Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-16
MOSTLY SCISSORS AND PASTE.
There are ten blind physicians prac.
ticing medicine in the United States.

Bishop Huntington, of tina Central
New York Protestant Episcopal diocese,
is SO years old, but in order to keep an
appointment one Sunday recently, he
walked eight miles over country roads,
there being NO train to suit.
Suails not on'y regarded as a great
delicacy in Paris, but are reckcned as
very nutritious. Hygieuists say that
they contain 7 Fer cent of heterogeneous
matter, and they are equal to oysters
ia nutritive properties.
An old Scotch farmer once went TO
have troublesome tooth extracted.
Said the dentist, after looking at the
offending molar: ut is a very ugly
one. | would advise you to have it out
by the painless system. 1t is only a
smiling extra He showed the farmer
the apparatus for administering gas,
remarking that 1t would cause him to
fall asleep for a minute, and before he
awoke the tooth, you'd be out. After
slight resistance, the sufferer CON-
sented, proceeding to open his purse.
"oh, never mind paying Just now"
said the dentist, kindly. 'Hootsp
dusWttou bub cdubsuus olu poots N
wasna thinkin' o that; but IL A IN
ga'eu ia sleep A. thocnt A. wad like To
count ina siller fust."
The Eiie Railroad has purchased two
bloodhounds which will be trained to
trail tramns and criminals for the two
fold purpose of Kidding the road of the
former and capturing such Of the latter
"a inf uTifh hh EFin MR. -
rights. ~
81 see that somebody says Edmund
Kean, the most famous of English
actors. lived TO adapt the kind Of meat
he ate to the Fart he had to play, choos-
ing pork for tyrants. beef for murderers,
and mutton for lovers.'
''That'sa great idea. suppose when
he had to play several paris in one
evening he ate hash. - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
A New Cure for Sick Headache--A
| prominent physician advances tht
theory that the distressing sensation oi
nausea has its seat in the brain, and
not in the stomach. He claims thai
relief may be obtained by cooling the
base Of the brain, as he has proved by
successful ttsts 10 the case Of sicl
headache, bilious colo and cholera
morbus, in which nausea ia distress
ing symptom. In cases of seasicknesl
relief has been frequently obtained b,
the application of a compress of cracked
ice folded in towel, or placed In al
ioetag at The base of the brain ano
across the occipitnl bone Sick head
aohe may be reviewed in the same man
ner. y
| Mr.. Kipliug, it is said, once told tn,
story Of THE Recessional' to fellow
passenger On the Atlantic, to whom b.
confessed that the poem gave him NOR
trouble than anything he ever wrote
lie had promised the Times poem OF
the Jubilee, and when it became du
he had nothing written that please
him. The Times was hungry for hi
copy and wrote letter after letto
asking fol it. II made many more at
tempts," eaid Mr.. KipliEg, "bur n
farther progress. Finally the Time
began sending kilograms. So ] shu
myself up in my room with determi
nation to stay there until had write
Jubilee poem. Sitting down with al
my previous attempts before me,
searched through those dozens Q
sketches till at last / found just on
line liked. That was Lest We fol-
get. Round those words The Reces
sional' was written.'' That, we hav
good reason to believe, is the true etor
of how one of the nobIest poems In til
language came into being.
King George of Greece regards sovel
, eighty as strictly business affair an
regulates his life accordingly. He rise
at 1880 every day, works all morning
4 rests 10 the afternoon, and is again {
3 his desk from . until / every night.
. An Oxford professor was giving b
pupils lecture on .'Scotland and th
, Scots" ''These hardy men," he sale
I "think nothing about swimming acres
: the Tay three times every morning b,
A fore breakfast. y Suddenly lou
burst of laughter came from the cent?
of the hall, and the professor, amaze
I at the idea of any one daring to int
: rupt him in tho middle of his lectur
4 angrily asked the offender what
d meant by such unruly conduct. II WI
il just thinking, sir, replied that ind
q sidual, that the poor Scotch ohaI
would find themselves on the wron
: side for their Clothes when the
. landed"