Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-06
At RANDOM.

At RANDOM.
Birds never quarrel over difference
Of pinion.-- Yonkers Gazette.
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The modern girl often longs for
such a Boaz Ruth had.-Binghamto
The individual who entertains
thought wouldn't always like a neigh
Dor to see his guest.-7eras SJItinss.
MN
During the Presidents visit to Sara
toga Congress water should be the IA
vorite beverage. -BdItimore American.
MN
1t is stated that in many of the sea-
side hotels the chief end of the walters
existence is becoming the tip end
Philadelphia Times:
The only objection to the self-made
man is that in so many cases he has
failed to put himself together so as to
work noiselessly.- Washington Star.
FOREIGN ALLIANCE.
The Bride. The Groom.
Account. A Count
-Neic York Herald.
-Philadelphians are said to carry
around $2,500,000 worth of gold in their
teeth. Doubtless they think it is safer
there than in the banks of that town.
Chicago Post.
The "social round" must be the
waltz.-Boston Transcript.
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The Ocean Grove bathers don't
care wrap for the prudes. Pittsburg
Post.
Wheat differs from babies in that it
is never Graded until after it gets a
ard.-Bin3hdmton Republican.
Order may not be the first law of
the boniface, yet with him everything is
inn-keeping.- Yonkers Gazette.
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The man that does not believe that
two heads are better than one is the
father of new twins.-Tesds iSUtings.
MN
1t is said figures never lie; but those
made up for the ballet are not always
true to nature.-Neio Orleans Picayune.
NM
II am general favorit," said the
soda-water clerk, and then he success
fully lodged three tumblers.- IKashing-
ton Star
REFLECTIONS ON COLLECTIONS.
SIcKEL's WORTH.
When with quiet soothing homily
The parson doth my Sunday fancy tickle
never fail TO open my heart and purse
And tip the gentle deacon with nickel
DIMES WORTH.
When on the wickedness of all the world,
Ourselves excepted, our ideas chime
! always smile upon the clergyman
And tip the Sinking deacon with dime.
QUARTERS WORTH.
When from the grim, old fashioned, fiery
hell
Our clergyman doth take the sulphurous
charter,
tip the smiling deacon with quarter.
A DOLLARS WORTH.
When for the widow and the orphan sad
Our Clergyman with eloquence doth
drop a tear and with sigh and prayer
tip the deacon with dollar bill.
THE BUTTONS WORTH.
But when for some unlaundered brand Of
| heather
Our foolish clergyman prcsumes to prat,
go to sleep, and when the deacon wake!
me
drop an humble button on his plate.
-Ne~ York Herald
HER FAN.
She tapped me with her fan
The fan that fiuttered in and out
And here and there and here about
In lazy, soft, conccntric curves,
Or swift, Kaleidoscope swerves,
That rose and fell To intervene
Betimes some tender glance between,
Or sweeping fro and to again
Put furious madness in my brain,
or idly poised in artless wise
Concealed the mocking of her eyes
Whose silken touch and perfumed sway
Allured me on and kept at bay.
II broke my heart and broke my purse
And drives me wildly into verse,
The fan that tiuttered in and ont
And here and there and here about
She tapped me with her fan.
--NeW York Herald.
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Almost every traveller is devote
of tobacco, and every horse you see i
the street has bit in his mouth BoStO
Transcript.
The tramp may not be as black {
he is painted, but his slow pace prov,
that he Is not fast color. Besid,
this, he won't wash.--Baltimorc AMer
; can.
Owing to an ailment that is "puz
ling the DOCTORS" Swedish patient
Q Milwaukee puffs up enormously abol
r the body every night SO that the cloth
he wears in the daytime don't begin
r fit him. He is the swell evening par
r Of the neighborhood. = Philddelph
, Ledger.
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e THE HAMMOCK.
n They sat in the hammock beneath the tt
a Their faces were famed by the evcniI
His arm was around her, it was tig
>, squeeze,
i For they sat, oh so close in the hal
: mock.
They sat in the hammock, and careless
swang
! The hammock as thought were a scu
n and they sang
n And their voices upon the cool evening
n rang,
d AS they sang and they swang in t
hammock.
They sat in the hammock, but twasnt
long,
Z A shrill voice broke in on their sw,
% sounding song,
u 'Twas her mothers, who shouted in
U CENTS niliIn strnnn.