Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-08-15
This and That.
Illicit distilclies.


There are great many ups and downs
in the life of hod-carrier.
"A ton President johnson is trying to
moye-Stan-ton.
Interesting to Base Ball clubs-Toads
are good g tiy-catchers."
"A good watering place-Maine No
liquor to be had there.
"A Dr. Harris says that foul air killed 329
persons in N. Y, city last week.
Golden hair is going out of fashion and
dark hair is coming in.
"A woman in Petersburg touched the
heart of her husband-with a big case knife.
stShe wore single rose" according to
the song. A very light costume, indeed.
Ancient and Modern Greece-Whale
Oil and Petroleum.
Government bonds are quoted as ''buoy-
ant"-as the floating debt always should be.
Mile stones are very unsocial things.
You never see two of them together.
Where can the seiye be found through
which the man strained every nerve ?"
The ladies manned the engines at fire
at Ithaca, and the flames gallantly retired.
We have read of two balloon weddings.
We expect to hear of q balloon funeral next.
Geo. Alfred Townsend has changed the
title of his Russian American lecture to the
Glands to the north of us" aR
DIR. Bellows thinks that all Louis Ma
poleon's portraits flatter him, and Bellows
is not given to blowing
old maids may never write line, yet
some of them are authors Of Rejected
Addresses" rEe
"A talented young actress is to make her
appearance in New York, after an absence
of tuelue years from the stage.
| "A French actrcss,-Dejezet-seventy-
five years old, is coming to New York to
play young and girlish parts.
| Soda water was invented one hundred
years ago by Priestly, by impregnating water
with carbonic acid gas.
"A chap who has no music in his soul,
says organ grinders are worse than hollow
grinders you know.
-Maximilian and Carlotta severally made
wills dcyising their united property to the
longest liver. Who has the longest liver?
Mr. Verdant thinks there must be a
great many cripples at Cape May, for they
have so many Hops at the hotels
The fellow who sang "Carry me back
to old Virginia, has been carried back
The Constable had him.
A chap of considerable experience says
he is never satisfied that lady understands
kiss, unless he has it from her own mouth.
The New York Tribune Assocition has
decided to build new edifice at cost OF
$250,OOo.
-Hindman is one Of the foremost men OF
the South in reconstruction, and Early is one
of the latest.
The late Emperor Maximilian was an
author He wrote not less than seven volu.
.. mes on different subjects.
Gold has been discovered in New York.
1t was found in an old miser's chest, already
coined.
Tho Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake,
just finished, holds 10000 people. 1t won'
take many Mormon families to fill it.
The London papers are disappointed In
the Sultan. He left them without leaving a
single public anecdote behind him.
The colored people Of Warrensburg,
Mo-, have built the first school house erect
ed in that town-whch must he an "eye
sore" to the democrats of that place.
The most fun for the least money-hav
ing pretty girl kiss you on both cheeks
and then say she GO thought it was her cousin
Tom
"A New York paper informs its readers
) one day, that the peach crop will he heavy
and the next day, that it will be light. s'Yol
pays your money and takes your choice.
General Sheridan has removed Herman
dez, City Treasurer of New Orleans, an(
y appointed Stoddart Howell TO succeed him
We will now see how well Howell will do
"A Washingtonian proposes to carry tn
mails and passengers to New York in bal
loon in three hours. Rather n high under
taking
A man at Newport, r. l., despatched
. message to Alexandria, Egypt, distance
;, about 1000 miles, and in % hours he had
!, reply.
A teacher of vocal music asked an ol
lady if her grandson had an car for mus
: "Wa'al, said the old woman, ' rally don
know. Won't you take the candle and see
-ssNobody's Daughter" is said to be qui
as successful damscl on the boards q
:, a New York theatre, as anybody else
=. daughter.
y A correspondent ofa Chicago paper sa,
- the quickest way to get rid of the Indians
to establish whisky shops all along the bo
~ der, and give them all they want to drink.
= A carpenter went to Cape May, al
!. when he returned home his friends ask'
VI him what he saw. "Why,' he replied, .
saw the Sea- and now I see the saw
: The Sultan is said to be a sad lookii
=. man, and seems tired of life. No wondc
He has too many wives. More than one
~ enough to make any man tired of life.
4. Some of the recently arrested foot-pa'
in Australia attributed their choice of Y
cation to the perusal in early life of certa
novels by Mr.. Bulwcr.
,rs Punch thinks the industry of the lad
qs of Paris surpasscs belief. They dye-th
hair; they enamcl-their faces; they gild
,r- their locks they paint-their cheeks; a
he now they bronze-their complexion.
An impression exists in London that
To- viceroy of Egypt left England in "hul
of owing to his not receiving the Cart
Jilks says he should wear short hose, 0
,,v he wouldn't need Carriers.
h, To tell which Sewing Machine took
first premium at the Paris Exposition is
asst most as difficult as to tell who struck w
te- Patterson, Esq. Some half dozen diiier'
companies claim it.
ble Minnesota is absorbing emigrants at
ion rate of about thousand day. Absorb
to swallow up That is bad for the O.
at grants.
SAYS Andrew ]. to Edwin M.
"You just resign and Ill accept it."
Says Edwin NJ to Andrew j.
day "I1l keep my place as have kept it,"
Ter, Austrian journals assert that the i