Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-10-07
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Labor troubles are not 80 serious % the
troubles made by loafers. -Neto Orleans
Picapzise.
The stage ia afflicted with people with
big heads and the audience with people
with big hats.-L0tseR Cit3se'.
Buffslo is going 10 have tremendous
clock. The dislo will be % feet IN diam
eter, 36l feet above the street and lighted
by electricity.
The 'possum crop in Georgia is good
this year. John Rushin went fox hunting
in Macon county the other day, and the
hounds got of after 'possums and killed
2B
There is q -year-old eolored girl in
Cincinnati who, II is said, reads anything
that is printed in the English language,
aud yet has never been taught even her
A Il Ga.
A Missouri burglar, while attempting
to enter q house, had his lower jaw shot
of A local paper in describing the
affair said the victim ,'resolutely refused
to talk"
Mr.. Arthur Sidgwick, in a recent seri-
Gus work on Form Discipline" happily
refers to "George Washington coming
into Philadelphia with half.a-crown in
his pocket"
II brevity be the soul of wit, the man
who left note pinned to his coat collar
with the simple letters "R. R." deserves
mention. He went by the rough on-rats
route.--New York Journal
lot of youngsters in Peterboro',
Canada, ranging in age from TO ~,
al T. OF.
Army, and the noise they make is very
fair imitation of the real thing.
portrait of Secretary Daniel Manning,
painted by Daniel Huntington, ia to ba
added TO the portraits of former presi-
dents of the Albany Commercial Bank
that hang in the presidents room.
A Pennsylvania landlord seized baby
as security for rent. He explains that,
being a bachelor, he did not have any ex
perience, and he is now willing to give
up the baby and pay handsome bonus.
--Neto Haoen Nelos.
An irate female started impetuously
across the floor, and midway forgot her
errand Where was going ?" demanded
she with angry unreasonableness. 90
was dom GROSS" lisped four year. old
near by.-4tras Slftings.
A Hartford laboring man tried to make
out the inscription on the Memorial Arch,
POST Nubila Phebus," dedication day.
''Post--no-bil," he began; pet no
bills haint they got that rather high to
do much good Pr Erchange.
Several years ago Miss Julia Thomas, a
Young colored woman, went to Europe as
the Topsy in an "Uncle Toms Cabin"
| company. She has remained in Berlin
ever tince, acting with white company,
and has played Topsy In German.
A Hart county, Ga, crank, who thinks
that he is the incarnate spirit of the Pro.
phet Elijah, says that the great failing
away" mentioned in the Bible will occur
right after next Christmas, and that tho
| world will come to an end in 1890.
Gen. Guitar ia running for Congress in
Missouri, and Fiddler Taylor is after the
governors chair in Tennessee. We trust
that General Drum will step forward, If
he wants anything, and let us have CON
cert of action. Macon (Gd.) Telegraph.
Things One Would Rather Have Left
Unsaid-She-"And you are really better,
professor, since you came TO live in
Hampstead ?" Professor--"0h, yes, u
different man altogether" She-"How
pleased oil your friends will be"--Punc6.
Dull colors like brown can never be
forced upon American women in this
bright climate, no matter what the foreign
arbiters of fashion may dictate. Red will
be the general rule and brown the ultra
fashionable exception. Washington
Critic
Mrs. Cleveland has q knack of trolling
for pickeral that is simply artistic. She
is not afraid Of the finny tribe and pulls
them in with the experience of veteran
She is one of the few women / have met
who understand how to fish.-Col. A. II
BelO.
First gent Let's return. Miss Other
age has begun to sing. Second gent
Thanks; rawther be excused. First gem
What Refuse homage TO the belle o
the ball Second gept--Not at all it'
the bawl Of the belle have no homag
for.-Lifs.
A clerk in mems furnishing store say
that the man who buttons the left side O
his collar first makes mistake, for b.
! naea his right hara for .hnt o-s .bo-, -,sF
Ai5 laft Cor the more difficult task o
butso4.ag tne other sids. He should n
verse tine process.
, John Allison Of st. Johns Run, Md.
!, while passenger on a Is. & o. train, lof
, his hat. He at once jumped off for il
! landed against a pile of iron and crushe
his leg so that it Ind to be amputated. II
did not recover his hat.
! The Indiana towns of Washington an
3 Vincennes are at loggerheads, and a boy
I, colt is the result. At O recent meeting i
: Washington her clergymen, editors, me-
/ chants, farmers, lawyers, and citizen
. generally solemnly agreed not to buy any
i thing of Vincennes or Of her citizens.
4 San Francisco reporters and detective
, attended naturalization seance th
other evening, and one Of them grabbe
! the spirit of his sainted mother, an
a another turned dark lantern on hel
; She proved to he an interesting youn
+, woman clad in a neat silk gown eovere
: with phosphorus.
, While the orchestra was playing th
!, prayer from "Rienzi" in the Louisvill
Music Hall the other day vigorous bah
struck in lung solo right in one of th
, most delicate passages. Conductor Dan
rosch stopped the orchestra and sat down
! When the little one had been quieted b
: remarked that while it was good thin
! to give children musical education, thel
! was sRch thing as beginning too early j
= life. Then he resumed his baton and til
! prayer WIS repeated.
I Il attended funeral ont in Burlineto
the other day." snid drummer, and
, want to tell you of novel floral devie
. which was displayed on the coffin. TIL
= dead man had been q commercial travele
and the floral piece represented the cove
of thousand mile ticket with ali Of III
4 coupons removed. Above was this il