The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-09-10
rlaynIOnt Items.

we haTc citizen here VINO aug up
root of golden rcd plant, and planted it
in his flower bed ard cultivated it. This
was two years ago, and this year he has a
noble plant with flowers on it five and six
inches long. This flower has for long
while been suggested as n national en-
brm for the United States. We think
there is none better.
James Corbctt of Bordentown, N. j.,
Il again ut work in the Claymont brick
yard He has charge of the setting and
burning of the brick. He is as formerly
making his home at his old boarding
place
On Sunday last A. S. Ottey, the Bible
student, went the second time to Gran
snl's woods, ,toa woods meeting held there.
He addressed the young people in the even
ing He had an audience of about six
h hlndred people. If it is clear day next
Sunday, Presiding Elder, Rev L. Barrett,
will preach in the woods, and II the people
in that vicinity want to hear good ser
mon, go and hear him, and they will hear
1t sure.
Charles w Ottey of this place and Park
Mason of Wilmington, on Wednesday last
went to the Brandywine to fish for black
bass, but the most bass they caught was
fish that looked more like n sun fish,
and as usual the biggest fish got
away, Or didn't bite.
ed at the sixth milestone of her life. A
birthday party was givcn her and n goodly
number of her friends We're present to
enlivGn the occasion. Among those pros
ent were Mr. John King and family, Mrs.
George Casey and children, Mrs Lena
Forwood, Harry King, George i ng,
Howard Vernon, Miss Lillo Ottey, A.'s
Amy Casey. Those present were treated
to ice cream and cakes, lemonade, water
,nnlnns
kinds. Tho time was spent in various
gamcs.
On the above night Howard Vernon
gave a magic lantern show MT his fathers
homo, IT0 will give another on Saturday
fhc Ladies' Aid of Claymont NJ
e. Church will hold festival In tho Ice.
turc room Of tho church on the 10th and
18th of September.
Iii Hung Chang went through on q
Pullman train. Several of the boys laid
pennies on the tracks, so that the train
should go over them to keep as relic, to
say that the train he was on ran over
them and llattencd them out
Miss Alice Hopes gave a watermelon
party to her friends on Friday evening. A
goodly number was present and some OF
the gals got their faces woll washed
for once,
A. s Ottey will give his first lecture for
the season on what the Bible Contains
and Docs Not Contain" on Tuesday even
ing next in the NJ. t. Church, of Eddy
stone, Delaware County, Pa. He has
some twenty engagements for the fall and
winter term to be given in Wilmington,
Chester, Philadelphia and in the country.
The glnncrs around here are having
good luck, in shooting reed birds. They
secured from two to eight dozen birds on
=; iE ri u orr
to shoot this delicious bird
An Irishman met another, and the first
whose name was Jimmy, and the second
name was Pat. The latter said to him,
Jimmy do you understand about this l6
to II" "Surc | do Pat; suppose you had
ole silver dollar in your pocket, and
had sixteen for your one, that is it."
Faith, Jimmy, am in for that every
time"
John Anderson feels somewhat hurt to
think that anyone should injure his horses
by cr!tting them the way they were 1t was
a mean, contemplate act, and the person
who would do such thing ought to bo
strung up by the wrists and whipped for
ar hour ut least on the bare back and
then put in " pickling tub for another
hour and by tho time he got through this
horses. If II man has spite against
another man, take it ont on him ana do
it fair and not out of the dumb brute
Charles Wells is putting Oh II new shin
gle roof On the porch of his domicilc.
Thomas Habbart has got one of the wells
dug. Hcw went down twenty-six feet and
scared seven and half feet of water He
is now digging one for Samuel irwin, and
not like the first, he has struck Il large rock.
These wells are for the three new houses,
which will be built here between now and
next spring.
1t is wonderful how the English spar
rows like the seeds in the sunilowers
They will clean one in few days 1t only
has been couple of years since they
commenced eating them. We think that
q more dcicstGble pest don't live thnn they
are, and 1t would be u blessing to the
country if they We're all shot,
TRUE AS STEEL.