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Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-05
2Oth u. AaIkness Academy
or THE
tELiWlRE STATE NORMAL UNIVERSITY.

tELiWlRE STATE NORMAL UNIVERSITY.
From the editor Of Our Little Dnes and
the Nursery, and author OF many popular
books for the young including the celebrate /
oliver Optics Magazine:
BOSTON, October "a, 1885
1t Afiorcs me great pleasure to sly that [
have known Mis- Neiiic d. aarab.aut as a
writer Tor The last dozen years or more, and
that regard her as possessing great deal
OF poetic snius. AS an editor ! have as.
cepted land paid for many Of her poems,
which have been very highly spoken of in
print look upon her as lady Of the
highest character with lofty aims and with
the ability to accomplish any object she may
WILLIAM 7. ADAMS, "ullver Optic"
From Miss daTabrant's family physician
IL deacon 10 the Dutch Reformed Church:
nnye known Mis- Garabrant from hsr
chiidhood and know her to be earnest an er.
getic and efficient In that which she under
takes. EDWARD +. BUFFETT, M. d..
BIO bergen Avenue, Jersey Oily Heights
JUMP 18th, 1855.
From the First Presbyterian Church, O.
which Miss Gsrabrant has bean, and is a
member In good standing, since her child
hood
10 whOmsoever it may concern:
having known miss Nellie Harabrant
from her earliest childhood, 1t gives me
great pleasure TO speak OF her
She has surprised us by her energy and
unttring industry. Her beautiful tastes and
gifts as an art st have made US admire her,
and above all inc sweet Christian manner
In Will IN she has accepted all the burdens
the dear Heavenly Father has seen hi 10 lay
upon her, has made us love nor as a
Christian sister. She cannot fail TO receive
respect ana aIeeuon wherever she goee.
Widow Of the Rev. Edward w French.
u. d., pastor for thirty years OF the First
PresbS terian Church OF jersey City
Heights,
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-05

JULY nth 1885.


Trains leave wilmington - follows;
Philadelphia (expressl, + ata 100, 90,
70, SIS, 500, e1o, ~, 10 Oh, II 81, II HA.m
.ssennsas.;ah "a so g. e 50 a.
20, 4 90, 7 10, . 90, 10 30 p. IN.
For Chester texprossl, $50. 70, . %. slo
sE, IL 80, II 81, q. m, II 20, n, Q 10 and %
r Accommodation, . 40, = 90, = os, SIS, 10 90
am, 80, Z 90, I 20, . 90 and 10 80 p. m.
- ob, IL 81 q. m; sla n, lsA $50, su
~ ~ ! %, 10 80 .. m.
For West Chester, via I.amokin. $40 and
For Newark and intermediate stationa
I ~ a. IN, IL IS and Il p. m.
Baltimore ana intermediate stations, 10 10
a. M; SCI D. N. and II Oh night.
baltimore and Bay LAne,T.t6 :" NJ.
baltimore and Washington, 40, 70, o.
10 1o.ll 20 am; Il 2e,sl l7,< $50 70 and u
|p. m.
Trains for Delaware Division leave for
New CASTLE, 90, $50 AM; IL ts2 70, ~
0 20. ana IL % p. nj.
aeorgetown ana Aewss 30 .. m; 70 All
0 rs p. m.
sssiord ana intermediate stations. Gas p.
harrington, Delmar and way stations. Q 80
Express tor Harrington and Rshoboth. "
0. m Way trains, 8 80 a. IN. and o rs y. IN.
Express for Lover, Harrington and DeiMRr,
II ID p. N. evors day.
Franklin City, 9 30 am,
Express for Norfolk IL tb .. m. daily.
Leave Phiiadel phia, Broad street. fol
| Wilmington texpress), l22b, $50, TO
| 81, Q 10, 10 20, II 80, II 6b q. m, 3 Of, 0z
| o O8, n, o OF, Q 81, II 10 and II zap. m.
Accommodation, o 40, 10 28 .. m, 81, ~
rs, 0 "a, s IS, 9 80, 10 90 and II 81 p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS,
Tor Philadelphia texpress), 400, q "a, 4 90
! 10, II bl .. m, ~ and % p, m.
Accommodation, Q 80 D. m; II 10, 30, %
80, o 80 p. N.
For Chester express, 10, IL 81 q. M, 8 2;
and 90 p. IN.
Accommodation, 8 30 q. m, IL 10, ! 30, . %
70, and 9 81 p. N.
For Row YORK texpress), 100. q "a. 4 90
20, II 81 .. m; "a. 90 and y 10 p. IN.
For West Chester, via Lamokin, . so .. m
aud 8 Is p. m,
baltimore and WASHINGTON, l 80, Z 20, %
10 10 AN. and u I'm. BaitimOre, IL % night
Leave Philadelpnia, Broad street. for vii
nington (express), IL IS, 10, 70, 10 o. m.
81, II 10, and IL ~ N.
Accommodation, S36, 10 Is .. m, IL $50 II
8 95, and IL 81 p. m.
For further Information passengers are n
ferred to the ticket office at tho sta ton.
Tratns marx cd thus t&lare limited express
j. K. WOOD.
General Passenger Agent.
CHARMS L. PUCK General Manager.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-05

