Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-23
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filed on opinion 10 the effect that ore on
the dump is subject to taxation.
II want money order" she an
nounced to the clerk at the window.
"Domestic?' mo, sir! I'm married
lady"
There was young man from Brooklyn
Who considered beer drinking sin,
But when business, one noon,
Took him to a saloon,
They all smiled at the free lunch he laid in
A man in Buffalo has discovered that
the name Of that city is derived from
the French "beau ilot," meaning beau.
tiful wave. The bufialoes are now all
exterminated.
Mabel-A lot of US girls have estab.
lished a secret, society, Jack. jack
What are the objects of it? Mabel
Way, we meet and tell secrets, of course.
Boston GLO6e.
A tombstone in Burlington, Ia, has
this stanza:
Beneath this stone Our baby lays,
lie neither cries nor hollers;
He lived Just one and twenty days
And cost us forty dollars.
Askim, TO man who is returning
from a visit to the pawnshop)-I your
watch going? Hardup-No, it's gone.
AsRim-Gone! Why, how came you
to part with it? Hardup-Oh. just TO
pass away the time.
Carl Browne offers to wed any woman
who will marry him on the steps of the
Capitol at Washington. There are
35,000,00 women in the United States,
but can there be one who will accept
the offcr2
who are these Anarchist people 2"
asked Ethel. why, they want every
thing everybody else has rot, and they
never wash themselves" returned
| Johnny. "Oh, see. They is the little
boys growed up Home Visitor.
A traveller recently returned from
Scotland found the following epitaphs
in aquaint old churchyari.
Reader, pass on, don't waste your time
Der bad biography and bitter ryhme;
For what | am this cram bling clay insures,
And what was is no affair of yours.
1t is said that womens voices do not
give good results in the long-distance
telephone; their high notes, excellent in
short lines, as all city telephone sub.
scribers know, are an obstacle to clear
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length.
Twelve million postage stamps are
used every day by the inhabitants of the
United states to conduct their core.
spondence. There has been noticea.
BILE increase in the weight of the mails
IN the last two months, which is taken
as sign OF returning prosperity.
Aged negro-l is gwine on a hummer
en- ten years. Interested listcner-In.
deed Then probably you can reco!.
lect as lar back as the first acts of Con.
gress. Aged negro--Ges, sab; Iremem.
Der all bout de fus axe Of Congress.
OF ter recollect it, because | cut wood
wild it.
Miss Marie Devoe lat the cooking
schooD-.Do you mean to say, chef, that we
must but our bare hands into the dough I
Prof. Tartopommes-Sairtainly MN.
selle Miss Marie Devoe-Perhaps that
is why failed with my bread last time
MY gloves seemed rather in the way
Christian Secretary.
Let me show you our new CORE.
spondence paper for ladies'" said the
statloner. ave consider this the greatest
novelty of the season." "It's very
pretty" said Mrs Barlow, "but why /.
1t specially for ladies j. at has the
letters T. 5. engraved at the top of the
inner sheet" said the stationer.-Har
per's Basar.
A gentleman walking along Licking,
ton avenue one day encountered tive
boys who looked So much alike that be
stopped them and asked. Are yur
little boys twins;h They looked up a
him for moment, as though they did
not exactly understands; then one said
! meekly: No, sir; we are Methodists.
, -Harper's Magazine.
5 1t is said that a lady wentinto high
| class music dealers shop on Bond street
! London, and asked for the popular song
t "'E don't know where e are.n I'll,
/ salesman said that he didn't have it, bu
! that he would get it for her; and to he
], intense amusement she saw him write OF
l slip of paper, "Get song, He doe
3 not know whore he is.-IhG Critic.
T, Young Husband tlaying down
S comic paper)-All the tomf0olery abou
women's extravaganza makes me tired
: we have been married two months, an,
I you haven't asked me for a cent. Younl
- " llN--Cl CpuISt Ill. w llat WOll.l Ii
the use Of bothering You for every it'll
thing want, when its 50 much easie
{ to have it charged :--NeD Yogk Week,
=, Customer--Fifty cents for filling thi
! prescription? Why, at the drug stor
= down the street they charge me only
- quarter. Druggist-Hhat's all it's wort
!, in that store, ma'am They put IN fou
I cents worth Of drugs III the bottle an
= then fill it up with water. put in tn
: same drugs and fill the bottle with tn
I finest aqua pura. Thanks. Anythln
:. else ?-Chicdgo Tribune.
% 1t is better for shoe clerk to confn
l. himself 10 selling shoes than to try
It be grammatical critic. The followin
d dialogue took place recently in reta
= shoe store; CustomeT-"Iiave you q,
il any cheap women's shoes z" Clerk
.e We have cheap shoes for womcl
n About how high did you wish to 20
ii Customer turning to leave)--"Well.
X think / will 20 Just high enough to e,
It, to store where | shall be treated MOI
re courteOusly"
is England consumes 100000 pounds
nc about 100000 gallons of tea every da
Is which is as much as is used by tile re
ir Of Europe, North and South Amcric
Africa and Australia combined. ii
green tea of former days has almo
ceased 70 be known, while the Twal
nc kay, Tyson and Gunpowdcr teas a
Mt seldom heard from. CHINA only SUI
a plies one.twclfth Of the quantity, ii
" rest coming from India and Ceylo
IL The Indian tea goes half as far again
n the Chinese, as regards color and layc
nj -
IL Cincinnati's Unique Distinction,
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