Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-16
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1T is difficult To- keepjup q fast friendship With
asrnan who has frequent fits. of the CONT, or
chronic toothache, or'an excoriated ,epidermis
He may be very valuable man-to know; and
az fond he may have a real affection for you
But you can never be quite free and unconstrain
:ediuFy your companio With him; you are al.
ways afraid of coming allitue too near his equity
toe, or opening aiwindow and letting in a cold
that may set his teeth and tempersra-
glng; if you poke ever SO gentle bit of fun at
him it is not Certain hetwill not throw crutchi
atyour head; andifyou.n nudge him playfully in
the ribs he is alpostsGre TO scream and abuse
you. He may be almost soyetWh elmipgly effu-
-sive in his momegts Intern tent good hulnor,
but suddenly comes that twingc of8the toe, and
down go the corners Of his mouth or tina rack
OF pain, and up goes his hand to his face. and
then he becomes touchy and testy,, and quarrel
some, and You are tempted to say, "Confoundl
the fellow, Tlllet him alone. He'sFn capital
companion when in good humor, and there is
no one I'd rather have by my side in case of
fight; but he is so crotchety and uncertain that
Lean neversb be sure that should have him on
my side. If We get into melee he would be
|justtas likelysto break my head us that of one
of our antagonists" and thus you grow more
polite and lesstfriendly aud your hot tempered
friend, who repressed your familiarities, chafes
at your indifference 5Fx EIIt. ~ SIS 2 asa
: Will our newly-made neighbers on the other
side of the Atlantic, now only Just cables
length off, pardon US ifsweapply thisipassing
reflection to them? Not that we would fora mo-.
ment insinuate that, they, in their body polite,
are afflicted with govt or with toothache, for
our flat-footed young friends strides with the
tread of juvenile giant, and his grinders are
AhAln that had E,o1f
world, he is rather suspected of indulging gas
tronomic designs upon other portions of it
In fact if he has fault in respect Of his teeth.
it consists in just little too much fondncss for
showing Them But there is somethingsrather
wrong about our friends skin. The oil of
human kindness in which he iwasidipped was a
little too hot, and has scalded off the outer Gu
ticle. His sensations seem to be rather akin
to those of the ancient invaders of England,
morSels of whose skin is Still under the nail.
heads of our old church doors; or to those of
that sill.used saint who stands in, we forget
which continental cathedral, draped in his own
Ifayed-oH hide. He quivers To every touch:
and but that his muscles are large, and his,
strength and temper are dangerous to any one
volunteering the friendly operation, a good
healthy tar and feathering would do himsa
world of good. 1t is our own fate always to be
in difficulty with our sturdy friend. We can.
never be quick enough 10 meet his hot fits or af-
ASSAtolA ScG Jul HNtlY WueIl lIle OOOC
jack and the govt stool are flying across the
room. We arc always. doing something tocon-
geal his gushing syrnpethies or to heighten his
ill temper The New York Morning Courier,
takes us to task for this our misconduct in d
spirit of courteous admonitiop, which, asiitisj
not very common on the other side of the At
lantic, may notbe passed over without the cour.
tesy OF reply. Our Transatlantic remonstrant,
after q general charge of ancient grievances,
which, as they are notspccified cannot be re-
tuted, does US the Justice to admit that the
Times, when speaking of tour country and it's
institutions has usually done SO in fair spirit
Well, that is something We have not been
false to the fundamentals of friendship: We
may have thought it a matter of duty to tell
him we thought he was rather sharp in fore
closing the mortgage on that Mexican's estate,
Tor that he must tidsgrace himself in the eyes
of his country by stealing that Spaniard's to-
bacco box, or that he ought to keep his sons
from riding over his poor neighbors, orithat we
should be obliged to him not to poach more
than he can help in our fshponds, and we
have even gone so far us gently and meekly to
hint complaint to himlof the nuisance arising
from the cries of that black servant whom he is
always thrashing. We hSSesneyer, tits true
done any of these things without putting him,
into terrific passion, but VIC cannot in our
conscience think we were in fault for even the
Indictment against US admits that he and his
family have always been treated with due re-.
sPect and even our friendly iremonstrances
havey been made in fairspirit Our new. crime
is, however; no can feel, almost @unnardohube..
We have made mistake abonttbat TransatIaf3
tic telegraph Cousin Jonathan intended 10 be
sublime, and we in our error, faDcied he intended
to be ridiculous. We unhappiIy mistook his
pathos for bathos. entertainments with per-
formance which he intended to be most affecting
and we had the misfortune to think it was n,
farce which he meant US to laugh at $50 we
poked our little bit Of fun at him in return
and with due promptitude the goutstools and.
the bootacks came flying about our ears next
morning came the more formal and courteous.
epistle to which We are now replying Now;
our New York cotelnporary is much mistaken
if he snpposes that the people of England were.
not quite as much pleased at the apparent
accomplishment fganFsinstantaneoust commune
nication between the two nations as the people,
of America were. There was some prom ptitdde
in the Royal message; p.coptdence which could
only be inspired by strong interest and strong
hope was manifested by the buyers " no ran the
shares up to par on the Liverpool Exchange; and
we cannot think that we ourselves were want.
ing. to the occasion. We took tho best means
in our power TO secure clever and graphic his.
tory of the operations and il four English shp.of.
war had foundered in the tempest, We should
have had our own special cause for mourning;
we celebrated the success with as much elorifi.s
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