Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-16
Here and There.

| Soupics ilisb year, n idlHllJ iuhu.
-Adela Juana Maria Patti is twenty-five
years of age.
/ -Bayard Taylor has been riding over the
Alps OH railroad. He likes it.
-California's debt is less than il was four
years ago, and is now but $5, 1885, 800.
The Duke of Edinburgh is to sail round
the Horn. He is temperate, however
Bennett has crawled into the Associated
Press again.
"A pork firm in St. Louis could not save
its bacon. Notes went to protest.
Belle Boyd appears on the New York
stage on Thursday.
"A man was fined $40 in Mobile for
sticking his finger in policeman's eye.
There was sleighing in Atlanta, Ga,
on Tuesday of last week.
The doctors of Melbourne, Australia,
are disputing whether Hamlet was mad.
-Carlotta has given up her dowry, but
has $1,000, 900 left.
No western State has so many papers in
proportion to its population as Kansas.
Atlanta was visited by rainbow on
Christmas day.
The Randolph Scorcher is the name of
a new Democratic paper in Illinois.
Vermont has seventy-six Congregation
al ministers.
Galveston is enjoying green peas and
lettuce.
The Pope has scattered twelve thousand
medals among the soldiers who scattered the
Garibaldians.
"A retired editor says his connection
with the press has thawed and resolved 1t
self into adieu.
When is plant like a hog? When it
begins to root. And when is it like SOL
dier When it shoots.
When does London housekeeper i'm
prove her pickles by travel? When she
goes to Turnham Green.
Peter Cartwright, the celebrated Meth
odist preacher, is still vigorous at the age
of SO.
There are 500 houses of prostitution
and 8, 800 courtesans in Chicago, we are sor-
ry to say.
"A peal of 5,O4O changes was recently
rung in Liverpool. 1t took nine men over
three hours.
"A couple of French women have been
arrested for making soup of sweet babe,
cabbages and flour.
The Mendelssohn Society, Of New Ha-
ven, Ct, cleared $l.os during 1865. Pretty
heavy profits that.
Henry Ward Beecher sent Christmas
present of $50 to his old school-teacher,
John E. Lowell, of new Haven.
Some itemizer tells the story that there
are some sixty families starving in Lexing-
ton, Ky. Bosh!
An exchange queries whether the man
who writes tale is necessarily wag. If
it were doggerel we would say yes.
"A large monastery is to be built at New
Melleray, Iowa. 1t will take two years for
its completion.
William Daniel, aged 1o2, has just died
in Fayette county, Ill. His sister, aged
l05, mourns his loss.
Mr. Alger, the author of Friendship of
Women" etc., is engaged upon "History
of the DEVIL"
-Twenty-four of the leading banking
houses Of Europe, at the end of October,
have in their vaults $I04, Ala, ,439.
Why was Goliah astonished when Da-
vid hit him with stone? Because such q
thing never entered his head before.
Vienna is excited over the appearance
of the Emperor at ball in citizens clothes
instead of a uniform.
-Langiewicz, the Commander-in-ch of
the Polish insurgents in 1868, has accepted
position as major general in the Turkish
army.
To be drunk three days out of seven is
the normal condition of an immense number
of Englishmen. No disparagement on the
English nation meant.
Tie closing of the Exhibition has told
heavily on the receipts of the Paris theatres !;
they fell 1924, 2G8 in November below the
receipts of October.
1t is said that two gills of sweet oil
swallowed by the person most concerned,
is an antdote for every kind of poison, no
matter how virulent or strong.
-Hoff, the malt extract man, who spends
between 100000 and 100000 year for
advertising, has lately won $40, 900 in the
the Prussian lottery.
Leonard w. Jerome lost $500, 900 in
the Pacific Steamship Company last year,
and only few weeks ago won $50,
} back.
Jefferson Davis arrived at New Orleans
New Years eve There was on the wharf
when he landed some hundreds of persons,
who Cthe Crescent informs us) greeted him
with hearty and continuous cheers.
The Russians have translated into their
vernacular many of Shakespeare's plays,
Buckles History of Civilization"-in fact
: almost every standard work in the English
language.
Mr.. Alfred Bierstadt, of New York, has
had the honor of exhibiting to the Queen
and the royal family, the pictures pain
ted by him of scenery at the head-waters Of
the Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains.
"A high authority says that it is the prop.
er thing for gentleman, on marrying o
: widow before the expiration of her mourn
Ing to put ON weeds for his lamented prede-
cessor.
An English army officer writes from
: Abysslnia that campaigning in Theodores
. dominions is decidedly unpleasant Their
mometer, 1903; snakes in the beds; scor
pions in the mems boots; camp fcvers, ep
idemics.
French art has just sustained a severe
r loss in the person of Theodore Rousseau. on,
If of its most celebrated landscape painters
Rousseau painted nature for natures sake
y with no other master than an obscure por
trait painter.
o Captain Howell. of the schooner Rose
g of Brookhaven, l.. l., was on Saturday hel,
to bail IN the United States Court at Brook
C lyn in the sum of $4,000, on charge o
cruelty, preferred against him by Charlie
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