The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-28
RYMAIL.

"A SitkR correspondent thus describes
Alaska scenery: "Take one big noun.
tain-coVered with trees from the base
nearly to the summit, with an under
growth of brush, briers and moss almost
mpassable-multiply the one by IL. .OOO
and you have Alaska.
Mark Twain writes, that Horace
Greeley once hired out as writing
master, but the enterprise signally fail
ed. His first copy was Virtue is Its
own reward" and they got it, "Wnsh-
ing with soap is wholly absurd"
Wednesday was day of accidents
in New York and vicinity. There was
u steamboat collision on the East River.
There was another collision off the
Battery, in which the Cunard steamer
Russia ran down and sunk ship just
arrive from Marseilles. There was a
boiler explosion at the foot of Wall
street. There was an immense Petro-
leum fire at Hunters Point. There
was a suicide in which rich Fifth
avenue gentleman was the victim, and
several little matters such as common
murders, street riots, outrages, &c. We
give the account of II determined sui
eide published in the New York Times
of Wednesday, on another page.
"A very ingenious and Frenchy
mode of relieving the hunger OF trave-
lines out of Paris. At certain stations
on the road, the railroad officials, all OF
whom are dressed in uniform, inquire
if you will dine or sup, as the case
may be. you answer in the at1irma-
tive the fact is Immediately telegraphed
to the stations. where the meal is pro-
vided. Even he'number of your COM
partment goes with it. On arriving at
the station box is put into your
hands. 1t contains four courses, with
soup and wine. You are allowed forty
minutes to eat, which you do while the
car is on it's way. The dinner is hot
and excellent. You eat at your leisure
and are charged the moderate price OF
60 cents for the arrangement. Your
box is taSen from youI and you pro-
Ceed on your way.
The British House of Lords, after a
great deal of hesitation, has agreed to
the second reading of a bill for the in
fusion of new blood into the House OF
Peers, by the creation of twenty-eight
life peers-th9t is to say, the appoint
ment of that number OF gentlemen by
the Prime Minister to sit during life in
the British Senate; and the speedy pass
age of the bill through both Houses OF
Parliament may be regarded as cer-'
tainty. Seven years must elapse before
the whole number of the new Senators
can be appointed. The twenty-eight
new peers are to be selected from six
classes: first, Scotch or Irish peers who
have not at present seats in the House
of Lords; second, persons who have
been members of the House of Com
mons for ten years; third, officers of the
army and navy; fourth, persons who
have held high judicial offices; fifth, ex-
civil servants of the crown; sixth, per-
sons distinguished In the arts and sci
ences.
This bill will establish an important
principle in English Government-that
of representative Senate instead OF a
hereditary Legislature, and will pave
the way for the total abolition of hered-
itary Legislators, or for swampirg them
by the addition to their numbers of a
majority of representative men. Mr..
Gladstone, If he remains in power six
years, will have the privilege OF
strengthening himself and his party,
under this bill, by the addition of twen-
ty members to the Liberal side OF the
House of Lords.
The famous maelstrom, on the
coast of Norway. is so little feared that
the fisherman pass aud repass it in
their vessels at all states OF the tide, e6-
cept at certain times in the winter,
when the greatest rate of the tide does
not exceed six miles an hour.
Sunset Cox in writing from Algeria
thus describes an interview with an
amorous Turk: In passing one village
Il handsome young gentleman-a ka-
byle Alcibiades-in very clean robe,
accosted US in French. He was aston
ished that we had come seven thou
sand kilometres to see him! He had a
very vague idea of America, but an
enthusiastic admiration for the Italian
girl, who is my wife's companion. He
ran after our carriage several miles in
an ecstacy oflove at first sight. The
scapegrace! He had two wives already.
He said that he could afford another,
as the last was an orphan and only
cost three hundred francs. l said:
"How much do you propose for
Mademoiselle?" ga thousand francs,
and if you wait here will 60 up the
mountain for the money" We did
not wait, but dashed on.
MARK TWAIN writes as follows from