Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-09
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The New York tailcrs are sewing the
seeds of an organization. eth
"A man in Lexington, KY, has just elo-
ped with his twelfth wife.
Heavens journal" is the name of a
new Paris paper.
Two seals were seen on a cake Of ice in
Newport harbor, day or two since.
Iowa has a town Of Scmicolonville. 1t Is
only way station of course.
Dickens will lecture in Cleveland on the
24th of February. tss4
The New York Courts granted fifty
three divorces last year.
1t costs $loO year to keep the Brook
lyn Almshouse in liquor and cigars.
Greeley is squirting up the anti-gambling
society--to ask for more funds.
There are more than /, 800 600 old-we
beg spinsters in England.
Chicago has had 33s divorces to 4Is2
marriages this past year.
Commodore Vanderbilt pays $3.50 in
gold per ton for his steel rails.
| WIN. b. Astor pays 100000 city tax
and A. 7. Stewart follows with $3.50, 900.
The cholera is raging at Tallahassee,
Florida-among the cats. ii@a. y
"A matrimonial revival" is announced
as prevailing in Suffolk, Va.
The Pope has nineteen Cardinal hats at
his disposal.
The ex-King of Hanover who sold out
his ''diyine right" to Prussia, can't get his
money. -s
The Manchester Examiner printed lO2,-
Gas copies on the day of the Fenian execu-
tions. wn
Cotton goes through from New Orleans
to New York, by way of Chicago, in ten
days. g'i
"A Boston gentleman is on his way to
Florida in his own private conveyance. He
has reached North Carolina.
Wisconsin and Michigan produce annu-
ally enough pine lumber to lay plank road
to the NOON
-Roebling, builder Of the Niagara suspen-
sion bridge, has retired to farming life in
Iowa. His little garden contains 2s, 900 acrea.
Certain Northampton ladies drew bal-
rel of flour on sled to the door of their pas
tor on Christmas eve.
The Davenport brothers have made
failure in Germany, A smart Teuton expo
sed them.
-Minnesotians have at last had the graft
fication of eating apples which grew in their
own State.
Game is remarkably abundant in Louis
lana, and is unusually welcome in view of
the short supply of other food.
The steamer Tarrytown was sunk at her
landing at Irvington, New York, recently.
Loss $4,000.
Some Of the citizens of Saco, NO., are
about TO petition the Legislature to take
away the city charter.
-Gustave Dore is painting portrait of
Patti, and complains that she won't keep
her mouth shut.
Helen Westerns troupe kept Milwau-
kee audience waiting for an hour between
the plays, and a small row ensued.
-Greenbrier county, Virginia. has found
marble, equal in every respect to Parian or
Serravezza marble.
The Stonington and Narragansett ire
the names of two splendid new boats for the
Stonington line, They register, LOO tons.
Cars with family compartments, fitted
up in hotel style, with attendants, are to be
run between New York and Chicago.
There were fewer business changes
New York January lst than for quite num-
her of years.
king William of Prussia wrote Louisa
Muhlbach very sweet note for the tender
ness with which she had dealt with his an
cestors.
MIR. Cherbrough, the engineer of the
Chicago lake tunnel, has received Christ
mas present Of $ll 200 in water bonds from
the city.
The people Of Montcalm county, Mich,
have refused, by large majority, to borrow
money for the erection of new county build
ings.
There were five hundred fatal cases or
in the past year. This indicates terrible
strain on the nervous system
"A Paris editor, who ''libelled" the Prin-
cess Metternich by calling her one of the
demi-monde has been fined 5000 and i'm
prisoned.
A movement is on foot in France, in
augurated by curate, to induce clergymen
to wear boards. France is much behind in
this fashion.
Halifax evidently does not appreciate
the blessings of horse cars. The lines are
all closed because the citizens will throw
snow from the sidewalks and sides of the
streets upon the tracks.
Am English clergyman describing the
scene of the Temptation of Eve in the gar
den, spoke of the serpent as ''that Fenian Of
hell"
In Europe coal dust is saved, consoli-
dated and used as fuel, to the amount of
million tons year. In few hundred
centuries America may have to do the Same
thing.
The locomotive ''America" which took
soon to be brought back TO this country and
sold to any company willing to pay the
price, which is not given.
Out of %, 40 persons arrested for all
causes in Liverpool during 1866, only 253
could read and write well, and of 100 chill
dren dealt with under the juvenile offenders
act not one could do SO.
During the last five years Australia has
expended nearly half million pounds ster-
ling in assisting immigrants During the
last year 4l94 persons arrived in Victoria
with the purpose of settling.
No French officers will, accompany the
Abyssinia1 expedition, on account of the
expense. This excuse makes some fun for
the journals, since economy is not one Of
the virtues of the present government.
- 1t is stated in Paris periodical that
suicide by charcoal fires in close room is
purely literary invention, first used by
M. Crosnier in drama produced in 1926.