Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-09-23
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

California il successfully raising banana
trees.
--Another.fraction of Brigham Youngs wife
has left Salt Lake.
"A medallion of John Wesley is to be placed
in Westminster Abbey.
The revenues of the Erie Canal have fallen
oil considerably this year.
"A polite way Of putting it Troubled with
chronic indisposition to exertion.
The Princess of Wales is said to be the
hardest worked woman in England.
Eight Connecticut young ladies' have Just
taken the veil. They were hopelessly fTeckled.
-Gossips still insist on sending Mr.. Jay to
st. Petersburg and General Van Buren To Wen
m.
Over 5000 Mennonites have passed through
Chicago on their way to Dakota and more are
still coming.
Cincinnati takes pride in a youth OF eleven
summers who has committed twenty-three first
class burglaries.
The New York Mail contends that Maine is
mainly known to the world by the liquor law
bearing her name.
California Nimrods are examining their
guns and rifles in anticipation of grand hunt
after some escaped lions.
"A small boy forgot and asked his father for
a f'chaw nv tubaccar," the other day, and is now
very reticent on the subject.
-"Grasshopper committees" are the latest pro-
duction Of the ravaged western States. They
do their work in lively manner.
Vienna has decided to adopt cremation.
Chicago and Boston have each tried the method
twice, and don't think much OF it.
Fifty dollars and costs is tile penalty for ex-
posing decayed fruit for sale in England. Con-
fiscation occasionally follows discovery here.
brooklyn is pious place. Even the saloon
keepers quote Scripture. One of them has for a
sign "Why halt ye between two opinions"
els the candidate for sheriff here 2" asked a
stranger as he looked into an Illinois bar room.
''Yes, why ?" answered eighteen men, as they
rose.
New Orleans admits that it has great num-
ber of destitute people within its limits. White
females appear to be by far the most suffering
class.
Business in the ST. Louis police courts has
increased 30 that the motive power OF the pris-
oners van has to he incieased from two to -four
horses.
An Omaha paper advises the people "not to
make such fuss about the shooting OF one con-
stable, as there are over forty candidates FOL
the office"
Two Rochester men rowed a boat around in
circle for three hours under the idea that they
were going down the bay. And yet Rochester if
temperance town.
-"Whom do great men marry ?" asks an ex-
change. We can't say positively, but the chan
ces are that, like their lesser brethren, they
have married women.
On one OF the street car lines in Chicago il
is proposed to have sleeping accommodations
for those who have to spend the night trying ia
reach their destinatian.
One hundred and seventeen students have
been admitted to the freshman class at Am
herst-S6 conditionally. The freshman class al
Brown already numbers 100.
--Bszane will live in London, and has taken
the apartments OH King street. st. James, that
were once occupied by Napoleon III, in the day.
when he was called Prince Louis.
"A case is on trial at San Francisco involving
the ownership of seventy acres OF land, valued
at 1000, 900. There are one hundred and twen-
| ty defendants, and two Of them happened to be
| chosen IA jurors.