The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-18
MIsCELLANEuUs.

in Springfield, Mass, landlord, 1t
is reported, has voluntarily reduced by
twenty per cent. the rents of a block of
stores he owns.
Arrangements are being made in
London for the construction of a new
tunnel, entirely of cast iron, under the
Thames. The cost is estimated at the
rate OF about $500, 900 per mile.
"A Nashville paper states that Pres
ident johnson has purchased a fine
farm of several hundred acres, contain
ing a superior mill site, in Greene
county, Tenn, to which he intends re-
firing atthe close of his term.
In Wisconsin the valuation of
property for taxation purposes has in
creased over fifty seven millions of dol
lars during the last two years.
"A London paper advertises "good
hot dinner for ~, land adds that at
O'Clock a hot Joint may be partaken of
for Cd. Dinner tickets can be had at As,
and Cd per dozen.
"A New York paper knows of a
poor woman in that city who embroid-
cred child's garment by fourteen
days steady work, and received there
for 81. The material cost tine merchant
who paid the price for work on itS7.
The complete article cost him SlI, and
he sold 1t recently for $40. We have no
comment to make on this; 1t tells its
own story.
Portland has completely risen from
the ashes Of the great fire of 1865. A
Portland newspaper says that ga new
city has grown up amidst the ruins;
large and elegant warehouses now oc.
cupy the waste places of but two years
ago, equalling in magnificenoe and ex-
tent those OF any city on the continent.
their means to help enrich and popu-
late our fair city,"
Since the close of the last century,
1t is stated that the average produce Of
wheat per acre has nearly doubled in
Great Britain. In the United States the
average produce Of wheat per acre, In
the old States, Is not much more than
half Of what in the days of WASH
ington. At present the average yield
OF wheat throughout the whole Union
iB estimated at not more than ten BUSH
els per acre; little more than one-third
OF the average produce per acre in
England.
THE INTELLECT OF WoMEN.-An Eng
lish essayist says that while men are
intelligent or unintelligent, a woman
is often both; which Is equivalent to
saying that the female mind OCCASION
ally manifests stupid smartness or a
smart stupidity. They have a great
desire to learn, but a great inaptitude
for the requirement OF correct details,
IN fact this omniverous appetite for
knowledge, the teachers findslio co.exist
with great weakness in the minor
matters OF spelling, and profound in
difference to the simplest rules of gram
mar"
REGARDING sTINo1NRss.-In Bull
wer's comedy OF "Money" one of the
characters, an English baronet, de-
elRres that he kept up his credit among
tradesmen of his county for a long
while by hiring man to go about, de-
nouncing him as "stingy jack" And
1t Is a remarkable circumstance that the
men usually styled "mean" are as a
general rule more reliable in their en-.
gagementS and possess better credit
than the generous, careless spsndthrifts
who are styled in common parlancs
whole soulsd fellows" No greater
calamity could befall a community
ShAh SLo 1AbAhNGAth Va GuOu0 vi
bers who are tndiVldiouSly styled
"mean men,"
RECIPE FOR RoMANoE.-An English
weekly thus epitomizes the conditions
that govern the evolution OF the plots
OF modern novels:
It Ii recorded In Eastern legend that
a certain famous story-teller, on being
called on for a specimen of his art bY
ttRhn F1nn6 A A1Ra0RInHF1 - Iy.1,
into narrative containing some thou
sand heroes, all of whom were speedily
involved in such difficulties that no
escape seemed possible; at which criti.
cal point the narrator halted. The at.
tentive Callph hastily bade him pro-
coed; but the extempore novelist coolly
replied, Commander OF the Faithful,
1t hath been said by our holy Prophet,
when the interest of story is at the
highest cease Now, your slave would
suggest that these men cannot be more
entangled than they are; neither is
there any deliverance from there en-
tanglements; hence, the interest being
at the highest, the story ends"
GOOD ADvIoB.-Ths Atheneum gives
the following critical counsel to the au-
thor of a novel entitled "Edith's Mar
riage:"
1--WE would suggest in the first place,
to Mr.. Heath. that he should occupy
his time between this and the com
mencement of another tale in a course
OF conscientious study, commencing
with the elementary rules of English
composition. This he will find OF SER
vice to him in any future work. We
would not exclude punctuation from
this course, still less grammar. By the
first he will learn the value of placing
commas in his sentences where the
sense requires them, as in numerous
Instances that we could quote; by the
second among other things, that the
past tense of the verb to strive, is not
"strived, as In the sentence where we
hard against her feelings, and striVed,
though unaSailIngly, to forget the
young baronet." Wewould next note
for his information, that vulgarity is