Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-23
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discounts the orange peel, which ia more
expensive.-Neso Orleans PieayIne.
Suited to the job.--Little girI--Please,
mum, pas got chill an hewants to know
if he oan come over and shake yer car
pets. HANDLER.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has written poem
for Mrs. Potter, and Washington people
are barring their doors and sending the
children into the country. Puck.
One of the first signs of the approach
of the millennium will be the restoration
OF peace between all the Brooklyn clergy
men and their congregations. = Chicago
Ness
Artist = Bay RUM Yictim-W WAL pui
from Maine, but it's pow'ful cold day.
Don't keer Z do. jest drop with a
leetle m'lasses won't hurt nobody. lid.
Bits.
Land lady examining fugitive board.
er's trunk -Why. Bridget, Lis trunk is
full of bricksl How could they have got
there? "Sure, ma'am, he brought one
homo in his hat livery night. Life.
The ladies-bless emit beats ALI
When thew are young and squallers,
Their hearts are set upon the DOLL
When grown upon the dollars.
-Tidbits.
A sheet of paper u inches wide and
more than miles long WAS recently made
at Watertown, N Y. The leading plumber
Of the place had bill to make out
Pitts6urg Chronicle Telegram.
Silverton ministers have formulated an
edict preventing draw poker and faro at
church fairs. They favor stallion poker
and keno-the percentage is greater.
0urGy, No., Solid MuId0on.
A "Seasonable Hint" column says that
warm soapauds is one of the best insect
washes 1t is well TO know this. Insects
lose half their unpleassntness when they
are kept nice and clean. Save your suds
| life
| A damsel gave this as an excuse for the
size of her pedal extremities: she hat
| rheumatism when child, and her mother
rubbed her legs the wrong way, amt
rubbed her calves into her feet.-Har
per'S Bdzay.
| II is said that large ortion Of our
at lndard silver dollars are boarded by
Cinnamon on the Pacific coast to take
b ,me with them when they return to the
celestial kiugdom.-NeU York Conn
nlerciuL.
Apropos of the turning of the great
Eaglish brewing firm into stock COM
pany and the opposition of Mr.. Arthur
Guinness to the project, wag suggests
this text: He who is not with US is A
Guinness (Hebrews Xxx.
"Pa," asked young Jobly, "What sort
of tree was it that George Washington
4 a.4k l..
cherrypn Chestnut, my son." replied
the cd man, absently; chestnut
Puck.
A French peasant named Jean Fonre
and his wife have been sentenced to hard
labor for life for having murdered, boned
and boiled Jeans brother. 1t seems that,
after mixing the stew with cabbages, they
gave it to the pigs. Boston Herald.
AT sea elephants get into o curious
habit of setting to work rocking the ship
from side to side by giving themselvta
simultaneously o swinging motion, so as
to make the vessel roll heavily, as if in q
storm Youths Companion.
The following was handed to US few
days ago as being q complete outfit fol
one of Butte Creeks most prominent
bachelors: One bottle of whisky, two
pair Of socks, an axe handle and four OK.
bow keys.-Pi0che Record
In Phil Armour's Chicago packing.
house they are killing 1000 hogs a day, and
yet the man who sits sideways in street
car was in town yesterday. So was the
man who has his hair cut Saturday night
Some men are born lucky. BuHlette.
~ suppose you must be tired of my
voice." said his girl, after she had beer
talking about Is minutes, without hi,
being able to get in q word. ''Oh, no,
he replied, 81 get shaved at barber's'
-Neto York Sun.
news item says that immense oysteI
beds have been discovered off the coast o.
North Carolina. To look at an oyster M
: one would suppose it needed a very larg
/ BID, but perhaps the oyster ia restless il
/, his sleep. --sg1- Fsan5iss9 BsSc:fsfislgess
! Conductor (nt Pullman sleeper to poI
10y on want to watch that passenger
, SAN, think has crazy. Porter-Wha
makes you think so, boss Conductor
: Because he didn't insist on having lowe
berth in the middle of the car.-Nei
York Sun.
/ l remember a poor little boy of m
=
! the polite "shalln by would-be gentet
/ governess that at last he was driven t
speak of a "lShdll-of the. Wisp" an
) 8 lShdlsiam, the Conqueror. vi ond0
Truth.
They tell in Chicago of o member e
! the Iroquois Club who went home afte
the recent banquet, and finding me-
baby in the house insisted upon namin
| 10 sG(NrAna.
/ gested that ''Roae Elizabeth would /
better, and the amendment was adopted
County Treasurer Henry Wood of Cal
! roll county, Ark. who was sentenced I
? five years imprisonment for stealth
: $4,000 of the county funds, has apple
Q for new trial. His defence is that b
q kept the money in an old boot hidden i
r a hay loft, and that the boot was stole
Y while he was away from home.
|, The darkies who monopolizo the bn,
J mess of killing aliigators on the g7l
q coast get from so cents to 81 a skin. NJ
4 less than 500 600 are slaughtered ever
year for their leather, and ii isnot impol
n sible that alligator farms may be stnrte
:. in the south some day for the artifici,
!, propagation OF the reptiles = Bostl
, Herald
~ ANN ClAAbC1t JNhNdy -bCHONlH, III ID Snl(
,r do not graduate missionaries. TT
1t Cinnamon who join the schools do NJ
care two cents for Christianity. VIII
they want is toslearn English, and as 500
as this object is attained, thew have n
d further nse for shymn books aud cat
ID chisms. -R0I3n Herald.
10 We recently noticed the following lie,
4, in the menu Of French dinner; aPeti
l nlnm naEa oN1N Ill
~ onr neighhors in connection with o,
b. national language and our national cuisil
is are fearful and wonderful This OF
Id fairly takes the cake. y 0niOn GLoJ
r. Asked why the Salvation Army used ,
3. much red in their dress. General Booth
ar reported TO have said 1T grew on IL
e. We began by wearing small badge
to know each other. Then IL hacauie bips
"a and bigger, Till soms Of the officers Dire
10 iu red from top 70 toe. live and sic,
1r in red hope to die aul he buried in
and go to glory in it,"
The dismay of the London papers oS
the Queens order excluding from the pr
clnGts of Windsor all papers containiI
= any allusion to the Campbell diverse su
~. NAV best he judged by the fact that 7
"a to date the sturdy old London TINES h
!, given it 26 columns. Telegram 40 column
II the Means and Standard "a, and Il
~ Mronicle 81. Alas
ar Neither Sheffield nor Birmingham wi
ID all their skill, are able TO turn ont swo
N blade which can begin to compare wi
n, the wonderful sahres of Japan. A Col
l. mon feat for Japanese soldier is to cut
i. pig in two Mt a single blow, and ha
q seen bars of lead, aud even of iron, I
no vided by these weapons without not