Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-09-01
CURRENT GOSSIP.

The Reading dailies are queer sheets. Each
one has the largest circulation in the county
and the proprietors are Hing to swear to it.
Already some fellow is predicting that the
coming winter is going to be severe one. We
should thought after the miserable failure he
made of it last year, that he would have commit
ted suicide.
Peoria claims the worst streets in the United
States. Well, give ns the best streets, and Peo-
ria can have the worst.
They say dentists never get rich. They
generally manage, however, to pull through life.
And the more they pull the better they get
along.
Mrs. Sarah Fisher Ames, the sc,ilptress, is
to lecture next season Oh women who Work cs
Women who Talk" no women who lecture
work or talk !:
"A Boston lalys pins. when she is fully dress
ed. number 300. Is she then women of many
tine points,
The man wi,u orders dollar advertisement
in newspaper, and wants q three dollar pun
thrown in objects 10 giving ten yards of mus
lin to a customer WIN has purchased dollars
worth of calico.
"A New Hampshire tliu - ttl'uitti W hn' 10
picked from tree large apple, red on one
side and picture of rooster. in green. Oh the
other, the beak, comb. tail feathers. legs. and
all parts perfect.
In Norfolk. Va, large Natermeoiis sell for
ten cents, and an edtor there complains that he
| has mot had a liz watermelon sent us this
SEASON." Verify, the newspaper misncsS must
be poor in Norfolk, when All editor cannot afford
| to pay ten cents fur watermelon.
Napoleon will probably be captured this
| week Ii lie il not, it will not be the fault of
the war correspondents. He has not died for
several days, no@.
A Java gIpntiee is coming to this country
with eigl,y-one ofIsmi,ss. lie wants board in
some quiet family where there are no children
lie saws he has always been used to tranquility
in the house.
"A Chicago belle Wears an in,lia rubber nose
and she thinks no one knows it.
ii is stated that the Nathan mansion, in New
York has been bought By gamblers. Gambling
and murder arc lit companions.
Now that Chicago has made All isnominio'i
failure, Indianapolis il going TO have " the bes
base ball club in the country We are not toll
the color of their "StoclNine1.
There are, On an average, 3ih people Wit
visit the cupola cf the Boston State liouse.eve
day. It is the only way they can get up in tn
world.
An exchange publishes eleven lniA copie
from a late number OF the London fuda. Gu
. of the eleven len Of them are old, and the othe
y is only ialf original. Is this Judyeioi,ss
= Father lIyacinthe wants To be flower of tn
French army. He has written letter asking t
. be assigned TO duty in the defenees of Paris.
II 4 Ierseynan who misiuok pitcher of su
d plmiir arii for native wslsey said ~ though
a it didn't bum my guaale enough to he the pm
y Jersey stun.
tayuga lake al,oni,i- il frogs This seasol
/ and cargOes of them are hr.ns shipped to Ne
e York and ether cities There the ''croaker
have net been heard conn planning of short Gro
The Wankpshau Wis. Fireman nndertot
i. to publish. in u ''lea,-leai department. Il
III names Of all those Nlio on ted to pay the pr
10 ter The editor NOV nsrr It as tile siihScrlptl'
of list NJ the names ~, there.
If "A drunken man made 4 big inml, nom 4
~ Cincinnati Suspension, rg", the other day, al
liz u successful QUE. too, r,Ny inmpi-ir do II
-. | far. well