Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1873-04-11
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Detroit boasts Dollar natter.
The colsred people of Kentucky own $3,-
000, ,298.
The most patronized barber in Providence
Is . mute gentleman.
There are seventy female students in the
Iowa Agricultural College.
Tho outward bound steamers for Europe
are all crowded to repletion.
Infants are charged double admission prices
to New Orleans theatere.
The Saratoga hotels will open for the recep-
tion Of guests earlier this year than usual.
Tho prize-paokage fend Of the railway train
is about to be suppressed in New York State.
--Windham, Conn, has conferred the right
of local suffrage upon fifteen female electors.
"A Cincinnati girl attempted to commit sui
eide eleven times without snufiing herself out.
Tho Boston University, a new institution
which is to eclipse Harvard will be opened next
autumn.
Bowling Green, Ky, boasts of an apple-tree
eighty y-three years old, which bears twelve kinds
Of apples.
Rhode Island farmers will plant miniature
torpedoes in their corn-hille as substitute for
scare-crows.
A little darkie in Eufsla, Ala, lately sold a
bony companion in q sack for old iron, and got
forty-hve cents for him.
Tho Paris KentucEidn reports a case of sun
stoke thus early. boy mas Deen nneu tuore
for knocking his father down.
There is now a movement among the rail-
road engineers throughout the country to have
Sunday freight traffic on the railroads abolished.
1t is said the current OF Grand river has LODI
ged ice under that formed by Lake Michigan
until there is a solid mass about fifty feet thick.
Fashionable milliners in New York have a
band OF music in attendance at their spring
openings. This is believed to be the very lat
est.
Two American young ladies', Miss Margaret
Baily and Miss Miles, recently made their debut
on the operatic stage in Naples in 'somnam-
bulA."
Tho Cleveland Leader speaks OF "Our Libel
Suitl" with as much pride and Importance as the
boy who boasted Of the mortgage on his fathers
house.
Three brothers by the name of Smith, whose
approximate ages amounted to 100 years, died
during the same week in Lockport, N. Y, re-
Gently.
Rev. George Bowers, late dean Of Manches-
ter, has bequeathed to his nephew, Mr.. Adding
ton, the gold ring known az originally belonging
to John Bunyan.
"A worthy Kentucky farmer being asked il
daughter recently married was still living with
him, replied: mo, sir; when one OF my gals
swarms she must hunt her own hive"
in Germany many Of the Jewish workmen
went without their dinner, and in Poland num-
bers Of Jews tasted one day, 30 as to be enabled
to give their mite to the Parisian relief fund.
Mr. Charles Knight, the English publisher
aud author. who recently died, had his epitaph
written by Douglass Jerrold. IL WAS facetious
and at the same time complimentary-Go Good
Knight
Good clothes and talent do not go together
says the Danbury Nelos. II you have good clothes
you must be content. Our clothes are not very
good, although we did not notice the fact when
we commenced this item.
Thousands Of Cinnamon, we read, are en-
ployed at q railroad building at Costa Rca, and
have contracted to work for eight years for the
liberal sum of four dollars per month three suits
of clothes per anuum, and a free passage home.
This is good deal Of Cinnamon and very little
money.