Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-20
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Pale aleand alepaleis 1.-THE same. But there.
ls distinction. with difference between rumps
steak and q stump rake aswell as between boil.
ed onions and oiled bunions
Sir, exclaimed n matter OF. fact and rather
lrasclble author to waggish bookseller the 9th.
er day, y hear that You have lately said in the
presence OF others that you intend giving me
d the next time entered your store.'i-
Inals s SO, replied the other, land here it is, !"
handing him DGnte's He'll bound in good an
tique. The gentleman pocked the insult and
walked quietly off. IL.
The Boston Post says
We have received from the horticultural Hall
School street, astalk of corn measuring thirteen
feet one and.a halfinches highll If the South
or the West can beat'this we will acknowledge
tho corn s
It is curious, says a western paper, what
fondness criminnlsthave forthe name ofshow.
men, actors, etc. Within the past ten days
persons calling themselves j. r. Scott ,TnniI1s
Brutus Booth, Edwin Forrest, Ellen Tree Dan
Rice, and George Ghristy, have been arrested
IN Cleveland for burglary, horse stealing, pocket
picking, &c.
There was much more fact than fancy in the
cross reply of an unfortunate female culprit
when under cross examination in petty court
by browbeating limb of the law. MADAM"
he demanded, "what sort of conduct have YOU
pursued through life, that should subject You
to the suspicion of this outrage upon tile plain
hhY" She answered, 'tInap4dence, which has
been the masking of you, has caused my ruin" 3
There are many Methodists near Whitby, and
their hymns must be curious, tojudge from the
specimens given by Mr.. White. Here. for in.
stance, is an account of the Railway to HeaY-
en-, wrlttenin perfect good truth
Oftruth divine the rails are made,
And oDthe Rock Ages laid
The rails are fixed in chairs oflove,
Firm as the throne of God above.
About hundred years or, So
Wesley and others said they'd go
A carriage Mercy did provide H.
That Wesley and his friends might ride.
Boston paper has paragraph about
LEATHER BREEcnEs.2 What would the voIurIdo.
men of the present day and generation; who will.
wear nothing but the best of Broadcloth, say if
they we've obliged to dress like some of their
ancestors? AssOon as a youngster went to learn
a trade, he was fitted ont with pair of leather
breeches, which generally lasted him with care
and patching and mendng until he was free
He then had another pair as part Of his freedom
suit, which very often served him through life.s
We will remember the last of the leather
breeches in Newburyport Old Deacon f., the
cobbler, was the fwearer. He cut O queer figure
IN them; his legs of the Doctor Slop make, meas
uring trifie over twenty inches in cngth.-st
The knees had been patched and, pa tched and
patched again. AS TO the seat; as weliye to.
to write it, at the beginning of'every winter a {
huge patch Of sole leather was there put on
halisoling them, as the old man would facctious-,
ly term the operation which he would remove
when the spring weather would render the thick
addition Uncomfortable "A fact.
TREMENDOUS YIELD OF GRAPEs.-A Indy near
0wensvillc, Clermont Co., o., writes to the Ohio
Farmer that she has a Catawba vine trained on
her dwelling, which has on it this summer one
hundred andisixty-seEen large bunchesof grapes
all sound, with no symptoms of rot. Yhls state
mentled our friend, Michael Simon, Of Boardmen,,
to countthe number of punches growing on
an Isabella vino that he set on his premises,
and tohs surprise he foundnpon it tl0O hundred
md segentg.t0ur 6uacdes of large size. he had
the curiosity, furthermore, to count the number
of grapes on some of the bunches and found
some of them ranging from sixty to seventy
each, and one that went up as highas eighty-siX
grapes to tho cluster, Can any of our. readers
show n finer yield than this p lrontou (0)a
Register, September, 9.
Az elopcment took place from Falmouth, Ky.,
a few days since, by which the bridegroom not
only got young and pretty wife, but a fortune
Of $250,Go0 the bargain.