Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-06
HERE and THERE.


come in regularly ut stated interyals.-Ne'D
orleans Picdyune.
The Boston Transcript describes New
York as that grand mixture of Italians, |
Irish, Germans and jews"
1t is announced that the cake of soap has |
disappeared from Il Chicago hotel. A st. |
Louis man is suspected. Orleans |
Picayune.
Anew company is being started In Boston, |
entitled THE American Clean Towel Com |
pany.' The printing office towel needs not
the aid Of IL company. 1t can stand alone.
= Waterbury american.
The editor of an Austrian comic paper
has been sent to the penitentiary for two
years for publishing Il Joke The editor
OF Il London comic paper knows betterthan
to run any such NOrriStO,pn Herald.
Nonresident Woodcock Excursion.-The
Boston Advertiser says: "'rhe woodcock
season has already opened in New Jersey,
and more birds are reported than usual.
Non-residents are required to pay -
license. ~. u EoeninJ Post.
The Boston Post says that as the new
Boston directory contains 1867 ,456 names,
according to the Chicago method of gur
ing this shows the population of Boston at
the present time to be 937 $50, which is n
gain Of nearly $4,000 since 1880, when the
last Federal census was taken.
There was n good hit made in the house
Of representatives day or two since. The
Rev. DIR. FELTON, moved that $500 each
be appropriated for life-size portraits
Jesse Mercer, and the equally eminent
| Methodist, the late Bishop Pierce. MIR.
| Arnheim, who is Il devoted Jew, immedi-
ately arose and moved that 1876 lie appro-
| priated to secure cheap picture of Moses.
Atlanta (GG) Constitution.
A fashionable Austin lady, Immediately
after the death of her husband, married
his brother. A visitor at the house. motto
ing the picture of her late husband, asked
who it was. 1T isis" she replied, hes
itatingly, my deceased brother-in-law."
-7eras SJtin9s.
A shop-keeper will overdo good
scheme by Offering too great reductions
in prices. Thirty seven cents, formerly
eighteen dollars,n is nm announcement to
make a customer feel that he is being
cheated by looking ut such goods. -Neio
Orleans Picayune.
| A lady was walking along Main Street
very rapidly. A gentleman was walking
just behind the lady Mt an equally rapid
pace. The lady saw n pin on the side
walk and stopped suddenly to pick it up.
The gentleman failed to put down brakes
and took header over the lady. Neither
party secured the pin. - OcklInd Gazette.
At the shop of summer hotel some
of the natives had been invited in. A
/ young lady being solicited for round
dance by son of the soil, and noticing
with dismay that he was about to grasp
| her waist with large and perspirinp
: pIlm, she asked if he would not kindly
use his handkerchief sob, yes, marin. u
| said Hayseed pleasantly, and applying
$ the article TO his nose he sounded n cheer.
2 fail blust that shook the chandelier B0S.
: TN Commercial- Bulletin.
Everybody said Nuisance, the othel
day, us he entered our sanctum and tool
: II chair, "has heard of the door which is
y not door when it's II jar, but want yor
. !, to tell me what kind Of n door il is wllicl
y is always Il jar" We took out what
stone and began to sharpen the long knife
y and Nuisance edged toward the door, ant
!. rs he made for the stairway just in tim,
1t to escape the fatal plunge he yelled ont
;, "Cuspadoor. Sorry we missed him.
, ''What is it that keeps you busy writ
ing so late i'll Your study every night =
. asked Mrs. lerger of her husband. g
y am writing the history of my life" g
n suppose you mention me in itT" so
- yes | call you the sunshine of my exist
N ence." "Do really throw so much sun
= shine into your daily life?' II refer t
\. You as the sunshine of my existence be
!, cause you make it hot for me-" A ris
n in the Thermometer occurred immediatcl
10 after the foregoing conversation. IeaU
i. SJtiHgs.
If Judge Robert Grinder, the Little Roc
10 Englishman who annually celebrate
! the birthday of the Queen, was recent
J summoned as a witness to testify in
d case of hog stealing. 1.-The am of til
m 'og was sold to me, your honor, an
is hafterward, when suspicion wash excited
i, l noticed that part of the air of the %
r. was left on the am. Then we got the i'd
ne of the 'og and saw that the air ON the 'al
ne fitted into the ole in the 'ide." The ey
10 dence was so conclusive that the thief WI
If convicted. 7raUsller.