Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-04-25
This and That.

-GrassnOpperS CHI De picheu up ny tne
peck measure in the fields in Kansas.
The spotted fever prevalent in portions
of Long Island.
"A Boston man advertises needle guns for
children.
The spiritualists are said to be increasing
in New England.
-Lynchburg, Va, is agitated about a pro-
jected duel.
What is the distance from the surface of
the sea to the deepest part thereofa Only
a stones throw.
The ladies-at least some of them-In
Alabama use cocoanuts to fill out their
waterfalls.
"A new paper, in the colored interest, is
to be started in Washington. 1t will be
styled "The Enfranchised Citizen"
-Gounod's new opera, " Romeo and
Juliet" has been rehearsed in Paris, and
great success is predicted for it.
Samuel Case, fifteen year old lad at
Cincinnati,is to be hung for the assassination
| of one OF his playmates.
"A Radical newspaper, conducted by two
Chicagoans, about to be started in Corpus
Christi, Texas.
The exports of Portland, Maine, were
over two hundred and thirty-one thousand
dollars last week.
| In Chicago, two weeks ago, servant
girl stepped on rusty nail, and In few
days died of lockjaw.
1t is said that in England four fifths of
the telegraph operators and two thirds of
the liquor sellers are women.
An eccentric woman in Berwick starved
her COW, lemarking that as is gave no milk,
of course it needed nothing to eat
AT one haul of sein, on Abemarle
Sound, lately, $4,000 herrngs and $4,000
shad were brought to land.
The Brooklyn Union says that toll on
on the Broadway bridge is two cents-an
ascent and descent.
One can ride in coach in Paris, and
take three friends with him, for forty cents
an hour in gold.
The Boston Transcript thinks that Pas
sion Week will be more rigidly and religi-
ously observed in that city than in any pre-
vious year.
The Norfolk journal and Richmond
Dispatch have very wisely turned their at
tention to the discussion of points in gram
| mar instead of notifies
Among the advertised letters at Fall
river is one to the proprietor of the best
hotel in the city," and the postmaster is
boarding round week with each to decide
to whom 1t belongs.
Granville John Penn, ESQ.,, great-grand-
son of William Penn, proprietary of Penn
sylvanip, died in London on the Goth ult.
He was unmarried and leaves no children.
"A saloon keeper named McGunigal, at
Matawan, N. j., is said to have been left II
$500, 900 estate, by brother recently de-
ceased in Philadelphia.
1t is asserted that homeopathic ply
stefan in France cures rheumatism by plac-
ing bee on the spot where the pain is the
severest, and exciting it until it stings.
In England the mines yield annually one
hundred and sixty-six million tuns of coal,
and her coal produce does the work in loco
motives, furnaces; etc., of three thousand
men in the same period.
Did you know Betsy Cranch? What a
fine creature she was. told her once, in
Jest, she must be my wife, for had never
been so deeply in love before. ''It is out Of
the question, my dear" replied she. at is
impossible. am five deep already"
When the young Chinese ladies who
dispense cups of tea in the Paris, they, being
, slaves, were told at the custom house, that
their compulsory servitudc ceased on theil
] touching French soil. They expressed theiI
gratitude by kissing their masters hand.
An exchange, in speaking of the magi
cal strains of hand-organ, says; "Wher
he played old Dog Tray, we noticed
eleven pups sitting in front of the machine
on their launches, brushing the tears from
} their eyes with their forepaws.
The hygienic system ofthe Oneida Com
munists is thus explained by one of thei
number; 'sWhen brother or sister il
unwell we take him or her to task at a meet
ing ofthe community and catechise then
so severely that they get into sweat, which
always has the effect of curing them"
In Professor Phelps book entitled eth
s Still Hour" occurs the following sentence.-
9 "The stiffness of the hour is the Stiffness of
dead calm at sea-" Imagine the reyeren'
n authors horror when he found, after severa
hundred copies had been printed, tina
: "calm' was made by the types to rea,
= "clam,"