Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-17
This and That.
Locomotive love-Buss-ing.

Always In the waSll-Laun-dresscs.
-Childs' work-The new Ledger Build
ing in Philadelphia
The water pipes of Cincinnati are chok-
cd with fish,
Dinner for nothing is nice; but nothing
for dinner is "a totherwise."
How to make pantaloons last make
the coat and vest first.
"A diamond worth 500, 900 in gold is on
exhibition in New Orleans.
Fashion writers say ''crinoline is DOOM
ed'-to what?
"A couple were married on horseback, in
Wytheville, Va, few days ago.
The news now goes over the ocean by
going under it.
The citizens Of Louisville, KY, use
pump water
The oldest business in the world-The
Nursery business.
A romantic death-A young lady
drowned in tears.
=" Charred elephants foot is a choice
dish In India,
If woman cuts her nails every Mon
day morning 1t Is lucky-for her husband
-" The Laughing Hyena" is the title
OF new paper started in Texas.
The landed debt of San Francisco
amounts to $4,947,294.
Some of tile present styles of gentle
mems hats are almost as small as ladies' bon
| nets.
The N. Y. Citizen nominates young
Bennett for Mayor of New York, and Gov
ernor of the State.
The body of a man without head, legs,
or arms, was found floating in tine East Riv-
er, at New York, on Sunday evening.
The Charleston Mercury says that the
Radicals arc powerful and compact. That's
| SO.
Thomas Still, of Sandgate, VT, age one
hundred years and six months, doesn't "Still
live" He died last month.
AS A. 7. Stewart is only worth fifty
millions Of dollars, he will continue in bust
ness,
The Fredericksburg, Va, merchants
reject ''short currency" l. g. small-sized
quarter and half dollar notes.
Captain Samuel Samuels gets 5000 for
bringing in the Henrietta first in the yacht
race.
"A fellow from Dacotah, says the Indians
and halfhreeas out there can't tell one green
back from another, so all our ones are tens.
The people of Nevada City are greatly
excited on the discovery that their city is
built over gold mines.
| The oil springs of West Virginia are
boiling over at the low rate of seven cents
per gallon for crude oil.
Il Gen. Washington stood six. feet three
in his slippers. We always considered him
a "big man."
-lfyou are in house and hear baby
cry, it is sign of marriage; If 1t isn't, it
ought to be.
-Revivals of religion are taking place at
various points in the South. No place needs
it more.
-Tis sweet to reclinc I'm the lapse of ages
that is, if the ages range from sixteen to
eighteen.
"A paper says 'Surratt is going to- be
dramatized. We thought he was going to
be hanged.
The average weight of mail matter that
passes through New York each day, amounts
to thirty-five tons.
Our definition of a livery liberal body
George Peabody is credited to the New
York World.
"A Southern paper calls Congress a
"grand phantasmagoria of gascuteses"--
whatever that is.
"A man was shot in Memphis the other
day, and there was no Cor-Ier to hold an
inquest Reason-the Coroner was the man
shot.
"A young man in Michigan, having been
detected in theft, escaped going to jail by
going to the drug store and procuring
strychnine.
According to the prophesy of DIR. Cum
mings and his school, all mundane things
were to go TO smash in 1866. But they
didn't--and now what are they gong to do
about it?
-"Mr. Jones, understand you said /
sold you barrel of cider that had water in
it?' "No, no." was the reply, 81 only said
that you sold me barrel of water with
little cider it."
"A Utica paper says that during the titful
fever of her life, now ended, a woman in
that city had been married three times, and
each successive husband had been named
Thompson.'
A bright little girl, in playful anger,
caught hold of an older sister, saying, '.Now,
I'll shake the sawdust out of you," thinking
the human species was got up on the same
plan as her doll.
-Superlatives are sometimes dangerous. A
man writing to his absent wife as "NIy dear
est Maria, received the following in answer:
"Permit me to correct either your grammar
or your morality. Pray, who are your other
Marias? ~
"A daily newspaper man who has just got
out of the traces says he is becoming quite
well acquainted with his family. He dis
covered to his surprise that his daughter
could play upon the piano. He never had
time to discover the fact before.
"A Cincitnnai speculator bought sixteen
car loads of cattle and shipped them to New
York, and in about four weeks time sold
them and went on his way home, pocketing
three cents as the entire profits of his work.
The school books down South are great
curiosities. Here is an example in mental
arithmetic copied from one of them: ''Seven
Confederate soldiers captured twenty-onc
Yankees and divided them equally between
them, how many did each have!"