Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-27
We like the Alfred Jingle style Of recital It

We like the Alfred Jingle style of recital It
Is business Ike and to the point, with no waste
of surplus verbiage. We shall imIiate-not hop
ing, however, to equal
Partly, then, for business-partiy for pleas
ure-partly for hsalth's sake. we took a ride on
the Hempield We got on At Wheeling at 4
o'elock-we got of at Washington At S o'clock
time four hours TO q fraction. OF course we
Travelled sloz-cause why-small engiue-large
one broke last Eeek-under repairs. Had two
freight cars beside tender and passenger car.
Made the up grades under ifHeulty-prineiPal-
IL By backing down and taking fresh start
Stopped at seven post offices-iucluding that
famous port OF eniry''-Scrabble'- West
Alexander-aIias Gretna Green. Man on the
cars observed that he lowed as many as $50
couple had been yoked for better or worse
generally worse, At Scrabble We patFonized
his remark by asking him for light land
here, parenthically, We would remark that re
were on pile of lumber-oo 4 freight Carl
for choice, remember, being irst class Head
headl passenger from which stand point We OBJ
served that vast circle, ofroPy smoke, and some
sparks were emitted from the crater, Irish yui-
gate for creature,l or the engine. Solomon
sid sparks were prone to fly upward. y
We "smoked tobacco" and Beditated the
great truth that they were-although we
had.known some [not visible in the dark that
were not prone to hy any where We stood
out on the boards until we had seel the
iron horse Ia wore out name for an enginel wa
tered at the top of Scrabble hill Went in mot
'.in lsmons') to the fire. Found that Obligins Of
fetal named Cal zeal is medical abreviation for
Calcinel was just lighting the lamp. We were
glad of this, for we had been endeayoring,
frutlessly, TO recall the third line Of stanza of
Burns poetry, that we did not know but what
we might have use for that night III is proper
here that .xe should explain that this all was on
the 25th Inst--a day Of some interest to the
admirers of Robert Burns, poet Of some mer-
it. who lived and died in Scotland in the last
century.l We went to the lamp, produced 4
diary, I've always confound dairy with this last
word,I and refreshed our memory and found the
line to be
"Yst READ the names that know NOT ds'th."
It occurred to US that with proper emphasis
this line ought to bring down the house, [igur-
alive expression, meaning the pedestals of the
sQRPsREv,l To change the subject, we arrived
zetteer, till we tell our readers the Iauruue
longitude, and something about Claysville.
Boy has done so.
,"Claysyile, peterborough of Washington
county, Pa, on the National Road, about Is
miles east Of Wheeling. Population 80. y
fChief articles Of import, Wheeling Daily In
teiligeneeT1l
We were told by the man who was appointed
to look out for the cars and report how many
revolutions "for'ard and back" VIC were making,
that the whole population was out on the scat.
fold. We took his report with several grains
of allowance" Twenty grains make one scru-
pie, three seruples one dram. We allowed at
least that much.l
The slug of var Cbetween the engine and
the attraction of gravitation) occurred just be-
You'd this peterborough" The third time may
he the charm, but it is proper, however, to say
that the lager was lost by the affirmative four
successive times. The fifth time the 'riffle"
was made.
We perceive that we have lost sight of Alfred
Jineie-have become verbose-have branched
out by the way. So, therefore, as they say in
the plays, the audience four readers will please
suppose an Interval of one hour and half to
have elapsed, at the end of which me we are
set down in washington-the whole ten passen-
gers of us-and we all, of course, go to the Full
ton House. a woman out west refused to marry
a widower for ten reasons-nine o. which were
his nine children, and the tenth himself We
always go to the Fulton House for like num-
Der of reasons, the first half of which is
that there we are .chalked,' IA technical
ternl the sixth that John Hail. the prOprie-
tor, is one of the best natured landlords in
the world, [of course we don't speak of Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa, as we hav'nt been therel:
the seventh is thnt he's one of the handsOmest
men in the world The reminds us ftbc lament.
cd Hanchettl: the eighth is that he don't keep
eighty rod swhisky, or any other kind: the
ninth is that every body who goes from Wheel
ing always goes there, and the tenth is that we
don't want to be odd.
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PaoEEssoR MrrcurrL's Astronomical lectures
re exciting great attention in New York. The