The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-15
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|. The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: UIt was remarked
that while NJ. Thisrs was speaking on
the affairs of Germany and the conduct
otthe French Government, the Prussian
Embassador and his principal secretary,
who were In the gallery, sat apart from
the diplomatic body in the Legislative
Chamber, and were actively engaged
in taking notes; that they now and
then looked at each other at some very
striking passage, and-but this may
be fsncy-smiled significantly. Beyond
the unusual circumstance of an em-
bassadOr acting as arepOFteH. not much
natural that he should take an interest
in the way the policy and acts Of his
Governmnt were treated by so eminent
a person as NJ. Theirs. But tie im-
portant news which has reached here
from Berlin, vividly recalls this little
incident to the minds Of every one."
Mr.. Conway, writing from London
in regard to American newspaper cor
respondents abroad, says: Indeed,
American correspondents are getting
the reputation of being in league with
all the potentates of Europe. Smalley,
of the Tribune, came over here, went
over to Berlin while the German, war
was going on, and was soon chatting
familiarly with Bismark. and presently
at headquarters, while Edward Dicey,
and other correspondence of the London
press, were tediOnsly disentangling the
endless red-tape worm which held
them in Berlin until the war was near
ly over. When the King of Italy vis-
tied Venice, Coffin ("CarletoR") was
there taking notes not three yards |
from him all the time, while G.. A.
Sala, representing the London, TeLe-
grdph1 sitting grandly in a gondola
with two ladies, was gnAshing his
teeth at the police, who kept him at bay
half mile from the center of INTEREST,"
Count Bismarck recently presented a
poor but faithful secretary with port
folio bound like book, in which were
deposited five thousand thalers. On
meeting his Secretary the next day the
Count asked him II he had perused the
volume. eyes, your highness," said
the Secretary "and / am SO CaptiVated
by its contents that / am waiting the
appearance of the second volume with
feelings Of the greatest interest,"" The |
Count smiled, but said nothing. a few
days afterWard the Secretary received
a secoDd;Sportfolio, bound and filled
like the first, and on the title page of
which was the sentence, "This work is
complete in two volumes" ri
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An exchange says that Wendell Phil
lips was recently invited to lecture at
Mount Pleasant, Illinois, and on reaoh-
ing the town, was met by the Secretary.
of the Lecture Association, who in
formed him that the people could not
decide which they most wished 10 hear
the lecture on the "Lost Arts % or
that on "The Perils of the Hour" Mr..
Phillips was ready to deliver either,
but the Secretary gravely proposed that
he should deliver both! The lecturer
thought it a pity to spoil good Joke, |
consented; and beginning with S'The |
Lost Arts, gracefully glided into
the Perlls OF the Hour" occupying |
three or four hours, and entirely salts
flying his hearers. .essl
We suppose the largest price ever
paid for course of popular lectures
in this country, If not in any other
country, was received by Prof. Agassiz |
for his recent course in New York city
on the natural history of Brazil, deliv-
cred under the auspices of the Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science.
The price demanded by, and paid to
him, was tive hundred dollars for each |
lecture, or three Thousand dollars for |
the course Of six lectures. Taking the |
time he devoted to each hlecture-thatis |
to say an average of one hour and for. |
ty minutes, it thus appears that he re- |
ceiyed fUe. dollars q laiglute for every |
minute he spoke-which is a salary |
equal to that of On ordinary Emperor. |
It is pleasing TO state, however, that the |
Association which engaged his services
did not lose by the operatiOnI but, on
The contrary, received a very, handsome |
surplus for It's treasury, Mr.. Bancroft |
says the audiences were the largest he /
ever knew in attendance upon any sell |
entiic lectures.
A New York letter writer says that
with the exception Of London, there is
not another city In the world that offers |
as good a Beld as New York TO ambi.
tious medical men. Let a physician
once get settled in good practice, and |
he can In "a few years smass a comforta-
BILE fortune. Some of the fees paid to |
hrst'class men are enormous.-.Afe few |
years ago a aRenfl fleman ofjmyacquaiut. |
anceSWas taken5ill, and one Of the best |
doctors In the city was called to attend |
him. BE made only two visits, and his |
bill was $500. DR.. Mott, the famous |
surgeon, once charged $50 for an opera |
ton that occupied him about five min
utes. A short time ago young doctor |
received 81, 900 for two. weeks, attend- !
ancei on p; wealthy jgentlenan. Tie /
Times publishes an interesting article |
on surgical and medical practice in |
New York, in which it is said that the /
usual fee for consultation is $50, and /
E6I Eingle visits from 81 to $l5s This Is /
amiBt6ke. Soms!of the best doctors In |
the city do not charge over $40 for con-
sultatlon, and their visiting fee is usual
ly, rom y to s.. The men With ihcdmes |
of from so, 600 to $4,000 year, may
charge the higher figures, but they con-
stttute the exception to the rule. It !
takes man about ten years to get we'll |
established in the medical profession. |
but after that time he has quick and
easy sating.s n Is acfg5 q .Tofl |
Friday last came near being good
day for the lovers Of grog in gincinls-
ii. It was, on the other hand, bad
day for teetotalers. This all resulted
from the spilling of whisky during the
fire at Foote, Nash & Co.'s distillery.
The corn Juice ran In streams into
Deercreek, emptied into the river, was
carried up by the now celebrated eddy
which, at intervals, supplies the people
OF Cincinnati with the filth of that
notable stream, to the receiver of the
Water Works, and thence was trans.
ferred to the reservoir Thus. the lat