Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-16

ltstll lnat SOME Oh IL SetS ho very uiy.-
Washington Post
This summer is cautioned to look
out for soft place to light. There's a
Fall just ahead of it, Washington Star.
IN THE suRFs.
She loves to daily with the surf
That boils upon the sandy beach,
And, careless mid the breakers foam,
Swims gayly out beyond my reach.
And l. poor serf of her caprice,
Would vainly kiss her dimpled hand,
But. poorer than the sounding sea,
Alas! haven't got the sand.
MN
THE PATIENT SUMNER BoARDER.
He slept up in the attic
With the boys and hired man; a
He made his morning toilet
With a battered old milkpan;
He lived on pork and gravy
And overweighted bread,
And the flies and skeeters ate him
From dawn till going to bed.
He bore it very meekly,
Nor grumbled all the while,
And though they charged him double
He paid it with smile
But he weakened one fine morning
And tainted dead away
When they asked if he could give 'em
"A lift at pitchin hay"
-New York Herald.
The Connecticut couple who are
making their wedding tour on bicycles
are evidently united for wheel or for
woe.-Boston Herald.
Pension Agent-Which wing of
Sherman's army was your husband in ?
Widow-From what he said / guess he
was in the tail.-Haryord Times.
I'm selecting number by which
Bardsley will be known in the peniten-
tiary the prison officials should bear in
mind his partially for Number One"
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
HER PHOTOGRAPH.
1t stands upon my cabinet,
A saucy, laughing, dark browed face.
A neck, curved graceful, draped around
With filmy folds of silken lace
Her eyes, dark, tender, seeking mine;
All smiling lips, sweet eyes, the same
You give me back no word, no sighn--
Too bad that ! forget your name
As a great matter may hang by
thread, so It was a weak little hair that
once defeated Hannibal Hamln for a
seat in the Senate. In the days when
Hamlin was speaker of the Maine as
sembly, there was a sensitive member
from city district whose approaching
badness caused him great concern. To
this gentleman Mr.. Hamlin one day in a
sportive manner said; BLANK, old
fellow, you've got one Of your hairs
crossed over the other" "You insult
me, sir" replied the indignant member,
and in memory of that fancied insult he
afterwards voted against Mr.. Hamlin
when the future Vice-president was
candidate for the Senate, and his vote
defeated him-New York World.
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THAT'S THE MATTER.
Break, break, break.
On your cold, gray crags, oh, sea,
For went broke on you last year,
And that's what's the matter with me.
oh well for the Summer Girl,
Who shouts with her brother" at play
I was her brother year ago,
In her sunshine made hay.
Let the stately ships go on,
To their haven under the hill,
While perspire at ten week.
Paying my last years bill.
-Mev York Herald.
There is girl in the London work
house who speaks language which
nobody can understand. What per-
feet railway brakeman she would makel
Boston Transcript.
NM
TILT WITH DEATH.
She flirted with each man she mot.
Then flirted for an hour with death.
But they no sooner were engaged
Than he to keep her stopped her breath.
She wrote note to dry goods store,
Did this sweet little summer maid,
Which said, ''Send me sample Of flannel
blue
And a sample of nice, wide braid"
A letter came from the dry goods store,
The samples were ''just too cute"
And the summer maid appeared next day
In brand new bathing suit.
%*&
When some men discharge an obli-
CATION you can hear the report for miles
around onkers Gazette.
THE ToUCH OFA F1NIsHED HAND.
Oh, why should the world seem strange,
With its beauty around me still2
And why should the slope of my swarded
path
Seem suddenly all uphill?
had gone, with buoysnt step,
So cheerily on my way
How could believe so calm light
Could turn to so chill gray?
And wherefore? Because the hand
That held in its clasp my own
Whose touch was benediction such