Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-21

we may upt ike, hOtei-keeperst pue Wo
have to put up with them.-Detro@ Free
Press.
There was a shower of earth in Missouri
last week, rain of terra, no Doubt
f'iss6agy Telegraph.
Teller wants free md unlimited silver |
coinage. The Teller may want it, but the
cashiers do not.-Bost0n Post
When man talks about earning an |
honest dollar, he cannot mean silver dol
lar. There are nohonest silver dollars |
B0ston Post.
"oh, Arthur, how happy 1 would be |
alone with you ON quiet island IN the
distant ocean," "Have youany other wish,
dearest Ella 2" ooh yes, do get me a sea
son ticket for the opera. "-F4iegesde BIat-
ter.
Many editors will find it easy to believe
the story told by the Alto California Of
California young woman who said plain
lively: II really have no choice. haven't
education enough to teach school, and
there is really nothing for me to turn to
besides literature.
A medical authority says persons
have been bitten by mad dogs and have
not gone mad" And then, again, some
persons get mad by being bitten by dog
that is not mad. They get mad enough
to kick the animal in two.-NoI77stOaon
Herald.
The Yonkers Statesman, in New Years
editorial headed "5 and g., says: "Oyer
the first, as over rifle sight, we look into
the past" This is an odd figure of
speech. We never look into the past over
q rifle sight. We look straight ahead
N0rTfst0ioR Herald.
Nobody, up to the hour of going to
press, had discovered what Senator Evarts
meant in his Boston speech on the silver
question, except the editor of the Jour
nal and as the secret is safe with hun,
there doesn't appear to be any likelihood
of the thing ever leaking out.-B0ston
Transcript.
The music of this opera is wholly want
| ing in contrast. A ceaseless succession
of dreary platitudes flow [sic] on in a tur-
| gid strenm throughout the orchestral
score, and if by chance n passing melodic
| thought is utilized, IL is invariably the
product Of another. The keystone.
NJ. Pasteur, who inoculated the four
| Newark boys who were bitten by IN Ill
legged mad dog, pronounces them cured.
As none of the dogs bitter by the same
animal, and since chained up, have gone
mad, we suppose it is safe to pronounce
them cured too. -Noy7isto,on Herald.
The eminent publishers, Graham &
Sharpe, call on their favorite novelist,
Netherclift, about new serial Graham
-"Ulloa, Sharpel l say what luxurious
rooms and q man servant in livery, by
lingo Why, Haven't got better myself ~
Sharpe-"Yes, confound it So this is
where all our profits go to!'- English
Paper.
A Northern advertiser, through the
press, says, "Grind your own bone.
Another says. "You are a liar" and give
the reason why people should say hi
goods are best. Another says, "Don'
but q saw mill" The latter seems to b.
good advice for the average citizen, bu
the bone-grinding admonition is littl
off.--Neto Orleans PicayIpe.
A Busy Woman.--"You are kept prett
busy nowadays remarked stranger I
Mrs. simmons, whose husband has
ranch ON Onion Creek. "Yes, hardly q
= time to turn around. There is Away
+ something 10 keep one busy. If it ain
$ the cows, it's the sheep: if it amt ii
= sheep, it's the pigs, and if it amt IL
y pigs, it's the children. "-1'eD0s Sitting
q A Ready Acquicscence. Eugen
re (at the partly: Nov, Monsieur Trepann
8. You know you promised to dance with n
n this evening, and I'm going TO claim yc
70 for the German" Monsieur Trepann
German! Mam'sello forgets l am
ne Frenchman." Miss Eugenia: "Well We
N. going to lead" Monsieur Trepanne:
II lead IN German? Mam'sellc. dat max
ri, all re difference in re whirlcd. - Id6i
he Colonel Dcsbordes, in report up,
to the retreat of the French troops fro
Ity Langson, says that the French killed Of
nd wounded, officers and men, fell into I
he hands the enemy, and "under the ey
Il of our own troops, had their heads cut
an by the enemy. ""This," continues the Co
to mel, 'caused a painful impression up
IN, all, but especially upon the regiment
ant which the victims belonged" We shor
naturally suppose that it would hay,
lge tendency to produce that effect.-Ar
hat and Macy Journal.
On. New Jersey is the glorious State
nd To keep away from, merely;
ais Its ''lightning" has on earth no mate
III. To make man see queerly.
vas A star, that seems elsewhere but one,
M In Jersey with one whoopll
ght Expand to size of setting sun
ngs And then appear sextuple.
he Men fear the mad-dog's bite, elsewhC
90 In summer, but remember
90 1t is not so in Jersey there
VI They've mad dogs In December.
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