Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-24
b. Dadd's Current Comments.


Tho Pope's favorite ong-" There's no place
like Rome"
:" Fur off"-When 1t is made into muffs etc
A high rent-"A Rent in the Cloud" BY
Lever.
=" Measure for Measure"-The grave.
The Modern Samson-Edwin Booth. Weread
that he " draws big houses wherever he goes
Paris may not be tranquil, but order reignf
there " order-Arms! |"
The Grown of England contains 1900 dia-
monds, valued at S500,0O0. We think our head
could lie easy enough under such a crown.
We learn that they have new War Cloud in
Europe Was st. Cloud the old one 2
Louisiana has anewspaper called the "Sugar
Bowl" You can have g. finger in 1t" for S2
per annum.
The Press says Justin MCCARTHY, the maga-
znist, is "a Cork-man." Isn't this making iighi
OF foreign subject2 We know he furnishes the
magazines with some good, light stories
There is an old fellow named Samuel Rogue
residing at Hopewell, Ind, who has lived for one
hundred and eight years without having learned
to either read or write" The old Rogue
How to make the hair come out-Go out on
the Plains and insult big Injun."
Tho way Bazaine is getting blown up by the
French, since his surrender of Metz,we think his
name should be changed to Benzine.
When are barrelslike whipped prize-fghters
When they are badly bunged, you know. We
bunged the chap who propounded this.
In Norfolk the indolents proposed to organize
Lazy Club, but failed on account of the party
being too lazy to sign their names to the consti-
tuition.
j. H. Byron has written drama entitled
The Last Shilling" 1t is not new. Indulge
in several DRAINS day and you will soon see the
Last Shiling-go.
The editor OF an interior Texas city is hop
ping mad The mayor has stopped publishing
proclamations against dogs, but just goes mean
dering through the streets with a double-barrel
shotgun, and picks off all the CANNES that are
running loose. He says there must be retrench-
ment and reform somewhere.
Why is Summer like pride We are not
right sure this is original, and rs the answer is
very plain, we will not print it.
"A Louisville paper announces "a lady
heart-broken at the death Of her husband, makes
three desperate attempts at suicide" Now the
climate must have something to do with 1t. A
Chicago women would have made three-times-
three desperate attempts to get another husband.
What A. J. Davis doesn't know about the
Esprit land" is not worth knowing. In speaking
of the spirit world, which is '.shaped like large
lemon" he says "All Spirits are perfect in
form, for deformities, such as humpback. broken
limbs and 80 on, are peeled off with the mortal
wrapper" We never looked at it in this light
before but what we want to know is just this
When we peel of our mortal wrappers do we
become spiritual rappers (We don't hear no
"three raps.'D
"A ''baloon male'--Gambetta.
AN exchange says "Paris will be ruined by
the FALL" II we mistake not we were all ruined
by the Fall-the fall Of Adam. 1t was very
early fall.
"A Massachusetts democrat reading thai
sgeneral apathy was the cause of the loss Of
New York State to the Republicans" remarked
he hoped his party would secure the services OF
General Apathy, during the next campaign. He
| thought he must be capital speaker, and SAID
| he didn't believe the Massachusetts democracy
ever had as valuable man as General Apathy
working for them.
AT Salt Lake a man went down we'll to see
what was the reason that blast didn't go off
He soon came up, appearing in several pieces.
The Sunday Mercury calls Madame Seebach
the s'Russian Tragedienne." The Madame is
German, but maybe the Mercury meant Rush
| in tragedienne