Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-02-21
This and That.

| The journeymen bricklayers Of Jersey
City demand $3.50 per day after March II.
Mr.. Astor has given $50, ,eOO-an ad-
diiional gftto the Astor Library.
1t is iumorrd that the next President of
the Senate will be Senator who has Ben
| Wade and not found wanting.
| A ''great brute of husband" adver-
tised in the morning papers for stout,
able-bodied man to hold his wife's tongue !"
The Indian Bureau has made treaty
with the Kaw Indians, because the Kaws
| agreed to remove from Kansas.
Mr.. Spalding charging Mr. LIE Blond
with '.nigging, would seem to imply that
| the latter is ''nigger."
We tender a multitude of good wishes
to the New York EUening Gazette, as a
capital paper. II deserves perfect success.
The breakup of the ice in the Ohio
caused great deal of damage among the
steam and wharf hoats
Queer thing is an insurance policy. If
| can't sell it, cancel it; IL I cancel IL, /
cant sell it.
We suppose great many young ladies'
buy sewing machines because they get "fel-
lers" with them.
"A sagacious dog in Canada stopped
runaway team by catching the reins, which
were trailing on the ground, with his teeth.
"A wonderful cat in Cairo dances 10 the
music of pianoforte and can laugh like
child
"A woman In Chicago, on visiting her
husbands office, discovering long hairs in
his hair brush has sued for divorce.
A man was fined one dollar and costs in
New London for 'groanin like possum"
in meeting.
Providence has u washerwoman who
lately Inherited S2O,0 900 from an English re-
alton.
The mud in the streets of Louisville is
not quite four feet deep. The Mudd at the
Dry Tortugas is more than five feet high.
Ladies remember this-'It is much
better to have one neat, complete suit than a
dozen incongruous articles of dress"
Only three deaths occurred last year, it
is said, out of a membership Of eleven thous-
aud Good Templars in Indiana.
-Bringahm Young, they say, buries his
wives without ceremony. Does he marry
them without ceremony?
The end Of tho WORLD according to
the prophets will he visible in Bangor,
Me-, about Easter.
Ii You give good advice it will he for
gotten. fyou give bad, it never will be-
Moral-attend to your own business,
| Among tho victims of the Regents Park
skating accident was the Marquis de Buissy,
n French nobleman.
A woman in Penn Yam, N. Y, lost her
reason. She dropped her child in well,
was the reason.
-Molie Trussel was pardoned by the Gov
crnor ofIllnois on the LIST inst. latter amonth
of pententiary life
The Cretan National Assembly has now
an organ of its own, entitled Crete. Hope
it won't be short lived Cretc-r.
Some papers say that Lord Lyons will
succeed Earl Cowley as English Minister at
the Court of France The salary is 100000
a year--which will then be the Lyons share.
1t has been objected that ifwomen voted,
husbands and wives might vote against such
other We think that the wives may be
trusted to prevent that,
Mr.. Kent, of Natchez, was astonished
the other day by receiving a. bill of lading
for ten boxes of Tom cats. 1t should have
been Tomato catsup.
The London Spectator thinks Andrew
johnson has been to this country "bless-
ing in disguise" The Boston ddV. thinks
there is no doubt about the disguise.
A large number of counterfeit five-cent
coins have been put in circulation in New
York The metal is said to be very base
and the countericiiers are still baser.
1t is rumored that John q. Whittier the
poet, is to he married in his old age to
widow of Philadelphia, with whom he has
been in love for thirty years
--Bierstadt is AT Irvington, engaged in
painting his large picture of scene in the
wood
The Swiss Bell Ringers and Alleghanian
Vocalists had nearly all their baggage stolen
on the Ohio River recently, which caused
them loss of $4,000
A man, named George Rumsey. died of
delrium iremens, in Nashville, Tenn, the
other day. Runiscy liked the first half of
his name.
The writer of the article in BfackWo0d
on "Womcn and Children in America,
says the rocking cllaii - is one of the great
est social curses of the United States.
The Norfolk Joura0i says that Mr.. Dale
Carter, Senator from Russell, owns one hun
dred thousand acres of land. lie is the
richest carter we ever heard OF.
The man who held ticket 5s,Gul in the
Crosby lottery, and who, according TO the
Commercial Bulletin, drew II ''long breath,
was Ossan L. Dodge, the musician.
A meeting OF New Jersey editors will
be held at Trenton, ON the i4ih inst, for the
purpose of forwarding the newspaper inter
ests of the State
Great expectations--the statement of a
New York paper that Pennsylvania and
New Jersey expect fire peach crops this sea-
son." For g five read 9 line, or Pennsy'-
vania and n. J. will lie disappointed.
The local papers state that there were
thirty three marriages in Raynllam, Mass,
last week, nineteen males and fourteen f,'-
malcs'-which appears little am-bigamy-
Gus.
"A. A. Kelley, the ''proprietor OF the
North American gift concert OF Chicago. has
quietly lett that city for parts unknown. The
drawing was to have taken place ON the 2stll
ult.. but il didn't.
1t is said tlai the police returns regard
ing the social evil in New York, are very in
J complete, Superintendent kennedy rcscry
ing information through tear OF injuriny
property in certain localities.
A girl of seven or eight yehs, living in
/ Portsmouth, VA, is reported 10 have fallen
heir to ~, ,5Oo, 900, by the death OF IA relative
in England \ fall Of that kind wouldn't
/ hurt u.s.