Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-06-03

White Jersey ahirts, warranted not to
shrink, are remarkable bargains. You use
them as shirts one summer and as neckties
the next.-Lo,oell Citizen.
People open their hearts and expand
when they marry. At a wedding they
should not be called the contracting par
ies.-Neto Orleans Picdyune.
Who has mislaid o'Donovan Rosa
Since the echo of his last yawp died out,
there has been vacancy in the air bear
ing the complexion Of long-felt want
Chicago Mail.
At recent dinner in the mountains
given to Don Carlos, the principal toast,
"Viya King Charles VII was drunk
standing. The King himself was drunk |
sitting Washington Post.
Christmas babe is born king, but |
that is by no means an assurance that he |
will reign in Spain. Among the naughty
dons il frequently happens that an in
herent king is not an ace high. Chicago
Mail.
The Montgomery Dispatch speaks of
him as ''Ool. Paul Hayne." This is
wrong. The gentleman is one Of the few
ministers" left in the state, and we pro-
test against the unnecessary sacrifice
Macon Telegraph.
The most important editorial in the
| Sunday Globe was that Boosting of its
great circulation, and II wasn't signed,
either. Such an article should always be
accompanied by responsible name.-
L0ioeH Times.
In the Peeshawur cemetery, in India, is
the following amusing epitaph Sacred
to the memory of Rev. -- missionary,
aged, =, murdered by his chowkidar,
We'll done, thou good anu faithful ser
want. ~ Exchange.
A few days ago as two ladies, not a hun
bred miles from Winsted, were discussing
the merits and qualifications of their
COWS, one asked of the other if her COW
was farrow. The answer was 'No, she is
an Attorney Waterbury american.
1t is gratifying to learn thatDr. Holmes
didn't lose his bonhommie going across
Bonhommie is mighty good thing to
have, but ii is awfully hard to retain it
through the agitating experiences of
Transatlantic trip.-Noyroich Bulletin.
An ex-senator of the United States has
been appointed 20 a S24G post office in
Tennessee, and has accepted it MS eagerly
as hungry trout snaps at floating June
bug. PHILADELPHIA Press Absurd. Trout
do not eat June bugs.-MisSoltri Repu6-
lic1n.
A letter lately received by the pension
commissioner read as follows; "Can
twins git penshun whene one is ded
and the other is CURL. Let me know
afore my old man dies who has got
misery in his stummuck ?"-B0stoR
Herald.
"Gath's" post norton abuse of George
IL. Butler is explained. 1t seems that on
one occasion, when George was asked to
name the three greatest liars in America,
he replied: "Eli Perkins is one and
George Alfred Townsend is the other
two. "-AtlGata Constitution.
The Rev. Beecher says "Our air, our
public sentiment and our institutions will
soon cure the anarchists" Mr.. Beeeher
, is right if this construction is put on his
words--Our public sentiment, hang them;
our institutions, the gallows ouf air, the
material for them to dance on.-OmdhG
! Herald.
} II is becoming almost habitual in New
! York for bridal parties to be an hour late
at the church. At one recent fashionable
wedding the couple was nearly two hours
, behind time. This, of course, is not the
( bridegroom's fault. He can't go till the
3 train starts, and he doesn't wear it,
/ Nor,oich Bulletin.
New and interesting features are being
added to the idyl of the White House
:. every dry. CAS- this is an upright Repub-
lican paper, DESTROYS of preserving its
reputation for consistency, the intelligent
!, compositor is tearfully requested not to
| change the above to ''idol. - -Indidn.
u apolis Journal.
"What lovely woman !" was the ex-
i clamation of Chief Justice Waite upon
passing first-class beauty when walking
q down Pennsylvania avenue with friend
i. "What an excellent judge!" said the
!. Indy, when her sensitive ear caught the
n fattering decree of the chief Justice
" Ne'o York Ledger.
N A western editor was thunderstrucl
if when told that monthly magazines some
ID times paid as high as 81 900 for single
1t article. can they have to pay for The
III settin' up, too?" he asked. Certainly.
m "Great Scott Why don't they use plat
es matter / can get it for 90 cents column.
ly Mem York Times.
ly Tourist-Can you sell us threepenn,
o worth of milk, Missusg Mrs. McJob-
~ Whit did ye say? Losh me!-sell null
re on the Sabbath day? Ma, ma
70 couldna' dae that; but as ye seem dacen
X boys, I'll jist gle We thripence worth 70
ok naethin', and yell jist make me prae
OF sent o. a shullin. London Fun.
In the country-"I don't see any of tn
~, pigeons l sent you, FIR. Nicholas" "Ah
~ monsieur, was going to tell you. Yo
~ see had to shut them up for fear the
NJ would fly away, and the poor birds bC
IT, came SO tired of their confinement that
~ took pity upon them and had them mad
into pot pie. French Paper.
The last day of criminal condemne
he TO death had come. lie was awakene
Bile and asked what he would have for breal
so fast, and told that he could have anythin
lse he liked. "Well, he replied, II think
Of should like some peaches" "They al
< not in season they amt ripe vet
81 "Never mind" said he, ~ can wait fl
he them. "-FreRch Paper. ....-.
les Grandma's hearing is not as good MS
led was in her early days. At the supp
his table the imprisonment of Jaehne was ii
az topic of conversation, and she asked VIII
Ao' work the ex-alderman was doing in ii
state prison. +" He's starching shirts
was the reply. Grandma, in horritit
lire tone OF voice" Starting church
Il
( to work."-Neb York Post.
and Del Potter of Newport has bought u
,ers celebrated PAGER, Blind Tom, TO draw
AZ meat wagon this summer. On account
in the well-known speed of the animal
the ice will be required to preserve the met
ome and it is expected that the rate of tray
var will be so fast that the blue-bottle flies
VINO other pests can never keep up with 1
'inng procession. Monroe Mich. J COlnnaerci,
r : az Prohibitionist went into a Tex
ling saloon under the influence of LIQUOR al
g Of asked prominent politician to trei
jout You can't be thirsty again you ha
cent Just had drink" sail the politicia
OVID "Of course (hic) I'm not thirsty v
an1 the indignant response of the suffer-
, nea Prohibitionist. III don't drink schepi
Her when ish thirsty, what vantage hay
cad, got over beasht of the field y"-Te
but SJtings
they Whence comes this word "boodl
llon which is now being used by our cultul
h'r eastern contemporaries in the sense
plunder?n For long time the word
been applied in the west to money
pai bulk, and we understand that the phI
- Exit and boodlen is classic slang, re-
~. ing TO burglars implements and pl
,,noi, der. Is it possible that this word "bood
,.oiI is corruption of bodle, the name q
=, iies small Scotch town ?-ChiCag0 Mems.
D. man in last years clothes was sea
ny at q table in the reporters room writ
Il was costing him great effort, apl
emily, for his tongue was sticking
l.o, about four inches and he shoVed the