IT IS supposed that "Uncle Billy
I can" Is preparing for nnother charge
ON John @. Gooden, Of Kent County.
The subject will be "Skinning
8kunkn.n
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-05

WE DO NOT suppose that Sen Ator
Hoar Is any ways anxious to have his
Southern outrage Investigation resolu.
tion passed in the Senate, or he would
more psrsistently have urged its pass
age when it was before the Senate ON
Tuesday. II Is very good resolution
to have laid over from time to time, 30
that 1t can conveniently be called up at
any time to remind the Southern hot
bloods that their crimes against life,
property and the ballot box are not for
gotten, 1t makes the Sozthern Sena-
tors who hold their seats by fraud and
violence, squirm to be totd Of the means
by which they were elected. 1t may
not do much good to remind those
Senators OF the crimes in their States
against mirage, but 1t may serve to
keep the national conscience alive and
prepare the way for an ultimate reck-
oning when these crime, against the
suffrage are to stop.
A MAN NAMED Dow ing was, with
In q day or two, postmaster Of Toledo
Ohio. He was strong Republican, OF
at least protested to be one, until after
Ceveland's election, when he deserted
his party and became rampant Demo
crat In the hope OF being continued II
office. He is now bordering over hi
situation while thorough going Demo
crat occupies his place, and ia wonder
ing whether treachery pays. Bowling
has lost the postofice and unfortu
nately his character too, and continues
moving living monument Of the foil!
of selling political birthright for
mess Of pottsge, and miss getting tn
pottage at last.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-16
plTH AND POINT.

Memorial windows should be made
OF green glass. This suggests way Of
keeping memory green.-M o. Plea.
yune.
-Poet:. send you my poem. but
perhaps mistook in not writing re-
frain to it. Editor: No matter, Wen
do the refraining for you.
--Ottar of roses is now selling at Sl19
pound, and great deal of suffering
among poor people is expected this win
ter in consequence. -DOSton Transcript.
Nothing makes a miser feel his i'm
poverished condition 30 much as to
travel little and thus discover that
there is much Of the earth he can never
hope TO possess. Chicago Herald.
-Boarding-housc landladies arc as
much afraid Of strangers who do not
pay in advance as the average woman
is Of gun. They are SO liable TO go
off without moments warning.
1t is said that man who eats
onions always keep a secret This Is
partly due to the fact that the man who
eats onions is rarely allowed to ge'
within whispering distance Of his follow
men. Chicago Mda.
"A hygicnic journal says sweeping H.
one of the very best kind OF exercises
for women. Some young women will
regard this as very sweeping assertion,
unless the journal means sweeping the
floor with a very long train at balls and
parties. -NorristoOB Herald
"A man sued another for q note.
Two lawyers on each side were engaged,
score of witnesses were summoned, a
jury empaneled, and several hundred
citizens crowded the courtroom, as the
parties were conspicuous citizens. The
court opened and the note was pro-
duced. A close examination showed it
not TO be due under eight months
Court adjourned. .-BoSton budget.
Father" he asked in his childish
way, "suppose you owned a silver mine
way out in Nevada, and you was afraid
it would spoil in hot weather." "Spoil!
IIowp" "Wcll, l don't know how, but
the boys all say you had to use salt to
carry it through, and / was going to
ask" That's enough, sir. It's al
ready four minutes beyond your usual
bedtime. You can 90 to bed and let the
boys say on. n."-WdN Street NeDS.
-"My DEAR" said IN old man on his
daughters wedding morning, "a now
and untricd life is before you. You are
putting away forever the light and care
less existence OF girlhood and taking up
on yourself the serious responsibilities
of the wife. Do you feel that you will
approach the matrimonial altar to-night
impressed with full knowledge of the
solemn VOWS you there will take, and"
"0f course, papa; how absurdly you
talk" replied the young woman. But
we are to have q rehearsal this morning
at ten, and must not keep them wait
ing. Goodbye, papa. "-Ca;cago Tfib-
uile.
Then and Now
When you are young, how well you know
A little money makes great show.
Just fifty cents Will cause you bliss
IT'S then dollar looks like this;
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-16
WIT AND WISDOM.

