The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-13
ALLsoRTs OF ITEMS.
News and Gossip OF the Day by TeIe-
graph and Mail.

Rrupn ana MALL
Chicago burned 254, 93S, ,7S4 feet of
gas in 1856, costing S764, sol.
The daily pay of Prussian infantry
soldiers has been raised to seven cents.
"A Chicago woman who visited her
husbands office and discovered long
hairs in his hair-brush, has sued for
divorce.
Mr.. Astor has given $50, 600 more to
the Astor library at New York. BE
and his father have given it several
hundred thousands.
The New York ferries, with their
eXorbitant fares and poor accommoda-
tions, are getting an official overhaul
ing. a.- .-HE .
Twenty thousand dock laborers in
England have not earned a shilling in
the last two months, and the destitu-
ton among them is appalling.
-Maretzek sells tickets to his bal
d'opera, which is to toinaugurate the New
York Academy of Music, at $40 apiece,
and limits the number to 600.
"A clergyman was one day talking
with his landlord, Universalist, on
the personality of the devil. A little
incredulous, the gentleman remarked
"I should like to see the devil" Cant
you waltz" was the quiet reply.
The three vital questions now agi-
tating the public mind concerning the
Celtic racein America are, ''Who struck
Billy Patterson" "Where is James
Stephens, ;" and "Who is McCracken?"-
Boston Transcript.
The Tribune estimates the total
number of abandoned women in New
| York at l2,600. Were these to be placed
in line and two feet of space allowed to
each, the painted procession would eX-
tend from the Battery to Fortieth street,
-Thirteen of the leading railroad
companies of Great Britain paid an ag-
| gregate of nearly $1,000, 600 in 1865, as
compensation for personal injuries and
loss of goods. flour railroad compan-
les were compelled to disgorge in this
way, some of them would pay smaller
dividends than they do now.
The Michigan state agricultural so,
| ciety have united with the state wool
growers association and called a gen.
eral convention of wool growers and
farmers to meet at Ann Arbor on the
tended to wool growers and sheer
breeders from other States to be pres
ent.
The Oneida IN. w Community
was quite prosperous, last year. Its
capital was Increased $4,000; new ma,
chinery costing Sl2,0O0 was put in ope
ration: silk spinning room was fitted
| Will Vi 1nc
own manufacture; 195, 900 traps were
made and 2ll, ,99S sold, netting SSS, ,46S
$50, 600 worth of preserved fruits were
sold, and S32, ,245 worth oftraveling bags
Outside labor was paid $4,000 during
the year.
Cook, the man who is getting NJ
excursions to the Paris exhibition, ha!
rented several large houses in Paris, il
which he will be able to accommodate
about 1900 American and English Wis
itors ut a time, during the exhibition
the charge being 81 each for bed anC
breakfast. He has also taken a largt
building in the Quarter of the Champ!
, Elysees, where he will provide supe
rior accommodations at $3.50 day fol-
each person, this sum to cover every
expense.
Prof. Blake, the brilliant professor
OF Greek in the university of Edinburg
Scotland, who ventured lately to attacl
the democratic tendencies of the age
has been worsted in a public discussion
to which he was challenged by Mr.
Ernest Jones. The latter eulogized tn
United States in the highest terms, ant
his allusions to the late struggle in thi
country, as proof of the vast power
of n government resting on the love O
the people, and of the inexhaustibl
resources developed by freedom, wer
greeted with great applause by tn
audience.