The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-04
Goss1PY PARAGRAPHS.

An average wedding in Chicago
costs $4,000.
-Beecher says women make the best
prayers in his congregation.
The next style of bonnet is to be a
bead and two inches of ribbon, fnsten-
cd with a hair-pin.
-"Committing twofcide" is a new
name for matrimony.
Sweet song of our Justices OF the
Peace-Let US speak of man as we
fined him.
1t is very bad sort of education TO
be drought up by policeman"
In an Indiana Jail there are three
times as many female convicts as
males.
More trouble between Patti and her
husband. A mother-in-law, it Is hint
ed, is the cause.
Gossip has 1t that the rector of a
very "high" church uptown, New
wine, plays cards, attends the theatre,
&c.
Without a sound mental occupation
or the frequent change of ideas with a
masculine intellect, no sensible woman
can be happy.
"A young lady in Rochester, who
had been standing with her back to the
fire, leaped up and shrieked violently
the moment she sat down on a chair.
'The Duplex Elliptic" had steel wires
In 1t.
-"Hdw do you get that lovely per-
fume ?" asked one lady of another.
otis sent to me-" was the reply.
Mrs Erastus Corning deposited 800
all about it until a week ago, when she
drew her deposit and its proceeds,
amounting to 1928 IL.
"A funny fact about the weather is
that ladies sporting a set OF turs think
1t is bitter cold, while those who do not
own them think 1t is extremely mild.
Theodore Tilton addressed the pris-
oners in the Penitentiary at Columbus,
Ohio, recently, and many were SO at
fected that they would have left the jail.
Mrs. YelYerton didn't read in Mem
phis because the authorities insisted on
her taking out a license. She thought
her faithless Major had INDUCED in
license enough for the whole family.
The woman who Is bent on marry
ing a man because he is lion, should
remember that it does not necessarily
follow that she will become lioness.
-Mistress-"And why do you wish
to leaYe, Sarah?" Sarah-"Well, mum
you never told me as master were a
councilman, Wnlcn engaged LOT
respectable family"
The Legislature OF Massachusetts
proposes to advance the fee for marriage
The women say when female suffrage
Is secured this tax upon matrimony
will be abolished.
-"My friend" said Rev. Sidney
Smith to cobbler who was mending
his shoe when the great wit was poor
curate in GlOucestershire, "yOu remind
me of the sacred ordinance OF matri-
mony." show SOP" quoth the cobbler.
because you bind two sOles together
In unity"
There Is n sentiment as beautiful
as just in the following lines: "He who
forgets the fountain from which he
drank, and the tree under whose shade
he gamboled in the days of his youth,
| is stranger to the sweetest Impressions
of the human heart"
"A young man In Mobile threatened
| 10 shoot himself because young lady
refused to marry hun. She told him il
would make no difference to her, but
when he declared that it would make
great difference, for he intended to
wallop her first" she appealed to the
police for protection.
Judge -, vino is between seventy
and eighty, speaks pleasantly of the
| passing away Ofthe "old-schOOl gentle
men," Says he: ~ was born at the
| wrong time. When l was n young man
young men were of no account. Now,
am old, l find old men are OF no &C.
count"
Affected young lady, seated in n
rocking chair and reading the Bible,
exclaims "Mother here is grammati-
cal error in the Bible!" Mother, lower
ing her spectacles and approaching the
reader in very scrutiniZing attitude,
says: "Ilill it! kill it,"