Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-11-18
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Bret Harte 10 below par In BOSTON,
--Miss Smiley is lecturing in Chicago.
-President Grant held levee, Saturday.
Sage Green is the latest fashionable color in
kid gloves.
--sealskin will be, as usual, the fashionable
for this winter.
Partisan bellies now braid black velvet rib
bon with their hair.
San Francisco has appropriated s25O,OOO to
adorn it's parks with. oil
Col Rice, formerly OF the Black Horse Cav
airy, Riohmond, Va, has just committed suicide.
-Thurlow Weed, In the 18th year Of his age,
has given up smoking, after half century's In
dulgence.
Harvard College loses s562 600 by the Bos-
ton fire, upon which there were assurances
amounting to S2l6, 600.
Edmund Yates witnessed the Boston conha-
grafton, and will probably write detailed account
OF it for some English periodical.
DIR. Houard has written . letter OF thanks to
President Grant for his efforts in securing bis
release from the Spanish dungeons.
Bismarck has been Ill for week, but is re-
covering. IN b. = Don't take much stock in
these items about BismArcks health.
When Pat was told a patent stove would
have just half bis fuel, he cried Bedad thin'
git me two, and save it all, me jewel"
The sale Of Anthony Trollope's library will
last month, and include also his thirty years
/ collection of art AMI antiquities in Italy.
| .-Mrs. Partington is suffering from en- attack
| Of "pleumoniA." She thinks she exposed her
person too much to the inocmpetency OF the
| weather.
"A young lady in shirt factory at Lewiston
| performed the feat OF stitching into the shirts
ninety;six bosoms in the space Of fye hours,
the other day.
| DIR. o. w. Holmes says that il Horace Gree
| ley has ever erred it has been in pursuit Of
an ideal object which it is better to- miss than
| not to aim at" uF
| General HArtranft, dovernor-elect Of Penn
sylyauiA, has been staying several days in Wash
ington, and has had interyiews with the President
| and members Of the Cabinet.
An the conductors on the PennAylvania rail-
road are required by arecent order to give bonds
in tie sum Of S9, 900 each for the faithful dis
| charge Of their duties while connected with the
road.
Bricks can't understand why so many gem
| tlemen on the street cars are Interested in tbs
architeci ural beauties OF the buildings along the
street when the cars are full and number OF
ladies are standing.
- Commodore Vanderbilts famous horse,
Mountain Boy, died OF dropey at New York, on
| Saturday. The Commodore valued him At $l00-
600. II he hadn't held him at such high figure,
the loss would have been less.
"A man Nlil die for want OF air In FIVE min
htes, for want OF sleep in ten days, for want OF
water in week, for want of food at varying
intervals, depending ON constitutional habits OF
lie and the ciroumstAnces Of the occasion.
"A Miss Polk. Of Tennessee is now the reign
ing belle at one Of Italys favored places OF
| fashionable resort-Monza. She is a great fAv
| oIite OF the Princess Royal Marguerite, and ID
often a welcomed and cherished guest at the
royal Palace OF MonzA.
One of the novelties at the American Inst
tute. in New York. is saw with diamond teeth.
all sv,x
slicing a marble block into thin sheets. Only
few OF these precious stones are set several in
ches apart, but steam force drives them to AnC
fro vigorously without wearing on their sh arr
angles.
Rev. Gilbert II. Robinson, Of Louisville, Ky.
has been suspended from the ministry and ex
| PEELED from the Presbyterian Church for open
iewdness, falsehood aud hAbituAl drunkenness
The publication OF the stories about him made
great sensation in the West, and his case has
excited deep interest. He was the pastor a
Springfield, Illinois, whose vacant pulpit Rev,
Chas. d. Shaw, OF this city, went to fill.