Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-04
MERE AND THERE.

AZ ID now bhlu that IOfd MolSeley Will
hang his German Order of the Red Eagle
so as to conceal, if possible, his SoudRnese
Order of the Black Eye.-Spriagtietd
Union.
The New President of Bowdoin College
is said to be in perfect sympathy with the
students. Can il be that he smokes cigar
cites and howls around nights ?-L0ioell
| Citizen.
My notion of bliss is place where
there are no posts and no letters, Rowland
Hill being, 10 my thinking, man 10 be
chased with Nero, only worse. ~ London
Truth.
In these days of hydrophobia it may be
we'll to remark that no person who has
paid for his newspapers in advance was
ever known to be bitten by mad dog
Lynn Item.
"Mr. Fangle, what was the spirit of 76'
that see mentioned in the papers 30
often ?" 'As far as l can ascertain, my
DEAR replied Fangle, sit was Jamaica
rum. n-l'ttts6usy Chronicle.
Scientific Note An eminent scientist
attributes the remarkable longevity of a
woman who recently died at the age of
100 to the fact that she never wore high
bonnet in theatre. -Not7fstOaop Herald.
~ believe in woman suffrage, of course
do" said Mrs. Shuttle, as she threw
down the evening paper. "Now there's
Queen Victoria, she makes Just MS good II
speech MS any king. "--HHtJoqd E0ening
P0st.
Absence OF Mind ms. Il. having
heard that, after Christmas festivity, a
philosopher had barked his nose by run
ning against the mantel. piece, attributed
then"cident to unconscious celebration. {"
Punch
There was no store trade yesterday to
| speak of. One of our merchants was
detected trying to hide u euchre deck in
his watch pocket us n church member
came in aftera pint of beans W Bridgeport
Nelrs.
The Gialatea OF England. that wants to
compete for the Americas cup is not
Acister craft TO the Gencsta. Classical
scholars and serious Seotchneu are par
ticulnrly requested not to nd this item.
-Toras SQtfGgs.
Products ola Protected Commonwealth.
Pennsylvania has produced two great
men, Benjamin Franklin of Massachu-
setts, and Albert Gallatn of Switzerland.
DR.. John Il. Patton at tie TypOtheta
Dinner oia N. Y. EgeniHg Post.
The State (newspaper) thinks that
newspaper jokes are growing 'fecbler
every day" The State therefore uses
only those which have been handed down
from past generations. Many of Them are
strong, not to say rank.-B0stOn Herald.
Historical Ascending the marble
steps, | was ushered iuto spacious hall,
in which stood large picture of WASH
ington about TO sign the inevitable decree
of independence, as usual. The Rev
H. r. Haweis, Washington Letter in Pail
NAL Gasette.
Johnny Gust after Sunday -school)-
Say, Jack, what is a sockdolager? Jack
Why, don't you know It's what they
sing in church when they get ready to 60
home. The minister gets up and says
Let us now sing the sockdolager. y
Boston Beacon.
"If choose to get married, that is my
business and nobody elso's," says Miss
Mary Anderson, All! Mary, you might
stand up and get married all alone by
yo lrself in q play with that business
} written in, but they don't do that way il
real life.-BostOn Post.
1t was little girl at Maiden, who hay
ing been naughty, and having received
punishment from her mother said thi
prayer fervently when she went to be,
that night: "Oh, God, please make IN
= good not real good, but Just good enougl
: so / won't have to be whipped. "-Bost0i
y Record.
Smart -Esiueralda Longcof1i
Il believe, Mr.. McGinnis, that yo
I f.,1s 1 rA,- 4 IT -
McGinnis. "Oh, no, nothing Of the kind
y Nobody can be called stupid who can 8
=, accurately divine the thoughts of anothe
- - as You have done mine. "-7'eras Sitting
i II never learned to dance, and am to
old to learn new tricks of that kind. BIT
if there are younger feet which can bet
out dollars with dancing for the orphans
| shall be glad to have some good nimbl
g dancer work out one tickets worth fc
!, me.n-Hcnry Ward Beecher.
y One of our esteemed contemporaries {
" Philadelphia admits that at least
d, thousand women in that city sleep wit
u masks ON their faces. We don't blau
y them. If our women were as homely
~ ~ those of Philadelphia usually are, the
-, would wear masks night and day. Glen
taRd PtatRdetifT.
Ia A well.known lawyer of this place Ii,
n II novel way of catching partridges. 1
| says that while hunting recently his hor
as stepped into covey of IL partridges, Il
as animals feet holding them by the Ia
es until the huntsman dismounted, when /
IN caught six Of the covey.- Dahloaega( Ga
ii Synal
n A Kansas contemporary heads leade
r. 'Where Shall We Find Whtergn There
Id no sense in person fooliug viii. nm ur'
n Gle he DOESN'T know anything about. III
/ it is hoped no one will enlighten u
g. Kansas man until lie lets people lnu
ar what he is going TO do with il after he &c
e- it-Rocdester Post ETpress
tn A Wilmington scientist says the pu
en- lished statement that Saturn will occi
US the star Mn Geminorum on the mornii
II of the 10TH is absurd. We are not Inu,
n of II scientist, but we thought that the q
sertion that Saturn would occult that SO
of star was rather ridiculous. Saturn
,at not that kind of n planet. -NOiTiStou
ow HC1dh.
II. Athenian Manners Flossy- Com
ny Johnnie, let's play we's married. john
Very well, Flossy. Come, den, cor
in to dinner. How do you like de di
ner today, my dear? Ut is a 90,
dinner. A very good dinner indeed
pm Oh. you mustn't say dat You mu
'lr say il amt wuf a damn. II / couldi
on cook better dan dat / would hire mys,
a out for shape in a dry-goods store.
a BoStOH COu1fer.
ny Professor Shore, of the University
rs Texas, and Kosciusko Murphy met n
er' very long since and both of them he'll
rIh very intelligent they talked about scie
Try tiiic subjects, and among others abo
~ eclipses. IBID You see the total eclip
KS; of the sun We had here in Austin abo
NJ four years ago." asked Murphy. INC
,tn replied Professor SHORE didn't get
w. see 1t. was out Mt my ranch, about ii
~ miles from town, and when got buck
nus was all over y I,ras SJItags.
gre How completely the gentle reade
ns form Of address. 30 grent il favorite wi
w. our grandfhhers, has dropped out
IN fashion. II always was piece of fab
ner affection and We are glad that it is
III longer used We were reading n very {
y book yesterday in the preface TO viii
Nas the author used the expression gen
.Ie reader four times. II is recorded
zen history thnt the author was executed
ION the heresy contained in that very hoe
Very gentle readers they were, were
they, 7eras SJttags.
to A very recent and altogether Low,
her agony of these agonizing DAYS is TO
! Of young lady to beg, borrow or buy
squatty looking black bottle with 10
neck and a bunch of cheap straw wick
work around it. She then proceeds
Mt gild it with bronze paint, and, after il
-om completed, transmits it per special IN
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