Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-30
There were AL deaths in New York

An AraDlan merchant mas secH III.
Livingstone.
Dumas is writing novel called "Abra-
ham Lincoln"
1.-Two acres of Bazaar is the way Ste
warts new warehouse is described.
Dubuque, Iowa, is infected with the
masquerade -on-ice MANIA
The cattle plague is again raging in
Scotland.
Does an agitated blind man suffer from
ex-sitement.
Only two weeks ago New Orleans was
prey to mosquitoes.
The troubles of arshitecture--fretted
vaults.
Visitors are now forbidden to enter the
Hoosac tunnel.
An Illinois alderman amused himselfre-
Gently by horse whipping four doctors.
No man will ever be able to build
house by carrying bricks in his hat
The Buffalo Express calls the dwell
lers in Chicago, Chicagoese.
-Foemcn worthy of each others steel
pen makers.
-Absinthe drinking is rapidly increasing
in Russia. Several prominent army officers
have recently died from that dissipation.
Miss Anna Z. Dickinson recently came
near perishing with cold in Minnesota. She
took thirty-mile sleigh ride on the ice.
"A dissipated young man being told that
wine was a slow poison, replied that it was
entirely to slow to overtake any one SO fast
as himself.
Hundreds of people in this city, when
they are affected with desire to look young
proceed with deliberation and dye.
Jordan water, supposed to be very effi-
cient for baptism, is advertised in the New
York papers.
Napoleon and the Empress Eugene,
says Paris letter, go skating together. So
do Mr.. and Mrs. John Smith.
j. Scott Russell's great work on ''Ship
Building" which sold for $40, can now be
had for as many shillings.
"A movement is on foot in Iowa to have
the State Agricultural College opened TO
pupils of both sexes, upon equel terms.
Why should an alderman wear tartan
waistcoat? To keep check on his sto-
mach.
Harvard youths are discussing the adj
visibility of making up boat race with the
oarsmen of Oxford, England.
1t is somewhat cool to offer a lady a
four-inch seat in horse. car when the least
she can effect lodgment on is fourteen.
The first indications of assured fame are
annoyance from autograph collectors and
Indifference to notice in the newspapers.
old ex-King Louis /. is man of con
siderable family, surely He has only fifty
one illegitimate children.
| A defalcation to the amount of $500, ,00C
is said to have come to light in the Hamil
ton county (Ohio) treasury department.
We begin already to hear of ''leap-yeal
sleigh-rides," and other jollities, in which
the ladies take the initiative.
Bogus twenties on the First National
Bank of Portland, Conn, are now affoat in
Hartford. They are an excellent imitation.
Edwin Forrest, by decision of the Su-
preme Court has to pay an alimony of$l00
600 to his divorced wife.
The Atlanta Era publishes four columns
of property to be sold by the sherifftor non
payment of taxes in S67.
Georgetown, s. c., within three months
has shipped twenty-five hundred and eigh
teen casks of rice.
The China and East India Telegraph
Company will soon lay its cable, which il
now on its way from England.
Another victim to the free use of chic
roform for relieving the toothache has jus
been buried at Collinsville, Conn.
"A. T. Stewart, of New York, has at
tached all the personal and real estate of L
G. Hopkins, of Cincinnati, who recent.
failed for $1,000, 900.
"A COW belonging to Amasa Wills, o
West Brattleboro', VT, recently had he
tongue bitten entirely off by horse becaus
she stole his hay.
The library OF John G. Calhoun is socl
to be disposed of at auction sale in Soutl
Carolina. 1t is part of the estate of the lat
Andrew p. Calhoun.
The total taxable wealth of Missouri i
1860 amounted to 1906, ,552, 7o6; in 1861
$454 1858, ,so5, showing an increase in seve
years of $l5s,3ll, ,0S0.
An iron manufacturing company, wit
capital of 100000. has been organized i
Rochester, N. Y, and win go into opers
ton as soon as possible. 1
Such is the state of commercial depres'
ion in the foreign markets that nature hi
been assisting to raise the wind by seri'
of cyclones. A panic was the result.
The census of the Penobscot Indiar
makes the number four hundred and sixt,
four, and that of the Passamaquoddy trit
very nearly five hundred.
james Mathews died recently in u
State prison of Maine at the age of sixt.
eight years. He was committed August 9t
7 1854, under sentence of death for murder.
. They have nineteen volcanoes in Ala
ka; SO, notwithstanding whisky is scar
in that iar-oif country, the inhabitants CT
: have a chance to get "a drop of the crater
The average cost of Prussian soldie
n including the pay of officers, &C., is estinl
:, ted at e3o year; of a French soldier, e
: a year; John Bulls red coats, fl0o yea
If you want to charm lady praise h
J. good sense, with nice finsh-off touchi
k her beauty. If she has neither you are n
r to change your tactics.
o In Siberia they think the weather mo
l. crate, and call the day pleasant when I
" mercury is only sixty-five degrees belc
zero.
;. Some one recently played trick ON
\. Secretary of the Massachusetts Boa
r. of Education, at Boston, and put upon t
"a door of his room, " No admittcnce exec
n on bizness."
N The principal ballet-girls in the leadi
theatres of Europe do not receive mt
than four or five dollars week in our CT
= . rency, and are compelled to support the
selves otherwise.
. They are taking the census of the 10
w ers In some of the towns in Indiana A 81