Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-21

Noah ought to have lived in Dakota.

Noah ought to have lived in Dakota |
Boston Post.
The new grays lean to silvery effects or
metallic lustre, or to pink shades.
A Philadelphia man has so many child |
rem that he has started a s'No Name Sc l
ries.p
An exchange speaks of "a proud |
old sheep" A wsther vane, probably.
- World
The police in New York have succeeded |
in arresting bootblack. He was asleep
at the time.
Cleopatra's needle is already copied in
jewelry and pair of pendant obelisks
form earrings.
The Jump in pork" is explicable
enougllo if all the trichinosis stories are
true.-Boston POST
Wonder ii warm weather will ever
come.-Bostoa Post Have patience. Bob
Ingersoll is wrong.
The Boston Herald observes that the
man who digs 100 feet into the ground
for water gets along we'll.
III it were done when It's done, then
'twere well it were done quickly does
not apply to boarding house steak.
During the past five years New
Hampshire judge has made 454 people
happy. He has divorced 227 couples.
Surprise parties are coming into vogue
again. The person who is to be surprised
issues the invitations through friend.
In this oleomargarine age the traveller
who starts for Greece can't be sure that
his guide will not take him to some other
lie.
The cost of Solomons Temple is esti-
mated at S77, 53l, 1865, 636. The estimate,
of course, does not include the plumbers
bill.
A lunch given by New York lady to
four of her friends cost $1l0, or $50
plate. That is the New York idea of hap
piness.
good many people are anxious to
know whether in the revised Bible the
word wine is struck out and grape juice
inserted.
A citizen of Brooklyn has deem fined
$3.50 for hitting an alderman on the
mouth. Big price, but you ought to see
the mouth.
Mr.. Medcalf, NJ. P. p, has been fined
for taking part in cock fight near To-
ronto.-Detrou Free Press. Who was the
other rooster
Meissonnier has given up his contract
tor painting two enormous pictures for
public exhibition, and has returned to
his usual tasks.
Bismarck attributes his sons elopement
to the influence of Zola's works. Some
body please send set of Zola's works to
Mahone.-Boston Post.
Where will you put me when come
to see you at your castle in the air ~
asked a gentleman of a witty girl. SIN
brown study" she replied.
Sea Grove is advertised tor sale with
''all restrictions removed Strange that
it should be impossible to make water
ing place pay without whisky.
A new safety lamp for mines emits a
loud sound whenever an explosive mix
tnre of gas and air enters it, thus giving
warning of the presence of fire damp.
BE thankful you are poor: You will
not have the trouble of crawling out
from under heavy monument on the
resurrection morning-.SOmerrale Journal
Old Deacon Pill1ins said to himself,
/ iaiotth dShSt W HAT HOuOF' as though
it was hard to tell. But let my wife Sit
behind another woman in church and
| she'll tell what'S on her in less than ten
minutes
Like lightning rods, sweet girls SHOULD be
| Cool pointed, straight, exacting
| Drawing the sparks-yet not too free
Nor harmed by their attracting.
The following epitaph, respectfully
dedicated to the reckless, is worth remem-
boring
Here lies man whose crown was won
| by blowing In an empty gun
Nothing SO takes the conceit ont of a
man as to spend half an hour making his
old boots look like pair of patent
feathers, and then have the first boot
black he meets ask him if he wants q
shine.
A Nevada paper tells of young lady
who is SO delicate and ethereal that on
losing hairpin from her head the other
day she caught a bad cold that hung on
for W eek. g..
The Rev. II. b. Cook became more pop.
ular in 10 minutes at Slatersville, n. Y.
by jumping into 4 swollen icy stream and
rescuing drowning boy, than by his two
years of preaching in the town.-Detroii
Free Press.
Al the Torouto r;.n.rol uo.,,it.t =
Young mans leo was latsiv ,mnmta ,ta a a
th4 hin bv a n1atinum yyir,. raisaJ g, :" :,
white heat by an electric current tn.
great heat contracted the ends of the
arteries as the limb was cut by the wire
so that it was necessary to ii. til. larae,
: only.
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remark that H.. hal;avas .ha s,;a,as ~
rnt Il. snbmitt.d ~ a,"u s,'1 .an ~ w..
viii h. annihiat.d II Iaa nn' al ,yrt n ou
: ious some folks are to have things Meas
ant for the wicked. Even in this iiif, i
is the murderer's cell not The tomb NJ
his victim. which receives the bnnu.ts
brsbana,. a3r,ina.ia ...,.
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and th,t H.. Ma ~ %as '..'e az n's WV
a fbs animai na,oi'' ., W., .',''t hi' u.
shoulders and said /. "Ef tbai n,ntba
!, had knowed her as we'll AZ | do he'd
never riled her I'm. Won bet -
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= ,,,,t,,u ri e.. "ititii ti'e prtseii
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+ remind not a few Of tba anuaIly c,,tinn
, and hesitatinp nropr.ss of gss !;
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