Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-08-01
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to each other, and thrashed their seconds.
~ want to write letter to the Score
tary of the Navy. Shall address him
as 'Your Exeeleroy p" "0h. no, use
the term, Your Warship. "-L9d.
The soprano gently laid her head on
the baaso's shoulder aud went to sleep
and was immediately put out for nap
ping on second bass.
In the Bookstore-'You are looking
for novels or for poems-perhaps Goethe
or 80 iller ?" sob, no poems. My son
writes them every day at home. Fife
9ends Blatter.
He writeth host who steale'h best
ldeas. both great and small:
For the great soul who wrote them firet
From Nature stole them all
Countrymau-"I guess I'll take pair
o. them fifteen-cent stockings, mister :"
Deaier-"Yes, sir; will ole pair he
enoughfn Countryman Plenty. Yo
don't expect Teller to lnad up on stock
ings With summer only bout month of,
do yep rcadn9s.
Patient--"Weil, doctor, what do you
think OF the swelling on the back of my
neck ?" Dootor-"I don't like the looks
OF il as it is on very dangerous place,
SO my adviee to vnu il to keep your eye
on it."-Teras Strings.
In the kissing line the Birmingham girl
Can discount the girl from SiouS;
One taste of her lip anil her cllnging grip
VIII lift a man ont of his ahioux.
--BpHtinyham Aye-Herdld.
Professor j. Hammond Trumhuil O!
II. Il Il. A al
who can read the Eliot Indian bible,
copies OF which ara priced very highly by
collectors. II is doubtful IL one person
in thousand, oven in so thoroughly
trained and educated community rs
Hartford, has seen one of these noted
works -Ha'tfard Post
writer in scientific magazine says
the earth is heing bored too much and ir
liable TO lose its place among the heavenly
bodies in consequence. The busy editor
can sympathiGs with the earth. He Ia
also likely to lose his place among the
heavenly bodies by being bored toe
muoh--judRing from the language he
uaes when the bore leaves. NorTistopn
Herald.
Rival cities. lawyer -"Aud,
gentlemen of the jury, remember you
cin't take this poor mans life without
reducing the population of our mighty
metropolis an act of which / am sure
such patriotic citizens AZ yourselves will
never be guilty whils B'ooklyu puts In
her absurd elaine TO boiog theth I'd great
city in the country. n-7As hip 'ch,
In Deep Mourning: Freddy-I fawncy
You feel pwatty dwasdful oy,h the death
OF youah nuntie. 'austus-Y4as | will
have my new mourning to'morrow have
something entrsly new IN the way of
mourning, y'know. Freddy-Tell
fellah, do. 'GustIs--Littlo band of Grape
around my cigarettes Frsddv-Gad I
ISL srmN Of my welAtiyes won exniah.
Dasded il / don't try it.-NGte's Maya
rine.
Correct Diagnosis Doctor (fsel irg
patient. pu'seJ -"What ia your hus-
Nand's hnsiness!' eauent's W,fe-.Ha
is a merchant d Has he been over.
work ns him elf " la,e?" p. w.-"Not
taGt am aware o." d. (musingly)--
''ainRu ar" Z. W. ITO bought an
amateur photogrspa4r's outfit last week,
and he has be-n busy ever since trting
to make picture" D.-"Am! Brain
fever. - Boston Courier.
In Chicago Firnt Ohicsgo man Grcat
Scott who ia that poor fellow? He
mnst be q John,town sufferer. second
| Chicago mSn-No; know him. He's a
It. Louis sufferer. FIRST o. (4urprised)
"A ut, Louis sufferer? WHAT'S that 2
Any disea'o down there Second O.
COMMUNICATING )--Oh, no. He only
has to live there, that's NIL. First q.
Poor, poor fellow Let'a take up a
collection =. Washington critic
Little Jimmy visits his tetber's office,
aud, after eSaminirg she type wrltipd
machine, observed to his inothsr Say,
marnIar, what do they rake tbds9 to the
theatre for2" "My boy" replies his
mober, 'they do not taEe them to tbs
theatre" swell, its mighty funny, then,
o. was tell'n' Mr MoNohiea thar he 100 Z
hia type'w writer to the thea" "Jamts +"
his father sterniy, l will s-a vou IN
aieble this evening Draks'S .HiSG
".bo YOU play the barIos" The fresh man asked;
/ MA back her answer Swcoty came,
| NO, negrr learned the banjo, lie,
| Bul guitar ali tue same
- Y. Ma! and EBpr,,s.
| o. Andrew Ststaon, who died at the
age Of 81 i'll Durbury. Macs last week,
the Spnugtisid heDu5G an saws: He was
one of three parsons whose lives cover
the whole Of New England's history, and
the three signatures are recorded among
the records OF Plymouth in Pilgrim aail.
| The chain runs as follows: Mr.. Ststeon
! reGemberpd Ebenezar Onnb, who died in
1891 aud WAS born in 1921; and Mr.. Cobb
remembered Psregriuo Write. who was
bofn in the cabin Of the Mag flower and
died in 1904.
Tho religions editor OF tho Boetnn
HerG q made bad break tho other day.
Commenting ON the fact that on a bell in
church in Newton are engraved the
words, Blessed are the people that know
the Joyfu sound,n he remarked that
these words are also engraved on csr.
tain Hebrew shofsr, or rams horn. And
then he added, That legend of tho
Jews should now be placed upon the bsll
that hangs over house of worship
erected by Genties ia indicative Of tie
leVellnR tendencies OF modern progress"
As a matter of fact, the words in question
are taken from the Psalms, which sre
recognized by Christians as we'll as Jaws.
THE great Tuu of Heidelberg" says q
London contemporary, sis to bs dep sod
from its proud supremacy over all other
wine casks. There is on the road to
Paris a huge barrel which will compel
the colossus OF Heidelberg, to take, Ia
the future, a secondary place. The
cask was naturally declined as slight By
the railways, for the obvious reason that
1t could not pass under their arches.
However, it's triumphAl journey through
France, dragged by ~ yoks OF oxen and
mounted on lordly vain. was in better
| keeping with the object II il TO aerya