The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-07

The language is full of paradoxies:
'.sS6ow me axre,p said o trsysierte the
landlord, s1for am very wet; and,' he
added, "bring me mug of ale, for am
very dry.n aycu walk very slow said
q man to consumptive. eyes, he re-
Piled, "but I am going very fast"
Breaking both wings of an army is al
most certain to make 1t fly; general
may win the day in battle fought at
night; a lawyer may convey house
and yet be unable to lift Q hundred
.psunds; . room may be fall Of married
men and not have asingle man in 1t; q
scboolmaster with no scholars may yet
have pupil in his eye; the bluntest
man in business is generally the sharp
est one; soft water is often caught when
it rains hard; high words between men
are generally low words; steamboat off,
GERS are generally very pleasant COM
pany, and yet We are always glad to
have them give us wide berth; anery-
ous man is trembling, faint, weak; a
man of nerve and a nervous style is
strona. firm, vigorous. ,-,-..-
Our phrases are not designed to be
construed too literally. Pineh tells ola
man who was arrested for attempting
In DAMAGE the river Thames. What
was thu man doinei He was trying to
NIL, mn the stream. So Joseph,s breth-
ron -baxs been excused for putting him
into tho n;Y hccause IL ia supposed it
Z, ,ao Z "a, q -oood onen;nu for n Young man.
f. 80. ,,,ords ava strono tooetb-
;n...,d o,f r.ta;nn;ng their com
-, ,..,r;nc ,.on;re . new sionifica-
,;,r How a;ffsrent ia the action de-
scr;hed in sconrino a forest and securing
= soor. An st;mm;ng the sea and skim
Win, m;ll. in breaking a dish, breaking
a colt and breaking a commandment;
:, cotcb;no a train. catching a cold: in
falling into a ditch and falling in love.
Th;s nscnl;ar;tv of our words is what
-.,dars ro, an liable to read. in the
fnnnv column of YOUR newspaper, of the
psrson who. in the explosion of grief,
hurst. into tears, and whose remains
have not been found; orwho carried out
, ,ro;.ot ond was obliged TO bring it
he'll aoo;n. mr. who kent his word, and
nn.r,ol With Noah Webster.
- won.ad y for b;s dictionary: or
who courted an investigation, and wss
welded to his ewn opinions; or who
got off a speech, md has since been try
ing to get on again, having found that
his train of remarks was not the right;
or who. at mass meeting, being fred
with Indignation. was nut out, ,a$l
What do We mean by the awkward
avery-dav question. GLOW. do you dot"
What do we mean when we speak of
"old times,D knowing as we do that
what we call cold times" were really
the new and young times, and that the
present was the true old age of the
worldi Has any debating society ever
decided whether house burns up or
DOWN. What do we mean when we say,
os VIC often O. that we will do thing
in no timei We have no occasion TO
,oroh =, r;Stokes of foreigners when
iauSh a' iii''"hS' y. ~
we are so continually misunderstand-
p.;,
ing eacn other. caiu hicharu Diihsiey
Sheridan Tn his wild son Tom: "Take n
''i.i NC. w :, -,
wife, Tom, and REFORM win all my
heart. - said Tom. "whose wife shall
ie y. ' a IN $50, -.
takeV The joke reappeared IN THIS CITY
only tho other dav in a new suit of
only the othci uas AZ "o" ''
clothes. An enterprising Young man
~
said he was going to start newspaper.
(Which of the papers are you going to