Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1873-04-09
; WILMINGTON, DEL WEDNESDAY,, APRIL 8, 1873.
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Net profts-A iishermans.
MAN respires, aspires, conspires, and ex-
pires.
The New York Star says the DEVILS king-pin
is rum.
Mics Annie Christy is enrolling clerk of the
Missouri Senate.
--''Colonel' Is the title which the Georgia pa
pers give Anna Dickinson.
"A Scotch terrier advertised in Indiana, ID
~ wag tail, and u fight"
A Chicago policeman has just ''retired" on
snug little fortune OF 100000
The ghost of General Marion has taken pos
sition in South Carolina swamp.
"A Western paper styles sensational clergy
man performers ON the moral trapeze.
There we're 10 156 deaths and g. 591 births in
Chicago for the year ending March 81, 1878.
Post Offices were first established in France
in 1464 England in 1851 i'll Germany in 1901.
In Boston ''girls" are aged from sixteen to
twenty-five young ladies'" range from thirty
to fifty-ive.
The latest natural productions in Pennsyl.
vania are calf with thick fleece of wool, and
a dog which gets drunk every day.
An inventive youth OF Meriden, Conn, not
yet twenty-one years DID, has sold two of his
own patents for $4,000 Good boy.
The New York district attorney says that
the greatest criminals of New York are the
Pelham, N. II. has a woman who was not
married until so years of age. but has had four
husbands since, and il now widow.
The Memphis Avalanche forgets Peabody
when IL says. Vanderbilt is the first Northern man
who has given anything to the South.
Within the last forty-fve days there have
occurred forty-two railroad accidents, killing
twenty-six persons and injuring ninety-seven.
1t is safe to say that in large cities not one
in a hun1rad knnypa ANYTHING of the
whereabouts of his clerks out of business hours.
Andrew Clark OF. Paisley, Scotland, the manu-
facturer of thread and the inventor of the process
Of winding it on spools for consumers, has just
died.
During Con. Sherman's tour in Europe he
saw some British flags on which were inscribed
Lexington" and breeds Hill" They were
relics of the war of 1776.
The returnsfrom April Fools day are begin
ming to come in A Bostonian asked a few friends
around to strawberry supper; about twenty
came, and there was one strawberry.
1t appears to be the general testimony OF
travellers at the South that the hotels are foul
and unwhoesome, the cookery bad, and the en-
tire atmosphere tainted with shiftlessness.
Out of 149 patients in the inebriate asylum
in Bringhamton N Y. 1872 are children OF
drunkards, from which the deduction is infer
able that the habit is in some degree hereditary
-Launt Thompson the artist sculptor, is en-
gagged upon IRE size statue OF hector fiers'
the first President OF Yale College. The work
will be bronze and will be placed in the college
grounds
In two years from this period there will be
six colossal statues in the streets Of Washington
city five of them equestrian Washington, Jack
SON. Scott. Grant, Thomas and Farragut-be.
sides out-of-doo statues Of Lincoln, Scott, and
Washington.
Wealthy Americans with handsome daugh
ters whom they are about to take to Europe
should know that French law provides that
sons-in-law may claim support from their IA
thers-in-law. Paris is full OF "barons," very
handsome and decidedly impecunious.