Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-25

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WB9ee.byy the Philadelphia papers that Park
benjamin made d star lecture there the other
night, II twas as good as it reads Sometimes
reporters make men say much better things
thaa they do; Indeed, not few of our bigguns
aFeindebted. plain. unpreteudingy hard work.
ing reporters for their positions before the
icOabtFy. But We have an idea that Benjamin
G is capablelof himself of getting up good thing
in the shape Of lecture We have enjoyedthe
reading Of the one in question more than ordi-
nary It seems te have .been rather hodge
podge-but We lilesit all the better for that
For instance We like this paragraph about pub.
lie and private life:
He said that of all the memoirs ever written,
those of private we're of the deepest interest.
This phase of life was somewhat difficult to de-
fine, If.he had the gift of eloquence he would
much rather select public life than private, asst
admitted of much more display. There was
this signal distraction between public and private
life: It was rather derogatory tospeak of mans
public life as respectable" and yet, to mans
private life, no noLIer epithet could be applied.
Although it was true that full many a flower
y was born to blush unseen, and waste ils sweet
ness on the desert mir, yet it was inthe walks
ofprivate life we must look for the brightestand
( ruest examples of true heroism in the history
flthe race. e3@as a-'5s 37
- Then. here's another extract that has a good
point in it.; re, tqf:j5
= HeTefeTTed to the record of past ages to show
I that true greatness had always been aceompan-
led with forgetfulness of self Thus it was
ahat Homer, in. all his, golden rhapsodies, wrote
not one line about himself, and of that wondrOus
genius of more modern times, Will. Shakespeare,
the same was true as...asy
There's heap of good sense in what he says
about heroism: t
True heroism was not understood. Because
young lady fell in love with her fathers hand.
some cOachman, and eloped with him, she was
not necessarily heroine; or If dandy foreigner
chose to come to this country, and, like the
ocean in storm, become dangerous swell,
and do. sundry things contrary to Law, he was
not, thereforeS q heFO.s Speech-making females,
who clustered and made themselves very fidicn.
Ious51 like men, who Blazed and fonrished for a
season, out OF their true element, and then, like
the comet, go down very rapidly, and soon dis
Sppear SO effectpally that an opera, glass, as
largelag eDohatis telescope, could not discover
4 them gave no signs of what deserves the name
IOfsheroism. They were moro like match,
: which, when rubbed, shows Albright streak, and
then goes out, leaving nothing to record its ex-
istence but very bad odor. -
Here is something that reads tOlerable-but
doesn't amount to much. It's strained crit.
S~'eas * M a A4ss - q " a. =
Our gregariOusness was, in,the speakers opin-
aionS carried into ridiculous extremes. One Of
the results OfthiR Ameticanism was our lack of
individuality, and our disposition to initiate each
other in everything Similarity incur houses,
in our furniture, in our less customs and man
fiers was an absprdity apparent everywhere in
.America. No wonder that the nanfwho came
= home lite tpsy. placed his night key in the
door of his hext-door neighbor, forit Wasjust
like his own and Rhen he gotiuside, hung his
Al hat onp hat-tree precisely likehis own, and
then walked up stairs over carpet with pat
terpsexactly like his own, enteredsthe chamber
and there saw gas fixtures just likeshis own, and
mirror precisely like his own, before It an ex.
ihilnrated lady that looked exactly like his.oWn
+. s'ahd there saw q gentleman reading newspa-
per, that lOokedz-not exactly like himself, for
aInen are seldom seen in the attitude of Knocking
y themsel YES down, which his neighbor would
have certainly done, had he not discoveted, with
becoming sympathy for the intfudsEs situa-
ton, that he Washis next dOoOr sneighbor-
when he atonce placed him safely on, the steps
of his own dwelling S u % lzsi5af
a@si He pays this compliment to the Germans r.
s6Ins speaking Of the contributions which the
Germans had made to the sum total Of our So
cial character as people, the lecturer said they
had done an Bipdisput ably good thing for our
people in giving them lager beer, as he believed
tsits practical workings for the cause Of temper
: ance was incalculRble. Lager beer was brewed
AUNtueCAutl u6AUeELue0 Sleepy 45lnQb OUT lTlSQ
whiskey was distilled in the bogs of death
~ That may be all true Mr.. Benjamin butwe
consider your compliment very double eaisadre,
at the best a9e.5 -. sis,
He closes his lecture thus:
The pursuit of the very highest achievements
Afforded no excuse for our appearing las solemn
; as an owl. or Is rectangular as a brick. The
rule Of Paley he thought was good one viz: " "
"Het that not a. fool haE the time, Is . fool all
the.time@ His concluding remark was, that 4
cultivated mind was the golden key that UNI
dluCkeaths richest treasures Of true social life.
IL the New York courtsof common pleas a
Jury, gave man $500 against another for. cut
ting his nasal organ open with . driking glass
In another branch Of the same tribunal . jury
gave an unfortunate wtdoweF 5000 against
man, for caIelessly running over and crushing
his wife 70 death
49, ae-4- Z. 's.st
q, a finaneier and clerk Of Chicago resolved to
.fghtabOut young lady, and to make the affair
moro interesting put up 800 as a fOrfeitin case
either party backed OUT One man slept on the