The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-08
ODDS AND ENDS.
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standers. 'sa
Prentice says that as man drinks
he generally grows reckless in which
case, adds the Boston Post, the more
drams the fewer scruples. 7
It is supposed that the object of the
bridal party, who lately went up in q
balloon from New York was to see the
honeymoon.
A Boston domestic gave notice lately
that her place must be filled, If she was
expected to rise before half past seven.
Between January LIST and June 2sth,
1865, no less than three hundred and
s11ty-one persons were conveyed to the
London hospitals to be treated for in
juries from dogs.
A wag says it is ''folly to expect a
girl to love a man whom everybody
speaks well of. Get up a persecution,
and her affections will cling so fast that
a dozen guardians can't remove them. +"
The lower house of the Missouri le-
g1slRture has adopted resolution de-
clar1ng Jeherson Davis an unfit subject
Tor executive clemency, and that he
should suffer the penalty of the law.
A recently married lady in Cincinna-
Il was called into the parlor of her
boarding house one day last week to see
woman who had enquired for her.
She recognized a discarded lover in fe-
male disguise, and only his awkward
ness in taking his revolver from an un-
familiar pocket gave his intended vic
tim time to escape from the dastarlly
murder he had planned with SO much
cunning.
Mr.. Kelso, member of Congress from
Missouri, swore a while ago that he
would not cut his hair or shave his
beard until he had killed twenty-five
bushwhackers with his own hand. His
hair grew to prodigious length, but
has now been cut, and he leaves people
to draw their own fnferences.
In Cambridge, Vermont, six mem
berS of the family of Andrew Chase
have died with malignant diptheria
within the short space of two weeks.
A mother and daughter were buried
in one grave.
A sixteenth victim of the st. John ex-
plosion died in New York on Sunday
evening. 1t was young girl of l3 years
OF age, Mary @. Cunningham. She was
so badly scnlded that her toes fell from
the joints some time before her death.
A magnetic bank lock has been re-
Gently invented by a man named Sar-
geant. It is without key or key-hole,
and forms in itself one of the mscbani..
cal curiosities of the age. 1t is claimed
to be the only one in thaworld which is
| perfectly free from "feeling" from the
outside. When locks cannot be "felt''
from the outside, it impossible to pick
them. F.H
Ascamp has removed the amulet at
tacheds to the neck of the sacred COW
lately imported from India by William
Stark, Esq, and now at his farm in
hPiscataquOg Village, New Hampshire
The amulet was placed upon the neck
of the coWwith imposing circumstan.
| ceS by the Hindoo priests, and the most
terrible woes pronounced, not only upon
the person who should dare to remove
it, but also upon all the people round
about.
1t is computed that the commerce o.
the lakes amounts at present to at least
twelve hundred millions of dollars an
nually, and that two thousand sailors
are employed in it. 1t sends to the sea,
board one hundred millions of bushels
of grain, two millions of hogs, and 6
half million cattle annually.
A special to the Boston Trdnserip
saye additional facts of an Important
character have just come to light rela
induce President johnson to have hin
| tried by Military Commission.
A tenth beatitude was pronounced a
a public meeting of the Congressiona
Union, recently held in Toronto. 1
runs in this wise:-"B Blessed is the mar
that maketh a short speech; he will b,
invited to come again."
In Marietta, the oldest settlement II
Ohio, the bell in use on the court house
Is the one presented by that unfortunate
| Queen, Marie Antoinette, of France
after the town was named. The bell il
held in great esteem by the citizens