Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-23
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Horace F, Clark died of over-work. Many
clerks don't
-Liberal-A Philadelphia paper is willing
that nature should take its course.
Powers, the sculptor, has been sick for
eighteen months He has the consumption.
-Ready-made sermons, neatly autographed,
can be bought in London at two shillings
dozen.
The Lngards are in New York. but will
shortly go to the.I cottage on the shore of Lake
George,
Josh Billings says very truly: You'd bet
ter not know 30 much, than to know so mauy
things that amt 30"
"A mammoth hotel, to be known As the Buck
ingham, will be built on Fifth avenue, in New
York, at cost of $3.50, 900.
AN Ottawa Oil } debating society has decid
ed that "the tendencies of the present age are
too fast for general welfare"
Paxton, nl., has new paper called the
GtmIet which, is to be devoted to life, liberty.
and the persuit Of greenbacks."
Mr.. John J. shaw, Of Mimi, formerly Of
this city, is paying his summer visit to his
friends in Delaware and New Jersey.
"A Cincinnati baby fell thirty-five feet fri m
balcony to brick sidewalk, and it didn't hurt
him bit, he was 80 fat and squashy."
"A predatory rat lunched of the hand of a
sleeping baby in Daniesville, Pa, the other
several ho:ses and buggies were stolen at
an Ohio camp-meeting, but a local paper adds
that the religious interest continues unabated.
"A man in Park county. Ind, ahot himself
rather than appear as a witness against certain
persons whom he said bis testimony would ruin.
Among the Arabs the inability of wife to
make bread is good ground of divorce. What
a business the courts would do If thai law were
in this neghborhood,
A YniniafAr having ratnarlfad ~ thara would
be a nave in the new ediiice the society was
building" all old lady said she knew the per-
SOD to whom he referred"
-"Im not in mourning" said young lady,
frankly. to a young querist q but as the widows
are getting all the offers nowadays, we poor
girls have to resort to artlhce"
A wicked man in Davenport, being on his
death-bed, wished to consult some pr per per-
son regarding his future state, and his friend
sent fire insu ance agent to him.
"A leading New York insurance journal calls
an agent to whom it is hostile capsule, faeh-
ioned of the likeness Of and filled with
the oil Of greasy and rancid hypocrisy"
Those people who were calculating on a
million apiece from the BurnRm estate in Eng
land will be grieved to learn that the estate con-
sists OF an old house and an acre Of ground.
-'Grasshopper day" is a special holiday OBJ
served by the Catholics of st Cloud. Mimi and
vicinity, on the anniversary of the cessation in
1928 Of the grasshopper plague IN Minnesota.
"A man who fell into vat of boiling lard
and got ont alive SAYS it was not an unpleasan
sensation after the first moment, but he thought
what mighty queer shaped doughnut he
would make.
General Joe Hooker has engaged Walker to
paint a $26, 900 picture Of the battle OF Lookout
Mountain, and Don Patt is to write his life
When lie reads the latter, he will be sadder, if
not wiser, man.
"A negro in Columbus. Ga, dreamed that he
found S5 at certain place in a street. He we t
to the spot next morning. found II and now lie
accuses the ghost who told him to go there Of
stealing the other 81.
A Portland man was caught fishing for front
on another mans land the other day the owner
demonstrated, but retired in silence befor the
majestic answer "Who wants to catch your
trout? I'm only trying to drown this worm"
IA young lad in Conneaulville entered a
sewer pipe twelve inches in diameter few days
ago to recover lost ball. When he attempted
to back out lie found it impossible, and he very
pluckiy showed himself through the pipe the
whole length a distance of seventy feet. 1t
was perilous adventure, but he saved the ball.