The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-25
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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thoughts and Inquiries OF the Mil.
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In Noah's Times and Messenger for
this week we find the following ques-
tions and answers:
QUEsTIoN.-A friend contends that a
Indy should wear her engagement ring
upon the third finger of the right hand,
and is opposed by another friend, who
argues that the first fngeris the correct
one. Not being learned on the subject,
1 refer to you.
ANswER.-Therei is much uncertainty
and great difference of opinion as to the
rule governing the wearing of engage
ment rings; but it is rapidly settling
down into decision that either aplain
ring or ring with one small diamond
in il, must be worn AS an engagement
ring, and that it must be worn on the
wedding-ring finger. e., on the third
finger of the left hand. With a lady, il
remains there until the wedding ring is
put on, when IL follows the latter, on
the finger, as "keeper" or protector.
The gentleman wears 1t on the same
finger as the lady. 4-t-l.
QUEsTIoN-"A lady and gentleman
being engaged to be married, unknown
to the lady's parents, propose to get
married and do SO secretly. After q
lapse of six months they desire to have
their wedding made public, but are
afraid of folks gossip, and have come
to the conclusion thai they will get
married the second time, but publicly,
in order to impress better opinion on
the minds of the friends of both par
ties. They now put the question to me
and ask you to relieve me by answer
ing it, viz: How great a wrong is it for
the same parties to get married twice?'
. ANSWERING wrong whatever, as the
first marriage is the only legal one,
they may go and remarry as often as
the entertainment may crafty them or
their friends without offending the law.
Do you forget that at the famous public
wedding gotten up in the "New Eng
land Kitchen" in the Brooklyn Acade-
my of Music, on the occasion of the
Fair of the Sanitary Commission, two
persons who had been nan and wife
for many years were married with
much ecLdt by celebrated Brooklyn
minister familiar with all the circum-
stances? Getting married over again
has been quite q fashion since that
time.
QUEsT1oN.-'tI have heard it stated
that the title of Dickens work, Our
Mutual Friend,' is not grammatical. I
GduIlOb 5S6 duylnLuE mEOnS uDOuS 4Is
Will you please enlighten us?"
ANSwER.-It is not incorrect, but it is
Pathological. In other words, the "our"
and the "mutual" express the same
thing, and therefore one of the terms is
SuperHuouS.
4 correspondent, Crank" :" writes us
that we have forgotten the receipt he
sent us some years ago, to clean gilt
frames, and he adds, "As it may be use
fNIf TO- II HNyffI
permission, repeat it. If the frames are
gilt, or imitation of real gold, they may
be washed with soft sponge and soap
and water. If2they are real gold they
must be carefully rubbed with a piece
of cotton moistened with alcohol, taxi
ing the precaution to remove the dust
with soft brush, or pair of bellows,
before commencing operations. Be
sure which way the frames are done,
as either of the above methods will
most effectually destroy the gliding if
the directions are reversed.
An elderly lady, who is not pleased
with the current style of "tilting hoop"
writes as follows to the editors of the
Times and Messenger: t.ff
"When see these hoop skirts worn
they remind me of riddle which L
used to hear in my childhood, viz:
Large Mt the bottom and small at the top,
oSS@
pity whop."
A lady correspondent, who signs her
self pretty" writes that she thinks
that "modest young ladies, anxious to
exempt themselves from suspicion OF
in false veal,' will have to
wear slippers and short socks"
The following is an answer TO ques-
ton about schools and academies in
England:
They teach in different manner, to
the great academies of Britain, from
what we employ in this country. AT
Etou, SO masters teach S06 boys; at Win
chester, l2 teach 200; at Westminster,
teach 1856; at Harrow, D teach 4s1; at
Rogby, 10 teach 46S. cJ
A correspondent who is alarmed
about the fuel question has his fears
set at rest as follows:
There is not the slightest fear, how
ever, the cold may increase, that our
coal beds will be exhausted for millions
of years. Your reasoning on the sub
iect is fal1acious. You do not know
the facts. In Great Britain the coal
area is 5000 square miles, in British
America Is, 600 miles, and here in the
United States 153, 600. If the coal in
Belgium be taken as l, that of Great
Britain becomes, rather more than 5,
that of Europe nearly 9, and that of
North America ILL., The future of the
United States may be inferred from the
views of u writer, who characteriZes n
seam of coal near Pittsburgh as worth
"a sum equal to the payment of the ma
tional debt nenrly twenty-seven times,
and equal to the gold and silver pro-
ducts of California and Nevada for
more than one. Thousand years." The
seam of coal thus described was pur-
chased century ago by the family of
Penn for $40, 600.