Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-10
Tng FAIR-The busy note OF preparation is

Wheeling Island, in view of the exhibition
which commences on Tuesday. OF course the
usual number Of shows will be on the ground,
the big woman and the small man, the skeleton
and the scallswag, the man with no arms and
the man with no legs, and all such unfortunate
but curious beings, to entertain and attract the
immense throng Of persons that will certainly
be in attendance. All of our neighborhood ex-
changes come to US with favorable notices of
the exhibition and favorable accounts of the
interest manifested in their respective districts
Ample accommodations are made to receive all
the stock and all the people that may attend,
and there is manifest determination on the
part of the managers of the Association to leave
nothing undone to establish the institution on a
permanent basis. The books will be removed
to the fair grounds on Monday, where those who
desire to enter stock or articles for exhibition
can do so by application at the proper Office
Tho half-mile track for the display of stock,
trials of speed and the training of young horses,
is now in excellent condition. There is no bet
ter track for the latter purposes in the country.
For fast trotters there is high market value.
In the eastern markets, as has been well OBJ.
served, they sell sometimes for enormous prices
Even horses of quite rough and ordinary APP
pearance, with this one Recommendation, sell at
high figures. This quality is property, and
when known may be a source of income to the
individual owner, and wealth to the country.
1t is an appropriate part of fairs 10 exhibitit,
and likely to result more in the pecuniary ben.
eft of those taking part in it, than anything
connected with the Society. After our last fair
many horses there exhibited could have been,
and were, Sid Mt double the price asked for
them before they were shown. Let all who
have such horses bring them forward as cons
petitors for the liberal premiums offered.
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THE Cleveland Plainleqler does not believe
in the reported 'power of the human eye," and
it gives as the reason Its belief an incident
which occurred at Southern hotel short
time since. Herr Driesbach, the famous lion
tanner, was at the hotel; and one night very
powerful and savage drunken man was terribly
ing every person in the bar room. Herr Dries.
bach volunteered to 'get an eye on him and fix
him;" and crovding himself in front of the
inebriated rowdy, he fastened his terrible eye
upon him. The fellow stopped over towards
the tanner, putting his hands on his knees, and
returning the gaze as we'll as he could in his
then confused state. The tanner thought things
were working and intimated as much by a nod
of his head to the crowd, when the subject ask
ed in calm dispassionate manner, "what he
was looking ali" "Neyer you mind" said the
tanner, throwing all the power he could muster
into his eyes, buttho subject did mind, for with
startling "Whoo-ep" he dealt the tanner n
tremendous blow under the left ear which sent
him through glass door into the next room,
where he came to sudden stop against hard
brick partition. He was carried up stairs and
done up in camphor and old rags In few
days he was able to be out, but he has never
since tried the eye power on drunken man.
We have another Tract on the subject of
Tobacco, published by Lindsay & Co., Phila.
delphia. The author is Scottish surgeon of
considerable reputation. he has been PROBES.
sor of Surgery to the Royal College of Sur
geons. He is a conscientious writer, but gives
no new information on the subject of which he
treats, over aud above what is to be found in
the various tracts heretofore published in this
country and in England. The author quotes
largely from French and German writers, and
one would think, to read the melancholy cases
cited, that three-fourths of the ills that flesh is
heir to, are owing to indulging in tobacco. The
author admits nothing in the way of deriving
pleasure and solace from quiet smoke over the
latest novel, and as to "coloring the Meer-
chaum"-thatis entirely out of the question.
MIS- BosrwIck has been travelling in the wilds
of Lake Superior, and the correspondent of
Chicago paper writes-''At ono time her audi
ence was principally composed of Menomonee
Indians and haIf.breeds. Their expressions of
delight were unbounded.. At frst, with true
Indian stoicisrn, they sat like statues. But.the
full and melodious tone of Mrs. Bostwick's char
ming voice soon melted the marble, and their
delight finally found expression IN series of
yells and war:whoops, If not SO harmonious,
vastly more emphatic than the applause of Chi.
cago audiences. Some of the tawny sons of the
forest it is said, even wept, SO effective was the
charm Of music in those savage breasts"
Agentleman from St. Louis, at present abroad
thinks there's no hotel in London which will
compare with "the old Planters House, He