Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-27
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ick man dies without seeing doctor,
nd yet such natural deaths ere quite
,ossible. Orleans Picdyltae.
The visitors at the London Zoo during
1885 were only $50 1896, against 745, AGO
n 1884, falling off due, it is supposed,
% financial distress among the working
people.
The man who invested $40 in flower
seed five weeks ago thinks all this talk |
about the flowers that bloom in thespring |
very much uncailed Pitts6a7g |
Employer Ito collector) --See Mr.. Smith, |
Coilector-O yes. Enlployer-W Was he
annoyed at your calling upon him? Col
n bit. He asked me to call
again.-N. y. Sun.
On Monday week ago forger named
Strife, while in charge of an officer COM
ing east, jumped the window Of a Union
Pacific car while at full speed. No trace
of him has been discovered.
Telephone lines are being extended
from the towns TO the rural hills of Berk-
shire, for the convenience of summer
boarders, whose entertainment is one of
the most prominent industries of that
region.
A needle was recently found in an egg
laid by Philadelphia hen. Hens should
never try to attend to their sewing and
caclxling at the same time. This weak
ness is confined to women alone.-BuT-
lingtOn Free Press.
The guns sent to Gov. Foraker to be
used against any rioters in Cincinnati are
magazine arm, made at Windsor, Conn,
especially for riot work. They contain
five charges of buckshot in the magazine,
besides one in the chamber.
One of the most inordinate cigarette
smokers in this country has recently be-
come an enthusiastic theosophist. This
is q result of the cigarette habit that is
worse than its widest detractor ever
imagined. Cleuelaad Sun.
A two-year old Waterbury miss, who
this year saw cherry blossoms for the first
time since she could express thought in
language and begin to drop her ''gos-
samer links" with some other world, ex
claimed: "Oh, mamma, see the popcorns
| for the brides. "-Ame1icGn.
If James d. Fish is very poor, he is
letting big heart get good deal the
better of Judgment. A friend who visited
him in the state prison last week received
as gift from the old gentleman 81 900
pair of bronzes.-Neao York Times.
A man in Monticello, ILL.,, placed some
giant powder in stove to blow the SCOT
from the pipe. The neighbors all say
that it is a pity he couldn't have lived
long enough to see how thoroughly the
SCOT was cleared out.-BostOe Transcript.
Babyhood offers $25 for the best article
on "crying SPELLS" If the editress OF
Ba5y10od will call around about IL
minutes before supper time we will show
her one of the best articles on crying
spells she ever saw.-Rocktdnd Courier
journal.
"That Miss Mercy is an innocent-look
ing young girl.n "Innocent-l looking
Why, man, she has spent three winters il
Washington and is engaged to be married
to Chicago Spectator. Appearances ar
deceptive, 1 tell you" - Neao HOr,
Graphic.
Is there any talent in the st. Paul Pres
Club? Are there nine men in that clu
| who know the difference between base bal
, and progressive euchre If the st. Pau
, Press Club wishes to win distinction o.
| the dusty diamond now is its opportunity
: --Minneap0Es Tribune.
7 Stranger Ito country store-keeper)-
r "Can you tell me where l can find jaime
b. Holt, who wrote this recommendation fc
o Coffin's consumption cure He lives herr
8 believe" Merchant-"He did befol
i -" Stranger-"BefoSe what? ?" Me
4 chant-"Before he died of consumption
h -Neao York Graphic.
u While young woman was being take
y = in an express train from Boston to a r
u form school the other day she eluded h
= guardian and jumped through windo
while the train was at full speed. ~
:, :, train was stopped, but no girl was foun
= nor has been yet.
Rhode Island and Connecticut, havil
lived two or three centuries with an ind
10 terminate boundary line, have now fall
ID into dispute over the matter and col
st mission has been appointed to settle
ly The whole boundary in question is und
" the waters of the sound, and oysterm
* are the only ones urgent about it.
81, Young Genius (who has had all the Ia
OF to himself, and, as usual, all about hi
self)-"Well, goodbye, dear Mrs. NJ
than. It always does me good to col
and see you had such headache VIII
1 came, and now have quite lost i
Us Mrs. Meltham-"Oh, it's not lost. l
ot- got it !"-LOndoR Punch,
no Gen. Pope and Gen. Force recen
Ivs called on Cincinnati artist to see
re painting of the battle of Shiloh. I
in latter is represented as SO strongly moN
ha- that he shed tears at sight of it. V,
n likely. The work of the average Cine
,ch natl artist, however, is not generally Il
m bad. A soldier is supposed to be ha
inu ened against scenes that would NOV
ne civilian Indianapolis Journal
ty, Bagley-You may talk all you like
ar the great enterprises. The fact renal
her however, that all of them had small
her ginnings. No, sir, tell you it is
little things that tell. Bayley-Yol
right If that little snip of BERTHE H
land hadn't told that kissed his sis
glce, old Rowland would still have in N
e se great admirer. It's all over now
1ent Bits.
so n " Fannie Finch fried five founder
ility for Frances Fowler's father" The
sted coma County Regie,o, an esteemed
n 10 10 temporary, says that if large -mout
5tiye girls will repeat this pretty sente
Will enough times and with sufficient rapi
mi mi their mouths will grow smaller. |
1t by gets monotonous they can turn it arc
this and let " Frances fry the fish for Fam
LOCK- father Waterbury american.
Wife (coldly)-In your usual condit
| see. If you will remove that III
from your mouth, and stop trying to 81
/, or match on your pantaloons with
long cigar, you will appear trihe less rio
ex- lous, perhaps. Bibulous lord-Ex
lger- me, dear, met OF fren'-been to see ''E
gsili- let Great fell, "Hamlet'--'' be
tiers not to beer q queshun." Wife-T
&c in is no doubt that it was not two beer.
,ture symptoms indicate at least forty
. A.. Bits.
Il he There arc three kisses in n worl
'hlte miscellaneous kisses which may
near counted true-the kiss the mother Lis
! by lays upon her baby's dewy lips, the
'go. the mother gives her boy as he goes
into the world, and the kiss we
'"se' upon the still, pale lips Of the dead.
treet, the rest are like the Strawberries i
carry bottom of the basket-to be taken
70 ~, III suspicion. Chicag0 Journal.
h the A cute little girl of three is the dt
alton OF Washington boulevard family fo
Or re- prettiness, as we'll as for the bright
,r the odd things she says. The other
J. for company of militia passed down the
sitive in front of her home, and her m
IN, aiia black-and-tan barked furiously thu
, We" vo,, the window pane at them The
girl arose in alarm and said "Shl
door, mamma Fido will bite the III
-Chicag0 NeWs.
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