The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS srATTcEs.

Some enc hiss estimated that in
Boston there are thirty thousand young
men engaged to DE married and waiting
for better times.
The English are almost in despair
over the frightfuI growth of crime and
pauperism. Plans and remedies of all
sorts arc suggested, and the newspapers
are filled with discussions on the sub
ject.
1t appears by. the latest statistics that
the native population of the most popu-
lous part of the United States is rapidly
dying out! It is only the foreign born
part of the population which Is increas-
ing.
On the "Leather Cockade" ques-
ton, gentleman writes to the New
York Post: 81 use them to distinguish
my coachman's hat from my own. We
are both good looking men; we both
wear ten dollar hats, and when we go
out for drive in the Park think 1t
duetO myself that the public should
know who owns the carriage and who
drives it."
MIR. Sanford, the United States Min
lister at Brussels, recently gave public
dinner in that city, the peculiarityaof
which was that all the dishes were i'm
ported from America; the oysters game,
cream, Nc., everything had been ship
ped from New York. Even the French
wines were taken from bond ut the
New York, Custom .ECuse, and shipped
back to EGvre.
Good scrap-book mucilage can be
made II the bottom of a two ounce vial
if covered with gum tragacnnth. and
the vial filled with water and sot in
warm place twelve or fourteen hours.
It's appearance will be like starch, and
can be made thick or thin to suit by the
quantity OF waller used.
softly, softly, while We slept,
CLIuc Tic SnOT'. flakes gently down,
Came and sO:Io%fUl!y wOve
"A shToud of while for the buried town;
We rose with feelings grand and intense,
AMI hired midGle'aget AugIO-African
siIuvc!tat to clean our sidewalk oil for nifty
coats.
"A sharp-witted fellow in Utica, New
York, named Townsend, has been ma
king money rapidly by a clever impo-
sition upon the credualily of the citi-
zeus OF that rural city. He pretends
that he is the heir to Ru estate worth
forty millions OF dollars i'll England,
and as he requires funds to prosecute
his claims, he is selling thousand dollar
bonds upon the estate for five dollars
each. They are going OF like hot cakes.
The New York EVenin9 0EaU says:
1--WE recollect how a brave girl went
through with Il leading part in one OF
our theatres for the first time, on the
very day of her fathers death. 1t was
q fearful trial, bat her absence would
have been damage of thousands
of dollars, and she had to :or-
bear mourning for the dead in order
to support dependent mother" Miss
Fanny Stockton, to whom the GfIiL re
fers, appeared in the "White Fuwu;"
on the occasion of its first performance
at NiblO'5 Garden, New York, her
father having died that morning.
New Years was celebrated at Fort
Benton by "squGw ball." at which
the ellie OF the forest maidens were
present, among the elegant and charn-
ing Miss "Wag0n Box" arrayed IN
striped silk, beGquilt pattern, with va
rious kiCkshaws and adornments. Also
were present the affable, polite. ETC.,
Misses STOMACH" FATTY, - mike"
and others of like euphonious Cogpo
Ulons. The etiquette at these assem-
blages is somewhat peculiar. l! is re-
uuired that when you want u partner
tor the next dance you must nudge her
with your thumb and look at her; ii
she grunts you are all right, and can
count on tho engagement; but ii she
says "Sa," you must poke around
another. Refreshments consist OF pies
cut in slices and handed around with 81
bucket of ice water. Drinks are only
Rttainable at near saloons or where
some one has coached" a bottle OF the
ardent in the snow outside.