-Contentment is more to be desired
than horse that can "go it" in two
minutes Chicago Ledger.
With what an air OF calm superior
ity hen will gobble a worm after the
rooster has scratched it up! There are
lots of hens in the world. THE Judge.
The cry that wives are in demand
comes from the far West, and yet the
Chicago pork packing houses turn out
tons of spare ribs every day.-Philadc'-
phia Herald.
lie that putteth money in his purse
is liable to be robbed, but he that on
richcth his mind putteth wealth where
the sand-bagger can not come at it,
Don't judge of moral character by
the countcnance. The frog is more in
nocent than many an animal that has q
handsomer physiognomy. Occideat,
ITS many years ago since the poet
wrote that "beauty draws us with a
single hair" 1t generally takes fifteen
dollar switch 10 do it now Chicago
Tribune.
Mime. Greville, in recent lecture,
said: "Once there was a young man
who fell in love with young lady"
This is true. We were intimately ac-
quainted with the young man.-Norrts-
toDn Herald.
Counsel Ito witness): Then you
think he struck you with malice afore-
thought" Witness Indignantly: You
can't mix me up like that. I've told
you twice he hit me with brick. There
wasn't no mallets, nor nothin' of the
kind about IN Y. Ledger.
--Sparin' the rod will spoil the child,
yes, but so will sparin' the parents
love, and sparin' the school-house, and
sparin' civilized home surroundin's,
You cant raise children without sun.
shine any more than melons, Chicago
journal.
-"Vesuvius is again in q state Of
eruption" read boy to his grand
mother, who was interested in Canadian
matters. "Well, l declare to good
ness" she answered, "that's what
comes of being so foolish and not get
ting vaccinated. oil City Derr1ck.E
While London chemist was test
ing bottle Of milk it exploded with .
loud report, scattering fragments Of
glass all over the room. Professor
Huxley's theory is thaS the cow had
been eating dynamite, bnt we think his
hypothesis is wrong, A more plausible
explanation is that some fond had
thrown nitro-glycerlne into the well.-
Norristo,0n Herald.
/ "A little boy had gathered a flower
in the London Botanical Gardens in de-
fiance of the rules of the society. His
mother, stately and somewhat pomp-
GUS dame, approached one OF the keep
ers, leading the culprit with one hand,
and holding forth the flower in the
other, and, in solemn tones, said: This is
the delinquent "No, beg your par
don, ma am" replied the civil official.
THAT there's polyanthus." /"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-16
sAeT COULD TALK.

A Ysar-oid ConversatIonaiist Whose Flow
of Language Is Simply Marvellous.
Many infants talk at surprisingly
early age. Instances have been known
Of babies yet in their swaddling clothes
who could discourse on all manner Of
topics. To be sure, the drift of their
remarks had to be interpreted by fond
mother, but no one would dare to say
that baby didn't talk.
myself heard year-old child say
great many things one day recently.
] was calling on friend whose baby
was just year old.
"Can he talk any yet?" I asked
"Talkp' exclaimed the fond mother,
with an injured look. u should think
so! He can just say everything. Cant
you, ducksy daddlep"
boo, boa, bee, yee, ya," screeched
baby, growing black in the face with the
effort.
"Hcar himr' cried tho fond mother.
He said 4 1guess lean talk. "
The information surprised me a little,
but discreetly held my peace.
"Now, tell the gentleman your
name," says baby's mamma, coaxingly.
"Boo, hoo, da, da, boo"
"Charles Edgar Jones, just as plain
as anything could say it, you little
sweetr' cries the triumphant mother.
My surprise increased.
"Now tell mamma who you like best
In all the world"
"Boo, baa, Doe, da, da!'
"How cunning!' l exclaim. ada,
da' means 'papa,' don't itP"
mercy, no! Didn't you hear the
little blessing say as plain as could be
that he liked tho gentleman beStP' He
means you!"
am ilattered, of course, and amazed
at my own stupidity. l thought | was
familiar with tho "King's English" but
the English of this little King is new to
me.
"Now say Sing song o. sixpence,
for the gentleman"
"Yce, yee, boo, boo, baa!' splutters
baby.
mo, no, deary," says mamma, re-
provingly; "thst's Little Bo Peep.
Now say the other.
"Boo, boo, bee, ga, yar
"That's It'll That's it, you blessed old
pretty boy! 1 kneso you could say i'll
And to think the gentleman asked If you
could talk any yet! ] guess he won't
ask it again"
guess, too, that l won't. Either that
baby or l can not speak the English
language in its purity, and l am averse
to displaying my possible ignorance
| Toledo Blade.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-16
puNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

