Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-02
Here and There.

Australia has trees five hundred feet
high.
-Garibaldi has chaplain for his house
hold.
How do you define "black as your
hat ?" Darkness that may be felt.
The statue of Edward Everett in B@
ton, is to be faced east for better effect.
There is an original portrait Of Jefferson
for sale in Lexington, Kentucky.
Capt. Martling, a respectable farmer Of
Staten Island, was frozen to death while rel
turning from wedding, recently.
The San Franciscans propose to tunnel
the bay, 80 as to bring the terminus of llel
Pacific Railroad within their city.
One of our southern exchanges begHsl
an editorial on Christmas, passes easily tOthd|
''puritan worshipping the dog star, flaming
with rage and fury" touches lightly on thtI
''hard tack of the Freedmen's Bureau" ald|
at last settles down to work on ''the MOOchl
of party ambition"
Russia directed that the Russian Lao.
guage only should be used In the Polish
University Of Warsaw. The execution a
the order is to be delayed q few months, be
cause neither professors nor students are d
all acquainted with the language.
I'm Ohio lives a disciple of Pendeton,
who favors paying the bonds in greenbacks
or else ''ampudiating" them: Hisargumen
is that they were issued in defiance Of The
"arrogantic laws of the Constitution, and
are, therefore, ''unbindng."
Cincinnati made present Of five dol
lar bill TO each of her policemen.
IToraoa nrooIax, ,,n,,xc rlya ttTn mt A
good, efficient journal into the hands oil
mode of prosecuting political canvass !;
meetings and speeches are well enough, but
these are inispensa ble."
An Illinois woman sold her husband to
another female for $l20, The purchaser
came near being swindled by paying inc
money before the delivery of the goods, but
on threatening prosecution the husband was
handed over in good order.
1t is reported that a very nervous gen
tleman announced steamboat explosion TO
the Connecticut Legislature as follows;
Spister Meeker and lodges of memberisla'
ture, the Elliver ellsworth has billed her
buster.
What is the use of signing and weeping
as we float down the stream of time why
make the voyage Of life a avoiling ones
The Queen Of Great Britain has fixed
on the pulpit of the Chapel Royal, Savoy, .
sand glass measuring Is minutes, q sermon
meter.
Rev. DIR. Fish is authority for the stale
ment that $4,000, 900 worth of liquor !
drunk every year in Newark, N. ]. In sucl
statistics we should think the Doctor wa
ont nf his n afiUa claimant
Coal oil Is recommended as an admlra
BILE preservative for wood. 1t is said it en-
tiers into the pores not only preserving e ea
strengthening the wood, and peculiarly u.
it for paving purposes preventing the ap
sorption of animal fluid and other hh
matter.
Science has ascertained that soun,'
waves resulting from mans voice IN oi ~
nary speech are from TO ~ feet in lengln
while those in a woman's voice are from
to 4 feet; hence the pitch of an ordinair
woman's voice is more than an octave high
er than that of a man, and in its highe
sounds is two octaves.
Hon. William G.. Petties, prominent
citizen of st. Louis, died on Thursday.
Domestic bliss has been rutfled in PROV
idence; injured husband thrashed the rullel
wife tainted; police court, &c.
"A New York Judge has decided t La
the police haye right to caution trave,ei
against the establishments of swindllh
landlords.
On the 18th day of February next all q
ficers of the Freedmen's Bureau in Maryianu
Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee a
cept the superintendents Of education, afo
he d;col,a ,raI frn,,, tho uarvtpq
British soldiers carry knapsack weisu
ing only four pounds three ounces. ,,.
Westminster College at Fulton, M NJ
souri,, has been sold out, buildings ana aH
to conservative Presbyterian
1t is stated that the postmaster Of w,
| York has obtained permission TO sell pJ III
age stamps and stamped envelopes az us NJ
count, It has never been done delort, !"
believe, and tho postal law does not au saos
ize the sale of stamps for less than theii a n,
Cincinnati rejoices at the close ., ho vi
coal famine. Nearly fourteen hund p;.,s shu
and bushels were on the way from I a,nsJ
alone, to that city, but had been oe'alaea ola
the low water. Large amounts aio
coming from other localities. !.
The towns of Appleton, Neenan 81 ~
Menasha in Wisconsin, promise 70 gIVu%, ot,
gether and form the largest city In the e sn,
excepting only milwaukee,. 1t is 10 " ; nus
ed that the consolidated town Will Gall ''''
by pronounceable name. -,
DIR. G. H. Ray, formerly of the G ~ N
tribune, has purchased an interest," ~ az oh
will hereafter be leading editor OF 'n0 =
cago Post. a q
-Reyerdy johnson has been relalnea \ \
the defence of the Wise brothers, WIZ .
en- pied to kill r. A. Pollard,