Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-18
HERE AND rHTRE.
II was backward debtor Who said
" The dues you say"

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II was backward debtor Who aid,
1.-THE duss you say"
A Long Island ditch digger has name d
his heroine Mud Mauler.
The wife of the Arctic explorer, Captain
Tyson, Ia Washington milliner.
They are talking in Chicago of licensing
the news5oys and the boot-blacks.
A Kcntuokisn has lain in jail three
weeks under refusal to pay his dog tax.
A New Hampshire youth has been fined
$40 and the costs for cruelty beating
ducks.
1t is estimated that the apple crop Of
Chautauqua lake this year will be worth
&l5O,O0O.
A Maine buzz saw recently beat Zach
Chandler: best. 1t took eight fingers
without vinking.
| The people of Minnesota are to vote
upon six amendme ents to their Oonstitutton
at the November election.
Pat-'Mickey, lend me 4 hap'ny."
Mickey, solemuly-"Paddy," pom mo
sowl, I'm savings bank"
Howard aays, IT never flag" Probably
that was the reason he lost his provision
train.-Sdn Francisco Nail
Says contemporary, "Be strong for
yourself" This remark was originally
made to boarding house butter.
Keely, the II otor man, is putting up q
iub with Jules Verne 10 capture Mars for
a headlight for his new locomotive.
The papers report that . bailif in
Washington county, Ga, can read manu-
script and write, but cannot read print.
| A cyclone was due in Illinois week
ago, and the local paper, accounting for
the delay, said that Mcclellan was in
demand.
Belfast boasts of twenty-seven lawyers.
---Le,cist0n Gazette. Not exactly. II has
twenty seven, but don't boast Of them
Belfast Journal.
By some patent process cargoes Of fresh
meat are now being carried from South
America to France without tho use Of ice,
salt, or saltpetre.
Mr.. B. L. Ford, prominent citizen Of
Cheyenne, writes that the practical work
ings Of woman suffrage in Wyoming Ter
ritory are sell good"
Thar IL CRATE deal ov premature wit
floating round it IL like tho handwriting
ov sum mep; you kant tell what it was
meant for after it gifts cold.-JosII
Billinga.
If the Indians of this country want 10
secure their rights, all they have TO do il
to announce 10 the present Administration
that they arc all citizens of Ohio
Philadelphia Chronicle.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat has
| 20 he that kha Av,1Sy ,.ynv
to bring out a full vote in that city would
be to advertise ga fried oyster giver
away after every ballot"
Two colored men, who were once sole
by their masters in the old st. Louis IIote
rotunda i'll New Orleans, have since solt
themselves for less money as State Sena
tors. Abraham Lincoln lived in vain.
The Rev. George Bull baptized fort,
. per-ons b, immersion In twerty-reve
minutes in Savannah, and lie il so year
old, too. He is a "star" baptizer--il
, fact, Great Dipper. - Philadelphia
Bulletin.
A prize was offered at the Gland RAP
fair for tho man bringing the most girls t.
the grounds. Edward Cox made his up
pearance with sixty-fve, and the prz'
. was handed right out to him with silen
, admiration.
7 Matte Strickland, the ST. Johns Mich.
girl who was married few yeai1 ago I,
, Leo Miller, of Minnesota, according to
. free-love contract of their own drawing
up, is raid TO have arisen ard gone h0m,
, unto her father.
A Canadian priest lately sued young
man WHOM. he had married, for his wed
ding fee, which he stated at S15. The
, Jury found for the defendant, on the
ground that the youth had received nt
J Rppreciable value.
/ It is announced that the Texas cattle
: fever, which recently was reported to bt
prevailing at Cleveland, Ohio, hos broker
} out among the cattle owned by the farmer
} and dairvmen OF Stamford, Delaware
county, New York.
A guileless boy was deluded the o.hel
day into picking up the handle of q gal
vanic battery. He yelled Justly until the,
''shut her of" and in describing his sen
sstions he said he could taste greer
persimmon oil over himself.-Burlingto
Haokeye.
In many parts Of the West stumI
pullers have been almost superseded BY
dynamite cartridges, which are inserted
under the stump in holes made by lont
earth auger, and on being fred, lift on
and demolish the stump, without making
a large hoie.
The daughters of Secretary Schurz hav
. the German love of music, and music il
one of tho most notable ant
charming features of their hom'
life. MI. Schurz has become the owne
of the great Steinway piano which was OF
exhibition al the Centennial.
On the authority of en- English weekl,
We beg to inform our readers Of . matri
monial mind that by writing to Mime
Bosquet, Rue du Bac, Paris, they ca
! have their choice OF m orphan of Is, wit
( Ei2 600, another of II with El6, 900 au
. n widow of 35 with E24, 900.
The third wife OF the Khedive Of Egyp
has taken in hand the education O
Egyptian girls. Several hourishin
schools have already been started by her
|! and it seems likely that the time.honore
Oriental prejudice against the educatio
of women will ct length be overcome.
And nos lat Susan tear her hair,
! And let the gentle Anna swear;
! Let DR.. Mari. Walker groan,
And iss:ive Phebe Couzins moan;
Let Ga ~ Stanton rip and snort,
And Mrs. Livermore cavort;
! Let al! the female sex be mad,
81. Louis JOurnsi.
DR.. Farr, in recent lecture before th
British Association, said that in Enslan
) and Wales the population doubled il
= about fifty years; in Sweden in sixt
. years; in Prussia in sixty. -four; in Spain j
ninety three; in Italy in one hundred, an
in France in Only three hundred and sixty
. ono years.
Electric candles are The sensation i
i Paris. They emit no heat or smoke wha