The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-13
GOSSIP AND HUMOR.
Waifs and Tit.bits for the Ladies.

Mr.. Jones, aged seventy years, re-
cently married young girl IN Schoha-
rie county, n. Y, went 10 Albany on
his wedding Tour, fell down stairs at his
hoteli made his Will, and left her to go
forth rich widow who came in as
welded attendant of an intirm old
man. But, girls, remember that acci-
dents of this kind don't happen very
often. ---.r ... ..f
"A gentleman in California having
made lady present of pair of Pis-
tolls, after several trials of skill they
concluded to go through the forms of n
duel. They took their positions, fred
at the word, and, to the terror of the
lady, the gentleman fell. She threw
herself frantically upon the corpse,
embracing and kissing it with every
emotion of endearment. Under such
vived, and rose unhurt from the
ground, and--and--they are TO be mar
ried. s....-. .rrn t4u.1e t..
-Artemus Ward has rarely written
a more humorous and picturesque par
agraph than this from one of his earli-
est papers: "There was many affectin'
ties, which made me banker arter Betsy
Jane. Her fathers farm jined ourn /;
their cows and ourn squench't their
thirst at the same spring; our old
mares had stars on their forrerds the
measles broke out in both families at
nearly the same period our parents
(Betsy's and mine) slept regularly, ev-
cry Sunday, in the same meetin' house,
and the nabers used to obsarVe, How
thick the Wards and Peasleys airn 1t
/ was sublime sight in the spring of the
/ year, to see our several mothers (Bet
sy's and mine), with their gowns pinn-
ed up so they couldn't sile em, affec-
| tionately bilfu' soap. together and abu-
sim their nabers."
| -..' A of tI,a bt1SinasS
of taxidermists at New York is in stuff
/ fing defunct lapdogs, at an average
| price of SIS each. The hide is stripped
of and treated to preserving COM
position; sea-grass, intersected by wires,
is substituted for the principal bones
and other interior arrangements; a "po-
si;ion" is then given TO the now mani
mate form, and the eyes set; plnster
head is moulded TO fiji the space lately
filled with the Uranium of the cherished
object, aud after the hair isnicely laid
with gum water the subject of treat
ment is complete, and may at once be
placed among the Penates of some
stricken household, or be kept simply
| to decorate the parlor. In like manner
a multitude of cats and canaries are
offered for the attentions ofth taxider-
mist, and occasionally ''pretty poll" +"
The Home Journal gives then fol-
| lowing items of fashionable iutelli-
gence: cat a recent ball given ut Del
monico's, young and beautiful mar
ried lady appeared in one of the new
fashioned ball dresses, which are now
worn short, like the street dresses. The
dress consisted of a pink silk under
skirt, which just touched the top of the
shoes, which were OF pink kid, but
4 toned up over the ankle with white
buttons. Over the pink silk was n
shorter skirt, of white tulle, trimmed
with pink satin pipings. The hair was
dressed very high, and ornamented
with n wreath of wild roses, the center
of each rose containing a diamond OF
great brilliancy. The dress was made
by a Parisian dressmaker, and it is
needless to say, attracted a great deal of
attention. Several young men have
appeared Mt fashionable receptions, in
this city recently, in something like
court dress-maroon velvet coat and
breeches, with silk stockings"