Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-11-19
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

An English woman is running for PArlia-
ment.
Hon. John Bright will appear in Parliament
again this winter.
There are 95 lawyers in the Pennsylva mia
constitutional convention.
Charles Francis Adams was warmly welcomed
to Quincy, his home, yesterday.
John Forster. the biographer Of Dickens and
Goldsmith, is said to be very i'll.
--"Greeley hats are now used for setting
hens, says the Cleveland Leader.
Caroline Riohings, it is said, will take the
field with English opera this winter.
"A Chicago poet begins an apostrophe to the
ocean with "Prodigious dampness" !"
Eighty London policemen have been dis
missed for alleged insubordination
Women are said to be the most honest and
faithful Of the Government employees!
President Theirs has subscribed 5000 for the
relief of the sufferers by the Boston fire.
Gov. Cooke, OF Washington, confined to his
house for several days by sickness, is much bet
ter.
In Alabama, yesterday, the Republicans re-
fused to meet with the Democratic members Of
the Legislature.
The body OF Miss Mary Taylor was found In
a mill-trench at Harrsville, Il L., on Sunday. It
is supposed that she committed suicide.
The most popular visitor to the printing
Office just now is the imam who shuts the door.
"A Chicago dry goods dealer adyertises 'The
most alarming sacrifice since the days OF Abra-
ham and Isaac -
1t is said that the old observances Of New
Years Day will be very much neglected on the
approaching anniversary.
"A letter from DR.. Livingstone, dated at
Unyamyembe on the 14th of June last, has been
received bv Mr.. BertTam at Salem, Mass.
Mrs. O'Leary wonders " II thin Boston
spapeens will be after swearing that it was her
poor baste Of COW that burned their city
=" Are you not afraid that whiskey'll get in
to your head ?" asked a stranger Of a man he
saw drinking at the bar. NO" said the topper,
" This liquors. too weak to climb"
"A lady asked one Of our gentemanly book
etore clerks yesterday il he had "Festus." mo"
replied the clerk ''but I'm afraid boil is COM
ing on the back OF my neck. y TitlsDille Press.
Mum Wung, one OF our Western Chinese
citizens, has been studying the pictures in his
tory OF America. He thinks Gosh sent fire to
Boston to cook the tea that was thrown into the
bay.
Some silly people in Indianapolis recently
cut out the heart of presumably mad dog
which had bitten a child, boiled 1t and gave the
broth to the child as & preventive against hydro
phobia. 4Ia
1t is reported that Samuel Bowles seriously
thinks OF removing his paper, the Springfield
Republican, to New York city. This item we
clip from another paper, and we don't believe a
word Of it,
When babies are taken to the theatre, they
ought to be checked and hung = at the door.
| like umbrellas. We know that we incur the dis
pleasure Of doting mothers by making this sug-
| gestion, but truth is mighty and must prevail.
You may dig potatoes all day and all night,
| but you cannSt look over the advertising col
umns Of your local paper without finding the
names Of the most enterprising mon in your
place. And you cannot look them over without
| finding something that you want.
81 am a self-made man." said native Of
| Elkton. the other day. to a Baltimore gentleman
| with whom he had been driving a sharp bar
| gain. "Glad to hear you say SO" responded the
| Baltimorean, who had been worsted in the trade
for it relieves the Lord Of great responsibility
1t was ''better than play" what John Owens
did the other night, when performing favorite
| part in Western theatre. He had been inter
rupted from time to time by the crying Of a
child in the gallery. At length, angered by this
| rival performance Owens walked with solemn
steps to the footlights, and addressing the au.
| dience in tragic tones, said Ladies' and gen
tlemen, unless the play is stepped the child
cannot possibly go on"