Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-09-24
HERE and THERE.

jamboree, jimjams. --Lge.
The wages of sin is death but the I
wages of All Sin is 50 cents Dozen
L9WeH Courier.
What is the difference between paper
dollar and dollar of silyerS Never
mined. -Boston Transcript
The Sandusky Register suggests this in
scription for the grave of Editor Dana's
pet ''ltest quiet old cat, in peace"
A Brooklyn woman has eloped with an
ash cart driver The coachmen were ex-
hausted long ago.-Ldaorence American.
Fifteen hundred telephone instruments
in Buffalo, N. Y, are supplied with cleo
tricity made by the water power of
niagara Falls.
No man ever had real "rattling good |
time" unless he has ridden across New |
England pasture i'll u hnyrack. -Burttag- |
ton Free Press.
Visitor-Aud your funny man hus COM
mitted suicide? Editor-Yes. VI
| Poison? Editor-No. Cut his jocular
vein.--BostOn Courier.
~ wonder how that man can dance on
the tight rope with such facility" "Oh,
easy enough. Like everything else 1t has
| to be taut."-B0StoR Gdzette.
The poor man has no call for going
hungry so long as dogs are bred on his
premises, for bread, as everybody knows,
is the stnif OF lifo.-BostOn Transcript. a.
The Genestas crew could not get water
of the Mnrbleheaders the other day be-
cause they were Englishmon.-L Prob
ably il was not water they asked for
Boston Post.
Medical authorities say there is no
occasion to be alarmed about the intro
duction of cholera in raisins-in other
words there is no FdisOR d'etFe afraid of
the dried fruit.-L0aoeN Courier.
We notice that contemporary speaks
of the March of Truth. Up to the houl
of going to press We have failed to sec
the head Of the procession. Where does
y; the Tribune come in 2-LUe.
g Two Jockeys have been killed Mt horst
races in New York recently. A few more
- casualties of that kind and the horse tro
will supersede base ball us the "nationa
game" in this country.
10 Herald.
"Well, my little man," said the bishop
/, to Bobby, ''do you remember me n "Oh
Is yes, SIR" replied Bobby, "you stopped
d thinks it can't cost you much for hote
s."-Ne,o York Sun.
,,s "What YOU want" said the barber, a
he ran his fingers through the few remain
@, ing hairs on the head of customer
"what you want is bottle of my hair re
storer." ''What / want" replied III
customer, sis divorce" And the barbt
said no more.-BOStOH Courier.
a 4.
nd cool winter morning TO write "Beautifl
Snow" he little thought how lnan
writers would rise up and claim to be i
true and only author. 1t would hay
been much better for Daniel had he bee
lys content with the fame his dictionary ht
brought him. - OUiSUitLe LOu9fer-JONfHd
ity Gentleman Ito grocer)-"rwo gallon
Santa Cruz, one gallon Old Tom, two g.
Ions Maryland Club, four dozen POI
merry Sec, four dozen Milwaukee, and s
> dozen Reina Yics." Grocer-"Yes, 81
len That all, sir ~ EDO "
of keep fishing tackle? Z" Grocer--''Yes, 81
me full line sir" Gentleman-"Put in
md couple of tish-hooks."
ms "Why!" asked the schoolmaster
vi establishment, "can't you read ?" 'No
u! 10 replied the farmer landlord, throwing
WI III hammer at the hens to remind them I'll
Oe they must get out of the corn. IN
fact is, did set ont to learn to re
ner once, but when Thought that | shou
II !, - never be able to read ten thousand
/, u part of the stuff thnt's written, / gave
30. IS. up in despair"
lse. The story goes that a room full of fl
ON. tory girls in the rubber works Mt Il
vide Cambridge, Mass, were yesterday affect
ven by the fumes of naphtha used in the co
or position of cement, and fell TO shri
,gnn ing, dancing md laughter. 1t might
3 he he Il bad idea to burn naphtha ut the fo
hen lights to put little life into some of
the comic opera choruses. WdShingt1R 81
inds A New Yorker in looking for rooms
her | winter quarters struck II cookbook
stom landlndy on Shawmut Avenue, and n
the terms were arranged for board
irk- lodging" remarked that he wanted so
IN of thing hot for supper. aud was met v
com the reply that they always had it,
the taking his scat last evening, with 81
table looking spread before him, he rcmar
lnoc- to the girl that he expected sometl
ocial hot when Bridget snid, "Fot's the ma
lpor- wild the tay s''-BostOn GtoJe.
you The Champion Lazy Boy.-Mrs. Fi2
st not ton, not being satisfied with the prog
'clcty nude by her son Mt the Universit,
1t the rexns, called on his teacher. "Prt
sor, how is my son Johnny coming q
his stidicsg" she asked anxiously.
have great hopes of him, madame, &
,lphia hopes" ~ am so glud to hear Il
thout Yes, madame, he is phenomennlly
enefit | don't think / ever saw boy who
reach so pheuomenally lazy" II unders
aking you to say that You Ind great hop
iXture him." $50 have, for think If he
ie two begins to study he is too lazy evC
each stop. Teas SJNags. "...
pered THE YACHT RACE.