The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-01
FACETIE.


Squib, of the Lowell Courier, thinks
the tune, "When the Morning Stars
Sang Together" must have been common
meteor.
The Grecian bend has made its ap.
pearance in Marshall, Texas. The local
paper thinks that it might become
the butt-of many uncemplimentary re-
marks. ~ a. (
An exchange says: "There is some
thing sweet about little girls" The
Louisville Journal adds: r"And it grows
on them as They grow bigger
Among the ANSWERS to correspon-
dents" in q Paris fashion paper is this
mysterious reply; mo, madame, there
is no particular shape for q priests
shirt distinct from other shirts"
81 don't know anything about your
Tycoon" said an old Illinoisian to a
man who was discoursing on Japan,
"but when you come TO raceoon you'll
find me at home" H
The Boston Post says: A Sunday paper
SAYS it is in favor of women voting, if
they want to. We should like to see
the man that could make them vote, if
they didn't want to.
Intellectual Creature-"No, it's utter.
ly impossible for a fellah to stand this
disgusting weather. | feel as If all my
bwaius were going to the Dogs Lady
una,r Iaor pnnr Hnna
1t was Josh Billings who suggested,
in his lectures, at Skaneateles, the other
evening, that Andrew johnson had bet
ter get insured, for his policy is nearly
run out.
what kind of board do yos get at
YOUR house 7" sa:d friend TO Binks, the
other day. "Well. we pine during he
week and plank down a good deal on
Saturdays" said the cadaverous Blnks.
1t is we'll known that a genuine
Frenchman is unable to pronounce ship
correctly. One of that nation was one
day looking au iron clad aud he asked a
boy, Is dis vat you call varsheep 7"
"Oh, now answered the boy, sits a
rau "
A man looking at Greeaough's un
draped statue of Washington, one day,
with frozen rain drop on the end of
its uose, sitting out in the weather at
the freezing point, said: Poor George;
he's pointing to the Patent Office, where
his breeches areW
An affecting sight-Te behold at q
wedding the SORROW stricken air OF the
parent as he gives the bride away,
when you know for the last ten years lie
has been trying to get her eft his hands
A lady asked her little girl, On return
ing from church, if she remembered the
text. ooh, yes" said she, sit was this,
the ladies' sewing society will meet at
Mrs. McCracken's house on Monday
evening next"
Judy pictures a railway carriage
scene and gives this conversation:
Swell-'Aw-would you object-aw-to
having the glass DOWN. Young lady
-"OA, dear, ne; in fact | was on the
point of asking you either to put your
glass down or leave off staring at me-"
Sweli-"Aw."
General Casimir Buleslas Pallakof, a
Tnrk who a-;sis r--.t VI -LaH
brandy at one gulp, is to head the eK,
pedition against Cuba. This is General
Pallakoff7s order of exercises: 81 say to
Monseigneur de Lersundi at Havana:
'You geev me Cuba He say, No, new
arer Hah, dam cut off his head wiz
my sword. Then he run away"
There has been stormy meeting Of
Friends OF Women's Rights in Paris.
One speaker began: "Cltizens and Mes
danes" A woman rose and screamed:
Call us citoyeunes" The speaker re-
piled: "You are not so yet" Another
speaker touched on corset-makers' CO.
operative societies. A woman bawled,
"Men have nothing to do with corsets."
(The French phrase is nothing to see
in corsets.") The president of the meet
ing smiled mallGiously, and said: II beg
your pardon, madame, all corsets con-
tain certain objects we like to see"
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