Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-11
HERE and THERE.

200, DOC, 900 piokels, not including the
old maids.-Norristop Herald.
"She loves him STILL" is the title of a
recent novelette,. She probably wants to
do all the talking herself,-OH City
Bizzard.
The late Mr.. Yale of New Haven left
fortune Of IS, 0OO,0 Like Samson, his
strength WAS In his locks Rochester
Post-krpress.
What il the difference between fool
and mirror 2" The fool speaks without
rejecting, and the mirror rejects without
speaking .-Rome Sentinel,
We don't see why Gen. Butler cares TO
bs governor, that is If the popular opin-
ion be correct, that with governors it's
long time, &o.-Boston R6N.
The hop season is about over-st the
summer resorts.-Courier. Yes, the skip
season set in there on the lat of Septem
bsr.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Alaska girls have trick of cutting
button holes in their upper lips. But no
| Alaska man has yet had the nerve to sew
button on his wife's lower lip-Boston
Post
| "Why don't you ask blessing :" SAID
boarding house keeper to the boarder.
| He looked over the table, and glo0mily
4 answered: "I'd like to know what for"
Merchant Traveller.
When Charley opened his egg at the
breakfast table, and found it to be all
yoke, he sagely remarked, 81 guess that
hen hadn't got through laying that egg
| mamma. "--Boston Transcript.
Smoking may be bad habit, he said,
AZ he rode beside pretty Philadelphia
girl, but that habit OF yours is perfectly
killing. The marriage took place the
next day.-HriIdelphia News.
1 Editor Henri Watteraon again decided
to take the pruteotiouist bull by tn,
! horns IL there are any horns to b'
taken, Henri is the man to take 'em. N,
boys sizes wanted. Bmiette.
1 The South American condor is peculia
for its lofty ght.-Learned Erchange
| That's nothing. The North American
abs-conder gives the usly bird points Oh
flights every day in the week -fitsbur
Telegraph.
II An editor wrote head iins-'A Horri
\ BILE Blunder"-to 10 over a railroad ACC
dent; but though it was the printer
fault that 1t got over the account of
wedding, the editor was the man thrashe
all the same.
The baggage agents of the Unite
States are holding convention in Oh
cago. Before their arrival ell trunk
| were prudently removed from the cit
and hidden in the woods outside
| Lo,oell Cnisen
"Frsnklin has sl'Nursery Club %
Er. Only brutal parents would use
club in the nursery. strap or rats
ought to intltct a punishment seve
enough for all corrective purposes.
NorristoWa Herald.
The eagle feels best at q hi hit of Il, O,
feet above the earth, while the minu
you get man on the roof of hors
block his knees begin to weaken aud
can't remember word beyond "Fello
citizens. San francisco Neps Letter
Mr. w. s. Gilbert, author of "Piu
fore, "Pygmalion and Galstea," &c
refused to permit Miss Mary Anderson
appear in the latter. Although he sho
HIS Pyg-ishness, It ought not to can
the charming American gal tear
o. M,iton Neos.
I'd The Boston girl is compelled to sui
OF many oriticisms from the illiterate we
,w ern journalist on account Of hor super
oultura. Oae of them recently wrote Il
the young lady is $50 awfully cultul
s e that she won't call it the Sweet by al
n.y. She call it the 'sugsred sub
- quently.'"
The cable announces a. imports
news the fact that "Mr. SliDgsby Beth
a4,a II 81 81 II I j.
coming to America to visit bis sous q
live in the United Stat So We kno'
man in Missouri named Snagsby Chan,
wonder il he tould be ona of SliG4sb
8 boys f-BWlington Hauktye. .5
At Aldworth haggard- looking n
has thrown aside his clay pipe, an
swaying backward aud forward, dsage
his fingers through his hair aud re,eat
to himself, "Brown, town, down, Bro
clown, crown, gown, town, down, Bro
clown, down, &c." II ia Alfred Tel
SOD, Poet Laureate, and hs ia trying
IN 4 get up poem on the ate lamanted is
full servant of the Britain Empress,
yn \ Courier Journal.
A story is told Of certain polit
caucus in Maine which was attended
tor only two persons, Hannibal Hsmlin
lin one other Mr.. Hsmlin elected the OF
ter man chairman and proceeded to tran
the business in hand. But the oredent
cry Of the delegates certified that they y
ven elected at "a large and respectable car
to OF the Republicans Of -, because,
iole | Mr.. Hamlin explained to the puz
Why chairman, ''yon are large and I au
It ] spectacle" s..
any An Erolisb trav.llar In ir.Iona or.
the for ;,tor,notion ana atwa,,s at,
note book in his breast pocket, got
'on- the same railway carriage with a cor
Roman Catholic archbishop. Igno
Vi Of his rank, and only preoeivipg tina
WAS divine, he questioned him pr
'her closely about the state of the eou,
am wbiatv .drinkino Sc Atlast b.soia :.
oe are parish priest yourself OF course
lem. Graoa ,aw himsaIf mn eI ,yos ora q
ions ba snswarad viii icr oravity an
III AZ dear '' was the sympathzing rejoin,
"that aooursed drink, suppose !"
"a IA, Referring to Sheridan at the bait
Winchester, in his address at the sold
!. in | reunion in 0neOnta, the Rev. Dr.. Flu
quoted the General as saying Sin unit
logical terms, We shall whip then
This was too much tor one of the old
Vol, of the audience, aud rising in his c
ioiA and shaking his hand at the reve
:, 20 speaker he shouted "rhat isn't
the Sheridan said; what he did say
We'll lick hi ou' OF 'e,n y"
,rnet brought down the house After the
away fusion had aubsided DIR. Fulton ainili
added: "And he did it, too l''-Ch
N to Evening Journal.
Inted Two well-knowp ancient worth;e
10 IN Vermont town sat down together il
local tavern, after enduring the labor
pear excitements Of q day at muster, 81
~ onn1 the weather was sultry both rem
their hats, Both we're full, but '
,uoa | one was bald headed the other rel
fonr in plenty of hirsute adjournment. FIJI
with the latter commenced to grin, and
former testify enquirsd what he
war laughing at. 81 WAS laughing" b
after | swered, "to see the flies trying TO G
yer ! top OF your head They csn't ID
; ana they slip back every time - HUM
returned the other, ''iiut UuGl ,iGuf
hcted that on your head. They'd alutno
n ns The bystandsrs parted them L
Iea Il Citizen
Mention was made few days si1
1rfew the finding OF 1000 sermons Of Coz
n re- tieut clergyman in box bong {
al Maine man. The latter has beeI Z
1 upoh lining his purchase, aud, acce cdinf t
80 New York Sun, this is what he 70
ib bam "The Clergyman lad written alan
list il margin of his pages such curl us su
Q and tions to himself as follows: 'Detivei
passage in solemn tones; scolrful