The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-17
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Mrs. Emma Hardinge Is writing a
history of spiritualism.
Gen. Grant is trying 10 reduce him
self to fifteen cigars a day
The ex Queen of Naples was only
twenty.siI, handsome, unhappy and
childless.
1t is not what we eat, but what we
digest that makes us strong.
"A Boston man, lately deceased, had
insurance policies upon his life
amountingito $4,000, payable within
sixty days.
Only rixty-seyen thousand persons
in the whole country returned an M
come of over five thousand dollars per
annum. 50
"A merchants advice for selecting
wife was to "set hold oil plece Oh c"i-
leo that will wash"
In Northern Alabama corn in the
held is offered at from thirty TO forty
cents a hushel.
There is not community in Adair
county, Missouri, that will permit
dram shop in its midst.
-Sboddy is accused of having made
his money through "inflatiOn." He
aflirus, on the contrary, that Il was
through contraction.
The newspaper press gang In Lon
don numbers IA 900 quilts, pencils, and
gold pens.
The money value of the crops this
year, as estimated by writer in the
New York Times, will be S4O0. 900, 900
greater than last year, so large has been
theiucrease.
Our financial una II says seven-thir-
ties are becoming very good AS a class.
Many OF them have already been con-
verified and the remainder are in a hope
full state. coming forward rapidly.
The Jewish women were once pun
ished for adorinR false calf Let the
women Ofthis country take warning.
"A New York paper says that the
MARQUIS of AlmHndria is stopping at
Delmonico's, in New York, with his
TWO daughters, and that their hotel bill
is eighteen hundred dollars per week.
"A crop croaker says he will have TO
give up on the abundance of the hay
and wheat crops, but will not "ac-
knowledge the corn"
Ladies who have a disposition to
punish their husbands should recollect
that little warm sun will melt an
icIcle sooner than regular Northeast
or.
your old hen Macdutf?" because, sir,
/ want her TO lay onl"
Who raise their strains around my head
As soon as 1 get snug In bed,
And sing and sting till they are fed
ne must have the labor of years con-
sumed before his eyes In moment;
thoroughly TO prove it, he must instant
ly begin TO renew his labor.
According to Philadelphia paper
the "foul odors" that rise from every
alley, even in the most aristocratic parts
Of the city, are so intolerable that Z" an
evening walk almost anywhere is n
punishment instead of pleasure"
The Nation says John Adams once
remarked to Mr.. Sparks, looking at The
portrait of Washington The old
wooden head got good deal of his rep
utHtion by knowing how to hold his
tongue"
There is a National Cemetery AT
Grafton: and under the direction Of
Colonel Bates, the work of dis-inter-
ring the bodies OF soldiers who were
killed in West VirginiRis being rapid
ly prosecuted.
With II true wife, the husband IS
faults should be secret. A woman for
gets when she condescends TO that
refuge of weakness, II female contidant.
A wife's bosom should be the tomb OF
her husbands failiugs, and his chRrac-
ter far more valuable, in her estima-
ton, than life.
"A young lady who is up among the
White Mountains. writes TO friend,
cUnfidentialIy at is delightful to
climb up these hills, with young man
to help you in the steep places, and eat
a luncheon with you on the summit"
She is evidently young lady of taste
and experience.
The New York World says that
more people n that city go drunk or
stupetied to their homes every midnight
In the week, since the present liquor
under the influence OF liquor at all
times during II week before.
-"Do you see that fellow lounging
there doing, nothing?" said Owens to
Jenkins. "How does he live? by his
witsY "Oh, no, he's a caunibal." "a
cannibal?" "Yes, cannibal, he lives
on other people,"
"A raft passed Memphis, Tenn, re-
Gently, which would, if placed on dry
land, cover one aud half acre oil
ground. 1t was composed of five hun
bred and tweuty-seven tiers, averaging
each fifty feet. and containing in all
about one million four hundred thou
sand square feet of finely seasoned
cypress.
There is a place near Boston usually
regarded as in rather IA decaying con-
diIion. A gentleman spending the
summer there recently said to a visitor:
al don't know what people mean by
calling H II slow town. l hire this
house of man who has gone West
on wedding tour. He is eighty-seven
years old, and his bride is the second
wife he has had since he was eighty.