Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-25
rHEPAPER COLLIE.
Its Brief Period of Success Followed
by Disastrous Failure.

by Disastrous Failure.
Pittsburs Commercial Gazette.
A reporter asked the proprietor Of one
of the largest gsntlemens furnishing
stores In the oity: "Do you have many
calls for paper cellars ~ with the follow
ing result:
Not very many. Once in while some
one will drop in and ask for them, but
this don't happen twice in year, and
we don't keep them. As told that chap,
some of the BARRIERS keep them. They
have little stock on hand for the benefit
of customers who occasionally want
clean COLLAR. Within the past year one
or two of the big clothing stores hsvA sold
them at about cent a bush~l They
we're job lots, and we're handled 10 draw
custom. The time was that everybody
wore paper collars. The rage broke out just
after the war opened, when linen collars
were worth their weight in gold. They
we're sold at the hundred at from 81 to
So. The manufacturers used to adyer-
tise the cheapness OF the paper collars
by comparing the original cost of linen
collars plus the price Of laundry.pg with
the cost of the paper collars, tn, latter
showing up far the cheapest For time
they were generally worn, and then they
began to be- put up in boxes and become
cheaper. In the course of 3 few years,
however, the linen collar came back.
The paper collar never looked az we'll Rs
the linen article, and the dressier men
soon come to this conclusion. Then, too,
the doctors began to swear that the paper
collars poisoned the skin on the neck,
and that helped things when the down
| ri nf ha u a. ad
last 10 gears few Of them have been sold,
and in the last five yon might say none
The day OF the paper collar was IL years,
but in that time hundreds of meu made
fortunes ont OF 1t.
At neutrality-suspicious. Star.
Jason Gould will not 60 to Europe in
his yacht for another year.
1t WAS the newly fedged bee that,
after venturing out Of the hive on wet
day, sang on his return, "There's lie
place like comb. - Someruiile Journal.
Little Fanny (returning home with hel
mamma after seeing the opera of "Lohen'
grin"); How dumb it was in Elisa
asking "Lohengrin" his name. Why
didn't she just look at the programme y
"Why do you always invite Pitanchard
to your house 2" "He ia an old friend
That's no reason. He is horribly ugly
aud he gives me the nightmare" eyes
but he amuses the children 30 much, apC
it's much cheaper than magic lantern'
- French Fun.
1t remained for an anonymous Ameri
Gan paragraphpr to trace an analogy be
tween Zulu women and prophet, il
view OF the fact that the Zulu woman hs
not much on her in her own country
Rochester Post Express.
Into the place del Sophia
His horse all hecked with foam
| The courier, Don Wan Maria,
Game riding wildly home.
"Ol Spaniards, high and low" he cried,
"Most evil news bring
| The vulgar Frenchmen do deride
And stultify our king"
Up started Don Tomato then
A brave hidalgo he
And queried to his fellow men
How they could silent be.
"Shall We" he cried, look tamely on
Alfonso's shame, and nope
When we should shout for Arragon,
fl And strike for CASTLES hope p
Now tremble, France, thy doom is spoke,
, And cooked thy fated goose
The pesttental seals are broke
The dogs of war turned loose.
ITO arms, to arms, Cantharides ~
The spanish courters cry,
And, maddened by such shouts as these,
q To arms the Spanish fly.
Chicago Net0S.