The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-21
ScissoratiOns.

Restaurant Matron-I want you
girls to fix up little extra and look as
pretty as you cam" Waiter Girls-"Is the
butter bad AGAIN."
mo, the meats tough. "-Omaha World,
Two school-children- William Thorn
ton, aged IA, and Matte Smith, aged 15-
were married on Saturday at Jefferson,
Ga. The groom did not have the money
to pay for the license, and the other
school-children contributed what was
necessary to buy it.
-Tusten, Sullivan county, N. Y, owns
a cow which has been ailing for some
time, the trouble seeming to be a persis-
tent swelling on one side. A few days
ago the swelling was lanced, and from
the opening of the rib parasol twenty
two inches long was taken. How the
parasol rib got into the COWS side is Of
course, a mystery.
Benjamin Bower, well-known resi-
dent of Pleasantville, N. j., sprinkled
Paris green on his grape-vines week ago
to kill the insects that infested them
The wind blew the powder about, and
his daughter, Miss Allie Bower, who as.
sisted him, inhaled some of the flying
poison and was taken i'll Immediately
The young lady, who was but 20 years
old, died on Friday, despite physicians
constant attendance on her.
John C. Cadomus, of Danforth avenue
Jersey City, discovered a rat in his din
ing-room on Thursday night, and, closing
the door, he prepared to kill the animal
with broom. The rat, finding every ave
nue. of escape cut of, jumped from the
floor to a chair and thence to table
whence it sprang at Mr.. Cadomus ant
fastened its teeth in his cheek. He drag
ged the rat away and crushed it undel
his foot, but not before it had left a mari
which he will carry to his grave.
When Senator Edmunds arrived a
the Ocean House, Newport, noticed
that the kind-hearted landlord led hin
quietly behind the desk, put his han(
around his mouth, and whispered conf
dentially; eyes, Senator it's strictly pro
hibition here we can't sell it: you cal
go down to the Casino, say you are al
Ocean House guest, and ask for cold icet
tea and" "But don't drink cold icet
tea," interrupted the Senator. "Of cours
not; you only call for it; don't you under
stand? They'll bring you brandy an,
soda"
w. S. Camp, of Lockport, N. Y, il
figuring on scheme for building a boa
for passenger traffic through the Rapid
Of Niagara River. His boat is to b.
something after the style of catamaran
30 feet long and p feet wide, with end
after the style of North River ferry
boat. 1t will be double propeller, wit
separate engines and wheels fore and at
Gas will be used as fuel. All the heav
machinery will be in the bottom of tn
boat. Under the deck and on either sid
of the boat will be large copper ali
chamber. The capacity of the boat wi
; be 200 passengers. A company has bee
, formed with capital of 100000 to pus
the scheme. 1t is proposed to carry tn
boat back to the starting point, the oil
, Maid of the Mist landing, by railroad.
james Starnes returned to Chatt
nooga, Tenn, last week with q your
! wife, after an absence of thirty years
, California, and found his first wife, who
l he believed to be dead, still alive. Starn,
/. was married in 1S4S, and the couple wei
e devoted to each other. Now that he hi
! found his first wife alive and thatshe hi
remained true to her troth plighted fort
six years ago his old love has been r
G kindled, and yet he loves the young wi
I whom he brought from California, ar
a who fairly worships her aged HUSBAND
They are all living in the same house
present, but this state of affairs cam
last long, as the wives, who at first we
affectionate toward each other, are b
coming very jealous. The husband ca
not decide which wife will have exclusi'
o claim to his affections. The two bal
:. boys whom he left when he went We
t now have families, while by his secor
u wife he has a4-year-old girl.