Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-13
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THE IN b IGENCER.

lsHsE IlN T ELL IGEMCER.
Mr. w1L11Aus, ofthe Utica, IN. aY.l Herald.
writes very readable letter to his paper from
Paris, from which we take the following:
Surely, these Parisians are puzzle! Our
notions of social enjoyment are associated with
a quiet home and genial firesde, surrounded by
those we love best. But the iFFenchman hardly
knows what home is. He apparently never
| thinks of1itiexcept as place to sleep in, or
wherein to take refuge when there is no other
place to go to. His social gods are vagrant
sprites, who take up their abodes in the Streets
in gardens and premenades, in cafes and drestau-
rants, in theatres and concerts At least three-
fourths ofthe inhabitants of this city subst4n.
tally EiUe away from home. 1 do not suppose
that one Partisan in three ever eats q meal at
home. 1t is anovcl spectacle to watch the pro-
ceedings of these people in onesof the great res.
taurants about break fast OF dinnertime. sup
pose myself sitting in one of'the eating houses
in the PalaiS Royal. Two or three large rooms
are filled with hungry guests. At that small
table sits whole family-Ether mother, and
half dozen children, each with his little bottle
of wine before him, eating, chatting and laugh
ing as if were the chief fend life to be merry.
Yonder sits portly lady with3two grown up
daughters, deeply absorbed in salad and cold
chicken. Further on, at wee bit of table,
sits young lady quite alone, who hasErun in
fromFthess shop where she serves, to swallow a
hasty mouthful. At the other end Of the room r
sits pale faced woman in widows weeds, with
two little children-the only joy of her sad lfie
Vls,a-yis with her sit a couple Of braZeD- -facedt
wenches whose painted cheeks and lasciviouss
looks too eloquently the life they lead Here
comes strutting into the room dandy, redolent
Ofmusk and rose water, wliotfor lack of other
room is compelled to sit cheek by josl with
wheezy countryman. Here are wealth and pow
erty-wisdom and folly age and youth
andwicked edness-all nlixediupin one vast hodge
podge- abandoning themselves in happy obliY-
ion of the distinctions which divide them out
doors, to the great business of eating and drink
ing. Ofcourse, thereare places where the great
do chiefly congregate; and where the lowlv may
dine for song; but in almost any one of the
popular restaurants one may also see almost eye.s
ry social grade and condition, from the lordling
to the bootblack.
QUEER CusroMs IN oAl1yoRN1A. of.the
editors ofthe San Francisco Gollsn Era, writing
from Marysville says:
They are u funny people euphere When two
friends meet, nine times in ten the saIutation
will be, '.Well, Johnny, how's your dog2p-
When Johnny will reply, my name amt John
''You bet, is also in'geneTal use Everybody
uses it for an affirmative. On Sunday last,
while vending my way churchward, accosted
on the sidewalk very nicely dressed and hand
some young lady with, "Will you be kind
enough, madame, TO direct mo to the Rev. Ebe-
nezcr Grunter's church?'' When You 6eti there
it is over yonder, sir, was the answer, and with
a peculiar "twang told her that was OPP
posed to gambling, didn't want'to BET, and pass.
ed on to the sanctuary. Ask awaiter in a hotel
if he has any pork and beans, and he says "a You
6et!' - Ask a preacher fshe thinks there are
future rewards and punlshments, and he will
raise his hands aloft and exclaitn, You 6et!''-
Whenan emphatic affirmative is necessary, they
say YoIt Oct, 6ar-kcep!" What is meant by
the "bar- keep" clause is more than can iulag
inc. The high and the low, the old and the
young, all say, .'You bet.''
CoNsrANTs sBMpLoYmENr.-The man Who is