Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1872-11-15
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.


Horace Maynard is in Washington.
"A leading article-A blind mans poodle.
The mansard roof is getting kicks all around.
The axle-tree bears the most fruits for mar
ket.
"A "ring' that should be broken up-Swea-
ring.
In Chicago, red-haired girls are called fire
bellies.
The burning of Rome. in the year GA, lasted
eight days.
Opportunity has hair in front but behind
she is bald.
Charlotte Cushman has had her servant
Sally 80 years.
Tight Squeeze is the name OF a town in
Dinwiddie county, Va.
Sergeant Bates, with his American flag,
has arrived in London.
Can anything that is baleful be BILE ssing ?
Yes, baleful of cotton.
General Butler favors Mr.. Boutwell, as Sem
Ator Wilson's successor.
Whiskey is said to be horn of plenty, because
it will corn you copiously.
The mercantile marine OF the whole world
numbers over 81 900 vessels.
Secretary Boutwell, has no notion that a
United States Bank is needed.
of all the birds that please us with their
lays, the most popular is the hen.
Five hundred men are preparing the Union
Pacific track for the coming snow.
-"one of these things that no fellow can find
out "A good husband after II p. m.
"A secret has been defined as "anythi ng
made known to everybody in a whisper"
Senator Wilson has neither wife nor child.
His country ia his wife, and all it's people his
brethren.
for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach
to his meat.
Some women turn out to be more than
fancy painted And some turn out to be less
than they paint themselves.
Metaphors are often lamps which light
nothing. and show only the nakedness OF the
walls against which they hung.
The time to possess your soul in patience is
when your hat blows of in the street and your
eyes are too full OF dirt to see which way it goes
1t is understood that Mr.. Greeley's young man
made balloon ascension on Tuesday evening,
in order to ascertain what had become Of that
Rev. Robert Collyer wishes " every ginmill
chained in the bottomless pit of hell" MIR.
Collyer does wrong to wish anything which
would encourage emigration in that direc tion.
An exchange informs as that "a Virginia
spring spouts peach stones" But we don't be-
leve 1t will attract many visitors unless it can
be made to spout peaches as we'll as the stones.
"A national convention of goose-pickers is to
be held in Chicago next year, to devise some
way of plucking geese by machinery, and deod-
erizing the dead goslings that are so often found
in boArding-house pillows.
Virginia papers state that Mr.. Joseph Thorn
ton has gained the English lawsuit, by which he
RECEIVERS property to the value of nearly six mill
lion dollars. His antagonists cried, "Not for
Joe o, moi" but the Courts decreed UtlIvrw wis ..
Occasionally, when the train arrives at Mid
dletown, Ct a nice young man jumps of and
kisses the best-looking girl at the depot, sup
posing her to be his sister. He apologies so
nicely that the girls are getting so that they
look for him regularly.
We learn that the young King of Spain is q
buggist, and that he will visit the United States
next year on bugging expedition. II he exer-
cises care in his selection of hotel on arriving
in New York, he may soon find bugs enough to
last him the remainder of his days on this earth,
but we would advise the young man to keep q
sharp lookout for humbugs.