Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-02-28
This and That.

ny fashion III New YORK.
A new name for the Fast River at New
York Bridget.
"A Stump speech-Beecher's remark that
he could not smoke whole cigar.
80. K, the Washington correspondent
ofthe Baltimore San, il Mr.. Richardson.
The Prussian soldiers now receive seven
cents day.
The Menlsen waltz is the newest dance
in Paris
The s.black measles" prevail in portions
of Maine.
--t'en Butler is reported to have begun
housekeeping in Washington.
A New York paper calls the Gar
Turkey -gobbler.
1t is asserted that fruiteaters rarely be-
come drunkards.
Hon. Lewis d. Campbell, ,ofthe Mexican
Mission, has gone home to Ohio.
The workmen in New York city are 60
ing to establish cooperative stores.
--"Jove liked it certain that whatever day
Makes man a slave takes half his worth away"
The counsel of Lindsey, the chld-whip-
per, have applied for a new trial.
MIR. George Peabody is seventy-two
years of age.
Not an established opinion-Rives Pol
lard's new paper.
The Cleveland co. Leader has assumed
quarto form and is prospecting.
The Vermont State Fair is to be held
Gaptap,t,ar IntI, IOtI nd
The Empress Eugenie has been endeav-
oring to learn to skate for the past four years
without success.
The first number of the Monthly Mirror,
colored peoples paper, has been issued at
st. Louis.
1t is officially stated that there are sixty
thousand members of the Grand Army of
the Republic in Ohio.
--"What's the use,' asked ragged fellow,
'tof mans working himself to death to
get living ?"
| "A gentleman, upon being called cab
bagc-head, declared that he would not stand
such garden sass
Some young ladies, when their cruel
parents forbid them to go to ball, imme-
diately get mp bawl at home
--Punchs direction how to make hole
in yonr income is sound-to pay large
rent.
Mrs Stowe has completed story of
New Engard Life of the Last Generation,
which her friends praise highly.
The United States Senate has had only
five secretaries in all, Messrs Otis, Cults,
Lowrie. Dickens and Forney.
The Mobile Tribune elegantly calls Carl
baldi tine Beast Butler of the Italian Liberal
party.
One who has suffered says: 'sEven as
nature benevolently gaurds the rose will
thorn so does she endow woman with pins.
A snacc Of l,l3l 900 square miles is sale
to be around the North Pole, which is nov
blank on our maps.
An unusually large wheat crop has beer
sown in the vicinity of Rome, Ga, and i
promises very well.
The hands employed in the famous
"Wamsutta" mills at New Bedford are on
strike. =
Dan Rice was ''madc much Of by thu
Democrats on the floor of Congress, yester
day.
---Leutze's picture of "Cromwell Over
hauling the Relics Of Royalty in the Tower,
is well advanced toward completion.
---Berstadt is said to be engaged, for tht
winter, on further illustrations ofthe scener,
of the Yosemite Valley.
The Louisville Journal calls the edito
of States Right paper at Cincinnati I
hobby-horsical' fellow.
Ball, the Boston sculptor, is engaged OF
II subject of rare poetic possibilities" Ev'
Awaking into Life"
Two large steamships have passet
through the Suez canal, and the complete
success of the undertaking is considered as
sured.
The Lyceum orator said +" He look
at the crow, Mr.. President, and, Mr.. Presi
dent, the crow looks at him, and, sir, the.
both look at each other"
We hold the Newark IN. J.) COUie
responsible for the statement that "Mush i
said to be good thing with butter and su
gar and wine sauce"
"A Philadelphia divine, speaking of Swim
burnes poems, and without intending pun
SAYS sthe man that writes such stuff mus
be half swine" Just half Swine-burne.
; 1.-THE immortal J. NJ has card in th
Stanton Virginian, setting forth that he
/, not dead as reported but lives to stand b.
: the Right.
The Boston Post qualities the news tha
Carlotta has recovered her reason by addin
--s' that is, to the extent permitted to an
l. woman.
T.. An Arkansas paper says business is s
dull that the young men in the vicinity, fc
want of proper employment have gone !
getting married.
D A Mr.. Leighton is translating Burns int
# Latin. and the N. Y. Gazette wishes Ii
n would translate the Scotch poets production
into English
n The meeting to naugurate the Evenin
/. Leader was so pleasant that the editori
fraternity in Washington propose to form
i Press Club.
|. -Rives Pollard pretends to be an ardeI
e Southern man, yet it is plain that he wi
$ have in his new paper the poorest Ol,inio
e Of all the South.
v According to the superintendent of pul
lie instruction, there are now one round mi
:, lion of scholars attending the free schools
:, New York.
1t One Of our exchanges prinies verses
Al II. E. M. Hem" is the only comment
be made on most Of the poetry" pnblish'
- nowadays.
,f "A bill submitting the Sunday car que
IN tion to vote of the Baltimoreans, h
of passed to third reading in the Marylal
House of Representatives.
at 1000 men are chopping wood on t
IN plains for the Union Pacific Railroad Tn,
Of wives and families camp out with them, Al
ne are provisioned by the contractor.
"A correspondent criticising prima dc
Il, ma rather deficient in plysioue saws "a oh