Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-18
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Carl Schurz sails for Europe, next week.
wife. ''''- ana"
The franking privilege died at tho age o.
eighty-two years.
An Iowa babyhas been born with coal black
hair four inches long.
| -Oolored linen is coming in vogue again
| among young ladies' for collars and cuffs.
| From present appearances the crop of for
elgn lectures will be very large next season.
| Some Of the New York restaurant keepers
nave discovered a method Of making ice-cream
| out OF lard.
Mr.. Samuel Bright, brother of John Bright,
the distinguished English statesman, has iust
died at Geneva Switzerland.
"A girl at Dexter Iowa, has tresses over six
feet long, which she refuses to sell as she wants
them to entrap unwary youths with.
"A report is current that Donaldson has
scheme to destroy the Reading editors. He is
enticing them to go up in his balloon.
"A Wheeling hotel keeper who maintains
respectable house refused to board members of
the Legislature under any circumstances.
An Indiana minister preached for four
churches last year, and his patient family are
Illustrating on the 9220 that he receives there
for.
Michigan legislators will hereafter be re-
quired to taste patent medicines before they are
put on the market. 1t is bitter pill, but they
voted for it,
If twenty-five thousand people go to Europe
this summer. and spend one Thousand dollars
each. they Will take with them in gold twenty
i've million dollars.
The worse instance of heartless trifiing ia
getting up duns on enameled paper, with an
embossed monogram the subscription being in
delicate female hand.
Tho passengers on a sleeping car on waking
up near Charleston, s, g., missed several gold
watches, four hundred dollars in money, and
quiet young man with blonde whiskers.
"A Syracuse paper has received poem on
the loss OF the Atlantic, but is afraid to publish
it lest some of the Survivors seeing it might feel
worse than they did at the time of the tragedy
Out of forty girls at boarding none
OF them could tell how many years George
Washington was President but tlsey knew to A
cent the cost of any kind of hustle in the mar
ket
Colonel Forney offered to a town in Texas a
free library, but after consultation the citizens
decided that they would rather have twelve
bags of buckshot and twelve shot-guns, if he
didn't mind.
"A suit for breach of promise brought by |
woman in Pitaburg court has thus far brought |
out the fact that the present husband of tine |
plainGln is poor but honest, and that the man |
who Tilted her is rich.
"A Troy dentist became emotioually insane
while repairing front tooth for pretty woman,
aud kissed her she told her husband and he
went around the next day and borrowed $500 of
he dentist on long time.
-Explaining tie meaning of the word phe-
lecturer said IA COW IL not phe-
nor is an apple tree but when you
iee the COW go up the tree, tail foremost, to pick
lpples, that will be a phenomenon"
The Nashville women, little while ago,
an intention Of being economical
md wearing calico to church. At last accounts
hey had only succeeded in making dress cost
1880, but they are now going to trim them
With Nalenciennes, and do not despair.