Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-19
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Its always fly time with absconders.
-Pittsbu,g Chronicle.
NM
"A cooks experiments cover consider
able range YoRkers Statesman.
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The treasury will bear the marks of
the legislative jimmy for some time to
come Washington Post.
NM
Any party save the Farmers Alli-
ance seems to go against the grain out
vest Washington Star.
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-"Never play at any game of chance"
The man who hides four aces in his
sleeve observes this rule I61ds Siftings.
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1t was quite natural that the prod
uct of Lord Tennyson's fancy should
command fancy price.--Bubdto E1-
press.
The devil doesn't care how solemn
n man looks if he forgets to be religious
willie heis trading horses. -Rdnss Horn.
MN
Bees are said to be possessed of
powerful memories. So are all people
to whom bee ever introduces himself.
-lfichmOnd Recorder.
"A watched pot never bols, but il
often makes the man who watches it
boil to see the other fellow rake il in
Biaghamtoa Leader.
There is difference between a high
way robbery and a lowway robbery-.if
you don't believe itgo to the church fair
-EInir0 Gazette.
MN
The chief trouble with our so-called
reciprocity treaty with Brazil is that it
is neither reciprocity nor u treaty.-NY
World.
The Duchess d Uzes, who spent
fortune in the bad cause of Boulanger,
is i'll in Paris with fever and ague. Her
friends hope that while she is about II
she will shake Bonlanger.
--Boggs-I see by the papers that
Plalnfield man has had his glass eye
stolen.
Wagg- You don't say. Did he have
his socket picked.
Philadelphia sentences her four
Congressman TO sip in silence and alone,
with thirst that is never quenched, d
mintlcss julep for ever and a day.
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Any wounded duck that escapes
President lIarrison's unerring shot will
have a lame excuse for getting a way.
NM
Speaker Reed has seen Carmcncita's
dancing, but it didn't surprise him
greatly. lie has seen too much kicking
in the House for that
MN
Philadelphia has spent fourteen mil
lion dollars on her city hall and it isn't
near done yet; but she has the satiSfac-
ton of knowing when it is finished it
will be the biggest and finest elephant
in the land.
The young New Yorker whose let
ter promised that he would commit sui
eide at certain hour is still alive,
because he met 4 jolly friend Just at the
critical moment. Here is case where
killing time saved life.
Drawing from lifc-A lynching.
There are no tramps in China.
Tramps object to chop-sticks.-
Rochester Pest.
The less sense a fool has the more
sense it takes to manage him.-.AtchiSoa
Globe.
Some of the smartest men on earth
have not had sense enough to place
fair estimate upon themselves.-Dalias
Ncps
Notwithstanding the dearth Of
waiting maids, those of 30
and upward, are easy to get-Esmira
Gazette.
1t is little chilly vet, but get ready
nevertheless to put in more time on that
garden than four such gardens are
worth. OF Ciy Blizzard.
"A ton of diamonds at the present
day is worth $35,000,000. We furnish
this information to prevent the public
being ovcrcharged Monroe city NticS.
The latest English style Of shaking
hands, Judging from the description, re-
sembles the wcll-known popular method
Of handling a hot potato taghdmton
Rfpajlirda.
"A little girl in Boston, born one
goth of February, said to her mother
Mamma, If had been yearolder and
there hadn't been any 29th of February
in that year, wouldn't have been born
at all ~ Boston Iraelto.
Mr.. Porter's census figures show
that the average value of horses in the
United States is but SCI, while mules
average $1f.SS. Still, this simply CON
firms the suspicion that there is alto
gether too much mule in Porter's census.
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-Sappy- Then, can You give ME no
hope2 Is there a yawning gulf be-
tween us?
Amy-Fm afraid 50, Mr.. Sappy. You
certainly make me yitwn.
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A woman may weep in palace
That her marriage did occur,
But She viii rejoice in hoyel
With the fellow who's good to her.
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Uncle Ted-Iones hasn't any more
friends than he can shake stick at,
Tom.
rom-No; but he managed to beat
them, all the same.
"a wise son knowcth his own
fathers Elaird Gazette.
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Gratis are never sick. They have so