The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-30
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Hours at Home for May opens with
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on the choral Uses of Dark Things."7
Mr.. G. NJ. Towle furnishes a lively de-
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Nantes, where the writer is United
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Among the italian Hills:" and an adj
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Our Young Folks for May continues
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good article on "Base Ball and Cricket"
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The GALAXY commences Its monthly
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articles are "Opium and its Victims"
comparing the effects of that drug with
those OF alcohol; "Another View of
Madame Recamier;" a very amusing
paper on "Parisian English;" New
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treating particularly Of British Eng
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better spoken In the United States than
in Great Britain. . Issaf
The Atlantic Monthly for May con-
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Guardian Angel" r., by Oliver Wen
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Machine" by James Parton; "Heart
aud HEARTH" by T. B. Reed; ''The
Genius of Dickens" by E. P. Whipple;
"Germany in New York" by Charles
Dawson Shanly; katherine Morne,"
VII, by the author of "Herman;"
SORROW" by Celia Thaxler; 1.-THE
Plaintiff Nousuited," by ]. o. Culver;
"Some Appreciated Characters" by G.
@. Hazewell; "Oldport in Winter" by
T. w. Higgfnson; marble Quarries,"
by 81. B. Sargent; "The Custom of Bur-
ial with the Head toward the East" by
N. L. rockingham; Heroes of Central
Africa" by w. Winwood Reade; Re-
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