The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-29
MurLIoeh'a RendInes.

MurdOeh's Readings
The entertainment at Washington
Hall last night was gratifying success
in every particular. The audience WIS
large and appreciative, and the interest
manifested in the different performan-
ces was of the most complimentary
character. As for the readings, no
words OF ours in this limited space can
do them justice. We can only say that
they were worthy of the high reputa-
ton of Murdoch. We presume that
Washington Hall never afforded an
evening of rarer entertainment, no one
upon which ali present will look back
with more unqualified satisfaction.
Tonight Mr.. Murdoch gives US an
entirely new programme, which will be
found in our advertising, columns. We
hope to see the house filled with anoth-
er such audience as he had last night.
The selections are If anything more at
tractive than those of last evening.
-SS--
WE acknowledge the regular receipt
OF valuable periodical published in
New York, known as the "HeraLd Of
Health" 1t is a monthly magazine,
aud is well filled with choice literature
In regard to health and education. In
the number before us, Henry Ward
Beecher discourses understandingly
and wisely on the " Uses of the Human
Body" bringing his ample knowledge
OF horseflesh to the illustration of ny
gienic principles. he would have every
man bestow at least the same care on
the perfecting OF his physical system
that the jockey lays out on the train
ing of his favorite animals. Hiram
Woodruff presented an example that
we might all of US do well to initiate.
When he had horse in his hands, he
never thought that too much pains
could be taken to bring him into the
best possible condition. BE sifted his
oats, that he might not eat the least
dust, picked over his hay for the most
succulent portions, and fed him and
tended him with no less care than if he
had been a babe. But how much more
Is q man worth all this trouble than Il
horse? Mrs. Gleason makes some SEN
sible suggestions in her " Letters to
Ladies, /" with regard to the proper man.
dReUneuL Vi Tue
DR.. Peet has a very instructive paper on
1.-THE Deaf and Dumb" Professor r.
K. Browne continues his physiological
essays; DIR. j. L. Snodgrass offers some
curious speculatiOns on The Curative
Influence of the Mind" illustrated by
facts in his own experience as a medi-
cal practitioner; the editorial notes
touch rapidly on several OF the topics of
the day, and there are poetical contri-
buttons from Miss Phoebe Cary, Alfred
B. Street, and George w. Bungay.
BARON HAUssMAN, who has an I'M
limited command OF both taste and
money, gave a ball in Paris at a cost OF
nine hundred thousand francs. Po-
tentates, English mobiles and others
whose income figures in the tens Of
thousands, are shocked at so sublime a
piece of extravaganza. Newspaper
writers who were SO fortunate rs to be
present on that gay and festive occa-
sion went into mad ecstasy oyer what
they saw and heard, and almost ex-
hausted language in describing how
quickly one hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars melted away in one night.
The boundless prodigality of fairy tales
and the magnificence of official balls in
tunes of long ago, pale before Baron
Haussman's achievement. The wax
candles alone,-gas is not genteel in
Paris,-numbered seventy thousand,
and even the SUMMER lands beyond the
Alps and the Apennines contributed
flowers and shrubs tothe general trans
formation. The splendid gathering at the
Hotel de Vile embraced eight thousand
invitations; in fact there was a crush
The havoc of skirts and fiounces was
awful, while many were the fair ones
who vent home dilapidated as to their
gowns and worn out as to their bodies.
Describing the glo:ies of the entertain
ment, the London Nelrs says:
particular mention is made of one
gallery, actually turned into a grove,
long, cool, and silent, and dimly lighted
with colored lamps and Chinese Ian
terms, out OF which you issued into the
ballroom, into one blaze of light, blaze
of diamonds, blaze of stars, and crosses,
of lace and epaulettes, and into the
crush of half the fair women and hall
the great men of the four quarters OF
the world. In the Cour d'Honneur, on
the crystal. canopied staircase. in every
saloon where fountains, jets d'edu, cas-
cades, Undine in all shapes, water
everywhere, gushing, FLASHING, spark
ling under a flood OF light, soothing,
cooling, relieving the somewhat heavy
fragrance with which the mir was faint,
its lulling sound blending dreamily
with the strains of two hundred and
nifty musicians"
SURRATr is described thus: "His eyes
are not given to telling tales-they are
not so much cool as wary and self
possessed; looking into them you may
see the passion with which he burst in
to that "I wish the Yankee army and
iis leaders were in hell. - bnt there was