Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-18


charity boy in Europe, gives very jolly din
ners. The beverages are excellent old Mon
cleaux wine from the poets estate, q little
Bordeaux, little champagne, and with the
desserts glass of admirable perfumed Cy-
prus wine in which every Clarence that eV-
er lived would delight to drown himself
M. de Lamartine brought this wine from
Cyprus as he homeward came from his
travels in the East in 1882.
Every one doth not live like Christian that
looks like a Christian. 1t is sad to that some
hands that they should carry lantern before
others, and yet tread in the dark themselves. A
Christian, when he makes a good profession,
should be sure always to make his profession,
good
Old Gent (disgusted) "Here, Waiter
chop r' Waiter (fippantly j." Yessir
about the time o'year for 'em juss now,
Sir !'-Punch.
There is plantation in Georgia that will
yield bale of cotton to the acre, which
has always been considered worth $25, 900,
now offered for $4,000 and nobody is will
ling to buy.
By general consent it has been determin-
ed in future to describe the Jamaica negro
as ca man and q bother" instead of ga
ton Post by Punch.
The marriage of Levi Hamburger and
Miss Sarah Rosenthal in the Jewish Syna-
gogu at Lewisville, KY, was performed
with such blaze of pompa and circumstance,
that the Journal gives q column in describ-
ing the gorgeous scene.
Female book-keepers arc very popular in
large cities just now. They are careful
correspondents, and don't spend "till
money, playing billiards, drinking or driv-
ing fast horses.
If a bigamst were sentenced to live with
his two wives in the same house, the crime
would soon become extinct.
It is said that doctors can mitigate the
pains Of sickness certainly good many
of them make dying very easy thing.
A man only gets into hot water by at
tempting to throw cold upon the darling
schemes of his wife.
The ladies sometimes get up bonnets of
diminished size, but never of diminished
cost
A competency may be defined as little
more than you have.
Vermont has 564 miles of railroad in op-
Grafton, which cost $23, 100000.
The report of the death of Rev. Dr. Bald
win, at Nashville was incorrect.
General Pope proposes to teach Rocky
Mountain Indians the science of agricul-
ture.
Forty-fve applications for divorce are
before the Superior Court in Hartford,
Conn.
A gentleman in Hudson, N Y, was mar
ried last Tuesday, and cut his throat the
same night.
William P. Blond, Esq, has been en-
gagged by Charles Reade to prosecute the
Round Table,
A bird is much cheaper acticle than a
bridegroom. The first is invariably given
away, while the latter is frequently sold.
An eloquent speaker is like river
great at the mouth.
All diseases speak 10 us eloquently and
solemnly-except the dumb-ague
An arch young lady should be an archer,
tor she can bend her beau as she pleases.
The CoIored TenaeSsea1a, lately published
in Nashville, is dead.
Frank Blair is making speeches to great
audiences in Missouri
Vandal tourists have slipped away half
of Byron's tomb at Harrow.
Hon. G. o. Clay, of Alabama, is in Wash
ington city.
Grant and Beauregard exchanged saluta-
tions in Central Park.
Every woman is in the wrong until she
cries--and then she is in the right instantly
Miss Weatherell has new book in preparation,
called 1.-The House Of Israel"
The funeral Of Admiral Gregory took place
at New Haven, on Friday, with military honOrs.
San Francisco has IA, ,818 voters, Of whom S,5l7
are native Americans and ,301 foreign born.
John D. Dillon, NJ. p, and Fenian of '4s, has
just died in Tipperary.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is engaged upon serial
called The Guardian Angel"
"The room for Improvement" is the
largest chamber in the world.
A crowbar often opens but never shuts.
eauregard is in Baltimore.