Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-06-20
This and That.

-DanulOruS Bet puy ioI pouoi, aru po"iN
ers often get bored for pay.
If Samson was so strong a man what
must Sam have been?
The last evil to wheat in Virginia is we
vil.-Boston Advertiser,
That is a wee-vil- -lainous joke.
The lengthening trains of cars to the
north betoken the beginning of summer
travel.
Mr.. William Swinton is writing letters
to the New York Times on his southern
tour.
-Thaddeus Stevens is to divide his time,
during the summer, between Bedford and
Saratoga Springs. q
Gen. Fremont has purchased the late
residence on the Hudson of Gen. Watson
Webb, our Brazilian Minister.
William H. Bell, well known citizen
Of Harrisburg, was married on Thursday, the
30th ult, and died the following Monday.
--Barnum has bought house on Fifth
avenue, New York, for a hundred thousand
dollars
General Robert Il. Lee is the candidate
of an Indiana democratic paper for Pres-
dent Of the United States.
The London Herald has treason to
believe" that Jefferson Davis will arrive in
England in the month of June.
Mrs. Lincoln has sold her household
goods at auction, and proposes to remove to
Racine, Wis.
-Notwithstandin the fault that has been
found with the Broadway bridges in New
York, two more are called for by the pedes-
TRANS.
-" / have turned many woman's head,
boasted young nobleman of France
g Yes,' replied Talleyrand, ''away from
you.'
"A brute in human form was arrested in
Jersey City, on Friday, for throwing his
wife out doors, and then jumping and dane
ing on the PROSTATE woman's body.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that two
parties are about to start to survey the
route ofthe Northern Pacific Railroad, one
at Lake Superior and the other at the Paci-
fic, working towards each other.
We arc amused with the remark of an
old lady who was adn,iring the beautiful
picture called sSaved' 'It's no wonder"
said she, 'sthat the poor child tainted after
pulling the great dog out Of the water. "-E'a.
The State Sunday Scool Convention of
Massachusetts recently met in Mr.. Kings
Church, and Mr.. Ray presided. The good
works of this organization will not fail to
bring forth a harvest for want Of Ray King.
The casualties at the boiler explosion in
Philadelphia were twenty killed, eight miss
ing, (probably killed and still in the ruins,
and seven wounded. Eight of the inmates
of the building escaped.
The decline in breadstuffs develops the
fact that western farmers were boarding
quite an amount of grain for further rise.
They got bitten as they deserved, and now
old as well as new wheat is crowding the
market.
The president of the brewers conven-
ton, in session last week at Chicago, said
in his opening speech, 'that it was the
desire ana hope OF every German that lager
beer should become national beverage in
this country"
DR.. II. G. Cole, Of Kohomo, Ind,
who was recently tried and acquitted for the
murder of his wifes seducer, was last week
expelled from the State Medical Society for
having read plagiarizcd essay at the last
annual meeting.
Some delay occurring during recent
presentation of 81 the Black Crook" in New
York, the stage manager explained it by
saying that "the ladies of the ballet were
not dressed" whereupon lively wag in the
audience shouted out that ''they never are. y
The Boston advertiser adyertises sale
of house-lots in Dedham. A good many
dcad-hams are inhabited, but we did not
know the inhabitants spec-ulated in house
lots, though they spec the ham most admi-
rably.
The New Orleans Picayune,i in referring
to Governor W ellis, says: ''He has contrived
to realize the popularity whereof the old
Dutch Governor of New York boasted, that
when he went into office everybody was in
his favor, and when he went out everybody
was in favor of that too"
Justice used to be a grand "sell," for
colored men in this city. They were first
arrested and put in a cell in the celtar OF
the City Hall, then removed to another cell
in New Castle Jail, and after they had been
tried, sentenced and flogged, the Sheriff
would sell them at public auction.
"A Paris correspondent writes The
American troupe of riders who have just
arrived in Paris filled two steam vessels.
Each one contained sufficient of men, wo-
men, children, beasts and material to form
complete company in case the other went
to the bottom-a curious trait of prudence,
if little cold-headed and hearted. The gi-
gantic bills which they have brought with
them, in gigantic chromolithography, have
astonished the natives. The daily expenses
of the troupe are reckoned at f200."
Two young princes, the sons of Arch
duke Charles of Austria, had warm debate
in the presence of no less Il person than
that of the august Emperor himself. Great
ly excited, one said to the other: 'sYou are
the greatest ass in Venice !" Highly offend
ed at quarrel in his presence, the Emperor
interrupted them, saying with indignation I:
"Come, come, young gentlemen you forget
that am present"
MATRIMONIAL Hiawathas Wooing
there is passage, instinct with savage life
and which has its similitude in civilized soci
ETY.. 1t is as follows =
''Thus it is our daughters leave us,
Those we love, and those who love us
| Just when they have learned to help us,
| When we are old and lean upon them,
Comes youth with Haunting feathers,
With his flute of reeds, a stranger,
Wanders piping though the village,
Beckons to the fairest maiden,
And she following where he leads her,
Leaving all things for the stranger"
AN exquisite divine put the finishing
/ tn,1cb In n marriapn carn,n auv when he ron