Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-25

Ca,zen.
Kate C'axton took down her bag OF
diamonds to the breakfast room of q
Philadelphia hotel the other morning
and laid it on chair. That is the last
she saw of it. The name OF her play this
coming season, however, is not given
Detroit Free hess.
Josh Billings is q native OF Lanesboro,
Mass, and there he hopes to be buried.
He has directed his children to mark the
grave with srough stone from the quarry
near by. We trust he won't insist upon
hpving the inscription spelled after the
rules he has used 80 long boston Fost.
nobley-"Aw-aw--it must be- very
unpleasant for you Americans TO be gov |
erned by people-aw-whom you
wouldn't ask to dinner !" American |
belle-"Well, not more 80, perhaps, than
you in Englsnd to be governed by people |
who wouldn't ask you to dinner pr
London Punch
We have heard OF Scotchwoman who
had accompanied her mistress to Ireland,
who, being jeered by an Irishman on her
unmarried condition, repli, in the predes-
tinarian phr4seology very peculiar to her
class, Ppm truly thankful that a man
was ma ordainit to me, for maybe he
might have been like yourself"
An . 10 young man has accomplished
the art of playing on two comets at once.
Ii he hasn't friend in the world, there
may be some excuse for suoh conduct
but at the same time it is = tiendish way
of puniahing ones enemies. The price
of his suit of boiler iron ia not stated
Norristown Herald
A whirlwlnd of dust started on Canal
street, New Orleans, the other dag. and
in a trice attracted large crowd. 1t
looked precisely like a waterspout, and
| extended into the air above the tallest
business houses on the street. Everybody
thought there was a dog fight at the
bottom OF it. Much isappointment.-
| Boston Post
| Well, Low do you like this weather ~
| inquired Oil man Barnstable of Mrs.
| MoBaker, Hno Away looks un the dark
side of things "De.l'. like it at all,
snapped that aiGiable y'raso. "A! don't,
| oh P'' mildly remarked Oh Bari able /;
"er-er--how do you think ynu would
like it ii il suited you :" = Terus lSihngs.
Lieutenant Robertson of the first United
States cavalry, charged with duplicating
pay accounts, pleaded guilty at Fort
Vancouver, but denied having any fraud
ulent Intentions. 1t is well known that
the colored gentleman vino was found in
the hen house sought it as place where
he conld pray without being disturbed
| Boston Post.
Jack has gone off and got himself lost,
and he has also found himself and
walked home. "Are you not sorry that
you ran away and got lost 2" asked the
paternal ancestor with q tone Of grief and
reprovsl. II wasn't lost" "But nobody
knew where you wss' 81 knew where
was myself" That settles it. A boy
that knows whers he is himself CAL never
get lost.-HarYo,d Post.
A good story Id tuid If the late Rev
DR.. Muhleubuig. L. seems to have beer
a rule OF st. Luke's hospital that no RS
ligiOus services not Episcopaiian should
be conducted there terrified nurs.
ones ran to the doctor saying, doctor
! doctor a Methodist preacher is prayin,
I | with one of the patients - "Stop him, ,
+ said he, "before his prayer reaches
. heaven ~ s--
Doctor" said man to his physician
8 who had just presented bill OF $50 10
2, treatment during recent illness, SO
have not much ready money. viii yol
8 take this out in trader ooh, yea,
, cheerfully replied the doctor II thinl
+, that We can arrange that but what i
0 your businessf" 81 am oorDet player,
Q was the startling reply.
Mgr. Capei was asked what struck hin
: most forcbly in this country, and he re
piled, 1.-THE pTecooiousness of children.
He Gays that while IN Baltimore the arch
bishop took him to call ON q lady. Will
: making the visit a boy aged four year
came III the room, and the mother said
:. My son, speak to the archbishop" II
!, obeyed readily, and, holding GU. hi
y hand, said "How do Arch ~
: An sttemp, having been made to take
l.. census Of the females of Kurdistan, the
\ rebelled, and 500 of them assemblin
attacked the soldiers who were sent t
q aid tho enumerators and put them I
~ flight The oenaus had to be sus peude
. until reiDforcements could arrive. TIL
: census man should not have asked thes
ladies their ages without protection
Hartford Post.
Mrs. Mooney Ito Miss Praiseworthy
IS who is paying her visit of benevolenoe
A -"And to think we're Mary Burton
1t daughter And it's we'll remember ye
1t mother. Many's the toime she's helpe
d me. And she's daughter the age
10 yerself Well, we'll and it's hard
Of TO believe my ayes ~ Miss Prsis
!: worthy Gam ike my mother as yo
'; remember her 20 Mrs, Mooney -''Niv,
II a bit, miss. Yer mother was rale gsnta
B lookin'.''
d The 0xfordshire farmer, who lost i
a. on the bet to beat on water only q VIII
a shire farmer in pitching in the hsrve
at | field, the latter drinking alcohol, hi
le handed over the same sum to the Sail
in bury Infirmsry. He pitched 10 acres
ID | roods, 26 poles in less than IL hour
10 against ~ acres, 2 roods, poles by b
at opponent, losing by ro0ds, Il pole
a. The effects on his body have been vel
n, severe. The ordinary labo1er pitch
ds about II aofes in q good days work.
is proposed to present the winner with
gold medal. So great was the strain
him that at o'clock he was taken to
~ wood and auoip I'D -Lqadoa Full
~ Opinion
ur. Holingren of Paris, made SOL
notes on the decapitation Of ty
ly criminals. Three seconds after the strol
ak received by the first, the eyes were wide
ia open and the pupils contracted. In
Hb o'"Nao NA'0 PhPiio boBah w anu u
on process continued for two minute
of Twenty-Five seconds after the decapit
nR tion the eyes turned upward and to Il
a right. In a seconds there were twitc
a ings of the muscles OF the neck, follow,
IN. by violent contrsctions. The mouth W
RS drawn downward, and, with the tongu
ed deviated to the left. Some seconds lat
hit later the mouth closed slowi
,ly Rhythmic movements" of the faci
or, muscles followed, and complete repo
he ensued only in one minute and
Ice seconds after the execution. No NOV
ments were observed in the body. II
second case presented similar apes
anoes, but the o-imina! kept his ey
e a wide open while his head was on i
block, and did not wink when the bic
an WAS struck. Notwithstanding the NOV
:. ments described, the doctor concludes tn
x" sensation is instantly arrested.
Skill In the workshOp.-To do good work t
rv mechanic must have good health. If lo
n}s | hours of confinement in close rooms have c
I cd haf l.,