Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-10-10
This and That.

The Pennsylvania State Fair at Fits
burg is declared a failure.
No paper in Italy has more than six
subscribers.
There is a female brass band in Decatus,
Illinois.
A man near Bethlehem, Ky, some days
ago captured two-headed snake.
One in six of the school children of
Brooklyn is near-sighted.
The Germans propose an Arctic expe'li-
tion as well as the French.
The poet Bryant not only wears white |
beard but has now white moustache.
Trains are to run from London to Liver |
pool at the rate of 81 miles IN hour.
George Francis Train has rented his
hotel at Omaha for $40, 500 year.
The Susquehanna bridge, at Harrisburg,
will be finished by January.
The most laudable ambition is to be
wise; and the greatest wisdom is to be good
average height of the people is increasing.
Oliver Optic apologies in his magazine
for having had the diphtheria,
There are fifty miles of police telegraph
in New York-twenty-fou in Brooklyn.
Nearly one hundred deaths from cholera
have occurred during the past two weeks in
st. Louis.
1.-THE temperance societies Of New York
will make grand parade on the 10th of Oc
tober, in honor of Father Matthew.
There lisa lady living in Portsmouth,
Va, who has attained the remarkable age
of II years.
Some enterprising genius has taken out
patent for manufacturing leather from cat
fish skins.
Fanny Janauschek.a celebrated German
tragedienne, arrived at New York. by the
North German steamer, on Saturday.
Murdoch announces his intention to re-
tire from the stage after this season and en-
gage in teaching elocution.
w. N. Saunders, colored man, late OF
Baltimore, has been chosen president OF the
Florida Leagues.
Some one in Dublin has been making
chemical analysis of street mud He found
there was a great deal of moisture in it.
The bridge at Columbia, Pa, burned to
prevent the rebels from crossing in 1868, is
being rebuilt.
A manufacturer in Lynn, Mass, has
made and sold this season thirty thousand
pairs of base hall shoes.
"A Jerseyman has invented machine to
tell the number Of people that enter street
car or public hall. That knocks T" knock
| ing down" in the head.
| The New Orleans Times says it has
| excellent reasons for believing that General
| Mower will not interfere with the pro-
gramme laid out by General Sheridan.
| Another effort is being made to raise the
rebel ram Mcrrimac from the bed OF the
Elizabeth river. Numerous attempts hereto
fore have been expensive failures.
Among the recent deaths in Arkansas is
| that of General Yell. One would suppose
that the State would be more quiet after such
an event,
There is now residing in Spencer town
ship, Allen county, Ohio, revolutionary
soldier who is one hundred and seven years
old. His name is William Taylor.
Bishop Williams, of Middetown, Con
necticut, lately received valuable set OF Ca
nonical robes from his Episcopal friends, on
his fiftcth birthday.
"A Paris guide book seller has dogs run
ming about the streets, with cards affixed to
their car bearing his address and the title OF
his guide book.
"A serious complaint comes from Mem
phis. The Avalanche says the city Is lack
ing in fools to make matters lively. The
North can supply n few.
The Chicago Atluance, in classifying
its news, calls the Mississippi Valley "The
Interior" and under "The West, puts Cali
fornla.
After session of over eighty days the
convention to revise the constitution of New
York has adjourned to the second Tuesday
: in November, week after the elections.
The extensive tobacco factory of Reuben
Raeland, in Petersburg, Va, was destroyed
by fire on the oath. The total loss is estima
ted at $780, 600, and the insurance at 500, 900
Owners of starch factories in the north
ern part of New Hampshire, the Concord
, Statesman says, are contracting for potatoes
at SO cents per bushel.
--"Who is this Salm-Salm," asked Mr.
/ Seward when he first heard the name. .
: suppose he comes from Sing-Sing," was thu
G reply.
"a Soul conversant with virtue resem
bles fountain; for it is clear, and gentle
and sweet, and communicative, and rich
and harmless and innocent,
During the war diamond was fount
= at Camden, Mississippi, in the rough state
which upon examination is found to b.
i worth $50 600,
| ~ StCb kHuMl 40 itt
4 been holding tent meetings at Freehold, N
f j. They teach that the righteous only vii
i appear in the final resurrection.
: A Chicago man refused to pay $500 70
G a pair of horses because they did not sui
h him, but afterward paid 81, 900 for them q
!, a horse fair, not knowing that they were tn
}. same.
1t would take train nearly seven day
to run from New York to San Francisco, b
i way of Chicago, going at the rate of twent.
q miles per hour and making the usual expires
n stops.
u A disabled soldier with a hand-orga
u took in over ninety dollars on Washingto
e street., Boston, in one day. Governmer
: charity can't compete with hand-organs {
II that rate.
: Henry A. Wise, accordingto Souther
u newspaper, unhorsed the Black Knight {
l. Know Nothingism, in 1856 The blacks {
1t the South are now rapidly doing the sam
t thing.
{ James A. Cutting, the inventor of til
n ambrotype picture, died some days sine
IS in an insane asylum, near Boston. He ha
" been an inmate of the institution for SON
- time past.
10 The stakes in the late sculling match b
err tween Hamll and Brown have been pal
ly over to Hamil under the referees decision
O. This also decides all outside bets on the +
ie suit of the race.
az One of the southern papers which do
rs think well of Congress, calls it 'thc Vi
scum which, in the agitation of society, h
n risen to the surface from the dregs rottiI
W at the bottom of the great political cat
y. dron.
cs -Gentleman Ito Boatman): You mu
to often, should think, get wet, do you no
nm Aytless BOdtndn; Yes, yer honor, Y
ly does, very wet, very wet indeed. but l.
very dry just now yer honor, and no mi
n take.
y; =" Personals" in the newspapers is
l. M old subject for sport, but here is ',wante'
~ and an answer worthy of being copied -
VS. Personal Wanted hand to hold mil
ey own. as down life's vale glide; wanted,
al arm to lean upon, forever by my side. A
en- dress Miss Emma NJ. Handlin, Chicago P.
lai Pcrsonal.-I have hand for Emma
er- It's hanging by my side; but willingly wi
n, her will hitch, and down lifes vale will glit
III Address Tppoo Saib, Chicago P. o.
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