The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-19

VARIETIES.

clad In q gold-embroidered Uniform.
He has a pair of large eyes that do not
| squint at all, and In his hand he holds
a Turkish sabre. The artist doubtless
! intended to represent the Pasha of New
Orleans, ut the moment when he was
about to behead hundred sesesh wo.
men. A great many French people
still believe that Butler caused thou
sands of persons, of both sexes TO be
executed at New Orleans.
LITTLE LorTIE has extracted her
$50, 600 from her fuEacious papa, and
will invest the same in real estate in
her mothers name, transaction
against which the paternal Gtabtree
has resolutely set his face. He urges
that he spent all his spare money in
the education of his daughter, and feels
cut up about her discrimination against
him.
AN OLD farmer communicates to the
Nashville papers what he has found TO
be sure preventive of weeVil in
wheat. He says: "In piling up your
wheat after it has been cleaned with
the fan, to every three bushels put in a
good hard brick, dried by the sun, and
be sure it is perfectly dry when you use
it. The brick absorbs the moisture
that naturally accumulates inthe grain
hard and dinty that the insect or fly
cannot penetrate the outer covering"
THE Scientific American argues that
the mission of cholera has terminated,
and this terrible pestilence will scourge
the earth no more. The chief reason is
the discovery that carbonic acid will
prevent the spread of the epidemic.
nTRR Sc9ooLMASTERAB ABROAD. This
famous expression of Lord Brougham
is explained by him in a letter, dated
August, 1857, to 81 correspondent, and
hn
Brougham says: 1.-THE expression of
the schoolmRster being abroad, was
first used by Lord B. in the debate OF
29th of January, 1928, in the House OF
Commons. What he menut was that
the schoolmaster was in the field to in
struct the people, and that they had no
occasion to fear oppression from other
quarters. 1t had been a common say
ing before that the soldier was abroad
and would have his own in the world.''
The soldier was the Duke of yelling
ton, and BrOugham intended to assert
the Impossibility ofgoverning England
by military law.
Mr.. PUEBAsCo of Cincinnati is said
to be the richest man in ONO. He has
$40, 600 house in the midst of a thirty
acre lawn, and possesses beautiful
picture gallery as well AS ii large and
choice library.
HoMRLY. GIRLS.-A Cleveland editor
having been tolerRbly protuse in his
compliments to the pretty girls. has
been requested TO say u good thing In
behalf OF the homely ones, and he does
it thus:
FTrstIThe LONELY girls are a hope
less minority, but they mean well.
ISecond-They go TO church every
Sunday, and are fond of their meals.
They had rather have their meals regu-
lar than a new bonnet.
Thtrd-They understand their bust
ness and wear No. 16 CATERS.
Eotlrth-They are bright, intelligent,
devoid of low jealousy, fond of music,
and always go in when it rains.
FYth-They always thank the gentle
men for giving them seats in the street
cars, never flirt with the boys-because
it is out of their line-aud keep out oil
the fire.
young sprigs keeping company with
them.
SevemM-They wash their own hand.
kerchiefs, iron their own collars, and
darn their own stockings.
ES0hth-They never wear waterfalls
that weigh over one hundred and fifty
pounds, and have neither rats MOI
any other animals in their hair.
NfRth-They don't call the young
splendid"
Tenth-They never eat between meals
ELeUenth-They are all agoing to gel
married.
TiDelfth-They will marry well.
Ihirtee,,th-TheIr children will BIZ
bright and shining lights in the world
FOurteenth-They won't keep hired
girls till their husbands can afford
FVteenth-They sleep under mosquito
bars when convenient.
BEES are variously affected by differ.
ent cUlors. White blinds them, and
black is disagreeable to them. Hence
the front OF hive should not be paint
ed white; and a bee-keeper should not
wear black dress. Hives should have
| at least their from Is painted of different
colors.
AN ALARMING THEoRI.-From the
annual recurrence of rains, meteoric
showers, and the explosion of steam
boilers in various parts OF the country,
Professor Loomis suggests a very I'M
comfortable theory in regatd TO the
safety of the earth itself. he thinks IL
| not impossible that sufficient steam
| might be generated in the burning cen.
tire of the world to blow the whole
globe to pieces. a volcanic eruption
under the sea, or near it, like that OF
Vesuvius now in progress, may at any
moment convert the earth into huge
| steam-boiler. by letting the water in
upon the central fires, to be followed,
for aught we know, by an explosion
that shall rend it apart, and send the
fragments careering through space as
small planets or meteors, each bearing
of some distracted member or men,
bers of the human family, to make,
perchance, new discoveries and new
acquaintances in other parts of the
| planetary system now revolving with
us. So that the final catastrophe may,
after all, be only boiler explosion on
magnificent scale of grandeur and
destruction.
PRoPRIETIES OF JouRSALISN--The
New York Sun is reasoning with COR
respondent who demonstrates against
the publication of fashionable we'd
dings and other things of the kind: The
editor reasons that when a wedding
takes place in public edifice, into
which every citizen has the right to en-
ter, 1t ceases to be one of the most
sacred things In private life II then
becomes public event, concerning
which a public journal has the same
right to inform its readers as concern
ing political meeting, dramatic en-
tertainment, OF q May-day festival.
Whether to report such public we'd
dinEs or not Is 3 matter of taste, and
depends very much on the indignant as
to whether they ara of sufhcient Inter.
| est, or adapted to the character and
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