The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-26


Opium is more extensively used in
England than ever.
Petroleum has been discovered near
the Caspian sea.
Five thousand pictures have been
sent to the Paris exhibition.
"Why not eat horses 2" is the title of
an essay in a noted literary journal.
Gen. NIarmaduke is now grocer in
ST. Louis.
Female pickpockets in New York do
a thriving business.
Cassius NJ. Clay, at st. Petersburg,
denounces the course of Sumner and
Stevens.
The characteristics of Greece are said
to be an empty treasury and plenty of
brigands.
There were l3, ,6S1, ,254 passengers car
ried by the railroads leading out of Bos
ton last year.
a new York husband who paid SS5
for his wife's spring bonnet has sued
for divorce.
The New York Legislature are work
ing for nothing. The 100 days for which
they are paid having expired.
a paper called the Irish People, pub
lished in San Francisco, is printed en-
tirely in green ink.
11llllS"OIllly vi plOlly a.
is the father of 81 children, the oldest
of whom is so years.
4 New York circus rider jumps from
his horse through n stage coach in one
of his acts, and alights on his horse.
The French Prince Imperial speaks
English nearly as well as he does his
own language.
Miss Webb, of Cincinnati. committed
suicide because her lover was married
man.
Beau Hickman doubts whether under
the the civil rights bill, whisky can be
kept out of Congress.
4 fast mans advice to his son-what-
ever you do, my boy, do it; and when
ever you go, go it.
What does n telegraph operator do
when he receives The heads of impor
tant news? Waits for details, of course.
The house painters of Washington
have struck for S5H per day. Their
employees offer SO.
People perform Sthe greater part of
the voyage of life before taken on their
ballast, hence so many shipwrecks.
Travel by rail has now extended
three hundred and seventy-tive miles
west of st. Louis.
The beautiful village OF Holly
Springs, Miss, destroyed during the
war, is being rapidly rebuilt.
A pocket handkerchief has been
cOnfiScuted for wiping "mouutain dew"
from lips moistened contrary to the
Maine law.
The farmers of North Mississippi are
giving serious consideration to the sub
ject of corn planting, fearing that cotton
will continue to tumble.
The Princess of Wales is sitting for a
fnll Ion OF n 1OnrfFnit oil hDt she
little thin, professional model sits
for the arms and neck.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves
at the moment of waking from trou-
bled dream; it may be so the moment
after death.
What is the difference between
pretty girl and night-cap7 One is
born to wed and the other is worn to
bed.
Gold is one of the heaviest of metals,
but it is frequently all that enables Il
man who carries it to keep his nose
above water.
Divorces are now called segregation :"
A woman segregates from her hus-
band. Matrimony, we suppose, Is in
tegration.
It is n sad truth, and one to be heed
ed, that the women who to-day ordain
the prevailing mode in Paris, are not
the women whom it is sweet or wise to
initiate.
NJ. About says of an avaricious man,
that sit had been proved that after hav-
ing kindled his fire, he stuck u cork in
the end of his bellows to save the little
wind that was left in them"
A western paper announces that
"cow was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed, belonging to the village
physician, who had a beautiful calffour
days DID,"
1t will be interesting to the ladies to
know that the Empress Eugene will be
forty years old on the 5th of May next.
Queen Victoria is in her forty-eighth
year.
There are in North Carolina one hun
dred schools for blacks, 132 teachers,
and in the month of January 10,450
scholars, ., 900 more than in December.
They are located in all the principal
towns.
The delicate operation of tracheoto-
serting a tube to effect the removal of
obstructions to breathing, was recently
performed upon an actor at Dayton,
Ohio, successfully.
An exchange says that recently a
lady, speaking of the gathering of the
lawyers to dedicate new court house,
said she supposed they had gone to
"view the spot where they must short
ly Gle"
An exchange Mortified its readers
with the headline JEFF. Davis Roast
ed" but n perusal of the paragraph
showed that it referred only to a recent
incident in Mobile, and that the editor
meant to say toasted"