The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-12

NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Mr.. Webb makes about 100000
profit on the Dunderberg.
The Rhode Island SpraGues are
worth twenty-five millions of dollars.
The poet SAKE has eturned to his
home in Albany much refreshed by his
European tour.
"A terrible affiiction has overtaken
Tom Thumb-he has begun to grow
Mattresses are now made ofsponges
which are said to be superior TO hair for
such purposes.
-One bar at Saratoga does business
worth 81, 900 a season. t.5'-.
The Buffalo police are contiscating
bread OF light weight for the beneht OF
the poor. s- -E s4.s r'7
-Paducah has twenty-five or thirty
candidates for city marshal.
1t is certain now that the hay crop
will be unprecedeutedly large, "weath-
er or no."
Five school. houses and 2,4Oo bar
rooms are the latest Chicago improve
ments.
-"MarryIug for life" is phrase
which is coming into use in the West.
1t does not heed explanation. F.- DIV
Tin has been dlscoved iu Missouri,
and parties are getting ready to t1lltheir
pockets wlthit.
-"IdIewiId" has been let for n school.
Schools are often idle wilds.
Mile. Finette, who can kick your
hat of six times running, is writing her
memoirs of Paris.
-Eighty-tive per cent. OF the mortal
ity at ST. Louis is among children un-
der five years of age. .
The hero and heroine of II runaway
match in Indiana were middle aged
man and widow with tivs children.
Ten years ago there were 5000
Cherokees. To-day there are about
1900. War, rum and disease have
been too much for this nation.
Miss Smith is at Lower Branch.
Her name appears In the papers as
Miss S-h: so Miss cuts "A dash i1icog.
The latest story is that Wilkes
Booth is now the captain OF pirate
vessel and the terror OF the China seas.
How about that back bone in the Wash
ingtou Museum. .a Iu. HaHg
Punch reports the speech of an
Irish NJ. P. who thought Ireland was
overtaxed, Take a tenth of our in
come, sir. Aye, that they do, and
they'd take u twentieth, II they dared"
A man who tried the Chicago mat
rimonial bureau, found his welded hap
piness cut short in two days, by the
siderable greenbacks. .-. .......
The New York Observer is making
some very uncivil observations con-
cerning ritualism. -...-
The air in Europe is very strongly
impregnated with sulphur and salt
petre.
One man boasts in Indiana. that he
gets new wife and II new divorce every
quarter.
NORWOOD" is about half finished
in the Ledger, and Beecher is ut Peek
skill, New York, writing the rest of it.
AT one of the stations OF the Union
Pacific Railroad, two sacks OF flour
and ten barrels OF ale were recently de-
Iivered. The question is, What do
they intend to do with SO much hourf
General Quincy A. Gilmore owns
the largest vineyard on the Lake shore.
1t is on Black River, and he has twen-
ty-one thousand vines planted, en-
brncing three varieties-Catawba Del
awares and 1onas. A5 -.,+
"A Brooklynite tells IL queer story
about the lovely wife and daughter of
milknlan, who took daily baths in
the lacteal fluid to improve their COM
plexion. The milk was then watered
and sold for fifteen cents a quart. II
didn't need any doctoring to give 1t a
"body" alter that.-Boston Post.
Secretary Seward and his guests
grew SO frisky at Auburn that Sir
Frederick Bruce is said to have perpe-
trated the following conundrum: why
is an antagonist of Mr.. Gladstone, in
debate in the House of Commons like
u telescope2 Because he (Mr. Glad
stone) draws him out, sees through
him and shuts him up"