Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-12-26
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Every Cuban must have his helper, ;
says an army officer who has beer
y serving in the island, You canno
hire carpenter for 40 hour unless yot
! provide him with helper to hand hi!
hammer and nails and talk to him. -
A leak in a gas pipe may be located
without the use OF light by painting
the pipe with soap and water. Bubbles
will indicate where the lesk 10.
A writer states that children make nc
fuss about taking castor oil il it il
given to them In the following manner
Take one cup of milk, one of treaole,
half cup of sugar, half cup of castor
! oil, teaspoonful OF carhonate OF soda,
two OF ginger, little salt and enough
-four to make a stiff pasta Roll this
out, cut it into shapes and bake them
in a quick oven. One or two, he says,
are equal to good dose of oil.
According to no estimate, made by a
New York newspaper, based ON former
performances, the present Congress
will have q total output of -, 426, 23i
words. 1t Is greatly 10 be hoped that
some OF them will be wasted and that
there will be no wrsngle over tine
| 10, 426, 23Ith word. FF
1t is said that the phrase, ITO give
the cold shoulder, had it's origin in
an old custom 10 France; when a guest
had outstayed his welcome, he was
served with cold shoulder oil mutton,
instead OF a hot roast, as d gentle hint
for him to go.
The Salvation Army is floating an
Issue of SlE0,00 OF bonds 20 provide
homes for the worthy poor The bonds
are secured by colonization lands of the
army in Ohio Colorado and California,
valued at $3.50, 200. On file are appli.
cations from more than LOCO families
anxious to leave the city and settle on
farming land. Among subscribers 10
the bonds are Senator Hanna Wash
ington h. Conner and Benjamin f.
Tracy, of New York.
Tie suggestion has been made in
Rouen that he trolley wires in the
streets shall be subject to use by the
fire department, The idea is that pumps
capable of being electrically driven
shall be switched on to the trolley wires
as occasion requires.
The latest society fad among the
fashionable women 10 England, accord
ing to the Manchester Guardian, is that
OF being photographed as a moving
picture
Frank A. Munsey's determination to
make the Washington Times, which ne
bought recently, independent, leaves the
national capital without a Democratic
paper.
With regard to English and Ameri-
can pronunciation London has adopted
the American expression, ''goo goo
eyes," but pronounces it google
eyes. ~
A correspondent of the Academy
London considers that memoirs are
OF three Kinds: Biographies. auto
biographies and ought-not. to. be .ogra-
phies.
got even with that eoldarn CITY
acquaintance OF me up in the fat
palace OF his in Madison avenue, :" said
the countryman, exnltantly. "You
know he passed rule that / couldp't
git up to bis loft without card? Well,
the next time the elevator conductor
asked me for my card I just hauled out
IN old envelope addressed to mo by
Sally Lane at home and sent that up to
his ,loblots. Somebody yelled down the
shaft Fetch him up,' and up |
went. Next time | called | didn t have
an envelope, so / picked up in the
street piece of barrel stave, wrote my
initiale on il and sent that up by the
conductor. He comes down In a iiffy
and says, says he, Did you tell me to
give that piece o. wood to Mr. Mcguire?
l shouts, says, /, OF course / did, you
yaller-ekinned hound Amt you done
it YETI He hauled on the rome and
went up again, then come down an got
mo. Well, sir, / ate supper with Ma.
guire that night, and blamed il they
didn't have that pieoe OF barrel staye at
my plate, Just to let me know where |
WAS to set down. They say that's the
latest style. New YORK. Press.
What one woman thinks:
1t ia when We acknowledge defeat to
ourselves that we are defeated-not
until then.
Few mothers reject all belief in God.
The life whose centre is fixed in self
has circumference of one; the life
which finds its centre 10 Others has the
whole world for its circumference.
Printers are responsible for mspy
charming mistakes. and some of them
admit the fact, says Chambe journal.
Witness the volume of sermons recently
published which contained the startling
admission: Printers have prosecuted
me without a cause " OF course, it
should have been princes, y but no
doubt the compositor was satisfied, but
l don't complain. Parsons are the
especial butts for the jokes of the merry
typssetter. A Methodist minister ia
reported TO have said: "Methodism
IL elastic, expensive and progressive. "
Was it sheer wiokedness that made tho
printer substitute for a, altering "ex-
pansive' to the more shocking term?
The Bishop of St Asaph, addressing
his old parishioners some time ago az
Carmarthen, referred to his younger
and rRsher days" He was naturally
reported as having spoken of his
younger and masher days
Bishop and Lecturer.
The Rev. DIR. Poindexter S, Henson.
OF Chicago, who has been callsd to the
pastorate OF the Hanson Place Baptist
Church, in Brooklyn, ia well known az
a Chautauqua lecturer.
One summer day, when he was lectur.
ing, h1 WAS introdtiued nv R;sbo,, Iy;,.e