Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-29
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THE largest room 10 tue world is the
Groom for Improvement"
LOVE and death enter boarding houses
without asking the price of hoard.
GENERALLY the greatest bumbug- is he
who talks of h1mbdgs the most glibly.
Show may be easily purchased; but
happiness is always home. made article.
He who gives up is soon giveu up; and
to consider ourselves Of no use is the al
most certain way to become useless.
MAEY persons write articles and send
them to an editor to be cOrrected-as if an
editors Office were house of correction.
There are more .soFrows of women than
of men, just as in heaven there are more
ecIipses of the moon than of the sun.
NEVER does man portray his own char
acter more wildly than in his manner of
portraying another's.
To excel in anything valuable is great,
but 10 be above conceit on account of ones
accomplishments iss greater. Es,s
.0REsrEs5A. BRowNsoS defines his posi-
tiou-a Catholic Republican. He says the
know notbipgs all joined the democratic
party.
A man stole butter from the New York
farmers and was sent to: prison for five
years. We hope that it was good butter,
considering the penalty. or 10Y
THURLow WEED and Mayor ODdike have
crossed letters. Weed says opdike is
ttgOrged with Government contracts" OPP
dixie says "nary contract" s.7'
CANADA East has been. dreadfulIy bored,
500 feet beneath the surface, aud petrole-
um is the result. --s's
The Ohio people have just published an
answer to the song, ado they miss Me at
Home q" and have dedicated il to VaIlan-
0igham.
GEN. SOHgNK says that a peace democrat
is a democrat who prefers a piece of the |
Union to the whole Of it. So say We. all
of US.
lNPERTtNENcE often passes for wit among |
the vulgar. A rural editor, having pub
lished long leader on IHogs," a rival
paper upbraided him for obtrudipg his |
family matters upon the public.
AN English judge being asked what
contributed most to success at the bar, re-
piled: 'GSome succeed by great talent, some
by miracle, but the majority by cons
mencing without a shilling
ALiITLE boy once said TO his aunt:2
nAunty, should think that Satan must
be an awful sight of trouble to God."-
abe must be trouble enough, indeed,
should think, J" she answered 81 don't see
how he came to turn out So when there
was no devil to put him up to It J" SAID
the urchin.
In the year 100. the Lords Prayer com
menced ftMre fader THE are in heifnas :" |
110O!it it was rendered, "Fader thou art |
in heaven blisse;p in 1900, 4Ure Fader iu
heaven; in 400, "Fader our in heaven, ;" |
and in 1887, 30 our father who art in |
heaven" sss sr
a drunken man remarked the other eve
ming from a Major Generals window at
Washington, that he WAS Eve drinks ahead
of anybody in the room. That was a good
deal to say, Considering the company he
was in.
Ii negroes are as good as white people,
why did the Creator not make them alike
Ohio Crisis. We don't think that me-
groes are as good as white people, but If
women are as good as men, why didn't the
Creator make them alike ?-LQuisritte Jour
nal. s'l.'
There are but two ways which lead TO
great aims and achieVements-energy and
perseverance. Energy is a rare gift, it
provokes Opposition, hatred and reaction.
But perseverance lies within the reach of
every one, its power increases with its pro.
gees, and it is but rarely that it misses its
aim.
A YOUNG married woman, whose hus-
band has "gGne to the war;" heard 10
conversation the remark that the govern.
ment wanted more cavalry and more in-
fantry. She replied that she knew moth
ing about cavalry, but added with sigh,
that if more infantry were needed, the
government had better send some of the
volunteers home again. ff
An old.writer says that to make an en-
tirely beautiful woman it would be neces-
sary to take the head from Greece, the
bust from Austria, the feet from Indostan,
the shoulders FROM Italy, the walk from
Spain, aud the complexion from England.
At that rate she would be mosaic, and
the man who married her might well De
said to have "taksn up a collection =,
MRs desired Or. johnson to give bis
opinion of new work she had Just writ
ten, adding that, if it would not do, she
begged him TO tell hers for SHE had other
irons in the fire, aud in case of its not
being likely to succeed, she could bring
out something else. "Thcu, said the
doctor, after having turned over a few
leaves ~ advise you TO putt where your
other irons are
DR. Johnson, though ill-qualified, either
by the habits of life or the iuclinations of |
his mind to:eomplimont the'ladies. one day
clasped the hand OF a lady, remarkable for |
its symmetry and whiteness. Smiling as |
she withdrew it, he SAID, 'tyou have some
times reproached me with the vanity of |
giving preference TO my own works; is 1t