Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-08-22
AROUND THE EVENING LAMP

How fast the summer Is flying
Some young women have already begun
to mako Christmas presents.
Wouldn't 1t make you mad-if you
were expecting letter with a check in
it, and received one containing a bill.
Uneasy lies the head that wears its
heart on lis sleeve.
\ The Wilmington & Northern train.
southbound, had pursued its devious aud
picturesque course until the creamery
above Chadd's Ford junction was
reached. There it stopped and was
occupied with sundry jerks backward
and forward OF very exasperating
character Then little eirl said aloud
TO her mother: ''Mama, is this engineer
Just learning?" This crowd sent up
shout OF appreciation.
Suppose drunken man, with
hottie Of whisky In hia inside rocket
should lose his hat while out at night,
what wonld he do for a headpiece?"
GIVE it up.'
lie would do nothing, for he would
have % night cap with him.
Hubert Cassidy, sub.contrnotor on
the alter ations to tho Hotel Whining.
ton had man he was paying 81. Is,
but because the man was not a CON:
solidated bit of good, discharged him.
The fellow went around few days
later in different suit of clothes and
Mr.. Cassidy hired him ut s2.50. A
little afterwards, on learning that he
was the same man and that tho change
OF clothing did not improve his work,
Mr.. Cassidy allowed him TO complete
the piece of work he was engaged upon
and discharged him again. This must
be true story for Mr.. Cassidy tells it
on himself.
With regret observe that the Tooth
Pick Gang Embarrassing In member
ship, though why it should ever have
originated is beyond my comprehension.
BY tho 'Toothpuk Gang mean a
number of men some of them excellent
citizens, by the way--who cousider it
the proper thing to ride down town on
the trolley cars each morning with a
toothpick held at what is considered
the proper angle between their lips.
Some even 90 to the extent of making
practical use of tho toothpicks in
freeing their molars of breakfast
remnants, but this class Is limited in
numhers. A few mornings ago / OBJ.
served. with sadness, comedy youth
for he was still q youth, with budding
growth on his upper lip--holdlng the
emblem OF the Gang, between his
lips. He evidently had copied the dis
tasteful practice, deemiDg it in good
form. Theao slaves Of the ''toothpick
habit" should remember that 1t is the
proper thing to attend to oil the details
OF the toilet In the privacy OF the home,
and not intrude any of them upon
the travelling public. If they could
but recognize that their appearance
naturally suggests tho familiar simile
OF "a pig with straw in it's mouth, 4"
they would break off the unsightly
draotice at once.
Here's the way a note was addressed
that went through the mails:
Roll me On at rolling rate,
10 Leipslc postoiice, Delaware State;
Lay me down and let me be
Until j. Winfred Stayton calls for me.
A pretty oonceit OF amateur photogra-
phers is 10 mount all the views OF some
special outing on one large piece OF
cardboard.
An uptown brick dealer recently had
a brick-top boy in his office. Did he
USE him as sampler
Jones owed SO much money that he
said he hated to go to the seashore for
he could not lose the sound of the bill
owy waves.
Who knows the meaning OF the word
:" Pleaohed" without looking il up?
ran ACROSS it In one of the not yery
old novels, The Cardinals Snuff Box.
A bull was running In Shipley street
the other day and got caught on the
tongue of double team. How's that
for case OF tong ue-tie?
We speak of Nsstors at the bar and
10 journalism and other pursuits, why
not extend the application and apply IL
to the valuable incentive which is often
found In ohiokenhouses. namely, to
nest eggs? Surely they are nesterH Of
one SOFT.
1t was such q brilliant one that the
professional humorist had to call nm a
friend by telephone and tell him about
1t. There was man named Cotton
arrested the other day., he said, land
the lawyers talk of bailing him. But
" he's bad Cotton they dent want to
bail him, and II he's good 1t won't be
necessary"
Two young women worked q down.
town ice cream saloon the other day.
They ordered small plates Of peach ice
cream, and when they had eaten nearly
all OF ~, cnlled u waiter and declared
that it was not good and they would
not pay for it. Other customers Ia the
place agreed that the quality Of the
cream WAS absolutely oil right, but the
girls persisted and left without payinp
for 1t. One of then was afterwards over
heard to speak us II they had secured
the cream very easily.
Light reading-A coal gas bill.
Persons who write bad English into
verse and then fall back on 'tpoetio
license" should be made Co display tho
license and be finsd for failure to pro
duce IL,
On farm near Odessa, several calves
had died aud 10 was thought that dis.
ense germs had been in the pen where
they were Kept So colored man was