Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
HERE AND THERE.

money ior iapor ana paint TO Keep his
white elephant white.
What Is defeat ? Nothing but educa.
ton, nothing but the frat step to some
thing better Wendell Philips.
In Butfal when the Thermometer ia
less than 20 below, people wac want to
boom the clty stand round aod growl
about its being sultry.-Boston Post.
The heir to the great estates of the
duke OF Westminster now % 3 year
old son Of late Earl Grosvenor, and |
even at his age many la IS consider hi
very fascinating Boston Post.
Toddlekins, who has been taking ad-
vantage Of the ice lately, was heard 10
remark the other day that, no matter
how much he liked girl, If he found |
she could not skate he just let her slide. |
An article is going the rounds of the
press imparting advice TO gentlemen |
who fight chickens" We submit that |
no man worthy to be called a gentleman
will fight chicken.-B Beliefo ,taine Er |
dpiiner.
A laboring man in the eastern part OF
the city has wife and IA children to
kick their heels under his table, and yet
some OF his neishbors blame him for not
taking more interest in politics Detroit
| Freee Press.
"No, don't go yet" said the Buffalo
| girl at midnight, as her lover no t,
e.vs. Don't go vt; it isn't late
| Remember that t.e olocks in the city
have been showed ahead 1t minutes. -
Buffalo News. .... w..
We suggest that some competent de.
batting society tackle tue qussiion "Rs-
led, That au etrr;.d boy is no slower
than the rise in ores favorit- specula
tive stock on the present market. -
LoYH Cih=sn.
Two new hammock factories are 10 be
started in Flatbush early in January, and
ivs divorce lawyers propose to ooAte iu
thatsuburb next fall. Wealthy business
men with u arrisgeable sons are thinking
about taking to the woods.
About this time the tIough:ful girl
makes tor her darling real moe pair OF
cardinal red mittens, and the young man
goes through the streets with the
similitutes Of hams dangling from the
ends OF his coat sleeves, - CHRISTIAN Union.
| Now the dynamiters mean Wales. He
is such a stern, murderous, tyranical
man and has so much to do with the
course OF the government anyway, that
1t will unquestionably be q big help to
the cause OF liberty to assassinate HIM.
"'Walt Whitman, poet, h. 43l
Stevens (see Camden, N. j., directory
lives with his brother, George Whitman,
civil engineer, and derives great satis
faction from the fact that he pays his
board regularly. THE Bu6Ito Courier
AT a concert tn other evening, a man
on being told that well ,kno opera
8 pger oit'n Gang Hat, seked "Why
don th'y y lower the pitch OF tie orohes-
ira to suit her, then Y"-Boston Tunes.
Thought maybe you wanted the singer to
lie wn.
A eut in Punch shows two pretty young
married women standing by the fire.
"My husband is vicar of ST. Bonifaee-
but | don't attend his church" an.
deed, why is that ~ "Well, the fact is,
! you see, don't approve Of married
olergv men,"
'lfs sweet to do ones duty in grand and holy
cause,
r | With ev'ry expectation of "A waiting worlds
a applause:
: But, Oh to yield Obedience and die unseen,
0 Is that rare type of bravery which only saints
. have shown,
> -ITHidm Ltriugston.
The philosophical contemporary re-
a quests us not to despise small things, but
what are you going to do in the case OF
!. the fellow who runs his haud mp over
A your vest front and takes the last
. cigar out of your upper watch pocket -
n ROckilnd Courier.
IS A deputy sheriff in East st. Louis fired
IL pistol at two ti4eing thieves who we're
d making off with pair of stolen boots
IS and hit an old woman OF 70 in the foot
He knew there WAS pair OF boots mixed
d mp in the matter, and 60, ss near to til,
ID facts as the police usually do Bo,to,
le Post.
Il Brindeau the famous sporting fop, hai
e. costume for every kind of game tnat III
er had shot at. One day, invited to tn
N Duke of Orleans shooting party, tn
to duke drew his attention to 2 hare sue
n sesting that he should fra. "I cannot
ty monsigneur," said Briudeau, 'I am il
Ia my partridge toilet"
y The man who was observed on stat
y street this morning with three g, II
es stamp op his left ear, endssvoring |
q. % climb into letter box, aud ciamoring fl
~ them to flesh on their post Offices COS
"a . he was go drunk he couldn't go 10 them,
", is believed to hold the theory that th
- office should seek t2e man, and not III
~ man the office --Rochester Post Erprsw
ss "Thst reminds me Of q familiar song.
said the president of the pnnsters' clul
nj pointing to gildsd owl waich SWING /
"a front OF taxidermists shop. ''IIo
ar sol" inquired his private secretar,
,le "Bscause it's Owl haug sign my boy
.ss The secretary was srfseted on charge,
assault with intent to kill-.Ne1 So,
Journal.
I'D Harry and Charlie-aged 8 and 5 r
ok spectively-have iu7t bsen seated
dy their nursery table Tor dinner uarI
me see7 that there Is hnt one orange on Il
a table, and Immediately sets mp wailir
as tina; brings his mother TO the scan
ds why, Harry, what are you crying fort
to she asks. Because there aiu'l al
W, orange tor Charlie ~
OF "Do you think it wrong 20 patroni
ose the horse cars on Sunday, deacon
ul asked Mrs Goode 'D4cidally ~ r
la' piled the deacon; decided y wrou
a Mrs. GoOde it's desecratiou Of the a q
'he ma'am. never take horse car 0u Su
ler day, ma'sm. | consider ii wrong
walk, ms'sm and receive my reward
cd, an approving conscience, not To peak
lad the fact that ! have saved five cent
age ma am NJ Boston Transcript
Ant You make your cross "a helvier one
art Than ever tue Lord intended,
ity II you rit and sigh at the loot Of the stars
,ow Down which your hopes descer ded.
"" lis better bv iar to live yopr day
the wholesome, happy, hghf.hetTted WI
ia Than To carry sDput g'uumy face,
90, A. II the world was a dismal place.
oe' II you never have sung a song ct ".
iut- Gracefully now begin 1t
10Y Aud whatever you do do cheerf iilv
80 AS If your heart was M y.
q -I1Sephine P)Ndrd
W. Little Adelo has Very cunuiug Wa.
% %a9 and the other day her mother, taking
oua poor dilspdated doll, which seemed
' be Adeles special fsvorite, began talki
1, o. to it in baby fashion, saying how 70
ns, "little Adele" wss OF it. Tue youngs
: =. pulled her mothers dress and whisper
80 cautiously snd with much assumed a
t oo nifty, Don't say little Adele to
-ai doll, mamma, she doesn't know VIII
- you mean | am its little mamma
~ Rd'adeiphia Progress
I,t "Quite alone! quite apne!'
, Whisper the lovers meath the trees;
OUT He cal : her his pet and his ownest own
And And tney think that nobody sees
ohe But am there am there.
Taking i. in all quiet and sly;
rl.n He kls'es the blush ON her check 50 fair
1ou. A"" S'' " '"e way ""i
Of What see-what sec
/ tell you Is awtully nice,
When the summer HsphYr5 are whisper