Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-07-20
EVENING ECHOES.

EVENING ECHOES.
His Barber Didn't Talk-Grymes-
What do you think Of Corbett and
Mitchell? Ukerdek-I am not very well
posted ON prize-fghters. You see / shave
myself. -Puck.
Clerk want to get off for a few
days, Mr.. Hardscrabble. Ny grand
mother is dead. Employer Hicks, this
is the fifth time your grandmother has
died. Clerk-Yes; grandmother was an
extraordinary woman.-1id-otts.
Show do you like your new music.
master?" "He is very nice, polite
young man. When | made mistake
yesterday, he said: Pray, mademoiselle,
why do you take SO much pains 70 inn
prove upon. Beethoven T"-Le Figaro.
Congratulations, old boyl They tell
me you have little stranger at your
house." "Stranger! If you had heard
the way he went on when he arrived
you would have sworn he'd been &C.
quainted with us all his life. = It'd Bits.
First tramp--"Say, Bill, I've thought
livin'." Bill-"How ?" "Why by con-
tractin' incurable diseases and collectin'
the rewards offered by the makers Of
the patent medicine for that kind of
cases."
Mrs. Neversee-What made you tell
me he was the carver of his own fortune,
when he got every dollar he has
by marrying an heircss? Neversee--
Humphl He had to cut out half a
dozen fellows to get her, didn't hep
Buffalo Courier.
Stranger lin New York; -"What is
that peculiar noise in the City Hall
buil1ing?" Resident-"That whirr in
the district-attorney's Officer" Stranger
Yes" Resident-"Oh, the clerks are
quashing indictments of returned en-
bezzlers. "-J0tlge.
81 wonder" said one of the loungers,
"what was the origin of the swallow
tailed coatP" at is my idea" said the
grizzle. whiskered man from Montana,
"that they was cut that way in the first
place to make it handy for q man to git
his gun."--IndianapOIiS journal.
Miss Laura-"Oh, auntie! You re-
member Mr., Meeker, who went from
here as a missionary? have just heard
that those awful cannibals ate him.
Aunt Sophronia-La, me! l do hope
they cooked him with turnips. The
poor dear man was so fond of turnips.
It'd Bits.
"Why Merchant Tailoring Should Be
Divorced From the Clothing Trade"
was one Of the topics discussed before
the State Association of Custom Fore
men Tailors in New York yesterday.
General incompatibility and non-sup.
portappeared to bethe principal grounds
for divorce.
Householder Throwing dime from
the window to organ-grinder)-Here,
take this money and move on. That
organ of yours distracts me. Organ
| grinder enna cent pay for two more
tune. twenty-five cent to move on.
Waita till playa you "ra-ra.ra-booma,
de.aye" "She's Such Nice.aGirl, Too. y
| -NeW York journal.
An Ambitious Boy.--Little Boy
"Papa, may study elocution?" Proud
Papa-"Indeed you may, my boy, ifyou
wish. You desire to become great
orator, don't your "Yes, that's it,
And some day, perhaps, have your
voice ringing through the halls of Con.
gress?" AZ shouldn't care for that.
want to be an after dinner speaker
"Ah, you are ambitious for social dis.
tinction, then 2" "No, / want the din,
ners" -Street d Smiths Good NesOs.
whats the matter, dear ?" asked Mr.
Justwed as he came into the house and
found his wife crying as if her hear
would break. Il am so discouraged,
she sobbed. "What has bothered my
little wife ?""I worked all the Afternoon
making custard pics, because | knew
you were so fond of them, and-and-'
Here she began weeping hysterically
again. "And what, darling 7" "AnC
they turned out to be sponge cakes."-
BuBalo Cypress.
The power of invective in five-years
old boy is something remarkable in it
variety at least. A Bdsar correspondent
had occasion recently to discipline hi
son, who had reached that interesting
age, in the presence of some of the boy
little friends. Whether he was. NOR
astounded than amused at the uproariou
comment of the little culprit is an opel
question. At all events he was interested
TO hear the small youth shout, in tone
betokening a derisive spirit; "Do you
know what my papa iss He's nothin
bnt one-year-old kid, that's what ~
Harpey's Bazaar.
eyes, may take a few summe
boarders this year." replied the OIL.
4 farmer after asking for a pound 0
'yreg'lar saleratus, "but I'm goin' to hev
fair understandin' in the outset.
"About what?" "Wall, principally a
to butter'n eggs and cream and SIGH, Blu
particularly as to sleepin'. We took al
artist from New York last summer VIII,
upset the hull house when he found III
WAS to sleep with the hired man, and
actually believe he kept a Governo
from engagin' with US at seven collars
week and washin' and mendin' throweC
in."--Detyoit Free Press.