Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-02-07
A milatry bore-regimental drill.
Joe Jefferson is playing at Baltimore.

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every day.
Douglas Jerrold's definition of dogma
tism was puppyism arrived at maturity.
| There is great temperance revival in
New Hampshire.
The first shad have appeared at Will
mingion, N. G.. A pair brought $40.
-Bismark handles his cards queenly; he
plays the deuce with king
$40 miles of steam railway have been
built in forty years.
Norfolk is pleased with 1000 bales of
cotton piled up on her wharves, for export.
ALI demonstrations of approval or dis
pleasure are forbidden in Roman theatres.
Senator Sherman's daughter is said to
BE- the belle of Washington, this winter.
The military in Canada drill on snow
shoes
-McGinnis will hardly reach Stockholm
before he will have to stalk home again.
Mr., Carlisle has gone to Italy, and will
spend the entire year in Florence.
Mr.. Dickens is hard at work on a new
novel,
A volcano in the moon is said to be in
state of eruption.
Ice in the bay west end of Lake Erie is
two feet thick.
Miss Mary Mitchell. sister of Maggie,
is playing at Newark, New Jersey.
philadelphia has invited Congress to
visit League Island to examine the proposed
site for navy yard.
believers that the second advent of
Christ will occur this year are numerous in
Bangor, Me.
Cincinnati is said to be the cheapest
city to live in at present of any town of its
size in the country.
-Toasts at Railway Festival ~" our
mothers, faithful tenders, they nevermispla-
ced the switch"
john Russell Young of the Tribune has
sailed for Florida to recuperate over-worked
health.
The Boston Public Library contains one
hundred and thirty thousand six hundred and
seventy eight volumes.
-Artemus Ward says, Let us be happy,
and live within our means, even If we have
to borrow money to do it with"
The Providence Post wants the Demo-
cratic party to "plant ITSELF So do the
people-the deeper the better.
The Cornhiu Magazine has a poem
entitled "Loves Light" 1t is probable writ
ten in gas-metre.
"A correspondent addresses Theodore
Tilton to know if it is really true that he is
engaged to marry Miss Anna Dickinson!
Great liberties being taken with oul
"own good name" it may be proper to say
that we are not the Original Jenkins"
The board of Sandwich Queen Emms
and her party at Willard's in Washington cos
$ls67, for nine days. The Government pay
it.
The morning glory will flourish during
winter in parlor windows where there il
some sun.
-Curran told his physician, who had sale
he coughed with much difficulty, that it wa
very strange, for he had practiced all night
tour mothers, Industrious tenders,
though they often misplaced the switch,
was toast given at recent railway dinner
Three thousand and sixty-four languages
spoken and one thousand different religions
professed in the world.
Colonel Hecker, who served in our army
is Bismarck's bitterest opponent in the Prus
sian Parliament
New York, in spite of the fate of Van
ity Fair, is to have another imitation o
Punch.
"A travelling Yankee having been asked
his opinion of the Venus de Medici, said
"waal, stranger, l guess don't care much
for thease stone gals.
MIR. William B. Pike of Bradford, Mass.
is passing week on Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mr. Pike was his intimate friend for many
years.
The Indians of Florida have determined
to keep the negroes in their tribes as slaves
and the negroes have appealed to the mill
tary.
An exchange says that "Boston, aftel
its conrse of snow is to have course O
Blot" He will probably give them choice
of several courses.
"A Connecticut editor charges Col. For
ney with being generally disgruntled abou
one thing or another" The Connect cutters
are sharp-very.
Mrs. Calhoun, one ofthe 7rib,A,e's edi
tors, wrote the spicy review of that sof
Southern novel "St. Elmo" in Thursdays
Trib.
The Connecticut papers yield to League
Island with bad grace, and evidently think
Congress, as the one juror did" clever
stubborn men,"
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Voice predicts revolution in Mary
land as the consequence of the violence o.
the now-triumphant rebel party.
The Round Table advices old Bennett
to present the Herald establishment to Ma
polian III. SIT would be an advertisement
equally good as his sons and quite as mex
pensivc."
The Louisville Journal says-Th,
country had never such myriads of enemies
as it has now. 'Twere well if the Who'll,
could be crowded together and penitentiary
walls built around them" Isn't the editol
of the Journal in the whole?'
The Chattanooga CTenn.) Daily Re
publican is new Union paper. Like al
of its class it has hard row to hoe, but W,
trust it may be successfully established.
free Radical press will soon work wonder
in the South.
The Boston Executive Committee fol
the relief of the Cretans will send five thous
and dollars by the next steamer to Athens
there to be used in aid of the multitude o
women and children who have taken refug
in Greece and the neighboring islands from
the Turks.
-Bonsor down upon little Stannery
who's great boaster about his "swell" ac
quaintancc, and his extensive "travel, an,
this year especially, down Palestine y ''Di,
you see the Dardanelles ?" Stannery .'Eh
The-oh? Oh, ye'-yes! Jolly fellars al
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