Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-12-02
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Spirit of the press-Cider.
Somebody has called sausage "a ground
hog"
Queen victoria's pet horses arc handsome
grsys.
The business that goes altogether OH tick
Telegraphing.
-Gustsye Dore is to get $50, 900 for illustrat
ing Shakespeare.
Consolation for old maids -" Misfortunes
never come singly."
MIR. Forster complains that there is no polit-
ical activity in Great Britain.
=" She Stops to Conquer" was written be-
foro the days Of pinback skirts.
Gossip is defined as "puttine and to-
gether and making OF them"
1t is the wife who never SAWS II! do as
please at my own table, won't 2"
-" The History Of the Suoz Canal" by NJ. de
Lesseps, is as interesting Bs novel.
Why do honest ducks dip their heads under
water2 To liquidate their little bills
james Russell Lowell will give twelve lee
tures at Cornell University next spring.
Said tailor to fat customer: "would
you hold the end. Sir, while go round?'
1t took 10 900 pounds Of chloride OF lime to
disinfect Charleston, s. O., last summer
An Arkansas hamlet is called Topervile,
and an Indiana town Is named Possumglory.
-Zorosster says :-' When you doubt, alb
stain, "-Hoyle says =" Trump and take the
trick
Governor CASTOR will return to the practice
OF law in Boston on the expiration OF his term
in December.
Joe. Jeirerson's boy Harry, who recently
died in London, Was born in Chicago the night
Of the great fire.
Why is coal the most contradictory article
known to comtnerceI Because when purchased
il goes TO the cellar.
A Wisconsin man eloped the other day with
Miss Divinity, who will rhape his ends, rough
hew them how he will.
Lord Houghton returned to New York, on
Monday evening from Boston. He will sail for
England to-day IN the steamship Abyssinia.
Little Greece has scandal on hand
Messrs. Nicolopaulo and Nalussopaulo, Cabinet
Ministers, have boon arrested for taking bribee
"A Warsaw (Ind brother got up in meeting
and opposed tho purchase OF chandelier for
the church, because there was 10 one 10 play on
it.
They have "eoose' parties at nes Moines.
And the young men who attend them have their
eyes, like those OF other geese, near the top Of
their heads. D
They seem to be fighting the rebellion over
again in Philadelphia One George b. MoClel-
Ian was arrested there the other day, for an
| assault on D. Davis.
| Il
| OF sixteen, for putting up her back HAIR in
school hours then he had to fight her brother,
| and now he ID in jail.
| 1t il said that all principal eronauis in
Americs are rigid temperance men. Donaldson
| did not even drink tea or coffee. Still, they
sometimes get pretty high.
a proposal has been started to construct 4
| peoples opera house in Paris, to contain from
10, 600 to l6 900 persons, at prices not exceed
| ing an average Of two francs.
Among the Illuminated devices in the CITY
| Of Bombay. put up by the natives on the oc-
caalon OF the visit Of the Prince Wsles, was one
with the words, "Tell mamma we are happy"
After Liszt has risen from his piano it il
Questionable to applaud. The etiquette is
TO break the silence with long, deep sigh, and
| How grand !" spoken in an undertone of awe.
| TO extinguish kerosene flames fling cloth
| over them, or il the flour barrel is handler,
throw on -four, which absorbs the fluid, kills
the flames. and can be readily cleared up after
| ward.
When tho heir to the Brazilian throne was
recently born, Depoul, Paris doctor, attended
for fee of over twenty Thousand gold dollars.
Considering that Brazil ia unhealthy just now,
that is big price for logs.
The first piano ever taken west OF the Ale
| ghenies was one owned by Miss Sarah Sproat,
| the daughter of Colonel Ebenezer Sprost, an
| officer of toe Revolution, who emlgrated to the
Northwestern Territory in 1898, and located at
Marietta, Ohio.
"A wedding agency " is about to be estab
| lished in Paris. There will be q chapel and a
branch of the Msyoralty, 80 that civil and re-
ligious weddings can take place under one roof.
Carriages, lawyers, priests, ballroom, music
and even wedding inery Will be furnishsd