Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-11-02
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

-Salvini has taken unto himself second wife,
an English woman.
Sweden don't need to send abroad for cattle;
sho has hor Stockholm.
Minis Braddon is still thinking OF coming to
this country OH n roadlng tour.
-Spurgeon intends TO spend November and
December in the South of France.
John Bright has declared that III mental
power girls are not inferior to boys
Mrs. Lincoln who is still stopping in Spring
field ILL.,, walks out out occasionally, and ap-
pears to have improved in hoaltb.
In Russia the laws providing compensation
for persons injured on railroads aro to be made
much moro stringent in the interests Of the pub.
lie.
-Ex-Spoaker Blaine has started on tour OF
the British Provinces accompanied by his wife,
Miss Mary A. Dodge (Gail llamilton), and the
Hon. Eugene Halo and wife,
Florida papers report an almost total fail
nre OF the sponge crop, while Northern free
lunch saloon clerks say that there arc more
sponges around this fall than they over saw be-
Tore.
: Some young mon in Louisville have formed
an "anti-lift-your- hat to a woman society"
Now lot tho Louisville young ladies form an
"anti- -bow-to-a puppy society. ."-N4o YORK. Her.
aid.
--"Piety," remarked an Arkansas preacher to
his congregation tho other day, "does not con-
sist i'll noise. The Lord can see you give to tho
needy just as easily as he can hear you pray the
roof OF"
"A country couple visited tho Westminster
Hotel in New York tho other day and asked to
see the room in which Dickens slept 1t was
shown them and thon they departed apparently
well pleased
1t takes 'em half an hour to get the big
English cannon ready to fire, and by that time
a fellow could dodge, heel it around the corner,
and tllck himself away in dry-goods box,-De-
h0H Free Press.
-" never sot my mind to writn' poetry till
two years ago." said a young ruralist, tiltng
back in grocery chair "but the minute !
took to goin with that johnson girl, by gosh
l couldn't help it,"
They have found a petriiied Mormon in
Utah, and from tho number of dents in the
head, evidently made with poker and flat ron,
it il judged that he had at least thrty-tlree
wives. .-Norristoion Herdd
Thomas Hardy, the successful novelist, is
soon to make his first appearance as poet. lie
has written provincial poem of the West 0oun-
try, Of about 100 lines, called the "Fire at Tran
ter Sweatley's A Wessex Ballad
Investigation has shown that not only per-
sons OF great mental capacity but also lunatics
occasionally possess brains which are considera--
bly, heavier than the average brains possessed
by ordinary but sane people.
DIR. Edward Warren, surgeon in chief of the
Egyptian army, has resigned in consequence of
ophthalmia, contracted in the Khedive's service.
Dir. Warren is Baltimorean, and medical
director of General Lees army. lie has located
in Paris.
AT the Georgia State fair the prettiest baby
was awarded cooking stove. The real danger
of giving stove to a baby, liz, that some day
when his mother il out he may put it in his
mouth, and then he would havo to swallow
tea-kettle before sho could get supper.
trr.tt.
to decline his nomination to the
Massachusetts Legislature, as the Constitution
OF that State prohibits any person holding the
Office OF President, professor, or instructor at
Harvard from being member of the Legislature
ut the same time.
Six busts of the finest white marble, repre-
senting the first six Roman Emperors, have been
placed in the Louvre recently. They were dis
covered in Africa, and although evidently many
centuries old, they are as perfect Nd if chiseed
yesterday The modelling of the faces is said to
be very fine. the profile OF the Augustus espec-
a!ly no.