Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-06-24
HERE AND THERE.

then walked home.
Jefferson Davis, ~ says u Chicago news.
paper, ''speaks elegant English" Yes,
hut he speaks rather too much OF it,
ArAaasdD Traveller.
We see a lengthy article going the
rounds of the papers headed "How TO
Manage Wife" We didn't readit no
Kentucky State journal.
A man named Benjamin Il. Butler has
committed suicide. II is not known
whether there was any other reason for
the rash aot.-NeU Hdoen Neos
A mountain grouse pursued by hawk
flew into Lake City, Col, and through n
pane of plate glass three-eighths of an
inch thick. Damage to glass, $40.
"You never saw my hands as dirty as
that" said petulant mother to her little
girl. mo, but your mother did !" was
the reply Wilmington ~ O. Star.
The man most anxious about his social
position is the man who never had any
such position, though he has tried to buy
it with money.-Neso Orleans Picaguae.
Twenty-Five years ago E. G. Short Of
Carthage, N. Y, stamped his initials on a
copper cent. A few days ago the cent
came back 10 him through the hands of a
customer.
Customer-"Waiter, this piece of
chicken has the pin feathers on il yet"
Waiter-'Yes, sir; we leaves 'em on to
show that it's young chicken. -Nep
HdUen Nes0s
Mrs. Rosella Scroggins of Gainesville,
Ga, claims to be the oldest person in the
state, and she probably is, being now in
her 10th year. She hears we'll and is
quite active.
"The world knows nothing of its great
est men," The New Orleans Times demo
crdt Gays: George Washington grew mp
in an atmosphere of pig-iron. n-Neio
York Egeaing Post.
A patent medicine maker adyertises
unparalleled cures, incredible were they
not in our midst" That is the place
where cures should be effected if any
where.-LOaoeH Courier.
Little Claude Caughell, 0 years old,
was bitten in the foot by rattlesnake, in
the foot hills, near Fresno, CAL, and died
within three hours, in spite of whisky
and other alleged antidotes.
81 understand our friend Miss High
note is singing with considerable success
in South America" sis, eh2 Glad to
hear it." THAT she is singing 2" ''Yes
i'm South America. u idJitS.
Prof, ssor Felix Adler says that con-
tinued heat produces crime. We don't
know much about this, but the Scripture
teaches that continued crime results
eventually in heat.-Nea0 Ha0ea Ne,os.
There iq no doubt that Sam Jones has
gone back to his weed. He told an
Atlanta reporter that when he felt rich
he smoked cigar, and when he felt poor
he smoked pipe. He denied that he
had ever stopped smoking.
The Springfield Republican says that +.
w. Booth of Essex junction, Vt, twill
put down 10000 dozen eggs this season."
Mr., Booth is not professional egg swal-
lower; he is simply large dealer in
lined eggs for the winter market. N. Y.
Sun.
A North Carolina guinea hen had nest
in hedge row. A crow discovered il, and
after trying in vain TO break an egg with
its beGk, clutched one in its claws, and,
flying up 40 or 80 feet in the air, let it
fall, and thus accomplished its purpose,
Mrs. Charlotte Weld Fowler, who died
in Hamonassett, Conn, recently, at the
age of %, was famous local antiquarian
and genealogist. Al the age of sc she
wrote and published the history of the
Weld family, covering the period from
1898 TO 1878.
A young colored woman in LakeView,
N. j., while carrying Kettle OF boiling
water, suddenly tainted and fell She
kept right hold of the kettle, and thus
succeeded in pouring its entire contents
over her legs, scalding herself terribly.
A traveller in New Mexico discovered
tho Greek letters A X. II. on IL lot of cnt-
tie. The average cowboy didn't know
what triangle, X. f." meant, but the
traveller said that the owner was UNI
doubleday a ''Dcke" from an Eastern col
lege.
Experiments in Australia garrisons
| prove TINT where the floors of the bar
racks are painted with tar the collection
of dust in cracks is prevented, and there
is n consequent diminution in irritative
diseases of the oye. There is also great
diminution of parasites.
A Poor Illustration Don't You know
how many three times 10 is? Now,
Harry" said the teacher, "if one loaf oil
bread cost 10 CENTS wouldn't three cost
80 cents 7" Maybe so nj your bakery
but we deal with baker that gives three
for quarter. y 7ezas ISiftingS.
In review of Mr.. Fred Kilton't
"Dickensiana," lie Temps recalls atten
ton to the famous blunder of n grave
German critic, who said: "In order tC
prove the absurd Irregularities of English
pronunciation it will suffice to state that
the word Roz is pronounced Dickens"
l.. and S. W. Rail-Ery-Precise OLD
Lady Ito porter)-"Porter is this a smok
ing carriage2" Rollicking Porter (confi
dentially)"No, mum, but if you wants tC
have a Whit on the quiet, I'll square il
with the guard for you" Holds out hit
hand for fec; old lady puts u tract in it
Sold. l-M0Onshine.
A baby carriage containing a nine
months-old infant got away from thu
nurse and rushed violently down a steer
place in Eau Claire, Wis. Fortunately /
mail carrier with the unheroic name O
Sloggy grabbed the carriage Just Us it wal
about to jump the sidewalk and fall eigh
feet to the road beneath.-N. y. SIN.
Thomas Gary of Fishkill Hook, thi
state, insists that he has hen turkey tina
for three weeks past has laid one eg(
every day except Sunday, and then ha
laid two. He says he can't be mistaken
because there is no other hen turkey any
where about that neighborhood.
DIR. J. Milton Bowers, the San Fran
cisco physician who was charged will
numbering bis wife, has been found guilt,
and sentenced to be hanged. His victim
was the third wife who had mysteriousl,
died, leaving him considerable property
His method WINS to give the women phos
phorus in small doses.
Accounts begin to come in of girls VIII
kill themselves jumping the rope. TIL
ll-year-old daughter of Andrew Bosme
Louisville has just died after matching
herself against some playmates Mt pic
hic. She jumped until she brought OF
henrt palpitation that could not be con
trolled.
A Louisville lady says that miiliner
are the Sharpest dealers on earth, an,
SUIT their prices to their customers
pocketbooks. She knows, for, after try
ing vainly to buy bonnet for less thai
the S25 asked, she went home and de
scribed tho bonnet TO her servant. VIII,
went to the shop and bought it for $l2.
Little Bob Mallory of Paris, Mo-, mad
TN extraordinary catch while fishing Tn
other day. A little eel took his hook
and at the same time big fish attempte,
to swallow the eel. In the struggle tn
fish got caught by the hook, and bot
were hauled ashore, with the eel half wa
through the fish's gill.
Employer nm very suspicious o