The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-24
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other day, and was astonished to lear1
that President Lincoln was dead.
l5g-In a-recent invention OF steam car
riages for common roads the tires of th,
wheels are made of India rubber
which is said to work very nicely.
The old salntation taught by
French readers, "Comment vous por.
tez-vous3" has given way in Paris tc
the shorter Comment allez.vous ?" as
In this country we now say GLOW are
you ~ for CHOW do yousdoR"
Eugene Casser1y's first despatch
from San Francisco, after the recent
election, was this to his mother in
Brooklyn: 'tMy Dear Mothers Your
son has been chosen United States
Senator for the State of California;
This is the age of paper. Almost
everything Is made of paper, from
money to hats and shirt collars and
even water pipes. The latest adapta.
stton of the article has been discovered
in Maine, where a local paper adver-
tises, for the benefit of the ladies'. tbe
productions of the nPaper Pantalette
Company.
-From Ireland 1t Is announced that
the Irish in America are again sending
remittances to their friends in that
country. During the war it is said that
remittances were to a great extent sus.
pended, but they now nearly equal the
amount sent in former times.
by recent amendment to the Con-
stitution of Wisconsin, the pay of
members of the Legislature Is limited
to $3.50, be the session long or .sbo,.t
The result Is the present session will
conttne but six weeks-a period lone
enough to do everything that is neces5
sary.
while there are eighty-one more
schools in Ireland than last year. the
number Of scholars has decreased by
eleven thousand, owing to emigration
and the prejudices excited by the dis
positionto teach government views in
religious and political matters; hence
and when they can do 80, give them
private instruction.
"A gossiping writer in lfac0aillan,s
MagastHe, tells of the demeanor of a
leading English statesman recently.
while being bullied by the opposition
in the House of Commons. He con-
trolled his face even his mouth, to an
expression of perfect placidity, but he
could not manage his hands and 'fin-
gers, which shook with agitation. and
ontwhich the veins stood out ii strone
relief
The turning to Rome,, of several
Anglican sisters and clergymen in
recently chronicled, has been.
followed by the prof ofession of the Roman
Catholic religion by three members Of
the Irish aristocracy, Lords Louth and
Granard, and the Countess of Portar.
ltngton. These events have caused
much comment In religi circles in
Great Britain. -.
"A citizeniof Nashville, Tenn, dis
appeared recently, and after many con.
lectures as to his fate, the mystery was
solved last week. The solution Is thus
described ina Nashville newspaper -
Ehe irretutableeyt violence of his lifeless
rematns-a weather. beaten, frost-Iocl-
ed corpse, stretched In "a lonely nook
upon which the searchers came, as it
were, by mere accident-was such as to
rudely dismiss all hope and leave only
anguish and tears.''
s-on the evening of the 9th instant,
when most of the guests of one of the
principal hotels of Washington were at
seaasor Oh the United States
on but asiiiEt. Il was % Sound n9 otSsnlhg t6at hs
was suffering from delfrfum tremessS.
lckens, at Philadelphia, is the
guest of George w. Childs, of the
Ledger. His first reading was to a
$5, 600 house. He has written home to
his friends; that he expects to bag ESQ.
600 In America during his stay. He
ever snIncleed. 2 SS'-s sA49 9eSs one ne
n, ~, y -. : ~. -. :.
- " a st4s cnarges
OF the down town restaurants have led
to the formation ofa club, which will
undertake to feed the public, ona plan
Of its own, at one-third the current
toSE ~ %lIl is sdke Inc ioEm q Joint
eht parts Of the city. Professor s 5r Blot te Is
to be the general snnerin n tenflanf : 9oyV
long will It be before a dozen or more
families willsbe fed from 5oIe lSIteEsfSs
whereby a saving of NOT less than7one
half will be nader
UPa % said cI,srl,a q, ,sx..o.,
ancestnS hnIflin9 = SnnSaSP PSSseLsna1 SeLnai
niefnTe bnoISI tiVVhet 10 7tIsHt y, SenVol
tlThat. nv, son. iS Iseobi ,vrastIinS
with; the. anReis. >, !"
"And which licked2n inquired the
young hopeful.
-e+reeley recently lectured In Wor-
cester, Mass. The Spy says: tMr.
Greeley Is not pleasing speaker, and
a,man Of less fame, and less widely
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~ lsa 3 ~ HsSHs ne!a me
s'n1.scn4 st9ia ~ az dIIgnoI5. dsI,ves9 dn nasaI, y
his sents7, ~ S,Sr, 1SriIISa 9 lazy OF
ms ,sslis, Sts ana rom
recoQnized as ieiot51ent. and hvs SIrects M
ness Of speech marked shin "a a clear