Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-05-08

PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.
> Curiosity las sent many boy to seA.

curiosity has sent many boy to 7ea
An intelligent insect--The spelling bee.
Senator Jones il to build $ljOOOO honre IN
Washington.
Western papers complain that the r.eaic
crop ls late thlH year.
ii is sad to see people sqnander.ng money
and know you cannot help tAem.
At Newport, this rummer, the siup!et the
Turnout the higher-toned ID Will be.
Red Cloud Spotted Tail, and fifteen other
Indian chiefs and soldiers, lett Laramie yester-
day for Washington.
The Cincinnati Enquirer asks the weather
90 relent, and says there's no use in kicking
the fruit crop when it's down
Tile rottenness OF Philadelphia fashionable
society has gone deeper than the EuN I'm has
been willing to believe or admit.
The Khedlye of Egypt il making great mill
lary preparations. IL II believed that he means
70 annex the equatorial regions of Africa to his
dominions.
An exchange says AIar-halltown, Iowa,
opens her new hoto with - bee Hasn't All
ar" dropped cn the tail Of the bee?--No,riS-
torn Herald.
Tho Young NJ ,n'A Christian Association of
Dayton, o. has established smokiug-room for
those visitors whom higher tastea will not at
tract to Their building.
Gen. Neal Dow. the famous temperance
lecturer, Who has been in England for the past
',
soon TO return to this country.
The Rochester Democrat sayb that Mile.
Plaster, young French actress, is coming over
next season. We presume all the young bloods
wall be enclined to court Plaster.
Cardinal Manning has been suffering from
severe indispostlOn, brought on by over
work since Ills return to London from Rome
HIS phyalciaHs say he must have strict repore
for home time.
A follow in New York stole u diamond ring
on Tuesday. and swallowed 1t to make the ar
resting officers believe he was innocent. al
though it ohoked him badly. He - now val
ucd at one thousand dollars.
First Class in Geography What in bay
Fathers best horse. What Is sound \
thunder clap. What is strait Whiskey
without .water. What IN a cape Something
to wear on the shoders.
Il writer IN the London Gi0if sav1 "phere
are only three nations who use slang to afly ex-
tent, viz France, England and America. Of
these French III by far the wlttiest, American
the most appropriate. and English the most
forcible and obscure
The young Russian Princess, Galitzin, who
was married recently III Paris 10 the Due de
Chartres, introduced novelty III bridal attire.
The laco veil, instead of being fastened to tho
head, wgs attached to her shoulders aud envel-
oped her whole form like veil.
"A gentleman in Europe writes II ree in
the American papers notices of bauk bills al
tefeG from one denomination TO another This
ls impossible in this part OF the world, through
the very simple device of having bills OF differ
ent values made of different sizes.
The oysters don't know that it III May
Why should they suspect anything Of the sort
They are just now IN the PRIME Of their excel
ence. Still, there are plenty of fools who
know more about the months with an r. in
them than they.do about the woather-[New
York Evening Mail.
-Ebenezer Everett, of Ulster county, y. T.,
was left widower at the age of IL years, having
been married three months On the 57tli anniver-
sary of the death of his wife he was again mar
red. at the age of ~, to Miss Elizabeth Decker,
aged lj-iust the age that Ebeuezer was when
HE hrst wife died.