Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-10-19
EYENING ECHO rs

"Gqzzler is very shallow fellow"
"Humphl Guess you never asked him
to take drink, did you ?"
Willie Keep--"I was once very strongly
tempted to blow out my bwains." Ethel
Knox-"Did you do itG''-B Brooklyn Life.
American (who thinks he can speak
French)-"Au reseryoirw Frenchman
(who thinks he can speak English
"T'anks p
"Willie never does stroke of work.
but his parents seem to think the world
of him." Eyes He's the family idle. +"
Washington Star.
Magistrate-"The case against Won
looks pretty dark, Mr.. Johnson" MIR,
Johnson-"Dat's all right, Jedge: [ kin
prove an albino."-Puck.
Sammy-"Did you ever see the Old
Man of the Sea?" Johnny-"No, but
| know who he is. He is the father of
the mermaids. Chicago Inter. Ocean.
Manager of Dime Museum ito glass
eater)-"What's the matter with Won ?
You look sick" Glass eater-"f ate
some window glass, and got pane in
my stomach"
A lady reader wants to know if we
believe in cures by "laying on of hands,
We do, madame, we do, most fervently.
But slipper or pine single is better
Galveston NeDs.
Hicks-"Smeddle always speaks we'll
of everybody" Wicks-"Mere matter
of habit. He worked at cutting out
tombstone epitaphs for several years. -
Boston Transcript.
You may speak," said fond mother,
about people having strength of mind;
but when it comes to strength of don't
mind, my son William surpasses any
ono | ever - lid Bits.
There's nothing in life half so sweet
as loves young dream-unless it is to
come down in the morning and to find
that the cook, who threatened to leave
the night before, has reconsidered,
"Do you still have colored servants.
Hicks?" "Well, in sense. We don't
have negroes any more, but we've got
three of the greenest girls you ever saw
in the house now,"--Hayper's Bazar.
" wish, sighed farley to his wife,
that | could get receipt for happi-
ness" Well, perhaps some time if you
Will give me a little happiness, I'll give
You a receipt for it," returned Mrs. l.
Hdrper's Bdzdr.
"Say," said the disguised author al
intended this play for the stage. ""YellY
queried the manager. 81 thought, from
the lot of cuts you have put in il, that
perhaps you imagined intended il for
publication. "-indiaRapoiis journal.
He-"You consider engagements hind
ing, you say?". She-"Yes." He
"And yet you confess that YOU were
engaged to two men at the same time.
How can that bepossible ?" She--"rhe
engagements were binding on them, but
not on me. "-P. Dc s. Bulletin
A strapping country lass, when talk
ing about Partisan lady who had taken
her into her service, said among other
things: "In fact, she is SO weak that,
when she feels warm, she never fans
herself, for fear of being thrown back
wards to the ground. "-Heures Dorces.
Llterature.-Scene, a store near High
land Light A lounging tourist, looking
at copy for sale of rhoreau's "Cape
Gods" "Ah Thoreau He was a great
writer, he was He wrote many Of his
works in Latin, down there in Concord,
he did. Why, Colonel Higginson, who
looked over his writings after he died.
said 1t would take man who was we'll
posted to translate them"
Uncle Silas was at the theatre. It was
with intense delight that he saw the
acrobat go across the stage on his hands.
Turning to his wife he said: "Well, [
am glad found it out at last" "Found
what outW "How they do it. I've
often read in the funny papers about
actors walkin' on their uppers, but |
never knew before what il meant."-
Washington Star.