Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-16
TO BE CONTINUED.
This and That.

The ladies of Rockland, Me-, are going
to have leap-year ball next week.
Why is dancing like milk? Because it
strengthens the calves.
1t only costs one dollar to get Turkish
bath in Boston now, when twenty tickets
are bought at time.
ATTACKS on tea drinking six cups at
time.
Junction City, Kansas, wants to be the
capital of the nation. Aha!
Mrs. A. G. M. Richie has refused SO,
600 to return TO the English stage.
indianapolis is building new street
railroad.
In March, before going back to Europe,
Fannie Kemblc will give readings in Wash
ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
and Boston.
In case Washington and Georgetown
are united under one city government as pro-
posed, will the name also be combined
George Washing Town?
"A child seeing horse carved on tomb
stone, suggested to her mother who was
wondering what it meant, that probably the
person died with the nightmare
Galveston papers complain of ''proyok-
ingly pretty" ladies who come late to tie
theatre and distract the attention of the audi
ence by their charms
The Cinnamon at Helena, Montana
The editor of the Clinton Qowa) Herald
has been presented with pair of gold scis-
sors by the compositors in his office.
One Morris Graiz has obtained verdict
of $5 against the Cincinnati Commercial
for libel. 1t must have been heavy one.
There is a peat bed in Chautauqua coun-
ty, N. Y, which is thought to contain sew
en- hundred and fifty thousand tons of excel
lent peat.
"A Mr. Nathan Parrish, now residing in
Michigan, who applied for patent for q
''fan- blower twenty-five years ago, obtain
ed 1t last month.
An English journal, criticising child's
book, recently published, says that to read
it to any child who does not deserve a
whipping, would be an act of cruelty.
A hundred and eighty thousand carloads
of dirt and garbage were taken care of last
year by the Street Cleaning Department Of
Cincinnati.
The Great Eastern has been lying idle,
in the Mersey, for four months, although
incurring expense and depreciation in value
all the time.
On the Central Pacific Railroad there
is continuous grade of three and fifth
miles, at the rate of one hundred and six
teen feet to the mile.
There was an immense catch of sprats
on the English coast at Hampshire, recently.
Nearly 1000 bushels were sold at Southamp-
ton, for sixpence bushel, to be converted
into manure.
General Halleck reports that the bes
agricultural district in Alaska, is that of the
peninsula of Kensy; and he suggests thai
the land he surveyed at once and thrown in
to the market.
George II. Pendlcton will be presented
to the Democracy OF thu land by the faithful
of Ohio, as their choice for the Presidency
at the Convention which meets in Columbus
to day.
An Arkansas women bein asked by i,
minister iftherc were any Presbyterians il
her neighborhond, said she ''reckonkd moi
as her husband hadn't killed any since they't
lived there
Holmes says he never saw true happi
ness in family circle where there was no
an open fireplace. Every body does no
have that kind of homes.
The loss by the bnrning of the militar,
Asylum at Augusta, Maine, will amount t.
$l50,000. One of the patients was frozen tt
death while being removed, but the rest ar
well cared for.
-On Dec. 81 a wild turkey was shot il
Drumore twp. Lancaster Co.. Pa. 1t wa
a very large one, measuring feet inche
across the wings. 1t was the first bird o
its kind shot in that section in 25 years.
Gas consumers may as well be re
mainded that when the gas is poor and thin
the volume passing through the metre i
increased, so that a larger sum is paid for al
imperfect article than for that which is rich
or of standard quality.
A seasonahle motto for collectors. g
'twere dun when It's dun, then 'twere well
were dun quickly. ."-Lo,oeU Courier.
Dispatches from Japan state that III
Christians who had been imprisoned an
prosecuted in Nagasak have been released
There are three hundred sixty five NOR
Congregational churches in America tina
twenty years ago, and "a, 900 more member
of that denomination.
The Montreal postmaster has had tn
4. heads of his clerks examined phrenolog
: cally, and dismissed those whose bump
J are not properly developed.
-Canida is to pay 81 900 session f,
, verbatim reports of debates in the House
. Commons.
Victor Hugo, on learning that his pla
: of 'Ruy Bias" was inter'licted in Pari
revenged himself by addressing note I
"M. Louis Bonaparte, acknowledging IL
l receipt of the intelligence.
e Out Of sixty-five members of The Queb,
legislature, eleven are physicians.
e Bass and company, the famous Londo
/ brewers, do yearly business of more tina
i eight and a half million dollars.
: More than twelve thousand vessels II
rived at Chicago the past year, with an a,
r gresate tonnage of over two and ha
million.
Q A poor fellow in Paris has been arrestt
t for stealing the blanket of the boa constri
J, tor in the Jardin des Plantes He neede
it and the snake didn't.