Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1876-01-13
PERSONA. AND PARTICULAR


-Grant requires nine hours sleep.
White HOUSE dinners last four hours.
A mania for the antique in fashions il no
tcsable.
The Senate will sulogize Andrew johnson
Ten miles Of buildings were added to Chios-
Gold bead necklaces promise to be the most
fashionable.
Mrs. johnson, widow Of the late sx-Prssi-
dent, 10 soriously i'll.
%, dit the English Channel tunnel will bs
commenced next April.
For table and house decoration, artificial
plants in pots are used.
Governor Tilden has refused to pardon
Stokes, the murderer Of Fisk.
p. 8. Gilmore hiss become tho director Of
large oratosio society In New York.
Another variety theatre has been opened in
New York, which makes eight in all
Among the now dresses just out is 4 white
Swiss, ornamented with autumn leaves
Birds whose wings and bodies Are eoetustsd
-JoEty-four psw sssss Of ssaksss fsvss ~
reported In Reading On last Wsdnsaday.
Mrs. Oates ID said to bs engaged to the son
Of prominent clergyman in PhilAdelphia.
If winter doesn't come soon sousbody will
want to finish that Northern PaHido Railroad.
Mr.. Disrasl attained his seventeen year and
Mr.. Gladstone bis sixty-six few days Ago.
More than one-quArter Of the brswories in
Wisconsin have suspended for lack OF patronage.
Feather fans xre again in fashion, the new
est being, pheasant feathers, with t0rtosse.shsll
sticks.
The Won,an's Journal warns young girls to
beware OF the men who want to make sisters'
Of them.
There 10 falling on Of > million hogs in
last year.
Every cloud has silver lining-exosIt Rsd
Cloud. His lining u Copper-colosed.-NoTri
to,on Herald
"A Scranton man has rentsd the old Ma mic
Temple on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, ana viii
convert 1t into hotel.
Mrs. Hon. Congressman" is the modest aud
tasteful way the wives Of come Of the ''msn-
berS" print thor cards. ..H
Shakespeare used but fifteen thcuaant
words in his works out Of the 100000 AyAilab.J
words in the English language.
Pretty walls for young ladies are OF ane silk
net with ooArse mesh. They are worn over the
entire hat - we'll - tho face.
Tho editor who was told that his last article
was y clear = mud, promptly replied, "Weli,
that covers the ground anyhow"
Mr.. Martin, the member Of the Canadian
in Ottawa, has been committed for trial.
Five thousand dollars in gold 10 stated to
have been the income per day to the Direct Ca
BILE Company, previous to the Last break.
"A NevadA girl has sued man for Islander
for saying that Pluto made tont out of pair
Of half worn stockings she had thrown away.
Grace Greenwood says abe would like TO live
lars . minute. Nine hundred should suffice her
-signor Btz has been suffering severely this
winter from asthmatic complaints, and medi-
tates spending the remainder Of the seAson in
Florida or Colorado ....
Every democrat who wishes to make = revo.
luton in politics attacks the regular army and
wants = couple Of men cut on, and there isn't
much Of an army either.
"A dear whistle. It is stated that the Inter
Oceda's malignant attack on Secretary Bristow
has cost that paper upward of . thousand sub
scribers in Chicago alone.
1t 10 the opinion Of Sam Bow'ss that the
Yankee vernaculAr ia better than ali Webstsr's
Dictionary, and that real good slang is far above
the poetry Of refined people.
pair nc+ long asc = Awf-s -ile-cc c.,sueA, which
was broken by an impatient youth exclaiming !;
| "Don't be 10 unspeakably happy"
-Siiss Bettina de Rothschild, the eldest dAugh :
ter Of Baron Aphonse de Rothschild Of Paris, IL
engaged TO be married to Baron Albert dc Iioths-
| ouAu u NA0iuo. Ao usAAAAu6o WN SAAo RbNS~
early in the spring.
| Such is life. Young men 60 out in the morn
ing fresh and smiling, wearing glossy beaver
and rose in the button hole. They are luRged
| homo at night with crushed hats, mud all over
them and blind drunk.
| "A lively girl had bAahful lover, whose
name wss..Lock. She got out Of patience with
him at last, and in her anger declared that
Shakespeare had not said half ~ many things -
| he ought to about Shy Lock.
-"If," said = New England preacher, sud
denly pausing in his sermon, the youth who
has just thrown that egg in 1t tho window will
wait till service is over. he will learn what .
Christian minister can do for the salvation Of
| his soul"
This year We shall have the centennial oele-
bration, the presidential election, S66 days, s.
Sundays, and all the girls making love to us. 1t
10 all glorious enough, but giys US the love-mak-
ing, and you may have all the rest. st.-Louisuille
| Courier Journal
| 1t il relsted that just after his election to
| the Vice Presidency, John G. Breckenridge went
on . shopping expedition with his mother in
Lexington. Ky. The old lady had her purchases
tied up in q particularly large package, which
shs handed over to the Vice President Of the
United States saying, Here, John, take his
bundle and he dutifully took it and carried it
home.