The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-07-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Nutl cuurb ls 10 stump lndlana Tor
Grant aud Colfax.
The Rev. Charles Kiugsly proposes
to visit the United States.
Trains on the Pacific road have
commenced running to TT. Benton.
Chicago claims to have $500 10.
habitants.
New York has the promise Of a
female barber shop.
A scheme is on foot 10 stock the
Susquchanna with the black bass of
the Ohio.
The Queen carries a white parasol,
aud the London shorkeepors are hap
py.
An appropriate design for a Sey-
mour illumiuation--a colored orphan
asylum on hro. ....t
Grants nomination gives universal
satisfaction. Seymours, universal
stupefaotion.
Theodore Tiltou, IL is said, il try
ing his hand on a novel, after the
manner of Boecher.
Planchette Il an old Chinese toy.
and is described in "Howitt's History
Of the Supernatural" "
An exchange says the ablest con
tributor to the Memphis Avalanche,
is a negro.
A conductors baton, says tho Bos.
ton Post, is tho fastest thing Quit
beats time.
Democratic tactics: Doolittle and
Sdymour. Grants plan; Say less and
do more Tribune.
1t is said wherever tho Briton
plants his foot, he expects to 6ud
mutton chops aud the London Times.
The Hartford Post thus hits the
nail on the head: "The Democratic
party is the Peace party IN War, aud
the War party in Peace
1t is said that General Dix will re
fuse to support Seymour aud Blair,
and will certainly sustain Grant aud
Colfax,
The latest news Is to the effect that
johnson while he will not come out
Tor Grant, will do nothing to aid Sey.
mour.
Little Daisy's mother was trying to
explain to her the meaning of smile.
"Oh, yes, know" said the child, "ii
is the whisper Of laugh"
Brigham Young declares that those
who enter polygamy to get rich, make
u mistake. His own returns have
been only small prophets.- World.
Moses Y. Beach, one of the oldest
journalists in the United States, aud
formerly proprietor of the New York
Sun, died recently.
The Alexandria Gazette says thai
j. NJ. Bolts is now at Saratoga, under
treatment for dropsy of the chest
aud apparently, israpidly recovering
his health.
A Philadelphia soldier proposes a
trip to Galveston. Texas, bearing in
his hand a flag inscribed with the
names of Grant and Colfax. He had
better go to breaking stone or hooiug
corn.
The Commonwealth says: ave are
expecting every day to hear some en-
thusiastic Democrat give as reason
for Colfpx's uuftness for the Vice
Presidency, that he never was drunk
in his life. j"
An old soldier who has lost an arm
says: 81 am waiting to see if the peo
pie Of this country are DING TO elect
Horatio Seymour, aud if they do,
will swear that | lost my arm in Z
threshing machine, not in defense o.
my country" u.
A New York paper says that Blail
tukes whisky for medicinal purposes
The Hartford Post says ave are 10
einod to think il l0as "for medicina
purposes ito wit, for corns. HI
was dreadfully corned ali the time b,
was here"
The death of Mrs. Olivia Hooker
wife of General Joseph Il. Hooker
is announced. She was regarded Al
one Of the most brilliant women oi
the country. She has been in i'll
health for some time past and died a
Watertown, New York. l. l..i.i-
Mr.. Pendletou was very cross ia
his frst speech, at Grafton, the othel
day, He began his speech by soold-
ing the audience for not listening t
him, and then assured them tina
"personal disappointment fingered il
his breast" no longer.
The Plaindealer publishes a poetic
adjuration to the Democracy to Films
out the flag of purest white That
right During the war its party wa
known as the white flag Democracy
and il Haunted that cowardly banne
couspicously in 1864 at Chicago
Herald.
The Boston Transcript has the fol
lowing advertisement; "For Sale
suit OF Judicial Ermine, considerabl
soiled, Apply to s, p. Chase, Justic
Department, Washington" Eaus
Allen T. Thompson, we'll K known a
a temperance lecturer, in Ohio, die
recently, at Binghampton, n. Y
whittier he had gone for treatpsni
the Inebriate Asylum, He was
brilliant young man, but the milde
Of intsmperanee blasted his earthl
prospects. si 2i.l
Secretary Seward has issued. in al
cordance with the law, a formal an
, nouneemeut that the resolutions I
, the Legislatures Of New Jersey an
Ohio, adopting the Constitutional 4
mendment, are to reuiaih in fun fore
! aud effect, Notwithstanding the actio
} Of subsequent Democratic Legisla