Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
b. Drdd's CU emt Comments,

"A fashionable belle at one of the seaside re
sorts has twenty-five dresses She must put OF
and take of-a great deal Of style"
A Ring that should have an end-Tammany
Its end is only question Of Times.
Long Branch bellies are guilty of dancing in
gilt boots.
Nine brothers, named Moore compose Con
necticut baseball club but no Moore can joil
"A Georgia baseball umpire, who failed to
give satisfaction, was ridden on rail. He says
he was never 80 "put-out" before, and calls it
"fou,." 1
"A Now York tobacconist claims to have q
pipe that once belonged to Theodore, King OF
Abyssinia. And yet he is not happy.
The wedding trousseau OF Miss Throckmor.
ton, who was recently married, cost s29, 900 in
gold. Tho wedding trowsors of the bridegroom
cost something less.
The English people are now busiy engaged
discovering authors Of the " Battle Of Dorkins."
They have found an average OF three week. for
the last month. Tie last one discovered is a
Head-one Sir Francis Head.
-'The hair of six-year old girl in Detroit is
turning grey." This is sign she will dye before
she il seventeen.
When tho superintendent Of the Staten Is
land Ferry boats finds man that doesn't know
anything" be thinks he knows enough to be en-
gneer of boat, and gives him the ''posish."
-Ninety-nine out Of every hundred of tho
Southern democratic papers have agreed to 'De
part'-from the "New Departure"
1t sometimes happens that one whole day
passes, without the proprietors Of the Jersey
City Jomna, getting sued for libel. This is
strange, but true.
When Georgia editor is bitten by a moccasin
snake, the snake 6'es. We suspect the Georgia
editors can't afford to indulge in wliskey costing
more than fifteen cents quart, hence the bitter
is bitten. The citizens threaten to form society
for the protection OF cruelty to animals.
Jersey City mourns the death Of vagrant
named 'Johuny Anyhow, but thinks, "Any-
how, he's be..er off."
1t is supposed JEFF Da, is motto, or request
in that sleeping car affair, was the same one he
30 persistently made use of at the beginn' ,g of
the Eebellion-"Let us alone |"
Headers of Reade's new novel, "a To. .ible
Temptation, say 1t affords them terrible temp
t alton to call il "immoral trash
-1He NOW 1Oih SltJ ls CuttI1b
a pretty fgure'-or rather, columns Of EN-
aud figures that viii lie, too
In a Presbyterian. church at Springfield L,
l., the other evening, two young men and 4
lady (:) were observed in pew playing euchre
durilg the sermon. The sexton ''shuifled" over
to the party, but beiore.he ''passed," they "took
it up" and went out. The sexton should post
on the pew doors, ''no cards."
A new political brochure has appeared in
Gel many entitled Entstehungsgcschichte des
deu,schfranzosicheu Kriegs." We shall not read
it, Any writer who is iendish enough to commit
such an outrageous assault and battery on the
Alphabet deserves to have his books unread
The eldest Place in Portland, Maine, is Mrs
Anna Place, who is 102 years old. She is the
widow Of revolutionary soldier but whether
she knows all about the man who couldn't told
lie,' and still ''reads fine print without Specs"
we are not apprised.
"A cold spell-I-c-e-Ice.
The write place-An editors sanctum.
Some school-boys in Wisconsin filled their
pockets with locusts, and at given signal each
one raped on his pocket, causing the locusts to
give forth their deafening and doleful cry. Tho
teacher then raped on the boys, when they gave
forth cry that was much deafeninger and dole
fuller than the locusts.'
"A correspondent says "a wall comes I'D
from the watering places" To be sure it does
Whales always did come up from watering places.
But this correspondent should learn how to spell
"whale."
The champion careless man was in Harris
burg the other day. He left his satchel contain
ing $3.50, 900 under the seat OF the car while he
went out to get some refreshments, and during
his absence thief appropriated it. We don't be-
lieve he was an editor-the owner of the satchel
we mean-becsuse editors seldom carry more
than 375,0O0 in their satchels when travelling
through Harrisburg especially il the Legisla-
ture is in session. Now zoe have travelled in the
cars, of and on, for twenty years. and during all
this time we don't suppose we have lost as much
as $50, 600 by leaving our satchel lying around
loose, as this man did.
Old Mr.. Hopkins, of Mississippi, aged ninety
was 10 mad because he couldn't get on his sh
that he took his faithful shot gun and blow =
head on. And now he can't get on bis shirt
bit better than before he blew his head off.
The ladies' are returning to the primitive
style OF wearing their hair parted in the middle.
We shouldn't wonder II it would soon become
fashionable for ladies to stop wearing other
peoples hair, too.
Tho New York riot was nothing but Pat
riot after all And ara We not all p,tr;ots,