The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-04
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| -ThurlowWeed calls Greeley, Aitch-
jee. This is rank disrespect.
| A ladies' billiard room is shortly 10
be started in indianapolis.
There are 825 German newspapers
in Europe.
Chicago Is annoyed by fast driving
on Sunday.
There are eight thousand colored
children in Baltimore.
| A good voice Is an essential requi-
site for all actors and actresses.
The farming towns of Vermont are
decreasing in population.
| Never carry sword in your
tongue TO wound the reputation of any
! man..
The Kansas girls have nominated
George Francis Train for the Presi-
| dency.
Sheridan is co years old and a
bachelor. The horse he rode up the
valley is at Fort Leavenworth.
-Philadelphia pays six hundred
thousand dollars a year to have its
streets lighted.
The head trimming, so fashionable
now, is made by girls who are paid
three cents yard.
"A man at Manchester, n. A., total
ly blind, earns his living by saving
| and splitting wood.
Milwaukee has new hotel with
the tempting name OF the "Cream City
House,"
-Christy's MinstreIs have performed
nine hundred and sixty consecutive
nights to crowded houses in London.
"A recent arrival at Paris is that of a
company OF AiaSSOuaS, among whose
tricks are chewing glass aud tearing
| their eyes out.
"A new magazine is to appear short
ly il Washington. 1t will belong to
the Government, and will be built of
brick.
-Ill-uatured people say Charles
Sumner is 10 change the title of his lee
ture from "Are wea Nation ?" 10 "Am
a Husband %
of Macaulay's History of England
in various editions the Harpers, have
sold nearly half million volumes
since their tirst publication. .#.
Frederick Hudson. late managing
editor of the Herald, at $40, 900 year,
began in that office AS Il messenger boy
at II salary of 81 a week.
In round numbers the entire mum
Der of blind persons in the United
States Is about l2 900; in Great Britain
about 10000; in France $4,000.
An exchange says: 1.-The omission
of the ages in the notices fthe deaths
OF women is pushing reticence, always
of doubtful honesty altogether too far
The New York Evening Gazette
says of an exceedingly vain Clergyman
in that city, that he is waiting for u va
cancy in the Trinity.
g. A. Sala is going to initiate Sir
Walter Scott by paying his debts with
his novels. This Is rather hard on the
reading public.
"A New York exchange complains
of the European mails. Our house
keepers complain as loudly of the Eu-
roPean females.
The editor of the Pioneer publishes
three marriage notices, and appends
the following apt, terse, and expressive
editorial TO each of them: mo cnke.''
The Postmaster General will soon
recommend that all mail drivers aud
letter carriers are required to wear II
particular uniform.
The blood is II perfectly colorless
tluid, peppered with little red dicks.
II is hard to believe 1t till one sees 1t
through the microscopic.
The building improvements this
year in Baltimore have been consider
ably larger than for many years pre-
vious.
1t is a fact which people don't all
know that over forty million gallons of
sorghum syrup are made in this coun-
try annually.
What nonsensical employment will
the boys undertake nexI9 They are
now making enormous collections OF
business cards in Chicago.
"A child is never happy from hav.
ing his own way. Decide for him, and
he has but one thing TO do: put him TO
please himself, and he is satisfied with
nothing.
Frank Raymond. who died about
two weeks since, in New Orleans, is still
advertised in the Picdyltne as stage
manager of the Olympic Theatre in that
city.
j. B. Roberts played Louis XI" at
the Walnut, Philadelphia, on Tuesday,
to 20 people. "The applause" OBJ
serves a satiricRl critic, "was feeble
though appreciative."
The only fruit which grows in every
climate is the strawberry. 1t Is the
only fruit which somewhere on the
earth is picked every day the year
The essence of true nobility is neg.
lect of self Let the thought of self
pass in, and the beauty of u great action
is gone, like the bloom ofa soiled how-
er.
The latest ballet at Paris is Adam
and Eve in Eden" which enables the
artistea to dress as little as possible.
The principal scenes are before the fall,
and the dancers consequently appear in