Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-10
This and That.
Getting longer-The days.

: Waterfalls are now worn on the top of
the head.
The lady who "took everybody's eye
is requested to bring them back.
Ladies ought to make good traders
they never get shaved.
The worst kind of box to put money
ina dice-box.
"A lady has written play entitled ''Play-
ed Out"
--Counterfeiting gold dust is paying
swindle in Idaho.
Smoked beef is good. Smoked tobacco
is of no account
Post IA brave man as a coward because
he won't fight duel, and you post yourself
an ass.
"A rooster can't lay an egg, but, accord
ing to old superstition, he can, by simply
Growing, lay ghost.
An enormous steam engine of over 1000
horse power, is to be at the Paris Exposi-
tion.
The "Black Crook" has been played at
Niblo's, N. Y, over one hundred times, and
still draws crowded houses.
With fifteen millions of inhabitants in
Spain, only three millions can read and write.
democratic party would flourish in Spain.
"A crazy fellow in Illinois proclaims
that he has been commissioned by heaven to
kill all the women and children.
-Snails, one of the principal Partisan
delicacies, are said to have almost supplant-
ed frogs in that market.
"A Boston minister has been preaching
against fitting hoops. He says he can't shut
his eyes to the abomination any longer.
More than half the income tax comes
from three States : Massachusetts, New
York and Pennsylvania.
An aged lady, lately deceased, in Ply
mouth county, Mass, bequeathed $lOO for
the support of her favorite dog.
Sixty lives were lost last week by the
the burning of the steamer " Fashion. +"
Fashion is often the death of people.
"A man sued another for kicking him on
the shins, and recovered three dollars in
shin-plasters.
A lover told his sweetheart he would
ego half crazy if she didn't marry him.
She married him and he went whole crazy.
An editor of Detroit, named Ingersoll,
is reported to be heir to $l6, 1000, 600. A "fat
take"
"A gentlemen in Newark, N. j., was di-
vorced from his wife, and two weeks there
after married her again.
1t is reported that a schoolmaster has
been arrested at Irvington, for ''mildly"whip-
ping boy SO that he died.
Theodore Tilton says more than half of
the laughter done by the American people
falls from the mouth of Western men,
Judge McCana of New York, speaks OF
"that gentlemanly system of jurisprudence, =
the common law.
In Brazil large pine-apples cost four
cents each, oranges one cent, bannas six for
u cent, cigars ten for II cent. Happy Brazil
lians.
"A company of American capitalists,
with $lUO,UOO, are about commencing the
manufacture OF paper collars in 81. John,
N. Is.
"A reconstructed chap Of Richmond, Va. !,
has presented the President with a gold
headed cane, for being Moses to the ..lost
calse?"
Thirty persons were fined for snow
balling, at Lynchburg, Va, last week.
Thirty persons might have been found snow
balling in Wilmington.
"A clel in the post-ofiice, at Montgom-
cry, Ala, named Jordan, has been senten-
ced to 2l years imprisonment for stealing
letters ''Joroan is hard road to travel. ("
1t is said nearly all the Post Offices in
Texas are managed by women. OF course
females can manage the mails as well as the
males.
"A man in Cincinnati, whose premises
We're overrun with rats, caught one, give it
coat of red paint, and let it go. It's fellow
rats and rat-esses left
The several hundred New England
women who went ON the Mercer expedition,
to Oregon, have all been located with hus-
bands.
Strong boiled lye of wood-ashes, and
common salt, will, it is said, cure frosted
limbs. We don't know If limbs Of trees or
human limbs are referred to.
1T is considered difficult feat for skaters
to cut letters on the ice. We have seen very
poor skaters cut quite figure on the ice
without difficulty.
"A conservative editor says =" We trust
that after little time, radicalism's eyes will
turn up and its mouth down. Better do
business on the mo trust" principle.
-"Why are young ladies kissing each
other like an emblem of Christianity ?" ''Be-
cause they are doing uuto each other as
they would that men should do unto them.
A man attempted to spell crockery, and
thus proceeded, d,-kraughkerrighe-h ex-
pired in spasm before he could make Y,
with which he intended to end the word.
The Mobile Times says the cold wealth
er has given an impetus to the skaters North,
and the contrary effect to the ''skeeters"
South,
The Russian authorities recently seized,
cOufiscatcd and mutilated a bronze statue of