Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-31

--Beef-tea is now dispensed at fashion,
able parties in New York.
A. Bonnet killed himself in New Orleans
recently. A bad style of Bonnet, that
The coolest in Memphis this season was
10 degrees above, on the 18th inst.
The smallpox has made its appearance
in st. Mary's Co., Maryland.
Skating takes up nearly all the time Of
New York fashionable people
There was young lady, and what do you think
She lived upon nothing but victuas and Rink.
England and America in sympathy
both have been enjoying magnificent snow
storms.
"A Western justice lately Mortified a bri-
dial couple whom he was about to unite by
coming to the house on hesrse.
They have got a fellow in Jail, in Keene,
N. H., for swindling He dried snow and
sold it for salt.
"A mans business capacity nowadays
is measured by the quantity of his adver-
tising.
A woman in Lawrence, Mass. has sued
that city for $4,000 for the killing Of her
husband by sky-rocket.
The prize money for American Sailors
during the late war will foot up to '$6.000.-
600.
There are twenty-five bald heads in
Congress, two wigs and fifteen pairs of
moustaches. s.-Boston Post.
The London Telegraph has daily
circulation of 1888. 7O4. That is several more
than the Commercials.
"A brigade is about being recruited in
New York to go to the assistance Of the
Cretans,
-Defnitions-Garret; the highest room
in the house ;-Cockloft the room above
the garret.
On Thursday corored man in New
York severely trounced' a Southerner
who insulted his wife.
Count Bismarck recently said: "The
longer am engaged in politics, the less be-
tions."
Marriage is pronounced the first law of
nature; the second law, demanded by many
people in Delaware, is one that will annul
the first.
-Ronalds is a great skater, in Louisville,
KY He has no legs, and uses three skates.
He sits upon one, and uses the other two
with his hands.
An editor in France who sold free pass
that had been given him by a railroad com
pany, was sentenced to thirteen months i'm
prisonment.
A brother editor says that when he was
in prison for libeling a justice of the peace,
he was requested by the iailor to give the
prison puff
Mrs Minnie Wilson, OF Akron, Ohio,
was instantly killed by an accident on the
Illinois Central Railroad last week, while on
bridal tour.
AT Pittstield, Mass, one day last week,
funeral party were compelled to abandon
the corpse in snow storm, and il remained
for several hours in a large snow drift.
Evening lectures are now given to the
prisoners in the Massachusetts States Prison.
No doubt some of the prisoners consider il a
severe punishment
-Donati's great comet will be visible to
mortal eyes again in the year A. ID. 2.s5s.
| Cut this out for reference. and don't fail "a
see ii.
A man called on II farmer near Newark,
n. j., and insisted upon paying for basket
of apples he had stolen from The farmers
orchard, when a boy, sixteen years previous,
.Who is the next customer
1t is stated that SIN editors and reporters
have been before the police court in Chicago
during the last three months. Our Local
has been before the police court, in this city
three or four times week, for the last three
months. He was hunting items.
The Montgomery Mail, (rebcb thu
pictures the johnson editors in the South
..They are in favor of the Constitution
the Union and the enforcement of the laws
(ercept MOse ifiutiag n treds0nJ.
The Springfield Republican says
horse recently ran away in that city, throw
ing the driver out and cutting severe gasl
in one of his hind legs Hard on th
driver
Prentice, OF the Louisville Journal
tenders his advice to the public, "Neve
buy goods of those who don't advertise
They sell 50 little that they have to sel
dear.
1t is proposed to connect Brooklyn an
New York by a permanent bridge two hun
dred feet wide. One hundred feet are for
roadway, ten feet each for the Sidewalk,
and forty each side for stores or dwellings.
DR. Kanes dog, 'C,rsar," died in III
possession of N. p Willis. On his toni
stone is the following epitaph, by the IA
nous New York Sexton "Brown of Grae
Church -
siThy masters journal and lucid pen
Made thee dog of much renown
Which caused this tribute to thy memory
From Sexton Brown"
5 An honest Vermont Democrat, in Il II
$ cent earnest conversation relative to I'll
faults of President johnson, candidly az
j mitted that one of his greatest mistakes VIZ
the appointing of " that fool, the Rev. P. y
Nasby,h his Chaplain; he might know enoug
to keep Post-Ofiice. but he wasn't fit for
spiritual adviser