Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-08-09

Th6ro IA plenty Ol HOW'D ov~u .uoue
telegraphic Communication IL stopped
from abroad. There 10 plenty at homs
right under our noses, and news, too, VI
the most interesting description. Here
IL sample of q field as yet not more
than half worked In Journalism, and
news of this sort will make somebody
feel IN If they had sat on sharp tack
"When will that silly Miss b
cease practicing on her rickety piano
She's thirty Ave If she's day, and she's
been working away ut the same OLD air
for the last ten years. She breaks down
Just where she did six years ago, and
there's no more time nor melody III the
old girl than there is Ia u crowbar. We
have long waited for some merciful
friend 20 tell her all this, but az none
will come forward and do their duty it
becomes Il necessity for the press to TAX
hold OF the matter.
sits no uss for Miss A. To set her
cap for old o.. He's gone on the
widow F., and has been this two
years. Resides, in old O. there is no
material Ior Miss A. to work her
little game with. Sentiment Is her
strong suit, and this failing. sympathy
comes urxt. She worked her system
on poor F. pretty successfully for VI
months and meantime borrowed Of him
ut the rate of $iOa call. F il &c
simple that he can swallow anything.
"Lobelia, the eldest girl Ofthe Rs,
has commenced taking the back seat, &c
az TO allow Miss l. R, the next in
years, to come forward and take hel
matrimonial chances Lobelia has
made a good fight of 1t for the last ten
years, but it's no use. She doesn',
yield gracefully, though, but spits and
snarls 80 at home that til res no peace
in the same room with her. Poor girl
"The D. children are nuisaDot
to the neighbOrhood. They are out ev'
cry night in the street till II o'clock and
are allowed TO associate freely with ali
the rising young hoodlums on the north
side of town. In profanity they car
even now beat their father, and fol
cOarseness of manner theoldest girl gOes
ahead of her mother.
"Mrs. b, who has for years been
Presbyterian, and whose family fol
generations untold have been Presby
terians, seems coquetting with the
Episcopal church. She attends the
church of the Rectitied Spirit at least
two Sundays out OF every month, and
all her visiting acquaintances are Epis-
copalians.
"Ws beg leave to remind Mrs. c.
that il is not good manners " occupy
two stools On a crowded excursion boat
to sit upon, while she deposits her para
sol On third and her worn out reticule
on fourth. And where does she buy
her face powder, and who whitewashes
her?
Alderman -- IL a good enough
his wife says he IL NO mean that he
counts the pOta' oes ~ they 20 into the
pot, aud forces her and the eldes,
daughter still to do the famil y washing.
Miss D. has at last secured a set
of false teeth which will stay In. The
last set she lost overheard from Cape
May boat They were recovered Ivy
Tim Shanks while dredging foroysters.
"A-'s washing was hung out III
dry yesterday. The As have not
gone out of town at all this summer, but
are living in The seclusion that their
basement and back par.or grant.
at is sad to s-e young girl like
~ lace 80 tightly. The girl
now is ~ pale as y sheet, and why her
parents do not compel her to stop this
suicidal practice is a mystery.
1.-The last batch Of whisky ut IS
saloon is about the vilest stuff he ever
kept, and he has at times had about as