Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-27
EVENING ECHOES.

in Philadelphia will run a whole year
without stopping. Second Drummer
You don't mean run; you mean go.
Nothing runs in Philadelphia-Jesoelers'
Circular.
Old Fuddy-George, just look in the
dictionary and see what the meaning OF
syzygyi sP George-Oh, bother Why
not write to the editor of the Sunbeam
and ask him. 1t will save labor, and
besides ii will make him think we are
literary lights. Old Fuddy-George,
you're genius, that's what you are
Boston Transcript
Esther-Do tell me, Jack, what Is
schooner? Jack-Why, you know, a
schooner is two-masted sailing vessel.
/ thought you were up in yachting,
Esther-Not especially, and l thought
YOU didn't care for it but heard Mr..
Sharp say the other day that you could
manage more schooners than any fellow |
at the HOTEL Boston Beacon.
"Help!" cried Colonel Kaintuck, who
had fallen into the Ohio river at Louis
Vile. "Helpi | shall drown y mo, |
YOU WON'T said man on the bank,
''Hold on to that log, while get boat
and help you ont" "But the waters
getting into to my mouth" yelled the
colonel desperately. All the bystanders
Immediately rushed to his rescue
Light,
OVERRIDING It-Drummer-What do
you mean by pounding on the door at
this hour in the morningY | gave no
order to be walked up Colored Porter
| know dat, boss, but specs yer to glib
me half Il dollar when you LEADS de
house, and wanted to do sutiln to earn
de money, 50 | jes pounded on yo' do
to make yer feel you wasn't bein'
robbed. Pittsjufg Dispatch.
An American recently sent to Lon
don friend some gloriously colored au
tumn leaves. Did the Londoner in his
reply go into ecstacies over them as the
fairest products OF the dying year? Not
much. What he really said was just
this: "Leaves came TO hand all right, old
boy. They are quite too awfully Jolly
don't yuI know; in fact, very Burne
Jonesy and that sort Of thing, you
know. Thanks, very much"
II is a curious reflection on the intelli-
gcnce of mankind that while animals
easily learn ollr language we make no
advance at all in learning theirs. One
cannot help hoping that some future
generation of men may be sufficiently
kind and patient and large hearted to be-
lieye what these dependent creatures
have to say to us may sometimes be as
important as what we have TO say to
them and to act neutrality-suspicious.
Dispatch.
Mr.. Jason-Just listen at this. The
reporter must have been drunk. "First
R0und-Two chain, to stand up, to
begin upon, and work to star: Join
evenly. Second Round-Two chain;
work ten stars over six; last round joins
evenly Now, what kind Of a fool re-
port is that Mrs Jason-Why, that
must be crochet, Jehiel Mr.. Jason
Oh, crochet is it? | thought it was a
prize fight. Indianapolis JDVrndI
"Yon would love me just as much,
would you not, George, if | wasn't a
. rich mans daughterYn sure said
George. well, I amt" "No?"
"Father has failcd,n said the beautiful
girl as She watched George closely. "He
has failed and has placed all his prop.
cfty in mothers name, and now aim a
: rich woman's daughter II call all
: such bluffs as that?n soliloquized George
!, an hour later as he walked home bathed
i in the glorious light of the full moon
! 81 Edpt Pioneer Press.
"Whose picture is this on the ten-cent
i stamp" reporter inquired Of stamp
seller in the poSt-0tiice. The man took
= down sheet of ten.cent stamps and re,
i garded them critically. well, said he
I dots der first time | ever hear about
q dot. | give it up. fought every pic
Il ture got der fellcr's name underneath it,
( already OF course, there never We're
/ any names on postage stamp portraits
but this story shows that man may
2 handle goods year in and year ont and
n not know anything about them after all
d Captain, said grocery keeper, ad
/. dressing Il well-known gentleman, I'd,
p You remember that sack of flour yot
i. ordered some time agogn ooh, yes,
3 remember it. Il suppose 50, but don
e remember that You ever paid for II.
l. 8 My dear sir, am not responsible TO
your bad memory. have remembered
d my part of it. Memory is a peculia
,e faculty, and is susceptible of great cul
q tiyation. Some Of the Grecans coult
Is repeat volumes Of poetry, Well, gooc
L morning. ~ RdBsam Tfar6ler.
The innocent residents Of Alask,
2 have caught on to all the tricks of
refined civilization, In illustration o
n this fact the san Francisco Chl0hhI
NJ relates that not many years ago the.
Il used to take half-dollars, hammer then
" out very thin and manufacture then
10 into bracelets. These curios were sol
Il for $3.50 10 So at the most Who
steamer loads of tourists commenced
going to Alaska in the summer the
bought up the bracelets as fast as the,
wore made, The native Alaskan say
fortunes in store for him. The bracelet
~ could not be made fast enough 10 sur
y PLY the demand, and he formed a sort Q
" syndicate with his brothers. This syn
y diaatn sent to San Francisco and ha
" hundreds Of these bracelets manufac
" ured and reshipped to Alaska. Their
y they are retailed to the guieless eXcul
~ sionist at Ss Or 50 pair
In one of the most gruesomc parts {
~ the London Tower says an America
Y who recently visited that institution
"the following bit of conversation cam
" to my cars; : ] say, Jimmie, whatevt
~ will do when the bloomin' bamns al
4. callcd2 shall ferl such silly to kno'
= l'In going to be married woman
Shall YOU, nov, Mary laneT he r.
" plies, 'Well, 'uw do You think | sha
~, feel? 1t ain't no nonsense getting ma
~ ried, for a man gcts to be ii rate pay
then, and no mistake, and 'c's a ous
Older and that Then an interval q
sues Of eloquent silence The checks
the girl grow pinker, and the man wax
- seIf-consciOus and awkward, and |, vi
o9S listen TO the chatter, walk quite aw;
from it all, and muse on the great pro
% lens of love and life and mummies, +
here are mnmmies galore, to right N
IN left, in various degrees of stony, cal
~ content