The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-28
Gor.IpI Pararrnnhs.

"A French father was recently try
ing to persuade a young ward to marry
his daughter; (the ward was verv
wealthy; he said: 'sshe has talent. even
fer thimble there 'tShe will be the
best of literary wives" "I should pre-
fer the best of housewives" ''She
viii go to posterity." ST had much
rather she would go to Market
Two runaway couples reached the
town OF Quitman, Mississippi, on the
10th, in search of somebody to marry
them. The brides were only sixteen
and eighteen, and being refused on ac-
count of tender age, they declared thew
intended to-'fght it out on that Iine''
If IL took all summer.
in one of the wards in the Lunatic
Asylum, on Blackwell's Island, New
Jersey, there is gentle female of con-
siderable attraCtiveness, who hangs
about the visitors to the institution,
with the repeated inquiry, ''Is Col.
Scott dead2 They tell me the war is
over, and am very glad of il; but
do you think Col. Scott is killed." She
lost lover in the late storm OF battle.
Il young woman of the humber
classes was married in Paris the other
day to young man in the same sphere
of life. The priest had gone through
the o0JLjftgqo, and was making few APP
propriate remarks, eXhorting the young
couple TO mutual affection and fidelity.
Amer he had finished, the bride, whose
turn 1t WAS, briefly said: "Aonsieur
lie Cure, If my husband conduct him
self as he ought to do, promise that
my conduct toward him shall be ire
proacbable; but if he do not, why will
not bind myself TO observe anything
you have said"
The New York EpiseopdiIan says
that Madame Demorest, the fashionable
authority, is likewise philanthropist.
She began life in an humble way.
With pair of scissors and a piece of
paper she actually began to cut her
way to renown. She has now the
largest establishment of the kind on
the continent She employs nearly two
hundred persons, yet she has never
made any distinction between black
and white. In q quiet and unobtru-
sive way she has given colored women
chance. Scattered all through her
great establishment colored girls NAV
be seen They are tidy, tractable and
tasty. Some of the most elegant and
costly robes worn by the danes and
bellies of Effth Avenue are made by the
nimble fingers of the sable daughters of
Ham.
GtocusJ the tacehouS corresponds
ent of the Pitloie Record, writes to that
paper from Richmond, Va, and thus
describes the medium OF transportation:
'sIVe came by way of the Orange.
Lemon and Alexandra Railroad. and
would say to persons who are tired Of
lie and in a hurry to get through, try
this line. You leave Washington in
the evening, and, as a general thing,
VIII arrive in Heaven or Richmond the
next day. Each train is provided with
surgeon, undertaken, amputating
table and other Injuries; besides these.
It has some Of the finest collins ever
expect 20 see. Hospitals are establish
ed along the entire route, and in case
Of accident the bodies of strangers ara
Immediately embaImed. The arrange
ments are SO perfect, and accidents 80
sure on this road, that many persons
have their limbs ampntated and get
embalmed before starting, to avoid de-
lay while on the car"