Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-22

THE last number of the Christian Inquirer
contains capital piece of satire, nthe shape
of an advertisement addressed to .'unsettled
Unitarian Ministers" and purporting to come
from Zephyr Parish, who are in want Of a
pastor. lie must be man, say the adyerti-
serx, "of common sense who believes that
Jesus Christ ~ considerably ssPerorto all other
philosophers aud reformers, ancient or modern,
and who will be content to preach him chiefly. s.
They don't care "about the applicant having
looked into Plato, dipped into Dante, or glanced
AT Goethc;" or at least they don't want one
who is peiantic enough to lug his knowledge
Of these authors into his sermons, if he has any
II it m his bruins. But he mus. know some
expounding the Scriptures clearly; for the opin-
ion prevails in Zephyr Parish, that cxpounding
and illustrating the doctrines and precepts of!
. Christ, and applying them to everyday life,
amounts TO almost the same rs preaching and
practicing the gospel lie must quote Paul
oftener than Shakespeare, and treat the precepts
of Jesus AZ entirely paramount to those Of So
crates, Plato, PythagUras, and all other ancient
and tnolern sages and philosophers"
JrDGE HALiBpRroS, alias Sam Slick, the fa-
nous clockmaker of famous saws, is now in
Glasgow He is the lion of the day there He
is entertained from morning to night by the no.
bility and gentry, and has made speech, on
the British North American Colonies, in which
he spoke of the unsatisfactory manner in which
these colonies were governed, and predicted that
unless different system of policy was adopted,
they would suon fall from the body polite
A cALIFORSI4 paper says that California has
fewer idiots and moro lunatics, in proportion to
her population, than any other State in the
Union. Number eliminates in the Lunatic As
sylnm, 1T2 and constantly on the increase.
TnEBE arrived in New York city few days
since resident of Illinois one hundred and ten
years of age, who had walked the entire distance
from his home in that State. Thegreatcst day S
travel upon this tedious journey was twelve
miles The old gentleman came to visit the
east endof Long Island, in search of his services
IN the revolutionary struggle, by which to es-
tablish his claim to pension. The reason of
his walking was that he would not incur the
risk of shortening hismortal career by riding
on railroads. So strong were his prejudice
against this mode Of conveyance, that while in
the upper part of New York city, and desiring
| to go down to the Brooklyn ferries, on his way
to his destination on Long Island, ho could not
be induced to ride in the Second Avenue horse
power railroad cars, but walked down, crossed
the ferry, and pressed on to the end of his jour
ncy.
THE Rev. Henry Bellows of the Church of
All Souls in New York city, having accepted an
invitation to speak at the approaching Dramatic
Fund Dinner, in defense of the stage, we under
stand Mrs. Kemble has written him letter
protesting against such course, and pronounce
ing the moral influence of the stage evil, and
only evil. Mrs. Kemble speaks hand iasrpertd;
but what declaration from the family who owe
so much to lhe histrionic profession,
A FRIEND and fellow passenger of Charles
Sumner, who accompanied him to Paris, says,
in writing home to the Tribune, that Paris is
the place where good Bostonians go to when
they die Though said seriously, there could
hardly be more bitter sarcasm on the misera-
bic idea of heaven, that seems to be left to the
descendants of the pilgrims
Tue amount of gold and silver annually taken
from the mines of Europe, including Russin, is
found to be 2G,sO5 kilogrammes of gold, 9 ITO
pounds to the kilogrammc, and 1Gl, Al kilo-
grammes of silver, worth in all S25, 900, 900; in
America, including California, tho annual pro-
duct is lOo,s54 kilogrammcs of gold and 1885,
$50 kilogrammes of silver, worth in all $780,
100000; in Asia, the annual product is 1900
kilOgrammcs of gold and 10000 of silver,
ummounting in value to $22, OO0, 900; in Africa
no silver mines are wrought, and only 1900
Ikilogrammcs of gold are produced, valued at
81, 100000; Australia, too, produces no silver,
but the annual product of gold amounts to
5000, 100000: sum total in all parts of the
world, 80, 1919 kilOgrammes of gold and 1926
624 kilOgrammes of silver, valued together at
1897, 100000. The whole sum extracted from
the earliest times up to the present amounts to
$50, $50, OOo,o 600, including gold and silver. OF
this sum there has been extracted at the birth
of Jesus Christ the value Of 1895, 100000
soNE of theinvitations to fashionable parties
now in Paris, when addressed to ladies, are mar
ked ''sans erinOline" 1t is impossible to get
up that peculiarly elegant thing termed Jam
while the feminines occupy so much space with
their hOoped appendages.
PnLOrExA.-The German mode of nanag-
ing the philOpcna is much more refined than
the american, and carries whit an exercise Of