The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-05

"A cooperative foundry is going up
AT Cleveland.
The first cost of Russian America
is about TWO and "a half cents per acre
in gold.
The Harpers will soon issue novel
written by tt shop girl OF Boston.
The chignon has doubled the price
OF hair in TWO years.
Military music has been suppressed
in lie Italian army.
"A Montgomery journal says that
Alabama State notes are eagerly
sought after by the people, and ctfcu-
late rapidly.
-Ciov. Andrew had policy of $4,000
for the benefit OF his family in the New
England Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Coincidence, be it ever SO little
worm while we live, grows suddenly to
Il serpent on the deathbed.
They that laugh at everything, and
they that fret at everything, are fools
alike.
"A LouisviIlian is writing for the
Democrat Of his city, burlesque on
Beecher's story, and calls it Nor
wouldn't.
The ship upon which lady likes
best to embark on the sea of enjoyment
is cOurtsbIp.
A new edition of the letters of Ju-
Mus is about to be produced in Ger
many.
Twelve thousand acres of public
lands was entered for actual settlement
in Missouri in September last.
General Grant has given to NIL the
employees in the War Department,
from Maryland, New Jersey and New
York, seven days leave OF absence, TO
uhin thnn 90 nome vote.
1t is stated that all the sleigh bells
made in the United States are mannfac-
tured in Chatham, Conn. There are
seven facturieS in that town devoted TO
this branch.
"A man of the world may have
enough OF the world to sink him, but
he can never have enough to satisfy
him.
The Chicago Post says that city is
becoming moral. If that is true there
must be AN exodus OF old inhabitants;
nothing else could have such AN effect.
The Minneapolis Tribune says an
inventor in that town has sold a half
Interest in his invention of new CRATE
for 100000. 1t is IA great story.
In Il hot summer when there is most
thirst there are fewest brooks. So of
many peoples charities-they are rarest
when most needed.
Mrs. Partington says she may be
old now, but she has seen the day when
she was as young as ever she was.
Many philosopher, who thought
he had exHct knowledge OF the whole
human race, has been miserably cheat
ed in the choice OF wife.
If YOU let trouble sit upon your
soul like hen upon her nest, you may
expect the Matching OF Il large brood.
-Au irate Republican in response to
a Democratic inquiry how he felt since
election, replied that he felt just as La
Zarus did when he was licked by dogs.
The passenger cars on the railway
from ST. Petersburg to Moscow are two
stories high, the upper story being used
for sleeping at night.
Mark Twain, the TT.iGune's special
i'll Turkey, don't like Constantinople.
He says New York has fifty wonders
where Constantinople has one!
Here is a sample of numerous SEN
fences in Miss Evans novel of Maca-
riu:-"Perish the microcosm in the
IimitIess macrocosm, and sink the fee
BILE earthly aggregate in the boundless,
rushing, choral aggregation"
The Fort Smith Herald says the
Arkansas river is SO low above that
place that last week u drove of cows
stopped TO drink in it, and they drank
it in Two.
"A writer in an English magazine
well says: 1t is "a wonderful fact, but
no less fact, that no men work so
hard and for so little pay as scoundrels
who strive TO live without any work at
all, and 10 feed on the swent OF other
mems brows.
--Governor Worth. of North Carolina.
is described as "quiet little old gem
tleman, sharp AS "A brier, and with IA
we'll of wisdom at the root of every gray
hair"
Col. Forney says that Congress will
in all probability remain at its post
from the 21st OF November, 1869, to the
4th of March, 1869. 1t will come to-
gether in no spirit OF revenge.
A Pittsfield pastor astonished his
audience last Sunday by remarking
that most of bis people were asleep
part of them in the house of God; and
the resi- at home.
A man over ninety Is a great COM
fort to all his elderly neighborS, says
Holmes: he is a picketguard at the ex-
treme outpost, and young folks of sixty
and seventy feel that the enemy must
get by him before be can come near
their camp.
Hobbs, the old rascal, says an
American girl loves with her eyes, an
English girl with her arms, French
girl with her lips, and Italian and
/ Spanish with all three. a Boston wo-
man capitulRtes in three months, n
I New York woman in two. and New
| Orleans woman in one. Causes partly
climacteric and constitutional, and
partly few words from the old folks
/ in the back room.
"A Washington correspondent says
/ prices of rooms and board have gone
/ up, and there are no accommodations
| for anybody but members of Congress.
| As soon rs these are provided for, COM
mon people can come in and take what
/ is left. A great many members have
already made their selections. Most
OF them either take furnished houses
| o r rooms away from the hotels.
! "A merchant in Warren, mass, who
wears false teeth, lost them recently,
! and spent some time in fruitless
search for them, until the idea finally
! seized him that he had swallowed them,
4 and that he should die in consequence.
| Alter several days of intense anxiety
] in view of his approaching end, he
made his will, r5signing himself to his
! fate, and then found the missing teeth
! in the pocket OF IA cast-off pair of pan
falcons.
THE London papers are complaining
OF the high price OF food in that city.
Corn has risen 20 per cent. in mouth,
and the prospect for winter appears de-
cidedly bad. What the poor will do
with the rising prices OF the necessa-
ries of life, is a subject they hesitate to