The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-07-23
FACTS AND FANOIEs.

NOus A9HNNuiNu NuN lbmtlN ulN yum
mering at Lancaster, Ohio,
"Tpropose to move Immediately sp.
on yoaF toorks."--U S. Grant.
Two hundred aud seventy three
newspapers and periodicals. are pub
lished in Ohio.
my noble.hearted friends. - Ho
ratio Seymour TO hs mob Of Nee York
eity, in 1868.
Seward is thinking about buying
the Farce islands for John Morrisey
10 retire to.
Fun suggests, as a companion book
TO every man his own lawyer" ,,Ev.
cry fool his own client"
"wilt thou ?" said the Tammauy
Convention to Horati> SEYMOUR aud
Seymour wilted.
Speaker Colfax will pass the hot
days Of August on the mountains of
Colorado.
A son Of Sir Walter Scott never
read his fathers novels, The same
was true Of Walters grandfather.
1t Is generally complained that the
forehead Of A. Jackson, on the two
cent stamps is too high for so cheap
stamp.
Fifteen tunnels, in all 6,262 feet
long, have been cut at the California
end Of the Pacific Railroad, in 1877
miles.
A great American exposition is
proposed for 1876, the centennial an.
uiversary of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
General Napier has been made a
peer. His title is "Lord Napier of
Mugdala." Parliament has passed
the bill granting him pension.
An eccentric clergyman lately said
that "about the commonest proof we
have that a man is made Of clay, is
the brick so often found in his hat"
The London Star says that Tenny-
son, with all his popularity, caOnot
count SO many English readers as
LOngfellow.
Swinburao is such prey to mel
ancholy, says London correspond
ent, that he has been ordered by his
physician TO travel.
"0uida" the writer Of those nu-
merous cheap sensation stories, is an
English woman Of thirty eight, plain,
fluent, industrious aud fast,
Gen. Gput, after twenty two years
of army life, is said to have never mt,
sonal quarrel,
Hon. j s. Wilson, Commissioner
of the General Land Office, has been
made Doctor of Philosophy by CO.
lumbar College,
Warren j. Bradley, the author of
"Culm Rock" donald Deane," and
other books for the young, died at
Forestvillc, Conn, few days since
Commodore Mutt, of the Thumb
family, has thrown his whole weight
in favor Of temperance, aud was made
a Good Templar at Montpelier, VI.
DR.. Theodore Canisus, of Aurora,
ILL.,, is publishing, in Vienna, his.
torical novel entitled abraham Lin
coin" 1t is to be translated into
English.
Lotta says sho is no. engaged to
be married, and never intends to be,
AS Lolita is not yet nineteen years
old, some allowance may be made for
the latter change.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Clerk of
the House of Representatives has
been appointed American editor, this
year, Of the Almanac de Gotha.
The locusts are disappearing
throughout the State, but mad-dogs
are beginning to ripen. Kick every
dog not muzzled.
General Garfield proposes that SUI
pernumerary officers nj the regular
army shall be put on half pay, aud
that vacancies shall be filled from the
supernumerary list.
Henry Ward Beecher hits the
Chief Justice rather hard when be
says: II have for years, as u leader in
public affairs, deemed him, like his
greenbacks, as promising more on the
face than they aTe worth in gold"
Fanny Fern having said that "the
men of the present day were fast,
Prentice replies, "that they have to
be, to catch the women.
The Springfield Republican says
the Democratic platform is ga union
of Pendlctou on reputation, Frank
Blair on reconstruction, aud Brick
pIconeroy geOeally."
Prince aud Princess Salm .Salm are
sojourning in Switzerland. She il
writing her Mexican Diary" aud her
husband a history Of the siege oi
Qaeretaro.
When a rich aud patroniziug mau
proposed to Alexander Dumas lit
crary labor, as q person who ought tC
be encouraged, he replied; 81 am no
a man who wants to be encouraged
l am a man who wants to be paid.
| A Quakeress said recently to I
friend, in reference to the Quake
formula of marriage; at is true di'
not promise TO obey when ] was mar
riedi but might as we'll, for l hav
had to do 1t.
Hon. Reverdy johnson. the nev
American Minister to the court Of 81
T James, will sail from the port of Bal
timore on the frat Of August, Mrs
Abraham Lincoln and her son Tad
die will be among the passengers.
! "Mischief that may be helped !
/ hard TO know" said Lord Brook,
4 But The mischief that time woul
4 work on the human hair may f,res