The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-08
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holding Mush and Milk Festivals,
which is going back to the first princi-
pies with a vengeance
"A blase woman of fashion has let
out the secret why the German has be-
come the fashionab BILE dance of high life:
tttWhen Invite persons do not like,
and who would naturally bore me,
merely set them to dancing the Ger
man, and I have no further. care or re-
sponsibility for their doings the re-
mainder of the night" - r.sa,s az
li-''Ieh diea" is the motto OF the Prince
of Wales. 1t means "I serve" and was
adopted by the Black Prince from The
blind old King of Bohemia, whom he
KILLED at Poictiers. Its latest use is on
a sign over a saloon at Montreal, which
runs thusly: prince of Wales Res
taurant, Ich dieH oysters in every
style" .',-,.,..-- ..-..- rs
According to the New York Gazette,
Ristori has been so delighted with this
country that she intends, after her pro-
fessional engagements here, to settle
her affairs in Italy, and come to New
York, or its immediate vicinity, to re-
side with her family. She has always
been an ardent lover of liberty, and
the Republican institutions of America
have appealed to her more and more,
and at last decided her, It is said, in her
election of future home. She is now
possessed of u fortune of nearly mil
| lion, and will, in the next three years,
1t is understood, retire from the stage
| she has done so much to adorn.
"A New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette has been to hear
Miss Anna Dickinson, and does not go
into ecstacies of delight concerning her.
| He ungallantly declares that what she
| said was commonplace and that, as
she wished to stand or fall on her mer-
its, she must not hope to escape criti-
ctsm- Furthermore, he doesn't like the
pitch of her voice-it is too high; not
her diction-it is too low; but he admits
she excels in "the cheapest kind of
eloquence-denuncia We should
| like to hear her exercise little of this
last named quality on him .r
An unmitigated wretch complies
the following memoranda for young
ladies :-"HaYe good plano or none.
Be sure to have dreadful cold when
asked to favor the company Cry at
wedding, but don't faint. Always
scream at spider. Never leave your
| curl papers in the drawing room. Drop
your handkerchief when you are going
/ to faint. Mind you are 'engaged' il
| you don't like your partner. Abjurs
| ringlets on a " ct day. Never faint un-
/ less il Is convenient TO fall into the
arms of the young gentleman you love.
Remember, it's vulgar in the extreme
| to know what your mother is going TO
have for dinner. When you go a shop
ping, be sure to take your Ma along TO
carry the bundles"
The Jersey Times has an impromp-
tn, written on seeing ladies' bonnots
hung with blue shades: .fss. aa
Obi age OF reverses, and times of dis
| T. orderI ". 90 '-,.i ''
On which forlorn poets in vain would
| write sonnets;
Once call the blue bonnets were over
Now all the blue borders are over the
| bonnetsI
| "A French journal says that at ball
recently given by one of the leaders of
Partisan society, there were twenty
eight French people, forty-one English,
seventeen American, thirty-six Ital-
ians, sixty-niue Germans, nine Rus
slams, five Greeks, six Turks, twenty
nine Spaniards, three Swedes, two
Danes, and seventy-three of other ma
tionalities not French.
-On Green river, in Daviess county,
Kentucky, lives a man. the head of a
very respectable and intelligent family,
who, during one week in each month,
/ about the first quarter of the moon, i'm
| agines himself woman, dons the
hoopsand balmoral, and sits in his par
| lor IUuitiH1 for his 6edHI This strange
conduct was first noticed in him when
| he was about seventeen years of age.
He is now fifty-one. He sleeps very
little while the hallucinaLion lasts, but
appears to be very cheerful and COM
ulunicative. -.-
"A beautiful young Jewish lady was
married lately in New York, who wore
a dress of white uncut velvet, with a
very long train, and pointed lace vail.
The diamonds wore were estimated to
be worth fifty thousand dollars. 81
An excitable gentleman saws he has
been warm but once since he had new
furnace placed inihis house, and that
was when the bill of it was presented.
| Among the new devices of the day
are paper pantalettes for the ladies. A
company has been organized at Me-
| chanic Falls, Maine, to manufacture
lettes-an ornamental appurtenance
to be buttoned to the garment, which
may be readily replaced when soiled.
-Acorrespondent of the New York
Times, writing from Valparaiso, South
America, says: Valparaiso is quite
gay, the city being full OF people from
the capital. The opera is ''in full blast,'
i
quskes of daily occurrence. Pleasant!
THE NEw TARIFF ON wooL.-The act
passed just before the close ofthe late
Congress, raised the tariff on wool, d.
vides the subject into three classes.
clothing woods, common woods and car
pet woods. The duty on the class, upon
woods valued at 80 cents per pound, is
10 cents per pound, and IL per cent. ad
valorem; when valued above 80 cents,
II cents specific, and 10 per cent. ad va
| lorem duty. The same rates are fixed
| for woods OF the second class, and on
those of the third, cents per pound on
woods valued at II cents, and those ex-
ceeding II cents; 6 cents per pound. It
| is provided that washed wools shall paw
double duty. On wooden cloths, shawls,
ETC., so cents per pound, and 35 per cent.
! ad valorem are levied; on blankets
| dannels, ETC., from 20 to 10 cents per
pound, according to the grade: on bunt-
ing, 20 cents per square yard, and IS
| per cent. ad valorem; on dress goods,
| 6 cents per yard, and IS per cent. ad va
loren; on clothing ready made, so cents
per pound, and 40 per cent. ad valorem;
90 cents per pound and so per cent. ad
| valorem are imposed on weddings,
betting, etc. The duties on carpets re-
| 80 per cent ad valorem on AnbuRson:
on Brussels A cents per square ward.
and IS per cent, ad valorem, and on
! other kinds in proportion.
INTELLECT AND SMART SAYINGS
The Paris correspondent OF the Pub
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