Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-02-21
Detroit claims 7O,Oou Inhabilauts.

NIllil. ltu'is wv 'lpii III tSt
,alist church of Newark, n. j.
DE Quincy wcpt the first time he entered
A large library, because he couldn't read all
the books.
Beauty has its privileges. A woman
who has plainness of counlcnance must moi
indulge in the luxury of plainness of speech.
50 II is never too late to mend, said the
weary wife when she sat up until midnight
to darn her husbandl stockings.
A bankrupt merchant says that his hus
ness has been so bad that he could no, pay
his debts even if he had the money.
1t may be interesting to gentlemen who
have lost their Hyperion curls TO learn, that
bald heads are the correct thing in Paris.
"A man who has wife or swecIh ar
named Lie is not to be believed in anything.
for he's always sure to tell Lie about every
thing.
A new hotel to he built in Orange, Nj.
Sictson, of the Astor house, is interested
and the cost will be two hundred thousand
dollars.
AT fashionable church in New iorh
the contribution plates are carried round by
young ladies, TO the great benefit or tie
treasury.
A verse for six per cent. money Lenders
Alas ! and shall we ever live
AT this poor dying rate
Our lncal interest 80 small
And governments 50 greatY
The Pennsylvania Legislature is about
authorizing an Insurance Company to insure
against storms and hurricanes. Some Of
their constituents wish they had insured
the Legislature against certain SimCo)on,
A new counterfeit 800 note on thu
National Bank of Philadelphia is in circnli.
ton in Lynchburg, Va. The counterfeit noIt
is the same length of the genuine, but nj least
a fourth of an inch narrower.
AT an examination before the Legisa
ture of New York, Commodore Vanderbilt
testified that his evenings were devoted to
whist, and he did not allow business to in
terfere with the game.
The London Reader, a weekly literar.
paper that has always been very favorable
to American thought and enterprise, has
died, after long and severe struggle for
support and appreciation.
jay Cooke, the banker has recently been
buying some magnificent paintings for bis
grand residence, now nearly completed, al
Cheltenham near Philadelphia. A picture
by Ncblig "Afier the Battle" cost him
$4,000.
| 1t is said that the Wisconsin legislator
who came SO near asphyxia by blowing on
the gas-light in his bedroom, voted for the
resolutions instructing Senator Doolittle to
resign. He has learned the Importance of
turning off the gas.
"A candidate for the Minnesota Legsla
tnre said in recent speech: "When Ircach
the State Senate, you will hear it thunder on
these railroad swlndes, and II will keep On
laundering, too, till lightning strikes some
body"
Some people not sufficiently well versed
in history to know anything of Napoleon II
think that Louis Napoleon got to be Napo-
leon III thusly. Napoleon was undoub'
eddy a Napoleon two, and consequently
Louis is Napoleon III (a).
George s. billiard declined his invitation
to be present at the meeting of Aleck Longs
Ohio Estate Sovereignty Society," and says
in his letter, 81 think the Democratic party
has not the confidence of the country. y
Just so!
The State of Texas, has, through Nessrs.
Brent and Merrick, commenced suit
against Hon. Hugh McCulloch 10 recover
certain Texas indemnity bonds (nearly 100
in number) withheld by the defendant, lay
ing damages at $ioO,0oo.
1t is reported that the wife of Captain
Wood, who was lost off the Flectwing, had
a presentment Of her husbands death, and tie
Belfast "Age" publishes letter to her mo-
ther, just after his departure, in which she ce'
clares her belief that her husband will moi
return.
Who is Bills We hardly open an ex-
change without reading, "Bill before the
Legislature" Who is he, and what has he
done !-Bos'on Transcript.
Nothing, we believe. His main business
before the Delaware Legislature is getting
divorce from his wife
Those who have read Alton Locke
can know what manner of politician Charlie
Kingsley must have been when he wrote IL
Yet he is now one of England's worst Torle'
and has utterly repudlated the Radicalsm
earlier days The professorship of history
,. in Cambridge University wrought tn
change
Governor Geary, Secretary of the Com
| monwealth Jordan, and Speaker Hall OF ln'
Senate, have signed the call for Pcnnsyl
vania State Temperance Convention. I'M
Governor has for years been very temper
ate man, and year ago, just before III
f nomination, stated that he had not taste'
wine or spirits for a long time.
} George G. Barnard, Judge of the 81
preme Court of New York City; James Is
Hackett, Recorder of the City of NeN
, York; J. Russell Young, managing edlto
of the New York Tribune; and Charlie
7 McClintock, Cashier of the Philadelphl
Press, were in Savannah, Fcbruary6. LII
' party are on pleasure trip IN route
Palatka, Florida.