The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-14
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Items by telegraph and Mail.

Items by Telegraph and Mail.
Queen Victoria weighs one hundred
and twenty pounds. -ss -....l .r.-
The Duke of Rutland owns one
sixteenth part of the County of Lam
caster.
Venice has $4,000 recipients of pub,
lie charity.
Newport, KY, with $4,000 popula,
ton, has no hotel.
Louisiana will have $1,000 hogs.
heads of sugar this year.
California has six mines that yield.
ed $3.50, 900 to their stockholders in the
last year. .s5 H.s.l - 80
-Philadelph:a is to build $1,000. .OOC
worth of new school houses.
California produced So 900, 900 worth
of wine last year. .t
England has an equal number Of
pauPers and electors.
brooklyn built 500 more houses last
year than the year before.
Portland, (Me.,) is about to erect g
monument to Lincoln. a u.E-
Mr.. Dano, French minister to Mex.
leo, did big thing when he married
Mile Bestegui. The lady has dowry
of ten million francs, and her family
own silver mine.
Philadelphia clergymen "cannot
understand why the rich man who
rides In his carriage on Sunday should
go to heaven while the poor man who
hell"
The Paris newspapers announce the
arrival in that city of a wealthy Amer.
lean family, Mr.. and Mrs. B., with
the modest income of $500, 600.
The st. Louis Gas Company has
brought suit against the city for
$4,000 for gas used since October last
The city Claimed that the gas was much
below the quality specified in the con-
tract, and refused to pay the bill OF the
Company.
Recently, in Dublin, a performance
of Sophocles's "Antigone" was given.
At the close of the play loud and gen
eral call for the "author" arose from all
parts of the house. The manger was
obliged to come before the curtain, and
beg that Sophocles might be excused,
as he had been dead two thousand
years.
"A lady once asked the Able de
Matignon how old he was. "Why, i
count myself thirty-three, because a
little boy was born a year before 1 was
and died, evidently keeping me back a
whole year by accident"
When Banks, on Saturday, had
finished his speech, Stevens was asked
what he thought of it. He replied in
his usual satirical way that he always
liked TO hear that speech of Banks.
The New York Daily Times has
won back its lost circulation and is
now again ahead of the Tribune.
a Jew was lately fined five shiI.
lings, in Glasgow, for neglecting to gel
his child vaccinated. He said it was
contrary to his religion and his con.
science.
The Utah Legislature has petition.
ed Congress to repeal the ti-polyga-
my law. There have been immense
falls of snow on the mountains.
"A Kansas correspondent of a Chi
cago paper says that "pools" were sold
in the Senatorial contest just as they
are at horse-race. There were ten
choices on the card.
1t is estimated that the health OF
the American women has improved
twenty-five per cent since they COM
menced wearing thick clothes and warm
under-clothing.
"A Brooklyn paper recommends
"social evil"
"A divine is lecturing on the "abon.
nations of Philadelphia"
There are 1867 Shulzes and Ss4
Schmidts in Berlin.
The Sisters of Charity" in the
United States number at the present
time 951.
-"Tiltareen" is the title of a humor-
Gus work, hitting OFF filters and other
fashionable adjuncts to female attire.
A woman in Illinois discovering
she had left her pocket-book at home.
jumped off train and was seriously
injured.
BY another year the fashionable
bulletin Will read: Miss Smith gave a
large German on Tuesday evening.
The beef tea was artistically free from
oleagine and was delightfully."- restora-
tive. Miss Jones will receive on Fri
day, when Cruel be the recuperatiYe.' -
Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin
says an effort was made to attract Ris-
tori to that city, but Manager Grau re-
piled Shentlemen, L thanks YOU gem
orally for your invite to come, but de
grand expense he be too much for mine
darling little angel / takes special
trains, do you see, and that he costs de
grand monish. Den loses de go to st.
Louis and pays my angel more vat L
gets in Milwaukee, and dat is vera bad.
Oh no, gentlemens, L likes de Milwau-
kee vsra much, what you calls him: 1
lkes the people vera much, an comes
by and by ven gets another lit
tie angel what's shust SO good only vat
doesn't cost so much of the monish, do
you see." -.. r -,.,-.s- ~.