Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

At RANDOM.
The first serpentlne walk was laid
out in the Garden of Eden ittsba,y
Dispatch.
1t requires a strong corporation to
throw bridge across river VASE
ington Star.
There is one thing that may be said
of o spider; there are no flies on it,
AtchtS0n Globe.
The turf will hardly lose its popu-
larity-a race is so much a matter Of
course-St. Joseph Ne,cS
Everything is fair in love and war,
It's said; but suppose the girl is dark p
Yoahers Statesman.
The only office that seeks the man
nowadays is on the top tloorot aseven
story building with no elevator Smtra
Gazette
The twitter of hluebirds reioices the
ear of the hen. She knows that garden
making is close at hand im9tdmt0a
Republican.
When he contemplates the under
takers bills man realizes that he saves
"A good deal every year of his life
BiRahomton Leader.
-"How is your boy getting along at
Harvard ~ "First rate. He writes me
that he goes to Boston every night to
study the stars. ~ Boston Gazette.
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Prayers have been offered in Chi.
cago churches for the abatement of the
grip. The grip must be very bad in
Chicago when that town goes on its
knees.
1t is stated in Utah that the Nor
mons will not go to Mexico after all.
This is bad news.
A woman can say more with few
tears than man can express in book.
--Rdm's Horn.
An owner of butting property
The suburban resident who keeps a
goat.-Detrod Free Press.
The father gathers his dollars in
cents; his son scatters the cents in dol
lars.-1foy Press.
The carpenter, like the county
school-teacher, is accustomed to board
ing around Y0akdrs Statesman.
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We suppose it is called the highway
because it is the way along which peo-
pie are accustomed to hie.-Binghdmton
LeGder.
Girls are but weak creatures, but
the most ethereal of them can throw
man over with the greatest Of ease.-St
Joseph Nelcs.
When you want to see the crooked
made straight, look at u railroad map
Ram's Horn.
To be properly appreciated, ones
organs Of speech should not be without
stops Boston T,unsc'4pt
-"Fetching little thing, isn't it?" as
the owner Of retrieyerpup remarked TO
friend.-st. Joseeh Ne''s'
Men ridicule woman's costume and
say il is uncomfortable, but how many
of them have ever tried S0mergslte
Journal.
The boy who fishes is bound to bait
his hook, even if he has to hook his bait.
--Nelo Orleans PicayHRe.
1t may be that revolutionary ideas
are the result of a turning of matters
over in the mind.-Detr0ft Free Press
No chance for him.-"What were
your husbands last words?" The
widow (sobbing)-"lIe hadn't any.
was with him. "-Boston Post.
"A wealth of sunny, golden hair not
infrequently changes to an unmistak-
able red color in a few months after
marriage. Rictm0ndRecorder.
The Rothschilds are believed 10 have
$4,000, 900 invested in American secu-
rites. Only the Rothschilds themselves
never tell family secrets. One of their
ulbbtpGG NlDlh ItNGI iCpthlo Nlldt ~
Sees" and another, "a man will not
tell what he has not heard" but some
idea of their riches can be had from the
fact that since 1915 they have raised
for Great Britain alone more than
$1,000, 100000; for Austria, $3.50, 100000;
for Prussia, S200,000,000; for France,
$d00,000,000; for Italy, nearly $780,
100000; for Russia, 1926, 100000; for
Rrazil, from $60,000,00O to S70,000000,
and for smaller states certainly between
100000, 900 and $500, 100000 more, per-
haps $3,000,000,
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1t is always pleasure to hear
Colonel lngersoll upon the lecture plat
form, but opportunities for doing so are
growing very rare. There ismore money
in cross-eXamining witness out Of his
senses than there is in being applauded
by an audience.-Ihe Times.
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-"What is home without a mother?n
is not near so serious to the New Eng
land man as "What is a prohibition
town without drug stores?"
e. Berry Wall, the dude king of
New York, has so far fallen from grace
as to have been sentenced TO three
years exclusion from the New York
Club, which has taken this heroic
method Of purging itself of member
whose bibulous weaknesses have dcgen-
Grated into notoriety.
Not sure about it.-"You'll let me
go to your wedding, will you not?"