The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-04
General News summary.

in Wheeling.
Horace Greeley advises everybody to
"buy land"
Fifteen thousand OF the inhabitants
of New York live in cellars.
One part of Alabama is rapidly fill
ing up, and that is the Penitentiary.
The ladies now wear Mohair head
dresses. They should be called more
Kansas raised nearly s4,OOO,OOO worth
of corn last year.
The largest room in the world-the
room for Improvement.
A book Just published in London
tells how to make one thousand pud-
dings.
Oregon has ten thousand more men
than women.
Five hundred men are engaged in
cleaning the streets and alleys OF Chi
cago.
Cigarettes and scandal are the attrac-
tions at the aristocratic ladies' clubs in
London.
a brides dress in Paris recently was
branches OF white lilac on u snowy ma
terial.
A wave on which many poor fellow
has been carried away, is the wave OF
lace handkerchief.
A paper has been started in Iowa
called the iStitett0. How much they
charge for the Insertion is not stated.
There are $4,000 blind persans in
England.
New York city has a population OF
one million people now, and expects TO
have two millions in 1880.
Wilkes Spirit of the Times reports a
man who can keep awake for three
weeks and then sleep for an equal
time.
There is in New York a boarding
"house" for organ-grinders' monkeys,
Sl.50 week per monkey is charged.
In Connecticut sheep-shearing ma,
chine has been invented, which is said
to be marvel of mechanical triumph.
A st. Louis rat had to beaten with a
club before it would stop sucking the
blood from colored baby's neck.
The ladies are fairy trying them
holding fairs at almost every point i'll
the State.
Woman is said to be a mere delusion,
but it is sometimes pleasant to hug de-
lusions.
The dialect of young ladies divides
all things into two classes-the horrld
and the splendid.
False eyeIashes are the latest inven-
tions of cunning fashion for hiding de-
formity and aggravaLing beauty.
Several hundred acres of land in
Camden county, n. j., will he set this
year with tomatoes, from which vine
gar will be made.
1t is now violation of the laws of
Wisconsin for minors to enter billiard
rooms or places where liquors are sold.
1t is said that Rayard Taylor and
George Baker are going over the Plains
to Colorado, for summer excursion.
Somewhere in the Old Testament it is
said that the Jewish women We're once
punished for adorning II false calf The
lesson has its warming.
A Treasury Department detective
says there are now in circulation no
less than seventy-siX different counter
feits of the fifty cent currency notes.
'sTm very much pressed for time"
as the .nan said when his wife hugged
and kissed him to coax gold watch
out of him.
Tuesday was "hangman's day" in
Pennsylvania up to 1916; in that year a
man was hanged on Saturday, and
since that time executions have all
Jersey several criminals have been
hung on Saturday; but elsewhere Fri
day has almost always been selected.
The Chicago Republican thinks that
the regulation of the right of suffrage
may be safely left with the people of
each State, and that each State should
determine for itself the fitness of its
own people for holding State offices and
voting therefor.
The latest cockneyism in language1is
the use OF the phrase different to" in
=; fTNly FNH GnN
ing "This thing differs to thatl"
The shopkeepers of Milan have es-
tahlished at the railway stations in that
city long tables, at which every Italian
soldier finds bread, cheese, wine and
cigar, gratis.
A luscious way to prepare strawber-
ries: Three hours before dinner put
into a bowl one layer of berries and
one layer of ground white sugar alter
nately; cover them up tight and let
them stand two hours; then add good
&c, till the berries are covered; let
them stand another hour we'll covered,
and you have dish tit Tor the gods.
Stonewall jackson never would open
letter which came to him on Sunday,
nor ever, If he could help it, send away
letter which, in the ordinary course of
mail, would have to make any part of
its journey on that day.
1t is stated that there are only five
artists in Baltimore, though there are
over 0,O00 Inhabitants.
Mr.. Billings describes love as state
of mind where judgment yields to fancy
and fancy to nonsense.
Anumber of young Germans engaged
in commercial pursuits are now COM
pelled to leave London, having received
orders to join the Prussian and Saxon
armies. Ifthey do not obey the sum
mons they lose rights of citizenship,
and any property they may inherit is
forfeited.
Travel to the mountains is increas-
ing. The Stuunton YIHdlcntoT says the
number of arrivals for the month of
May at the American Hotel, up to yes
terday, was 442; at the Virginia Hotel,
800; total, 762, TO say nothing OF those
who stopped at private houses.
We are informed, says the Char
lottesville Chronicle, that Rev. DR..
Stiles is going to preach series of SER
mons in the Presbyterian Church in
this place commencing on Saturday
night. At the suggestion of DIR. Stiles
this will be a Union service OF the
Methodists and Presbyterians, he hay-
ing been invited to preach by each de-
nomination.
The "striped pig" has become noto-
rious in the attempt to suppress the
sale of liquor on Sunday in New York.
He is an animal that is yet on exhibi-
tion in bar rooms where liquor cannot
be sold, and the thirsty public is invi-
ted to inspect this curious animal for
ten or twenty cents, each spectator is
then presented with glass of toddy
gratis.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania find-
ing Hester Clymer, the candidate for