The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-15
PARAGRAPHS.

The Savannah NCU Era says
half-dozen young gentlemen of that
place have entered into a compact TO
get married before the Winter is over.
They ought TO get the same number of
young ladies to enter into the compact.
"A very unpopular officer for the
ladies-General Housework.
Advice to husbands. "How to
make home happy"-Go off somewhere.
Papa forbade my loving more,
The gentle, modest Theodore,
Yet often says the PrecePt given ,.-..
"To love thy neighbour came from heaven.
And must not that dear youth be one,
I'm sure his house adjoins our own.
Chicago lawyers talk of making
discount of divorce fees when large
number of bills are wanted in one
family.
in the Northern part of Vermont,
in quiet burying ground, upon n
tombstone may be found the following
inscription:
Here lies the remains OF IS wife,
Who incurred away her natural life;
She mourned herself 10 death for her man.
While he was in the service of Uncle anm."
There are two eventful periods in
the life of u woman; one, when she
wonders who she will have; the other.
when she wonders who Will have her.
As an old woman was lately walk
ing through one of the streets of Mon
treal at midnight, patrol called out,
"who's there2" at is l, PATROL" said
she; don't be afraid"
The New York Commercial AdUer-
.ise,. says Sheridan'is member of the
G. A. X.
Mr.. Seward has gone to Auburn TO
superinteud the erection of marble
monuments over the remains of de-
ceased members of his family.
They say that Mrs. Lincoln is
writing book, entitled Five Years in
thewhite House" and that it is to par
take of the character of her late letters.
"A man in Alton, Iowa, has escaped
J from punishment for adultery because
the prosecuting attorney had charged
him with "idolatry," which is not
known as a crime in Iowa.
The editor of the Atlanta NelD Era
says he is quite as good a Southern man
''as If he had been wet-nursed by
| stripping, stukiug negro wench, and
plugged about by blnbber-hpped
| negro"
Queen Victoria has been out riding,
accompanied only by her daughter, a
| footmGn riding behind; and and we are
| told that this is the first time since the
Prince Consort's death that she has
been out $50 meagerly attended"
There is a nice fight for the "leader-
ship" between the two Republican pm
| pers at Fort Smith, Arkansas. The
| Mem Era called the Standard man the
| "bIasted son of n renegade suicide,
and the former retorted with Il brick
! bat.
"A member of a Pittsburgh volnn-
! teer company, which had just re-
ceiyed its m ms from the State, was as
tonished in recovering the Identical
gun which he carried for three years in
| The war, and which ne had left at Pc
tersburg, Virginia.
Both parties to the great walking
match from Portland to Chicago, have
deposited the final instalment of $40.
| 1t is found that the distance is twenty
| six miles greater than was supposed,
| bur Weston agrees to add that TO the
previous twelve hundred II he can start
on the 29th instant.
| Sheridan kissed a little girl at West
! Brook field, and remarked, That's the
size that do it; the other size won't"
An Englishman named VanHorn,
| in the course of twenty-three years,
consumed 35,6Ss bottles (dfty-nine
pipes, port wine.
Secretary Seward on his way to
Orange county, was asked what he
thought of the election. he replied that
isexperience had taught him that it was
not always the part of wisdom to think
too much; at the same time he believed
that the signs of the times were indi-
eating that that the people are right,
and that If the public men were not
| fools they would believe In the people"
Some eminent individuals, when
fatigued, take drink. Garibaldi takes
bath. A letter writer from Italy,
SAYS: "As reached Voghera, Marquis
| and Marchioness PRlavicini-he of the
Spielberg, afterward Project of Paler-
mo-rushed into the carriage. What
can we do for the GeneralP' Send him
eight blankets, eight sheets and twelve
towels for his vapor bath, and away
they sped"
-"Ten years hence" says the New
York World, "when Thad. Stevens Is
dad, and JEFF. Davis is dead, and most
| of the old stagers shall have gone to
their account, the yoang men who
| served in the two armies will be in the
full vigor of maturity, and the leading
spirits in our public councils. Our pol
| itics will then be controlled more by
manly good sense than by traditional
ideas, as the men in power will belong
to the new era