Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-16

The great secret in the Moen-Wilsen
case How is wiison going to raise that
800, 900 r. The Judge.
Education is something like love. Most
men think they have got it till they come
10 be about 40 years old.--Bariihgto7a
Free Press.
Doubters may note that Mr.. Blaine |
doesn't take everything he can get. The |
hand Of Edmunds, as an instance
Chao.bersbsirg paiiey Spirit.
Ii very seldom happens that 80 many |
funerals occur on one day as there did
yesterday. Every one of the 10 hearaes
in the city was in use. Albany Journal
II has been generally accepted fact
that Wilkes Booth was the guilty party,
but il looks now as If the Century Maya
zine took tie life of Lincoln. Life.
II is certainly proper to say nothing
wbcn you have nothing 10 say and II
costs no more 10 look wise about it thau
to look sorrowful Cincinnati Enquire
"were you ever engaged in duel, Col.
Blood ?" "Ycs sab, | was sab" ''Did
it terminate seriously ~ Ives, sab,
was arrested aud fined $40, sab. life.
Wheua'er the small hoy makes racket
Or nnuoYs his mother with his tunes,
She is sure to say she'll warm his jacket,
Though she aiwayswarms his pantaloons.
- Judge.
A Young writer wishes us TO publish his
contributions to encourage" him. We
cannot afford to encourage one writer at
the expense of disoouraging many thou
sand readers. = TeDas SJanss.
Maud (gushingly)-oh, Clara, my
dear. do look at my engagement ring
Won't all the girls be dying of envy !?
Actually three solitaires !-Haxper'a
Bdsdr.
A Maine druggist has written a play.
| It should be a good one. A man who
keeps soda water fountain in a prohibi.
tion state learns how to judge human ma
ture. = B St0n Advertiser.
Me, what is this coal pool Tread about
in the papers2" asked little Johnny.
Ppm sure I don't know" was the reply,
unless it is where miners go in swim
mmg."-Hds'eton PENN Senttnel.
Minister (at baptismal font) Name
please? Mother (baby born abroad) y
Philip Ferdinand Chesterfield Randolph
Livingstone. Minister (aside, to assist
ant)-Mr. Kneeler, little more water
plsase. Puck.
We were visited the other day by al
advance agent with huge fur collar ant
glass eye. The combination must b,
irresistible, as he reports crowded house
everywhere. Even lis breath was strong
, --LOlcea Citis'h
Says n london newspaper poet;
When my LAZY sleeping lies,
Her sweet breaths her lips unbar
That's enough! She SHORES.
--BostoR Herald
, The Norwich Bulletin says of Hazleti
who has Just gone through the Magyar
whirlpool rapids with his sister-i in Law
that he ought to try it with his mother
in. law if he wants to earn genuine fam,
=. Boston Herald.
! "Gim ne hunk of dried beef" "Thir
! 9 bout couple pound nv dried beef.
ave don't keep dried beef, thir." The
wot do We go and advertise TO sell d.
/ goods fur if ye don't keep full stock
/. -Hdrper's B0zar.
u This is a great country. Florida
0 sending fresh cucumbers to market
e Minnesota the ice is thick enough to bel
It teams; in California grapes are beir
d gathered, and Maine is shivering und
r several inches of snow. = Baltimore Ame
lie lean
'e Mat Carpenter was once walking wit
% an ignorant judge, who stumbled over
stone and fell. II am glad" said M
Carpenter, as he lifted him to his fee
that there is one law that you cann'
+: oyeT-ride-the law of gravitation. = E
9, change
n 1t is not generally inspected that He
~ ~ rick, whose quaint old fashioned rhym,
20 are go much quoted, was German, but
~ writer in the Boston Post speaks of
so poetess who "eyidently knows Herr He
y rick" But he will probably try to swei
oe il of on the poor compositor. BoStC
70 lie, ali.
70 THREE FISHERS.
~ Three authors stood upon the beach,
- And watched the fishing smaeks heaye t
!" As far as human eye could reach
he Swept one eSpanse of saline blue.
r. First Hawthorne spoke: while Gibbs Il
en- tide
~ Suppose we three a-ilshing go?"
~ ITS we'll, the white hurried Stodda
:! criRd
y y Nncr eae'e NV y. 7. Roe
~ Ns ygrda hear. whers aall
Nd And ehirps the cricket to his mate,
- Alejhlnss the plethoric gentles grow
ISL Come, let US dig a few for bait"
10 Thus Zig, strong Julian Hawthorne said
ite Bur with smfle that answered. NO.
ed. The dear old Stoddard shook his head
by And quoth to Rev. i. P. Roe:
err Although, assuredly, lam
Unlearnei In piscatorlal lore,
| mind ma that the modest clam
Beats ali your bait that grows ashore.
still care not; and You, friend Hoe,
il Shall name the bait and Tx the terms.
~ ~ So nov decide before We go--
us shall it be CLANS or angleworms2"
4 'nTis not for such II wretch az
~, To -ay which shall or shall not be,
~ For He who heeds the ravens cry
~ VIII care in his good time for me-.
40 Whether upon the ocean tides
no Or by the water brooks 20
ite III take the bait the Lord provides,
les Remarked the Rev. L, 2. Roe.
Ia Chicago Ne,nS
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