Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-23
AROUND THE EVENING LAMP.

man VINO dreamed tnat ne was out
shooting musKrats, found the pext
morning, five mice in trap Odd,
wasn't it?
Mistakiug tho purpose of poiiue
patrol box, an apparent stranger 10 the
town uLce on time tried to post
letter at one in the Ninth ward.
Fortunately for him, he could not get
the letter into the hcoth ard was
finally directed to a mail box.
An East side family owns large
and intelligent cat which carries po-
tatoes from nearby grocery store and
deposits them under the stove at its
domicile. Once its foraging resulted
IN the capture of rabbit. which was
also taken under the stove.
Following is punning epitaph recent
ly printed by the Baltimore Sun:
Here lies John Peck, which some men say
Was first of all Peck OF clay.
This, wrought with skill divine, while fresh,
Became a curious Peck of flesh
Through various forms its Maker ran,
Then. adding breath, made Peck man.
Full fifty years Peck felt llfe's bubbles,
I'LL death relieved Peck of troubles;
| Then fell ppor Peck. as all things must,&
And here he lies, Peck of dust,
| A story on the fraudulent comforting
of degrees is told in The London Post,
which, while it may not be strictly
accurate, is not without interest. 1t
seems that chimney sweep took pro-
oeedings against an Edinburgh man
for debt, and in the course of his eyi
dence the sweep mentioned that his
name was Jamie Gregory, LII D."
The following colloquy ensued between
| the witness and the sheriff: What,
Doctor of Laws or Letters? And where
on earth did you get that distinction?n
1T was fellow fra an American Uni
versity, an sweepit his chinney three
times. Gamma pay ye cash, Jamie
An he did.
Every Evening rises to make a cor
/ rectiop IT printed story last week
about an Italian boy who was knocked
down by West Eighth street car and
dropped some sugar and salt which he
was carrying. Then ii went on to say
that the boys mother whipped him for
spilling the sugar and salt. That is
where the error erept in. Michael Wis.,
cauit was the boy who was knocked
down. lie was also carrying sugar and
salt, but he was carrying those articles
at the request of Pascal Marchal. And
it was Pascal Marchai who received the
whipping nt the hands OF his mother,
when she learned of the loss of the salt
which he had asked Michael Viscault
to carry.
From a diary kept by Nathan H.
Sharrless, father of Philip, Emlen and
Alfred Sharpless of West Chester, the
following description of the rain Of
meteors in 1888, written by him, is
taken by the West Chester Local News
1888. 11th mo, 18th. This morning,
having risen very early. | walked out
to look at the weather. and on going to
the door on the north side of the house
saw number of those meteors, called
falling or shooting stars scarcely
knew what it was at the first, some OF
them appeared SO brilliant, but on walk
ing further from the house, where the
view was less obstructed, witnessed
phenomenon more splendid than any
of the kind | have ever before seem
The meteors appeared to be falling from,
about the zenith and taking a course
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compass. then walked to the south
of the house, where the view in that
direction was less INSTRUCTED and wit
messed the meteors directing their
course TO every point soutlward be
tween the east and west points of the
compass. AS the day had then dawned,
thought the meteors did not appear sc
numerous or SO splendid as to the
north. therefore returned to the north
side of the house. The phenomenon
still continued and, indeed, continued
till quite light. Some of the meteor.
were very brilliant, the light exceed
ingly white, often leaving lumin
GUS train for several seconds. Th,
meteors themselves seldom occupied
more in their passage than abou
one second of time, but tn,
.. train of light frequently remained,
suppose, two, three or -four seconds Ee
fore it quite disappeared. They ap
peared to me In their descent to be a
an angle of about 80 degrees to tn
I plane of the earth's surface, and thu
length Of the train from Is to 90 de
, grees Of a great circle. think | die
, not sec more than from six to fen a
! any one moment, but those who saw i
! earlier thought they saw thousands
i but reports on this head were very vari
GUS. The appearance was very exten
/ sive, having been noticed in the paper
of the day from Maine to Georgia.
The Spectator.
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