Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-06-23
II. Dndd,. Current Comments.

"A lively air--A hurricane.
A patriotic iigure-July A.
The oldest failure-The ''break" of Day.
Spirit of the German Press-Lager Beer.
-Miss-placed swtches-A great deal OF young
ladies' back hair
Not so cloudy as was expected-Red Clouds
speeches.
AN article of apparel sometimes added to a
lovers suit-the ..sack" Also "the mitten''
The Cars hotel bill at Ems is $1,000 day.
From which we infer that Ems fast girl.
Pretty waiter grls-old maids. Pretty old
waiter girls we mean.
People of fine presents Those who live to
celebrate their ''golden weddings"
--Joliet's pet name is .'Wind City"-and Joliet
is not the pet name of Washington city
There are many fast clerks whose incomes
are not Az large as their outgoes.
As the war did not finish Alexander ii. Ste
phens, he has just finished a history of the war.
Germany furnishes more hymns than any
other country more hims and hers to sing
them.
-.vrhe London people are all reading Lothian.
We are ahead of them. We have read "Ioti-
air." and also red Lo !-here.
The Wisconsin hop crop promises well the
present season. Ditto the Saratoga, Newport
and Cape May .Hop" crop.
Red Cloud il not n charitable man. He
prefers to sit on the ground, which, he thinks, is
| high enough for Lo
| The New York Beethoven Jubilee makes
great deal of noise in its building, g,but the Boston
| affair made the most noise in the papers.
| -Genera! O'Neill wants Uncle Sam to pay him
A100. 900 damages for his recent arrest just as
| ifhis military reputation hadn't received damages
enough.
| And now a colored man has died at the age
Of lO2 who was not Geo. Washington's body SER
| yant-iust because George was fully suppheo
with body servants when this coored man ap'
Piled for the position.
London Fun, has just got off this pnn,-
"The cup that neither cheers nor inebriates-
the hic-cup" This pun was original some tel
wears ago, and the editor Of Fun must have beei
in his ecupsr when he published it.
The Boston Advertiser should not be ignoran
of the fact that Charles NJ. Dickinson, younl
lawyer of Bmghampton, N. Y, and not Charlie
Dickens, wrote the poem entitled "Ihe Chi
dren," which it prints and credits to the latter.
"A lady, learning to play on the piano, say
that she practices every evening until twelv
o'clock, and rises in the morning at six and prac
!. tees again. Her immediate neghbors call it
. bad practice, and talk of going into the pras
ticing business themselves-practice THROWN
I, things at her head if she doesn't stop.
Two men in the West recently went out
: fight a duel the weapons being revolyers. Afte
firing at each other an hour or 30, and exhaustin
l fl,ay off the tie
Disguised. They threaten to fight it out on TN
!, line, however,-and we are Inclined to pehe'
:. that it will take all summer.
An exchange, soberly commenting upon IL
" fact that kerosene lamp has been dug up
pompeii, says, ''when the people Of Pompeh dl
y covered the danger of its use, they buried it
=. and concludes: '.Reader, if you have any regai
=. for the lives of your family, do as they did
% pompeii.n Now, if the editors advice is folio
e, ed and his readers "do as they did in Pompeil
then will their lives never be endangered Ire
kerosene lamps, sure enough nor from a
. other cause,--forif our memory serves us arg
~, the people of Pompeii and their lamps were
=. ried about the same time.
40 n "Just as we predicted"-as the N. Y. Herr
m' would say. Ask lady not to do thing, and :
ire will surely DO H. Wheh, iae' "ooA, w fr
ra ed query anent the claims OF victoria Y. Mo'
,yo hull to the next Presidency, we added mo
,rs swer requested" Now, we.had MT the slight
"a idea that the fair Victoria wood hull us over
va, GOALS so soon but the N. Y. Globe copied
A.. item. and forthwith the lady brokers rush
~, .ao n,int with this answer; "In response to y
@ s {. question, permit US to assure you that Vlct'
s'u 40. woodruff bases her claims to the preside
uupon her individual merits only. She does
: .relv for success upon the fact that Vict'
=. Z" Guelph is Queen of England All right.
re- once had a pretty .'old woman" for Presidei
Guns now we are willing to try pretty young
Jor- Probably Mrs. W. doesn't deserve such Cal
Q in punishment, but il our vote VIII accompll.s
n 1872 our country will see Victoria q viatof''