The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-12
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GossIpy Paragraphs
ugly piImd donna chooses 'Lucre-
tia Borgia" for their debuts, becausethe
first stanZa is sung masked. A singer
lately triumphed, in Paris, by this
strategy. -,- - n 7t
The wife of John Michaels, ofBeth-
any, New York, finished hoeIng pota-
toes on Friday, and on Monday gave
birth to three daughters-one weighing
111z, another 111z, and a third l0&
pounds-all as lively as Guinea pigs.
Mrs. Anna Cora Richie is living in
London, and is the correspondent of the
AoMle Weekly, Baltimore Gazette and
DAILY NelCS. She lost her all by her
husbands investment in Confederate
bonds, and the failure of her voice by
bronchitis puts the stage out of the
question.
There are some extraordinary fast
"bucks" at Saratoga this season. They
tell of one gentleman who drives a
four-in-hand that cost $4,000 for the
horses and 81 900 for the harness, with
liveried servant, a splendid drag, ap-
pointments all perfect. The owner of
the establishment is naturally the OBJ
ject OF all observers.
"A French paper gives a frightful
idea of the properties of the golden hair
dyes now in use. He says:
"There is now sold in Paris a dye
which instantly changes white or flax
en- hair into the most glorious gold. It
is called orpiment, is the golden sui
phuret of arsenic, and has only one
tritiing drawback, which those who
want 1t probably will not mind; it kills,
just as inevitably and swiftly as doses
of arsenic would"
The New York Citizen does up the
famous Mrs. Lucy Cobb, pardon bro
keress, thus: "She is awoman of good
guise, about five feet four inches high,
and between the years of twenty EIGHT
and thirty-two. She is slender and
delicate looking, though there are fine
curves In her body. She has a wistful
dark blue eye, a Roman nose, pretty
mouth, generally well compressed, but
when disparted, you can see that the
teeth are like pearls. Her skin is clear
as peach rind; she has brown hair,
and weighs about las pounds. Her
dress is commonly tasteful, and meant
to show to advantage the shapeliness of
her figure; thus in warm weather, she
wears "a tight linen wrapper, very
white, and tidy, and plump. Mrs. Cobb
formerly kept cigar store on the ave.
nue.; married Treasury clerk, left him,
travelled, returned, and lives by her
cheek at present"
The "Dinner Tea" is the latest fash
ionable entertainment in France This
is country, or suburban, dinner, Of
tered to young ladies and gentlemen
who meet for Croquet, archery, boating,
&C., and was never intended for papas
and mammRs, who love to sit over their
DottIe OF wine. The advantages are.
that evening dress is not de Tigeur.
The croquet, archery, or boating cos
tune is admissible, so that, after "the
dfndtoire," sport may be resumed. In
fact, it is picnic at a private residence
where ceremony is abolished for the
day. As for the edibles, you have your
hsh, meat, fowl, sweets, &C., as you
would have at any regular dinner.
and you can "take your fill, :" which, no
doubt, many do.
The Nankeen Hoop is after all no
novelty. In 1853 the sex were reproach-
ed for making
tTheir petticoats short, that a hoop eight
Night dece.ntly, show where their garters
There is no disputing this fact; it
shines in the face of every little child /:
The coarse, bawling, scolding woman
Wl!t have coarse, vicious, bawling,
fighting children.
when Ettie, about five years old
was being put to bed, during the height
of mosquito time, her mother said to
her: "Ettie, you must always be n good
girl, and then, at night when you are
asleep, the angels will come and sing
and watch around your bed" "Oh,
yes ma" said Elite, 81 know that;
heard them singing around my head
last night, and some of them bit ms, too. !"
Gail Hamilton, in her last work,
summer Rest" does nottseem to as
sent to the doctrine of the immortality
of the soul as it is popularly under
stood. She asks, "If man is good for
nothing in this :world but to convert
grain into tissue, what is there for him
to do in a world where there is neither
grain nor tissue? Why should he live
again ?"
"A California editor participating in
debate as to the best method of build
ing a certain bridge, objected to a cof-
fer dam for making the pier. He said
he early formed prejudice against the
thlng; his uncle once had COW chok-
ed with a turnip, and for a long time il
was thought she would coGer dam head
Our Oil COrrespOndence--.Le from
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