Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-07-11
This and That.

! ---lMen approve constant woman
The worst kind of stages to travel in
The ''last stages OF consumption"
A new reading-The principal study of
womankind is man. i.
Axiom for railroad companies : ga
switch in tfmc saves niner-liyes, more or
less.
-CrOton water is getting low in New
York, and new reservoirs are called for.
-" My sons my son till he gets wife,
My daughters my daughter all my life."
General Tcm Thumb has acquired a
slight moustache.
-Thiers says Napoleon is entitled to the
honor of having brought forward two great
ministers-Cavour and Bismark.
A man in New York has been commit
ted to Jail for ''defacing natural scenery" by
pasting advertisements on the curbstones.
Eighteen brides billed and cooed ut the
Delavan House, Albany, on Thursday.
" Ever be happy s
"A Presbyterian preacher in Troy has IL
million and half, his father has three mil
lions and his wife has half a million.
We know pedagogue who, when the
thermometer Is up among the ninety mines,
says he keeps school. t
"A Paris correspondent says that TIE
show of diamonds at the ball given to the
Gar at the Tuileries was .'almost painful
"A ST. Petersburg journal announces
that the Russian government is considering
the advisabiity Of coming platinum. That
will be very hard cash. 81. ,-.i r.
Two story cars are growing in favor on
the European railways. The lower story
has compartments in the English style, and
the upper is on the American plan. The
whole height of the CAR is about IA feet
Advice to espontlents-When you
sit down to write letter to the Editor of
paper, and don't know what to write aln,ut,
you had better right about face and let
pen and paper alone. Hi.
The Richmond (va.,) Wing says that
since Horace Greeley and Gerrit Smith
spoke against confiscation in the African
Church, more negroes have applied for
small places TO purchase than has been the
case for long lime.
Thursday, the 7th day of November
next, the thirtieth anniversary of the death
of Elijah P. Lovejoy, has been selected as
the day for the laying of the cornerstone of
the monument in memory of the name and
fame of that martyr.
1t Is now proposed to change the name of
our ncwly-acquired Northern Territory to
Bull-rushi,, in honor of our great modern
Moses.
A correspondent of the New York Tri-
bunc Mt Gettysburg asked the hotel keeper
how he was Effected by the great battle.
.'Thc battle, replied mine host. ,tunrd
out well for Gettysburg. Hack drivin and
and hotel keepin' are bit more encouragin.
1t was difficult to see what Providence set
us atween two fires for, but on lookin into
our cash accounts we understand il ALL"
About ten years ago a citizen of 81.
Louis County, No., made will in which he
provided that certain of his slaves, ten in
number, should each receive $500 on con-
dition of their ''emigrating to Liberia, or
such other country as might be set apart for
free persons of color The legatees have
never gone to Liberia, but they have sued
for their money, and got it, on the ground
that Missouri was ''such other country, 'etc.
Jenny Benthams declared: "the worst
use you can put man to, is to hang him."
1t would seem that Maximilian belongs
| TO the house of fMis-Hapsburg.
ssFather,' piteously said boy, Il can do
without shoes, but am suffering for bo-
] som pin.,,