Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-07-12
HERE AND THERE.

The sting Of a be is only 1872 OF an
inch long. It ia your imagination that
makes 1t seem as long as hoe handle.
Five OF the graduating class at Vsssar
make their own dresses. To bachelor,
the temptation ia strong to marry all Ave,
hut it is not Utah everywhere.-L
CitiseH.
Blderly philanthropist to a small boy
who is vainly striving to pull dorr-h bell
above his reach: "Let me help you, my
little man." (Pulls the beil.) Small
boy snow You had better run, or we'll
both get licking,"
An old lady, living up under Mans
field Mountain, remarked the other day,
oval, 1t is queer how these fremen
burst their hose at every fire. Pears
likely they don't wear good home knit
socks. "-Bu iington Free Press.
1t is stated that the bootjack trade has
much decreased, and people are trying to
figure out reason. Easy enough. Peo
pie have been educated mp to liking
grand opera, and don't object 10 the
sound OF cats so much as they did =
Boston Post.
II Ia said that a man who weighs $50
pounds on this earth, II transported to
Jupiter, would shake the ground with
the ponderous tread of As, 900 pounds or
22t tons. II David Davis ever visits that
planet then good-by, Jupiter.--Nep York
| Commercial -iiortiser.
"My dear, can't find the cold ohisel
and yet placed il In sh,s closet myself
only yesterday" "Yes, Moe place that
| was to put it such weather as this, and
| close Ivy the kitchen range, too. Why it
would not stay cold two minutes. It's
| down cellar in the reiris.rstor.-Ihitd
| hipAn N,ms.
A Partisan autlor has translated
Shak, sp-ar-'H line, cont brief CANDLE"
iuto French thus " e. out, you short
csudle |" That isn't rs bad AS the
translation OF all exclamation OF Milton's
by a Freuchman, who rendered "Iiail I
horrors, hail." thus GLOW dye do,
horrors, how dye do l'
A preseason who got very angry at the
interruption OF workingman while he
was explaining the operation of a
machine in a factory strolled away In a
huff and asked another man, "Who ia
that fellow who pretends to know more
than do sbout that instrument ~ so,
he is the fellow that invented it," wss
| the answer.
| Several men swan the Mississippi
river above New Orleans on wager. A
reporter OF the race says, "None OF them
seemed to be- putting forth much effort
ill 1t was discovered that an alligator
had struck out from the shore ss a com.
petilor and then--well, every man did
his best to keep the alligator from carry
ing oil the stakes"
At a certain party gentleman, in the
midst of an angry dispute, threw bot
tie at his opponents head by the way o.
emphaai1ing his argument. Foote, VIII,
was present, Immediately picked tn,
missile mp and laid 1t on the table, say
ing "Frlends, if You pass the bottle a,
quickly as that, you won't be able t,
stand out the evening""
"Jnst given my boy Daniel tarm NJ
near Middletown," he remarked to
friend whom he met on the Erie train tn
other day. ''ls that 40 7 Well you d,
The fair thing 10y your boys" aye =,
try TO-" "ls Daniel ambitious a'' emo
and that his only failing. AS an incen
tive tor him to buck in and make tn
chips fly, took mortgage back on tn
farm for two-thirds its value. DAME
has got to get up and hump, or III fore
close on him. - val Stree. NeOs.
"Aunty, dear, the young artist, Her
Schmidt, again entreated me at the bal
last evening, to lend him my photograph
), which he says will be OF inestimabl
J value to him in painting his new picture
lie promises to return it as soon as IT,
9 picture is finished. May | give it I
% him 7" Aunt: "Well, | think it will L
all right il you will enclose with it
q picture OF your mother or some Otht
~ elderly person to send your pictui
" alone to an artists stelier would be
. terrible breach of etiquette. tlieyen,
Bi1ugr.