Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03
This and That.

-ltaly eats more frogs than France.
old Boreas has ieen doing considera-
bic bl0wing--and damage.
Richmond has just established city horse
cars.
If man would live in peace he should
he blind, deaf and dumb.
You'll not swccten your mouth by say
ing ''honey."
Late estimates say the total Southern
cotton crop will not exceed l,5OO,OOO bales
"A congressional committee are inyesti-
eating revenue frauds in PHILADELPHIA
"A fast couple In Missouri were married
on horseback.
Pork is going to bacon this year in Ten
ressee.
The advocates OF female suffrage in
England are actively at work.
Sixty newspapers printed in Pennsylva-
nda In the German language.
These cold nights make old bachelors
'skrooch up in bed.
The lady teachers Of Detroit are ON
strike.
Petroleum discovered in ST. Clair "''-'-
ty, Ala.
s,,,. a.Marrii9ikkteew "a likewise Ills pockets.
Iowa, Theodore Tilton says, will be the
first State to allow women to vote.
Dress to kill-Young ladies given 10
tight-lacing.
-Terpsichorean amusements in Salt Lake
City are opened with prayer.
a Photographers Epitaph--" Taken
from life"
An Irishman warns the people not to
trust his wife, because he was never married
to her.
A chap who knows says that courtipg Is
like eating strawberries and cream il wants
to be did slow, then you get the full flavor
Richard E. Snowden died in New York
recently, from inhaling choroform TO ease
the pains of neuralgia
In Richmond billiard saloon, one tel-
low fired two shots at another fellow. Sc
verely wounding billiard table in the leg.
1t is stated that pure salt can be shovel
cd up by cart-loads in South western Kan
sag.
Judge McCunn, of New York, decided
that pers0n who loses money by gambling
10 not entitled to recover it by law.
-Ex-Goyernor Pollock, Of Pennsylvania
has commenced the practice of law ut Phil
adelphia. -.
-Richard F. Harmon, Of Petersburg. for
forty years flour inspector at that place. is
dead.
Madame Michelet has followed up her
husbands SIS Femme" and Glamour, :
with her own L'Enfant" which il Just out.
The bull fights of the Paris exhibition
will be bloodless Gilt knobs and blunt
swords
"A member ofthe Tennessee Legislature
not being satisfied with his salary, has be-
neire waiter in Nashville restaurant
On the Nashville and Decatur Railroad
two r0ughs killed each other, fighting for a
hottie OF wLiskey.
Stephens faiIed TO offer the city Of Dub
lin as . "Christmsa gift' to the Irish Re-
public.
---Swodgers says he gets Hblpwn up" 80
often by his wife. that he has concluded to
take out an accident insurance policy.
The London Times admits that to-day
no one is strong enough or reckless enough
to give decided no to American dictation.
What is the difference between ~ dress
ing" and "stufling? ?" One comes before
dinner-thc other at dinner
"A witty member of the Boston bar, upon
being told of lady in half mourning, re-
piled that he knew she had some relations
half dead"
The people of Guildhali, Va, baye Il
mystery" A full suit of female apparsl
has been found on the bank of the river, the
owner Of which Is unknown.
AT prayer meeting in New Hampshire
aworthy layman spoke Of poor boy whose
father was drunkard and whose mother
was a widow.
Three villains yet upon New Haven
merchant the other night, but threatening to
shoot them with n store key, they inconti-
neutly skedaddled. m
"A workman fell from house In Spring
field and struck upon his head, but was not
hurt much. A bushy head of hair saved
him,
Why is Herodias considered the '.fast-
est woman mentioned In the Bible Be-
cause she got ahead of John the Baptist on
. charger. l.ll