Children under the age of sevet
prefer yellow to any other color. Most
grown ny people also have hankering
after yellow. Gold is yellow.
"A couple in Acworth, Ga, were
recently joined in wedlock while stand
ing on tombstone in cemetery. This
was too much-two tomb much.-NOr-
risto0n HeJHld
"A young couple were married by q
Justice in Lewstown, Me-, in feed
store, which the Justice Of the Peace
owned. The bride was pretty, and both
principals were from the country and in
wedding attire.
GOOD morning, Mrs. Gilligan;
how is Patrick this morning9" "Sure
he's no better, sir" "Why don't you
send him to the hospital to be treated"
''To be treated, is itp Faith an its the
delarium trimmins he has already. "
Boston Beacon.
--"Jim," said an honest coal dealer
to one of his drivers: Jim, make that
ton of coal two hundred pounds short,
II is for poor, delicate widow, and as
she will have to carry all of 1t up two
flights of stairs, l don't want her to
overtax her strength. "-Chicdgo Jour
nal.
-Wife-There! the paper says that
the Redwood family, out in the Yosem'
ite Valley, are often seen with trunks
forty feet in diameter. Now, don't you
ever complain of the size of my trunks
again, Richard. These Redwoods aren't
much of family either. l never heard
of them. TIdbits.
"A delicate little girl, just returned
! from farm where she had been
sent to spend the summer for her
health, said: "The pump out there
gives milk" at doesP" asked the
mother. "Yes, / saw the farmer pump
in can, and 1 looked in it and saw
nothing but milk. ."-Puck.
Don't show me any more of yom
impudencev' exclaimed the irate shop
per to the salesman; "don't lot me SEQ
your face again when l come in herer'
"Yes'm," he replied with an ingratia'
ting bow; is there anything else you
would like to look at, mem" Force
of habit; he couldn't help it, you know.
boston Transcript.
--Bowles, the English poet, was noted
for his Observation-Disclosures. He was in
the habit of daily riding through q
country turnpike-gate, and one day.
when he was on foot, he presented, AZ
usual, his twopence to the gate-keep-
er. "What is that forF" he asked
"For my horse, of course" "But, sir
you have no horse" "Dear mel' ex-
claimed the astonished poet, IAN
walkingP"
I'm archery a bow pulling thirty
pounds is considered the correct thing
for ladies. But we have known young
ladies Of very delicate constitution and
physique to pull beau weighing 25(
pounds from one division of the city tc
Us antipodes, and that seven nights in
the week. Chicago Telegram.
Depends on the shoulder
He saw her first at the garden gate,
Six months ago.
Her charming face was as pure as snow,
And his hoart was caught In the golden i0v
or the rlnglets of saucy Kate.
he saw her last with her shapely head,
Two hours ago,
On q manly shoulder nesting low;
And, seen gainst the cheek OF another boau
That hair was only red.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

The law regulating the government
OF Yale College prescribe that the Pres
ident of that institution must be
clergyman.
mo man with q well-balanced
mind would" says q correspondent,
send his son to college whost pro-
fessors are unbelievers. IN y Tribune.
The Military Academy Of West
Point is reported as being in high
state of efficiency. 1t is suggested that
the law be changed so that such Of the
graduates as are not at once assigned tc
duty after graduating may be retained
rs Second Lieutenants in the army, II
they desire it.-Troy Times.
The sale of Bibles, religious books
and magazines through the colporteurs
of Mr.. Surgeons church, amounted
during the past year 20 nearly $45, 900.
Seventy-eight men were employed in
the work, and 1900 towns and villages
were visited.-N Y. Examiner.
The boysin Chinese mission schools
usually prefer women teachers, perhaps
because these are more sympathetic
and patient with them, and there is a
story of one who, in the absence Of his
own teacher, was put under the in
struction of a man. He seemed uneasy
and unhappy, and when asked how the
lesson had gone, burst out with: ''Me
no likee man teacherl Me want old
gall" Chicago Times.
An old Scotch lady was told that
her minister used notes; she disbelieved
Il. Said one: go into the gallery
and see." She did so and saw the writ
ten sermon. After the luckless preacher
had concluded his reading on the last
page, he said "But will not enlarge. "
The old woman called out from her
lofty position: "Ye Gamma, ye Gamma.
for your papers give ootP-Christtdn
al Work.
When the wife of Alderman John
]. Turner, Of Amsterdam, MY, reached
her pew in St. Mary's Church recently,
she found board nailed across the en-
trance. She then went to the pew
OF her brother-in-law, Richard Tur-
ner, and there found the same con-
dition of things. Two Sundays ago
Father McIncrow gave notice from the
pulpit that il certain persons who were
in arrears on pew rents did not pay in
two weeks the pews would be nailed
up. Hence the lady's experience
Albany EUcning Journal.
Ae On illustration of the vnlun OI
well-directed help to feeble churches in
their struggling infancy, it is reported
that eight churches in Iowa have be-
come self-supporting during the year,
and four more will do so soon. Several
churches in Nebraska also enter the
ranks of self-supporting interests dur
ing the year. Without aid at the be
ginning they could not have succeeded
Now they will be not only self-support
ing, but become helpers Of others whC
yet need aid.-N. Y Examiner.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-16
Old Tony Weller.

