The Wilmingtonian., 1884-11-15
MULTUM IN PARyO.

"My bow is all unstrung," warbles fair
poetess. Wonder il her beau had been out
on a racket?
Have you tried the Hall Type writerP Call
and see it at G. F., Thomas & Co.'S. 42l Mar
ket Street.
So many foolish maidens are running
away with their fathers cuachmen that the
scheme is getting hackneyed.
Take your shirts, collars and cuffs to the
City Laundry, Sixth and Shipley. Satisfac-
ton guaranteed. Goods delivered promptly.
The baseball catcher will shortly go into
retirement to grow new crop of fingers for
next years campaign.
Fine Groceries and Provisions at Thos |
Green's store Central Market, W. Eighth St. |
Dressed poultry speciality.
First Wretch: "How's you wife, old
?" Second Wretch: "Splendd-bad
cold-can't speak above Whisper -
J. Paul Brown, photographer, Git Market
street. New studio, superb fittings. Best
work only.
''Nervous Girl'' wants to know how to
cure tickling sensation about the face"
Get him to shave off his moustache.
The Wilcox and White organs are the best
and most durable in the market. F. A.
North & Co., agents, 713 Market street.
A subscriber advertises for "a plain girl
to cook He probably was afraid he would
be hanged if he cooked pretty girl.
Fricased oysters in Atlantic City style at
McClure's Lunch Counter in the Eighth
street market.
So many women are doing work formerly
done by men that the male sex is being
driven into matrimony as means of sup
port.
Clawson s. Hammitt, artist, has opened
his studio for the season. Institute Build
ing, Eighth and Markat
When coachman = aarries his mistress
their positions becunts reversed. Before
marriage he drives 4eS safter marriage she
| drives him-if sho is like most women.
Life of Gen. Grant aud stanley's Africa
selling about one half price at Porter & Co.,
400 Market St. Opera Glasses.
A little buy complained to his mother
that the teacher can't remember his name.
| "When she speaks to me" he says, ''she
always calls me Silence
Dat Meal, Graham Flour, White and Vel
low Meal and Elastic Starch at Grifith's
Sixth and Orange.
Montreal is to build an ice palace next
w,ntcr. 1t is said to be intended for the
residence of Philadelphia ice man who in
tends to marry New York plumbers
daughter.
Photographs made by the instantaneous
process. Fine retouched cabinets, German
finish, $500 per dozen at Hollands 3O7 Mar
ket street.
Lady(to a small boy with dog ):Johnny,
does that dog bark at night P' Johnny
twho is connoisseur in dogs): "No, ma am.
He banks at cats and other dogs"
The immensely of Chapman's 3's and SIS at
No. East Third street is pronounced by
connoisseurs to be prodigious.
A member of the Legislature who at
tended service at the Episcopal Church
was asked how he liked it, aud iepled:
''Purty well; l riz and fell with them every
time.''
Fer good hat, go to G. S. Humphrey &
Bro, 302 Market street. The two-dollar hat
a specially.
"Oh, mamma, mammal" said little girl
the other day, as she saw chicken without
any feathers in its tail, ''see dat ole hen
She has lost the ribbont out of her polon-
aise.
There can be no uncertainty as 10 the sat
isfaction obtained in buying coal of Charles
Warner & Co. Try their Lee Lehigh and
hard s,huylkill.
Young Hopesby says the worst trait pos
sessed by his girls father is his proneness to
msconstrue plain, practical questions.
When he asked for his daughters hand, the
father gave him his foot.
Young Earthquake at Chapman's Great
Tobacco Mart Seventh and Orange streets.
Affections of all tobacco consumers are con-
tered there.
Fussy old maid (enteriug baseball
grounds; why, what did thsy all begin to
yell fowl for when came imp Do they
mean me?' Polite gatekeeper: "Oh, no,
mum. You amt no chicken"
Oysters on the halEshell. Oysters fried,
stewed OF panmed in European style; also,
cold tongue, cold chicken and cold roast
beef lobster salad and stewed terrapin will
De elegantly served in their seasons at
McClue's Dining Counter in the Eighth
street market.
A North Carolina girl wears belt made
of the BEAUTIFUL skin of a snake she killed
with her own hands. A fair exchange is no
robbery. She probably gave the snake belt
over the head when she killed him.
Il have such a cold in my head" re-
marked young Podsnap to his friend. "Well,
there is a consolation in that even," was the
reply. "What consolation ?" "Why, there
plenty of room there for it,