thinks if il is not pretaeed
with a half column of sensational head
lines they will not tackle it.
New Haven Register: s.The ripest u, ach
is ON the highest tree,' SAYS James
Whitcomb Riley. James shows his igno-
rance. The ripest peach is in the bottom
layer of the basket every time, and is
generally about nine shades too ripe,
The yio,Ut4,lso softhe tortur.s of a storl
upon a tidy, who said
'iheN Ne worked me st'hdihs' ruhhihg'
Someti,nes III gazing at :, crewel sun;
They've worked iue every way, l think, but
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iecturer ohce Pfeiaue" iiis u'soo'rse
upon the rhiii"ceroS Will must oeg
you 10 give me your uhalV'aea a.tehtlon.
You can form trne idea of the hideous
animal OF which we are about to spe ak
unless Won keen your eve fixed on me, -
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\ business man OF large experience
says, "A good advertisement in a
newspaper pays no fare on railroads costs
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customers ui'hhS ii' "hisNy uiit'ei 'i,f's,e
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The EIgaro announces new way OF
making acuuaintances. A snob, about to
enter a restaurant, meets lady and
| salutes her with the utmost courtesy.
"Excuse me, she SAYS. 81 believe have
not the pleasure" "A thousand pardons,
| la1yi says liie Shob, ihlstooh you nor