Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-08-30
HERE AND THERE.

Somebody has written an article called |
ga Pleasant Hour with Spiders.' He |
follow it with an account of "The Rattle |
snake as an Agreeable Bedfellow.''
An outsider refers to the failure of the |
New England leather firms as financial |
distress in "upper" orioles. He deserves |
"welt" for that.-NorristoVu Herald.
A stranger in the city, seeing the places
OF public resort full of young men night |
after night ss'-e1 il this was ths lid Of
the midnight son.--BoS.on Transcrip:.
Last week 1896 patents were issued
from the office at Washington. We sup
pose Edison got all but two OF them. Tie |
other two are for things that nobody can
ever use.
Oscar Wilde writes of the Michael
Apgelesque appearance of London
policeman. The appearance of New
York policemen is merely Miohaelesqe.-
Harper's Weekly.
Boston girls who got lost in the woods
in the White Mountains the other day
did not cry "Help," but, "Three ladies |
in this direction are in urgent need of
sssistanoe.-HoteiM ail.
Our Anglomsniac at Newport: Why
does he wear HIS double breasted coat and
winter hat with the Thermometer at 90cY
Because they do it in England when the
thermometer is at 60O.-Life.
Mamma Crying to untangle akein of
silk that Charlie has tangled)-
wonder wrere the end of the skein can
be ~ Charlie Qnnocently) -"Perhsps
the baby chawed 1t off. ''-Lfe.
Scene on North Third street First
Man-Can you tell me where is Jackson's
hide store? Second Man-No, can not
didn't know his hide was tore Why
iop't yoa ask his doctor = PHILADELPHIA
Bmietm. -
We have long heard it said that Eve
was made for Adams Express Company,
but it has only recently been discovered
that every girl i'll Colorado considers her
self q candidate for the Western Union.
= Boston Advertiser.
| A news item Gays sthere has been
| quite number of heavy failures in the
shoe trade recently" And the greatest
of these was the failure OF the shoot raid
| of the American rifle team in England.
| -Norristo,ea Culp,u.
Nine. B., who is over CO. has daugh-
I
"They look like two sisters,'' cried a Jour
naiist who saw them pass by. "Say,
rather, two mothersP' replied Taupin,
with an affecting air.-From the French.
The high school girl says the express
sion 'got the bulge" will soon BIZ super
seeded by ''obtained the convexity." And
SO we hasten to remark that mad-ston.
stories have obtained the convexity"
over other summer fables.-OR City
| Derrick.
Scotland is the proud possessor OF
great bridge over the Forth. Il they
could build bridge over the Fourth in
in this country, what popular highway
it would be for old ladies' and nervous
folks who hate powder aud noise.-
Httsbu.g Telegraph.
The speaker who alluded to his candi-
date as "the war horse that snuffed the
battle from afar" olimed up to the compo-
5ition room with club after reading it
in the paper as "the ward boss that
snatched the bottle from bar. "-Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
al see that there is hail i've feet deep
ill Iowa." said wall street broker to a
barkeeper. cots great pity" replied
the cocktail conjurer. "Why so % asked
his customer. because it's shame to
supply so much cracked ice to a prohibi.
tion State. "-Ne,0 York Com hercial Adeer-
ttSer.
The report that the photographer
Convention at Milwaukee has decided to
adopt thumb screws and straig Jackets
in addition to the head rests is mistake.
1t was, however, unanimously resolved