Old Mr.. Weller was real person.
and we knew him. He was "Old
Chumlcy" in the flesh, and drove the
stage daily from Rochester to London
and back again. Once when my father
was in town, the sister next to me need.
ing the overlooking Of Sir James Clark.
she and were sent up to London under
the care Of Old Chumley. We were pu,
inside at our own gates, and the good
natured red-faced old fellow came regu-
larly to the door whenever we stopped
to change horses or to water them to
ask the little misses il they wanted any
thing, or how they found themselves, =
Mrs. Lynn Linton, in Fortnlghily Re-
vleU.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
Costly living is gircn as the cause
Of the loss of students at Yale College.

Costly living is giren as the cause
Of the loss of students at Yale College.
Tho Indian boys in the Educational
Home at Philadelphia are to be admit
ted to tho public schools.
The Bible Society of Great Britain
has sold in nine months $50, 900 copies Of
the penny New Testament.
Jacob Haish, of Colorado, recently
subscribed $4,000 to tile Methodist
University Of Denver.
During forty years $20O,OOO,0OC
have been expended by members of the
Church of England in building and re-
storing clAlrches.
The Presbyterians of Paris have
bought for $4,000 the church in which
lie American Episcopalians have hith-
erto worshippcd. Their congregation
is made up OF English, Scotch, Irish and
American Presbyterians.
Philadelphia is Justly entitled to the
proud distinction Of being the leading
city In the United States for Sunday
school work. There are in that city 555
Sunday-schools, with 1856, ,348 scholars
and l5,363 teachers, constituting in all
nearly One-lifth of the population
Christian Union.
AT recent meeting of the Board Of
Managers Of the Evangelical Alliance
Of the United States Rev. Dr. James M.
King was made Honorary Secretary.
the Office formerly held by the late DR..
Samuel Iren@us Prime. DR.. King has
been for some time member of the
Board of Managcrs.-M y Tribune.
AN illustration of the fact that
school attendance during cpidcmics
largely contributes to the spead of in
fcctious diseases, it is stated thGt during
the late serious outbreaks of diphthcria
in the ironstone villages of England the
closing of a school proved in every in
stance an effective means of bringing
each local epidemic TO an end Chicago
Herald.
Professor Eaton, of Yale College,
in recent lecture to the students, told
them that it was not certain Eve
tempted Adam with an apple in the
Garden OF Eden. He thinks it probable
it was ounce, "bccause the apple of
the present day was propagatcd from
the crab apple, and it is not at all likely
Adam would have been taken in by
such puckery little bait"
The following from the early town
records of York, Me-, we give verbatim
ct literatim: "At Legal Town meeting
holden in York Sept. the 25th, I'LL,
Voted that this Town will have Gram'r
School Master for one year 10 Teach
our Children in the Larncd Tungs and
to Rcaqc write Cypher: 10 keep said
School in the Center of our said town
of York; which said School Master is
to be paid and subsstcd by our spid
Town"
The Tuskegee Normal School. at
Tuskegee, Ala, which was organized
four years ago, has been from the first
under the control of colored teachers.
During these four years five hundred
acres Of land have been secured; two
large buildings have been put up, be.
sides half dozen smaller buildings.
The institution opened with one teacher
and thirty students. There arc at pres
ent II teachers and 225 students in the
normal school and 136 in the training
school, The school is largely dependent
on charity, there being an annual OK
pensc OF about s15, 600. = Chicago Times.