The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-11

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"A very pretty girl passed by u.s.
leaning on the arm of a gentleman who
was dressed in Swiss muslin and pink
SASH" That gentleman must have
been the cool or the evening.
Punch reports the speech OF an Irish
81. p. who thought that Ireland was
overtaxed:
"Take tenth of our income, sir.
Aye, that they do; and they'd take a
twentieth if they dared"
A clergyman in his early days de-
MED that grammar or. emphasis had
anything to do with pulpit exercises.
One day he found his mistake by the
laughing created on reading his text {:
"And he spake 10 his sons, saying,
saddle me, the ass, and they saddled
him."
An indefinite postponement of reli-
Eious services was recently announced
in church at Saratoga Springs. The
edifce was undergoing repairs. and the
congregation met for worship in the
basement. During the morning SER
vice the pastor made this announce
ment:
"Our usual afternoon services will be
6uSp6uuGu uulll VIZ can uleeG IN tho
sanctuary above"
The Superintendent of Sunday
School recently made his annual report,
In which che recommended that the
adult members should go to work and
do all in their power to increase the tn
font class in his school during the COM
ing year" f..
One OF the Methodist brethren in
Waterbury, Connecticut. was lately
giving. in religious meeting, the ex-
perience of himself and family, say
ing, among other things, that "hIs
first wife was very good woman, but
she sickened and died in IA happy frame
OF mind, and he should be rejoiced if
his present partner would go the same
way"
1t was Scotch woman who said
that "the butcher of her town only
killed one-half OF beast at Il time"
1t was u Dutchman who said ga pig
had no ear marks except short tall"
and It was British magistrate who,
being told by vngabond that he was
not married, responded: "That's n
good thing for your wife,"
AT a prayer meeting in New Hamp-
shire, worthy layman spoke Ola poor
boy "whose father was drunkard and
whose mother was widow"
At negro ball, in lien of mot Trans
ferable" on the tickets, u notice was
posted over the door, mo gentleman
admitted unless he comes hisself."
An American lecturer of note SOL
EMMY said one evening: parents, you
have children, or ifyon have not your
daughters may have"
a Western editor once wrote: ga cor
respondent asks whether the battle of
Waterloo occurred before or after the
commencement OF the Christian era.
We answer it did"
Those two observing mon, one of
whom said che had always noticed that
when he lived through the month of
May, he lived through the years" and
the other who said at a wedding, "he
had remarked that more women than
men had been married that year, were
neither of them Irishmen."
a good brother in an Eastern church
had call to preach. Being unable to
read, he employed a friend to read the
scripture lesson. On the occasion, the
chapter selected was Genesis xxi.
which contains these words: "These
eight did Micah bear to Nabor, Abra-
hams brother.'' The preacher dis
coursed from the text as follows:
brethren and sisters, let us consider
our blessings. Morning and evening
our wives and daughters milk the cows,
and our wants are supplied. In the
days of good old Abraham, as you have
heard, it took eight to milk bear, and
they did not get much at that" f
Newspapers that Classify" reading
matter make occasional errors, Of
which the following will do as samples;
IA New York paper publishes an ac-
count of funeral under the head Of
"out Door Sports" 5 -tz-- go
a Massachusetts paper, under the
head OF Books and Magazines" con-
tains the following: @s
ga Worcester COW has had seven
calves in three years. Her last exploit
was to have three ut a lick, on Thurs
day."
The printer is alone responsible in
IQe SuCCt6OluS Cds6S
From the Nevada ITespass we clip an
account of a!meeting held In San Fran.
cisco by the poor citizens who we try
ing to obtain free grants OF land from
the State.
"Judge Turner, of Nevada, in adj
dressing the meeting had occasion to
say that IF the bold hearted, landless
men of San Francisco would work to-
gether and exercise the right OF petition
and discussion, they would each OF
them, ere long, have a little home for
his children, Imagine Judge Turner's
CONSERVATION on reading in the BulLe.
tin the next evening, that he said: IF
the bald headed landlords OF San Fran
cisco would work together, they would
each of them, ere long, have a little
more land tor their children %
A Syracuse printer, in setting up a
book publishers advertisement, con-
strued one of Dickens works thus
"sBarney,' by Rudge-s1 5O.'' II
Benjamin Franklin once putting to
press form OF the Common Prayer,
the letter "c'' in the following passage
dropped out unperceiyed by him: eve
shall all be changed in the tWinkling
OF an eye" When the book appeared,
to the horror Of thedevout worshippers,
the passage read: I'VE shall all be
hanged in the tYinkling of an eye."
The Evening Gazette was once caught
in a manner which the following ex-
plains: Isac1-ETf . s
"a IbeWildered reader wants to
know what Sala means by saying that
the French call the English "a nation