The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-28
Jews AND GOSSIP.
All sarIs of Personal, Political and
social Paragraphs
Matters and Things for ETeEJBOdy's
Taste.

The stool OF repentance" is just
now camP-stool .y4zt
-Fhsst. Louis Board OF Health have
the sale Of fresh oysters I'M
I'll September Is
An Iowa editor who Is determined
TO have bis paper read, pEints it entire
IL in red ink.
John B. Cough is to receive 81, 900
for preaching temperance In Chicago
this winter.
"A young lady named Swan. aged
nineteen and weighing four hundred
aud sixty pounds, has arrived in Port
land.
The New York Herald speaks of ex-
Congress will have a word OF two TO
say about that.
New York, which Is behind the age
in many thing, Is about TO charge for
its billiards in public rooms by the
hour instead OF by the game.
General Dun Green has begun the
publication of The Daily L1boTeT, u
conservative paper, in Maryland.
A model husband in Wales trundled
his sick wife two hundred miles in n
wheelbarrow to ..hoIy well" where she
could be cured OF her malady.
Tom Thumb is installed at Bridge
port for the present, BaTDum exhibits
him again in the fail The General Is
who has no brevet.
Punch says as harvest time comes
on, complaints are heard that reapens
are not general enough. This tieticien-
cy might be remedied, II the Americans
would only lend them their General
Sickles. .r.
The viceroy of Egypt Is said TO
have been Immensely struck with the
beatty OF the English ladies, but greatly
shocked at their riding horseback.
Madame Anna de la Grange, the
great cantatrice, Will arrive from
Europe in the early part of next month,
when she will make her farewell APP
pearance on the stage.
The first hearty laugh Napoleon
ever INDUCED in was observed at the
performance OF Sothern in Paris. So
says Paris letter.
"A physician In one of the London
hospitals outraged medical etiquette by
ADVERTISING his service and his charges,
and the whole consulting staff imme-
diately resigned.
An old town ledger, at Steuben,
MaIue, contains the following memo
randum: March q, lslS-By James
Gordon Bennett, teaching school, order
daled September l6, 1878, sl7."
xBy the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad, alone, $1,000
baskets of peaches are brought daily to
New York and Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Press suggests
that Sheridan should make tour
through the North. 1.-THE people," it
says, want to see and speak to the
man who has stood by them to the
last"
1t is an open question in New York
whether single pedestrians or carloads
Of passengers have any rights which
German professions are bound to re-
spect.
The Li6erte announces n fact which
Il says has not received the attention il
deserves. The Alps no longer separate
Italy and Germany. The first locomO-
tive has crossed the mountains, and
Venice is thirty hours from Frank
fort.
Sperm whales are said to be dying
out rapidly. Sperm candles Will soon
be "the light oil other days." II they are
not already.
The Boston Post remarks: "sin-
guIar taste, that of Mrs. Lincoln, in
having the scrap of Laura Keene's
blood. framed and hung up in her
house.
1t is stated that Senator Sumner
has lately decided TO make "A TOUR TO the
West, in answer to pressing Invitations,
and will speak before lyceums and lee
ture associations on national politics.
"A letter writer says that during
fierce thunder storm near Mount DeS-
ert, the lightning came down through
the roof OF a house and a bed upon
which lay husband and wife, throw
tI,a of fhnnra inIn tho
cellar, out through the drain, and
ploughed up the ground to the barn
yard where 1t killed cow" a most
extraordinary story IlsrE
The cOnvicts in the Austrian pris
uns are allowed to read newspapers,
use snuh, and smoke tobacco during
good behavior. 1t Is said that the
threat of forbldding tobacco acts in
simultaneously upon the most hardened
enlprit. 30
A man in Hamilton, Ohio, has
drank on an average, twenty-five
glasses OF lager per day for fifteen
years past, and is still drinking. he is
hefty person, frequently awnkes with
a bad taste in his mouth, and has been
known not to feel well himself. -.E
"a cunning rogue In Philadelphia
last week robbed one OF the rich Pres
byterlan churches OF its carpets. He
opened the house and lighting it,as II for
evening service, took the carpets from
the aisles. and loaded them upon Il
truck standing nj the door.
One Hugh McElroy, Montana
miner. lately shot himself. The coto-
ner's Jury called in the case brought in
a verdict "that the deceased committed
suicide, and that he did so IN seq de-
fence.
"A correspondent of the London
Times states that siXty-one trains are
run daily between London and Man
chester, and that one half are run In
excess of the requirements OF The
traffic. The excess of train miles is
upwards Of 1000 900, run al a cost ex-
ceeding 9235, 900 a year. h-h+N
Tho bakers of Buffalo are required
TO stamp every LOAF OF bread with their
initials. Bread which does not come up
to the standard weight Is coutiscated
for the benefit of The poor, and n fine OF
% cents IA Loaf is indicted.
The London Lancet mentions GU
rious instance of deception under an
y woman, having fractured
her leg, was conveyed to hospital,
where amputation was pronounced to
be necessary. This was performed I'M
der chlorOform; but, as she was of n
limid, nervous temperament, she was
Kept for forty days in ignorance of the
iact that she had lost her limb. ~
An accommodating Mr.. Brennan,
OF New York, lately gave n check for
$40 TO a stranger who was introduced
To him, in exchange for a greenback of
that denomination. The check was
altered into one for 5000, and,
the signature being genuine, 1t was
duly certified by the bank at which |
Mr.. Brennan keeps his account.
Mr.. Frank Euschser, Swiss artist,
l,na nnnsad- rranE arnitnnnnrt Ii, hs. |