The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-08

Newfoundland BabIes-.-A YOuIh who
Never Saw q Woman.--.JezebePs
Death.
The Hearts Content correspondence of
the Boston Journal says: q "What
amuses one at first in these houses is
the inevitable baby, or the twins in
arms. There is baby in every house,
and cords of little children everywhere
But all the babies are of the same age /
10 be sure, as young lady remarked,
"bableS are always in seasons" but IL
did seem strange that they should All
be born about the same time at Hearts
Content. The life of the fishermen NAV
possibly account for this ''infant pIle-
nomenon;" At this season, for in
stance, all the boys, and nearly all the
able bodied men, are at Labrador.
Ihey are absent all summer. They re-
turn in the fall. And this annual crop
OF ofJnveniles, as Tony Weller remarked.
verIn
Meadows History of the Chinese,
lately published in London, in chap
ter on love, has the following story: IA
Chinese, who had been disappointed in
marriage, and had grievously suffered
through women in many other ways,
retired with his infant son to the peaks
OF mountain range in Kweichoo, to a
spot quite inaccessible to little footed
chinese women. he trained his boy to
worship the gods, and stand in awe and
adherence of the devils; but he never
mentioned women to him, always de-
scendtng the mountain alone to buv
food. at length, however, the infirmf-
ties of age compelled him to take the
young man with him to carry the bag
OF rice. AS they were leaving the mar
ket-town together, the son suddenly
stopped short, and, pointing to three
approaching objects, cried: Father,
What are they2'
The father Instantly answers, with
a peremptory order-'Turn away your
head; they are devilsp
"The son, in some alarm, turned
away, noticing that the evil things were
gazing at him with surprise from behind
their fans. He walked to the mountain
in silence, eat no supper, and from that
day lost his appetite, and was afflicted
with melancholy. For some time his
troubled and anxious parent could get
no satisfactory answer to his INQUIRIES,
but at length.the young man burst out,
crying with fnexpressible pain-'Oh,
iatheT, that tallest devil THAT tallest
devilI fatherp"
Mr.. Everett, the youngest son of the
late Hon. Edward Everett has publish
ed, in England, series of entertaining
lectures on College Life in old Cam
bridge, bringing in many of the laugh
able doings of undergraduates. He
describes the examination of student
on the death of Jezebel, and saws TINT
AFTER prefacing his account of the TRUCE
dy with the remark, that it was most
important to preserve the exact words
proceeded thus:
And as he passed through the gate
of the city, there looked out unto him
TWO persons appointed for that purpose.
And he said unto them, Throw her
down. Sothey threw her down. And
ne SAID, DO 1t a second time.' And they
did 1t a second time. And he said, DO
u third time! And they did it a third
time; yea, even unto seventy times
seven: Last all the woman died also.
And they took up OF the broken frag-
fun.''
Another student describes the ascent
OF Elijah into heaven in this wise:
And then came two she bears ont of
tho wood, and said unto Elijah, EGOuD.
thou baldhead,' and he went up"
me same examinee, after repeating
the Samaritan's saying to the innkeepe
er, When come again / will repay
thee" added, "This he said, knowing
that he should see his face no more"
THE last New York Round Table
promises a change of tone with change
ofmanagers. 1t twont't bite SO severely.
nor scold SO savagely. It's leader is a
kindly article on womans' Rights-in
which there is not much, but n little
flattery-which is relished by the best
of women. The Round Table compass
sionately warns Congress that Wash
ington is to be provided with more hells
gambling hells than ever before.
Why not, since "Pharaoh" rules. and
John Morrissey will handle the "ivo-I
rles." 1t goes from "hell" to the
Thanksgiving dinner table, and serves
up the American turkey-after the
manner of Charles Lamb on roast MIG.
But Ella was unapproachable at the
table. The Round Table closes with the
severest rasping OfGriffith Gaunt it has
yet given him. 1t tquotes from two CO.
temporary novels published in 1855 and
1859, French and English, showing Mr..
Reade to be either a bold plagiarist. or
that the minds of three popular novel
writers run in the same rut. The re-
sem6lance in the three plots is very