Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-02
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.
Alabama corn is up and ready to be hoed

Alabama corn is up and ready to be hoed.
The friendship Of two young ladies IL al
| ways plot against third one
Cincinnati, opposed to all empty forms, has
abandoned the official pretense OF street-clean
| ing.
Waste of wealth may occasionally be re.
trieved waste OF health, seldom but waste OF
/ time, never.
.-Mayfeld KY, ladies' are such accomplished
chin musicians that their tongues are frequently
eunburned.
"A young Ia ly "took horn" the other day
| in church aud nobody was shocked His first
name was William.
Among the assets of Horace Greeley's estate
| is due bill from Weston, the walker, for 5000
borrowed at various times.
n "A Pittsburg dry-goods dealer has the por-
u ats OF fourteen female thieves whom he has
| caught pilfering from his store.
"A st. Louis, Mo-, belle, who was married
the other day, was presented with thirty-two
castors and about nifty butter-knives.
Train predicts that Governor Dix will die an
unnatural death before year has passed, be-
cause Fosters hanging was not prevented.
The American Consul at Vienna gives notice
that during the Exposition he will not be respon-
sble for letters sent to the Consulate for Ameri-
cans.
Vienna is said to be very sickly at present,
and it is known to be the poorest drained city
on the continent of Europe. The mortality is
heavy.
The Empress Eugenie pays frequent visits to
her husbands tomb at Chiselhurst, and is regu-
lar in her attendance at the services Of the
church.
"A Boston girl who was married four years
ago in dress worth $5, 900 may now be seen
splitting her own kindlings and doing her own
washing.
"A neighborng critic says the music at re-
.Natka rfat.,
price Of admission. The price of admission was
fifteen cents.
"A Vermont matron is reported to have re-
Gently celebrated simultaneously her own six
teth anniversary and the irstcut six teeth Of her
youngest born.
"A Western critic asserts that Nothing out
side OF Bloomingdale Asylum can surpass the
grimaces, attitudes, gestures of stage full of
opera bouffe performers"
-Conetantinople has forty-three newspapers,
OF which nineteen appear daily. or the latter
live are Turkish, four French, two English, five
American, and three Greek.
Water pipes are now lined with glass. A
space between tke metal and the glass is filled
with layer of plaster of Paris. The glass is
thus protected from breakage.
"A popular preacher thinks that hell is within
twenty miles of the ehrth's surface in the lati-
tude OF Kentucky, aud his congregation have
resolved not to do any more subsoil ploughing.
The Massachusetts Legislature proposes to
hen-act that dozen eggs shall lweigh at least
twenty-four ounces, it is said that the poultry
in that section make short weight before laying.
"A little girl was killed in New-Hampshire a
year ago by kick from horse which had been
by dog, and her father has just re-
covered 81, 45O damages from the owner of the
dog.
The first monthly meeting Of the Excelsior
Loan was held, last evening, and the first pay
ment made on the subscriptions TO the stock,
Sales OF money were made as follows 5000 AZ
So per cent, and $4O0 at 35s<.
The Delaware sold no money, last night, but
the monthly payments were,absorbed in the pay
ment of retiring shareholders. This was the
closing night OF the 10th year, when the shares
all matured but a third series Of stock amount
ing to 800 shares will be issued.