Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-11-23
Personal AND PARTICULAR.

Gen. Howard is unwell.
John O. Fremont is in Paris.
Thanksgiving, next Thursday
-picncs are still in season In Florida.
1t costs New York $4,000 anight to amuse
itself.
The Emperors Of Germany and Austria are
soon to hold another conference.
The Pope begins to curve to thu rear in
walking, and respires with difficulty.
"A lesson in geography: Kansas City is in
Missouri and Arkansas City is in Kansas.
The Vienna Exposition is to have salt-wa-
ter aquarium Of 200. 900 gallons capacity.
Investigating Committees are not likely to
be fashionable, this session, in Congress.
General Banks says he will resign his Cham
pionship of the Foreign affairs Committee.
-,Agassiz has figured up, and he says that
Lake Erie will dry up in about IL, 500 years.
-Leayenworth girls won't go out riding now,
because the trees along the road are 30 naked.
,-Carlotta Patti has a passion for eucher and
diamonds. She plays game equal to All Sin.
An exploring expedition has been fitted out
to hunt for the grave of Moses in the land Of
Moab.
1t is expected that Governor Stewards "Trav-
els Around the World" will be puslished in Dec
ember.
up at Kennett Lyceum they rub the horses
with lard from head to tail, for the horse disease
1t il said.
An English lord is shooting prairie dogs in
Kansas under the impression that they are
Tho Strengthening Of the Penna. r. r., has
been Temporarily abandoned because OF the
horse disease.
The Postmaster OF Philadelphia has to give
$500, 900. bonds, and Ills suretes are required to
be worth 100000.
A
new Democratic organ at Washington, ID. O., TO
be called The Federal Democrat
--Danald G. Mitchells new house, near West
ville Conn, ia nearly finished. 1t is curously
built, of oval stones and wood.
There is hen in Nebraska which is learn
ing to play billiards.. Guess she will make more
" scratches than any thing else.
An Indiana poodle chews tobacco The
owner says he will not kill him. as long as he
doesn't loaf on the corners, and swear.
"A man who wrestled with whiskey several
hours, last week, and was finally thrown SAYS it
was because whiskey had the inside hold
A Western stock-Dreeder wants prize for a
sheep weighing 800 pounds. This is just the
season when we expect to hear OF heavy wetheI
from that part Of the country
Second Lieutenant Frederick D. Grant left
washington, Thursday morning to join his regi.
ment in Texas. Secretary and Mrs. Fish gave
him dinner party on Wednesday evening
Doctors, with an eye to Thanksgiving and
it's subsequent enlivening OF their business, are
getting new sucker-rods and valves in their
stomach-pumps, and otherwise putting them.
selves on war footing.
winter seems to have burst on the North
West with sudden fury. From Western Mineso.
ia we hear Of great snow-drifts, trains DELAYED,
intense cold, and possible starvation among rail
way workers cut OF from relief This severity
OF the season Is unusual.
General Myer, who is so popularly know
as oid Probabilities" is young man about 80
and is quite good-looking, having a handsomt
ng9re, fine face with Roman nose. He is wei
endowed in charming wife and worldly goods
ana has house that is one of the most attrae
tive In Washington"