Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-12-17
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in Boston Commercial Bulletin.
One OF the mos comforting things
about the newspaper business is to be told
by q subscriber that he sends OF bis paper
regularly to another (who ought TO sub
seribo) .-Md1fha's FiaegdTd Herald.
New York is talking about establishing
'home for weary women" IL is just like
the impudent assurance of New York to
think il can successfully set up opposition
10 heaven. - Indianapolis Journal.
DR.. Pringle lately demonstrated before
the British Society of Arts that in the
Hinalayan portion of India incubation
against smallpox chad been praetised
from what might be termed time iinme-
mortal"
An East End youngster climbed up ON
chair to the telephone, where he was
overheard as follows: "Ello, clio; peas
div me hebbin. Ello, hebbin, / want to
taught to David. Ello, David, peas make
my mamma we'll. y Cinciaaati Enquire.
One of the cruelest retorts made by any
musical audience is reported from Cal
ifornia. A vocalist was warbling to her
own great satisfaction sob, would l
we're bird" A rough miner replied;''0,
Language note.-Good morning, Mrs.
Gilligan; how is Patrick this morning
Sure he's no better, sir. Why don't you
send him to the hospital to be treated2 To
be treated, is il Faith an it's the della
rum trimmins he has already. Boston
Beacon.
When YOU see man call the con-
ductor's attention TO the fnct that there
are only 10 persons sitting on his side of
crowded horse car, just look little
closer, and 10 to you'll find that he is
snndwiched in between two pretty girls
So0eF0jll6 Journal.
One Gio,pinS in the month of Sept.
A pretty clerk IN Manning's dept.
Took up her pun and struck q bal,
Then took a train and struck for Cal.
Why did she turn from Wash, d. o.?
The answer is below q. W;
Her lieut.. had gone to join his Co.
And she went on to do, do. do.
= Chicago Mems.
A woman is accused of attempting to
poison her husband, WHO, however, re-
ceived prompt medical assistance, and
was able to he present nj The trinl. .What
have YOU TO say in your defenceI in
quired the judge, addressing the prisoner.
81 am innocent. / Insist on post
norton. - Paris Iri5atlaI Gazette.
Rev. DIR. DuryeG il in favor of Sunday
newspapers. He says If people won't go
to church, they must do something, and
n good newspaper is better than bad
book" Still, il the fishing is good, n man
can worry through The day very nicely
without either book or newspaper. We
| L A 4 tIo,,
ever thought of that.-Nor7astoaon
| Herald.
Family Discipline, Colonel Fizzletop
vas under the painful necessity of admin
istering a severe castigation to his son
Johnny. After he had completed his
labors he said sternly to the suffering
victim "Now tell me why | punished
YOU" That's it, sobhed johnny, ''yor
nearly pound the life ont OF me, and now
You don't even know why you did it. -
3eaaS Sytiags.
A reverend gentleman of MorristowI
recently hnd occasion 10 visit Brockvill'
on business, and the health officer on hi
return insisted that he should be yaecin
ated. To this he submitted quietly. Oh
his arrival home his friends asked hin
why in tile world lie did not tell til
officer thnt he had had the smallpox. .
DECLARE" said he, II forgot to state tia
fact to HIM lIntt2 t1rH ~. - Time,
'tWhat farmer needs in this world t
be successful remarked Den. HayseeG
sis u good wife. Then he's NIL right. NJ
wife could gIl mp in the mornin' at
O'clock, mill; Ii COWS, feed 6 horses, an
git breakfast for 20 hands an be read
| fAr a JnnT1u ,,.5y1y aft rNnlnp1- That
what | call good wife, doesn't she {
it now, deacon?" be was rs ked: 90
no." he replied, Wiping away ten" she
: dead Beitast Ne. journal.
n We are grltifiad to learn that Mr.. He
Il musjee Ednlgee Kotwni, of Bombay, h
81 been presented Will, II silver medal by NJ
ir Shopurgee S3rahjee B"ngalee, and I
ne yolyrr by Mr., Khan Bahrdur Dadhabb
In Pudumjee, iu honor Of having killed t
n one huntirctl'h tiger. ltseems rather cd
N. though, that his daring achievement "
Y" uot also recognized by some trife fri
be our old friend Bohdugger Munkyren
q, Juiupalste Bhoy Sorghumgee Hnndrl
id iioiuin. He must have been out of town
is. NorfiSt0'on Herald.
Ike Mrs. Samuelson of Dallas, recently hin
If, colored woman who had no previo
ir. experience in cooking. She was so ignors
ty that she didn't even know how to ina
ty ten, SO Mrs. S told her to make it MS s
Ike did coffee, meaning for her to put the
nd in the boiling water. When the tea CO
rs, on the tnble it was simply horrib
he "What have you been doing with t
ell tea?n Il done as yer tolo me. Yer t
on me ter make it as did be coffee but
go believes put intoo much of lie chicor
on -ieaos Sitttngs.
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