Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-07-18
This and That.

This and That.
"A Poore writer-Ben. Perley.
-"About this time look out for hot wea-
ther."
The Boston people are just eating their
strawberries.
Policemen are often troubled with felons
on their hands.
Gloucester, Mass. has musical prodigy,
a girl three years old.
-Workmen have commenced upon Booths
new theatre, In N. Y.
Gen. Mcclellan and family are at Nice,
but are expected soon in Paris.
"A stop is being put to prize concerts
but prize fights continue brisk as ever.
Lord vane IS going to st. Petersburg to
put the Garter on the Cars leg. How Vain!
The "season" at Atlantic City is fairly
inaugurated, and all the hotels are well filled.
Jenny Benthams declared: the worst
use you can put man to, is to hang him. :"
Scott County, Iowa, pays fifteen cents a
piece for gopher scalps. The boys go for
EN-
H. w. Beecher has given his consent to
the publication of batch of anecdotes con-
cerning himself
"A Democratic ex-sheriff in Ulster coun-
ty, N. Y, celebrated the Fourth by raising
confederate flag.
About one thousand new buildings have
been erected in Portland, Me-, since the
great fire, last year.
The fire department of Montreal con-
sists of but thirty men. with hose. Hand
engines are seldom used
1t is calculated that GA, 600 persons were
decorations of the Legion of Honor A great
legion but no remarkable honor
"A German picture, "The Pride of the
Village" by Anker, is on exhibition in New
York. 1t did not come by cable.
More than one hundred ships are said
to have been lost, this season, by the break
ing up Of the ice in the White Sea.
Philadelphia horse railroads declare nc
dividends this year. Horses, drivers and
conductors do eat up the profits SO!
A reporter says the party in the bal
loon amused themselves in singing We sup
pose the whole party took the Fair"
The base ball fever in Hartford RACES t.
such an extent that the boarders of on hotel
have challenged those Of any other hotel il
the city.
"A young lady in New York declined t
accompany friend to the aristocrati
Grace Church" because - she was dressed fc
humble St. Paul's.
Somebody has been admitted into The
dore Tiltons confidence sufficiently to lear
that he lectured eighty times last year an
made $1,000 by it.
ga lawyer" said Lord Brougham, in
fscetious mood, sis learned gentleman
who rescues your estate from your enemie
and keeps it himself.
"A recruiting officer in Denver has hur
out black flag with skull and cross-bon
painted on it as an indication of what Il
Indians may expect from his men.
An awkward man attempting to carve
goose, dropped it on the floor. either
now," exclaimed his wife, "we've lost O
dinner "Oh, no, my DEAR" answered Il
" it is safe-I have got my foot on it"
The Fredericksburg Herald says til
there is quiet activity pervading the n
ming interest in that section of Virgin
which gives promise of yields far differe
from the flash era.
There was an old cove down to Saleu
Caught catfish, and then tried to scale enl
"Dod rot 'em, wish
I'd not ketched sich fish,"
Said this irasclble fisher of Salem.
The consolidation of the Richmond i
quirer and Examiner leaves but one stric
Democratic paper in that city. OF the tll
papers now remaining, two are counted
good as radical in politics.
1t is stated from Annapolis that
tigencer, and also formerly connected "
the New York Colleges, has been cho
President of st. Johns College, in that G
Mamma" Charlie, was very m
shocked to hear you singing Pop goes
Weasel in church." Charlie-"Well, mi
ma, l saw everybody was singing-ant
was the only tune knew"
Statements which were made at the
publican State Convention in Texas re,
sad state of things in the interior of
benighted State. The lives of Union
arc In a constant state of jeopardy, so
no political meeting Can be held.
The N. Y. Gazette, in criticism
new book called "The Science of Spiri
Life says, "It is to science what 81
bubbles are to soap, and to logic wi
heap of brickbats is to finished struct,
which, without seeing the book, we
nounce both hard and frothy critic
The Long Branch Daily News 8
"Old citizens tell us that the indica
were never SO promising for prof
season as the present one. Visitors /
to come earlier than ever before, ant
boarding houses nearly all have ]
number of boarders than at correspol
season of any previous year."