The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-22

walls OF the Day.
There are 500 insane people in
Asylums in New Hampshire.
There are 10000 Jews in the Ger
man armies.
The physicians in London have es-
tablished club.
The stamps on General Cass' viii
There is society Of revolutionists
in Russia called the Help society.
-Elsphant-trampling as a means of
capital punishment has been abolished
in Hindoostnn. !.
John s. G. Abbott Is writing Lives
OF American Presidents"
"A series of articles ON UWebster's
Dictionary" by Hon. Geo. p. Marsh,
IS begun in the Nation for the present
week.
"A young girl in Manchester, n. H.,
caHght her foot in her hosp skirt, fell
down stairs, and was killed.
Twenty tons of water are used in a
marine piece at 4 London theatre.
The jewels given to Princess Helena,
u Sashed, would support a large family
In luxury for life.
One steamer with a cargo of 5000
Watermelons left Norfolk recently.
-ElAAA6EG AL9 kNtU EuE44GIGa OIE4 IN v l.
emma. The audiences average half q
dozen nightly.
AN English school teacher died in
the streets Of London, Last month, of
starvation.
Basil Duke is writing a history Of
the life OF John II. Morgan. =
Nothing "more terribls'' has been
heard of lately than the assurance OF
the scotch law that man must sup
port his mother-in-laW. This decision
has awakened terrors in England.
AT Adelaide. South Australia, the
scenic artist of the theatre has been
called before the curtain nightly, for
his painting of the lake scene in tar
-rah-na-P0gue." Such recognition
was never bestowed on scenic artist
here, to our knowledge.
"A New Bedford paper-the ISRGnG-
drd-is down upon croquet t1ike a
thousand Of brick" The Standard saws:
1T only encourages stiffness affecta-
ton and lazinesS, and we hope that its
reign viii be as short as the fashion of
9 PaF1stan bonnet, and that the next
popular amusement will be one that
has something in it more worthy Of
public favor, and more beneficial to
body and mind"
"A young American lady, Miss F..
of one Of our suburban cities, was rid.
ing in the BOis de Boulogne, Paris, with
the daughter of one Of our officials,
when a gentleman drove past in a plain
equtpage, and recognizing the coat of
arms on the carriage, supposing she
was one of the family, bowed very gra-
ctously. The young lady, not Fecog-
ntztng the person, stared at him, and In
much confusion and Indignation turn
ed to her companion and said: "Did
you see that impudent man bow to me3"
'Oh yes, that was the Emperor"
Miss Harriet Martineau is in a de-
Ciining state Of health. She has given
up writing, save letter now and then
to a friend. She withdrew from her
literary undertakings with reluctance,
leaving the Daily NetDS last of all.
Such time as her health allows for more
than reading, is devoted to needle
work, In which she performs, it is said,
Yeritabls miracles.
The Sphygmograph is the name of
a new invention for measuring and re-
cording on paper the action Of the hu-
man pulse. The principle idea OF it is,
that the short arm of a light lever Is
applied to the pulse and at the end Of
the long arm is very delicate pencil,
which passes over roll of paper, which
roll moves by clock work, similar to
what IS seen in telegraph offices. The
effect Is that, instead OF a straight line
being made on the paper, a wavy one
is produced by the eexpansionSand con-
fractions of the pulse, and this line diff
iers according TO the age, health, and
disease of the patient. Some very in
teres:iug results and discoveries have
been made by the use of this instru-
ment, as phenomena which 1t would be
impossible to detect in the ordinary
way are clearly written on paper.