Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-02
MOSTLY SCISSORS AND PASTE.

Elo, UUO were Issued on the creult OF
the colony, and few months later |
ESQ, 600 more followed.
1t was a Frenchman who in writing |
TO an acquaintance eaid: IL left my
knife at your office yesterday. IL you
find 1t please send it to me. Yours,
LeRoque.
"P. S. Since writing this / have
found my knife, SO you need moi
trouble to send it, The same in
disidual sent present OF some fruit
70 a friend, and 10 the bottom of the
basket be placed note, the postscript
to which read: ''You will find this
note IN the bottom of the basket, but
II you do not. let me know i'm
mediately."
Texas has become the Empire State
Of the South" having nearly million
more inhabitants than Georgia, which
has her etofure had the proud title. 1t
has greater population tnan all the
New England States combined, ex
| elusive OF Massachusetts.
| In these modern days the front door
Of the White House is not locded at
night, says the Washington Star. Prac-
| tically no doors are locked, and If the
steward should look around for keys be
would probably not find half OF those
| formerly in use. Big policemen are
about the only doors at the executive
mansion They guard the main doors
at all hours of tine day and night, and
there is no need to close and lock the
| innor doors. Before President Lincoln's
time policemen were rare at the Presi
dents home, and when all the clerks
and servants had gone home at night
the housekeeper went around and care
fully locked all the doors inside and
outside except two rooms occupied by
those going IN and coming out.
Jesse Powell, of Emporia, Kan. says
his wife figured it out recently that
during the past 35 years she bad baked
1871, 625 hot biscuits, more than half OF
which he bad eaten. They have hot
biscuits at one meal every day. Powell
weighs more than 200 pounds, and
attributes his fine health to the hot
biscuit cure
From Bromyard, town in thp
neighborhood OF Hereford, Eng, come
curious story, related by a cor
respondent to the local paper. About
g. 80 on the night of the Queens death,
the caretaker of Saltmarshe Castle,
which is let to Major Heywortb, heard
noise. He proceeded to where the
sound came from, and, on going into
the room, found that a picture of this
Queen had fallen from its hanging or
! the wall to the floor
In the United States regular army
] i sat. a.. hy
miasioped officers, French by 224 ant
! | German by 1876. Twenty three officers
speak one or more of the languages o
! the American Indians.
Representative Littlefeld. of Maine
IS teetotalsr and a ProhiDitionist
9 but habitual card player, and pro
y gressive euchre is his favorite game
7 The other night he attended 2rogres
!, sive euchre party and won beer steil
y for O prize. Three nights later b
). went to another party and won cork
u screw, which his friends consider omi
!. nous. Chicago Record.
e While cutting up q poplar at hi
Y sawmill, in Lee county, Virginia, O. r
x Kesterton found an augur hole plugge
Y by a pin. On removing the pin b
y found In the hole five $40 gold piece
Is bearing dates between 1850 and 1856
u The coins are supposed to have bee
y hid there for cafe keeping during th
I Civil War,
y. For the first time in many years tt
10 violet has lost it's place as fashion
p able flower in wolnan's spring heat
v gear. The rose han crowded tt
In modest purple flower out,
., The millineis say that is due to
4; within of the young queen OF HOLLAND
OF says the New York Sun. Tbs rose
ne Queen Wilhelmina's favorite fiowe
o. She wears roses, pink, and white, ar
o. red, whenever and wherever she ca
" and when her wedding trousseau vi
90 made in Paris, the makers had to p
q lots Of roses in her finery.
On That act the fashion in Paris, whe
ne there are not beautiful royal brid
go every year, and all the Partisan mill
no ners took the rose into high fave
u, Paris sets the pace for the fashio
Gu here, SO American women are wearii
roses too and violets only hold the
no own at the florists.
lel Next year, perhaps, when probah
sss there wolt be so interesting you
a. queen to have a wedding, the lit
- punches Of purple may reappear in t
IL bats. But it is an interesting fact th
as the fancy of the young queen OF
OF unimportant European country is ST
1e- ting the fashion in great Repub
To- many thousands of miles away.
CO,
OF Belts have partaken Of the individ
tne ality that marks the seasons mod,
40 and promise to be quite as varied
les are the gowns for summer. The 8
ing elastic belt which was so popular
'Ws Paris last summer, and which was /
ers ported by exclusive houses last fall
growing steadily in popularity.
as comes in all colors as well as blat
ing in both wide and narrow styles, a
ar5 studded with thinestones, as well
ana STEEL
Dis, Daniel Work, who represents FRI
Ter. erictou, N. b., in the Dominion Parl
OF ment, is probably the Oldest legisla
Sov ia the world still in active service.
ent has entered upon his ninety eigl
10 year.
Buckles are extremely large. Sc
loie are the heighth Of militarism, W
way gold eagles and stars, and others sh
the graceful designs in worked gold {
OF enamel. The ribbon Is sometimes /,
oid, with gold embroidery or it may b
tne strip OF gold cloth arranged in vari
us folds or the other extreme, tue
ciai folds OF some soft silk.
tlon Nobody'll die in heaven less b
has ouohter. To INV way o, tb,nkin'
IL. SIX. n o..