Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-03-21
This and That.
"A "hard case"-.An oysters.

-" One Of a milliOn"-a millionaire.
Queen Victoria has rushed into print.
internal Revenue yesterday 5l9t, IO2. 80.
--"You bet" is the popular slang phrase in
California used by all classes.
1t is suggested by jockey that the sea-
son seems TO have the spring-halt.
Silver bells are to be introduced in the
Paris bellies dress trimmings.
The crew that supports Johnson's policy
Cruelty.
The "Sunny South" is as much opposed
to the Sherman Bill as ii is to Bill Sherman.
The cholera is again reviving In various
portions Of Europe.
THE Charter Oak, OF Hartford, is the
champion base ball club of Connecticut.
=" Petroleum v. Nasty" is not named in
General Massey's Yankee Humor. For
Whya
| 1t is now the fashion In Paris 10 wear
plain linen collars with the hsudsomest
dresses.
Look out for your spring bonnets, la
dies. Thursday next il announced as 'open-
ing day" by the New York modistes.
Fashionable crinoline in Paris now
measures round the largest place only two
yards or two yards and half
--9O,0c0 miles of telegraph lines in Amer
lea. 10000 miles in Europe. Uncle Sam
ahead
Portland, Me-, is 81, 1903, 600 in debt, and
one of the most prosperous cities in the
Union, her money having been well invested.
-" Bnrlcigh," The correspondent of the
Boston Journal from New York city, has
gone to Earopc for that paper.
MIR. Eastman, the Cuisines college man"
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. is building an ele-
rant residence in that city.
Green leaves begin to appear on the ma
pie trees In Richmond
Oregon is the healihiest State in the
Union.
TO morrow came to-day. St. Patrick,
like the Fenians, is taking time by the fore
lock, and is twenty-four hours ahead.
Rents have reached maximum in Phila-
delphia. "To let" appears on many tenc-
| ment.
The winter Of our discomfort is followed
| by the spring Of our disgust. The sun has
hardly appeared since March set in.
-Topers should bear in mind that what
they quaff from the goblet afterwards appears
in the mug.
"A talkative youth asked young lady
if her ears had ever been pierced7 NO."
she said, "but they arc often bored"
1t is said married people are thoroughly
familiar with the alphabet of Love when
they reach the b-s ba be be.
Mark "Lemon,' the editor of Punch,
and all ingredient therein, announces book;
"Up and Down the London Streets"
The French arc degcnerating physically.
Their bodies are disposed to keep pace with
their morals.
Sydney Smith defines English benevo-
lence to be strong impulse on the part Of
A, when he sees B in distress, to compel G
to help him.
Petitions are being sent to the New Jer-
sey Legislature to strike out the word
"white" fr m the State Constitution, many
of the petitioners being Democrats.
p. T. Barnum has no sign or relic of his
long career as Snowman, in his beautiful
residence at Bridgeport, except marble
bust of Jenny Lind.
| Mr.. j. b. DeB0w, the statisticisn, Is not
dead as reported. II was brother who re-
tently died, and who was confounded will,
the author.
| 1.-THE subduing of self-consciousness"
is the latest branch of a good education, ad-
veriised by fashionable school in Lancssh-
ire, England.
"A Mrs. SWEET, who put morphine in her
husbands whskey, in Maine, has been made
to sweat to the tune of six years in the State
prison.
Mr. Sims Reeves, the English tenor will
receive fifteen hundred pounds sterling for
twelve performances at Drury Lane Theatre.
Reeves notes are above par.
M. Play proposes to erect a building at
the Paris Exposition for the accommodation
of members of the press from all parts Of the
world. A good Play.
-Gottlicb Williams, German, was cor
vioted in Philadelphia of tue murder o Mrs.
Williams, at 9.i Buttonwooi ST., on the 10TH
of September last.
Excited Frenclman at Niagara Falls
''Ah dis is zc grand spectackel Supaarb
Magneique! BY gar he is come down
first rate.
Napoleon used to say, and think he had
uttered a good thing when he said it, "A
general should not stand too straight; he
should lean little on his staff"
"A contemporary suggests that lady, OIL
putting ON her corsets, is like man who
drinks to drown his grief, because so facing
herself she is getting tight
There's always one consolation, what
ever our misfortune-it might be worse
Were life hanging on thread, it would bt
comfort to think that it was not hanging
on rope.
-" If there Is anybody under the canister
Of heaven that have an utter eycrescence,
says Mrs. Partington, sit is the slanderer
going about like boy constructor, circulst
ing his calomel upon honest folks"
The Ohio Legislature has resolved t.
place in the capitol grounds at Columbus
life size marble statues of the late Presiden
Harrison and Major-Generd Mcpherson
The cost is limited TO $25,O00.
Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, which wa
sold few years ago for $40, 900, was re-solt
a few months since for $50, 900, and now i
offered by auction in New York next week
with private bid pending of $4,000.
"A young lady in New York seeks di
vorce because her husband has cold feet. Sh
declares that during her honeymoon, whic
happened last July, the icy contact Of hi