The Delaware farmer., 1883-11-30
WIT AND WISDOM.

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, that can be given to us.
MANY a young man who works hard
during the day allows his hands to go to
waist during the evening.
THE man who thinks a big necktie
will hide dirty collar must think that
people are collar blind. -ErchGnge.
'HE who has a thousand friends has not
, friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him
everywhere
''I WILL stake my opinions against
any MANS" said Mr.. Littlewait,
proudly. st got 'em from my lawyer
and they cost me $3.50"
To BE happy, the passion must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel
ancholy. a propensity to hope and joy
is real riches; one to fear and sorrow,
real poverty.
A TENDER conscience is an nestima-
bic blessing; that is, conscience not
only quick to discern what is evil, but
instantly to shun it, as the eyelid closes
itself against mote.
AS THEY who, for every slight infrm-
ity, take physic to repair their health,
do rather impair it; so they, who for
every trife, are eager to vindicate their
character, do rather weaken it.
AN old soldier in Milwaukee has been
asleep nearly a month, all efforts to
rouse him proving futile. He must
have served on the police force after
leaving the army.
LovELADY is the name of Texas
town where two roughs cut Mr.. Mont
Finger to pieces while his wife and child
stood by pleading for his life. A name
doesn't mean much, in Texas.
els YOU gwine to get an overcoat this
winter ?" asked a Bowery boy of a COM
panion. ''Well, I dunno how dats
gwine to be, #" he replied. "I's done got
my eye on a coat, but de fellah dat owns
it keeps his eye on it, too"
QUITE number of cases where girls
have been deceived by mock marriages
have been reported of late, which impels
The Hotel Mail to remark that no girl
has any business marrying man that
she hasn't known at least ten minutes.
A HEN farm, stocked with over 1000
fowls, is to be started in Thomasville,
Ga. People in the vicinity who own
gardens will be kept in a sweat, won't
they? Think of what a flock of six
hens can do in a garden, and then
imagine the deeds of 1000.
THE Toronto Globe finds in list of
5he millionaires of New York the name
1f one who used to be a printer in the
office of that paper at $125 a week.
This must be the Intelligent compost
orr whom we have all heard of but have
lever seen.
IT IS currently reported that a rich
young lady of Erie, Pa, is going
o marry Hamilton Mccormick of Chi
ago. We deem it our solemn duty to
nform the bride that her prospective
husband is the inventor of threshing
lachine.
A Boston paper relates that an old
entleman from the country who visited
hat city the other day and had never
cen in a large town before, remarked
fter making a tour Of the business sec
on II don't like this Boston. There
MT enough out-of-doors to it.
ga PHILADELPHIA scientist can tell.
4 examining hair pin, the color of the
wner's hair" And Philadelphia
oman, on examining a hair found on
le shoulder of her husbands coat, can
II whether he has lied or not-and she
not a scientist, either.-N0qr5stow
Ierald.
A RICH miser has a niece whom he
to be his unique heiress, but
ho has never seen any of his money,
Your niece is twenty years old, " says a
lend. "you ought to do something
ward getting her settled" 'Wen."
piled the miser, after reflection, ST
ii pretend to be ILL.,"
'How MUCH do you think you can get
ong on, my son? I want to allow vou
ough to make decent appearance in
ciety, but yet will not countenance
''Just my idea, dad; I
ink, say, about $4,000 year-and-
expenses, you know, would be about
e thing"
)Nc1 more the buckwheat batter is battered.
battered, battered,
Ind maidens fair complexions are shattered.
shattered, shattered.
Is they eat the pancake luscious bro't from
kitchen. kitchen, kitchen,
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