Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-08-29
This and That.
Summer complaint-Wct weather.

cotton, in Paris.
"A good fellow to write poetry-Long-
fellow.
On and after October LIST, all New York
railroad conductors are to wear uniform.
Petroleum shares are called "parts of
one stupendous hole"
Sometimes we read of murder that
didn't occur in Chicago.
1t is said that $4,000 dozen bottles of
Congress water were sold last year.
General Lee has been writing an essay
on school discipline.
"A German writer estimates that an acre
of good buckwheat will yield fourteen
pounds of honey daily.
A literary critic who has been waiting
for the appearance Of a really true poet, is
tired of the delay of the last minstrel.
"A rural genius says maple sugar can be
made from the sap of the black walnut tree.
He must be sap-head.
"A San Franciscan found several nuggets
of gold in the gizzard of chicken he was
dressing. He says he likes such Fowl work.
The crop of blueberries in Wisconsin is
immense, and they retail at the selling points
for one dollar bushel.
-Hamill and Brown are to row five miles
onthe Hudson for So 900 and the champion
ship.
--Helmbold, the druggist, began with
capital of $50. He expended $2l4,000 in
advertising, and is now millionaire.
A local writer on population says green
apples are a public blessing, since they dou-
BILE up people.
Geo Francis Train is going to stump
Kansas for woman suffrage, and the question
is asked, I" Is Train on the right track ?"
"A correspondent says there is as much
beauty as ever at Saratoga, but good deal
of it is put on.
Who raise their strains around my head
AS soon as get snug in bed,
And sing and sting till they are fcda
Muskeeters.
A down east boat club is said by the
local papers to be a merry crew." Rowers
of merriment probably characterize the races
in that vicinity.
The Fenians of New York say they
have material enough to keep thirty thous-
and men in the field for one year-with the
sod over them?
The key business is lively in Boston
since the establishment Of rum club houses,
and five hundred keys are often ordered fol
a single door.
Buffalo bakers are now obliged to STAMP
every loaf Of bread with their initials. We
understand that some bakers stamp it witt
their feet-while the bread is yet dough.
Am editor of anew paper says he in
tends to say what he pleascs, and hopes tt
please those readers who may be pleased t.
read what he is pleased to say.
Upon careful search being made un
der his left arm, that long-lost dramatic
brother not only developed strawberry
mark, but large patch.
The Lake Michigan sea-serpent is de
scribed in detail by nm old fisherman win
claims to have seen it. But it must be re
membered that fishermen spin long yarns.
The Boston Courier has funny cor
respondent who signs himself "Job Sass.
The Norwich Bulletin says he isn't half a
bright as Balaams.
Jones has had an attack of cholera-mor
bus superindnced by indulgence in gree
fruit. He says his health is very much i'm
peared.
Punch reports the speech of an Irish M
N H. .t,o,..l,t Jro1nnJ yad trNalk
tenth of our income, sir! ay, that they dc
and they'd take twentieth, if they dared. =
, Our financial man says seven-thirtie
are becoming very good as class. Man
i of them have already been converted an
! the remainder are in hopeful state, comm
+ forward rapidly.
Secretary Stanton was the first publ
man to take Andy johnson by the hand
: save him from utter disgrace after his humi
iating debasement when he took the oath ;
: Vice President.
Miss Evans, the authoress, has receive
= the degree of M. E. L., Mistress of Englis
:. Literature, from the Baltimore Female Go
). lege. Mistress of extraordinary langua!
would be more to the point.
"A man in Liverpool was find f200 Fl
selling snuff which did not contain sing
! particle of tobacco, but was wholly col
= posed of starch, clay, flour, wheat, husk, 4
!. He was not sup to snuff"
!, There has been large loss of timber
;, Canada. Seven cribs went into the Cha
= dere Falls last week. If these cribs we
ar anything like some of the New York ''cril
or we read OF, they ought to go into the Cha
ut dere Falls.
r. A country youth attending a circu
ID offered the elephant plug of tobacco. I
d animal didn't cheWs TO take it, but took
or wigh,'s hat instead, and after chewingit t.
he mass Of pulp, threw it down at the feet
az the owner.
IL. in Queen Vicioras Life of Prince
.;r bert, we learn how her majesty felt after
- question was popped" She writes to
nr Uncle Leopold last few days hi
,d passed like dream TO me, and | am
much bewildercd b. ii all that know ha
ly how to write but do feel very happ
When II Paris omnibus is full the w
". .'complet' is placed on the rear of the sta
ou An American in Paris was heard to compl
90 that although he had used the different ON
,ei ~, buses to visit many interesting spots, he
ns never been able to get to Complet, beca
iol the vehicles which ran thither were alw
" full
In one of the fashionable churches il
nun New England city. strangers are seated
'eo cordng to dress If elegantly dressed d
are placed near the pulpit moderate
but play secures a position half way up the al
'ou but person plainly attired is put as Il
: in the door as possible. If Horace Gree
should step in that church not recogni
re. by the sexton, we fear he would have t.
ere uery near the door.
her "A Portland paper, some time ago
fol- tanned an account of lad who climbe
lay. flagstaff 40 feet high and brought down
is halyards. Another paper copying the it
ME, for lad substituted lady, and the accc