The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-22
VARIETIES.

Mr.. Washbnrne's SUCCESSOR in Con-
gress from Illinois Is to be elected June
9Th.
superintendent Kennedy, of the
New York police, has a gold badge
worth 5000.
"A Paris paper offers each new sub
scriber an ACCORDION, or If he prefers 1t,
kerosene lamp.
-Covington, Indiana, has a candi-
date for Office, who copies names from
ombstones to annex to bis petition.
-"Base-ball" has been introduced as
manifestation of national spirit" by
the Americans at Dresden.
BY filling india-rubber when in a
fluid state with bubbles of gas and alb
lowing it to harden, an artificial sponge
is made.
Judge Bowling, Of New York, in a
recent charge, said he considers an
adulterator OF milk worse than ufiftV
liquor Dealers"
Some of our contemporaries think
Senator Sprague will have hot recep.
ton on his return to Rhode Island, af-
ter the adjournment of the Senate.
"A young man at st. Louis, lately
died from the rupture of blood yes-
sci, in paroxysm OF grief over the
death of the young lady whom he was
to have married.
The correspondence on the Ala
bama claims has reached ten octave
volumes, OF 800 pages each, yet the dis
cussiOn must all be done over again,
Law books in Kentucky do not last
long. In one county 1t Is frequently
found necessary to replace volumes
worn out by the lawyers in pounding
each others heads.
The President Of the new Cincinna-
Il Council made a speech upon taking
the chair, which the Commercial OF that
city calls "a cowardly attack on the
English language"
An Englishman, named Lamont
formerly NJ. p, intends to start on an
expedition OF his own to the North
Pole. this month, in steamer he has
htted out at his own expense.
"A Cleveland newspaper recently
advertised that it would send a copy
free to any person sending "club OF
ten" A young lady in the country
sent 1t the ten spot of clubs.
The New York papers speak of
remarkable lawyer in that city, who
drew a deed without mentioning any
ones name in it. It transferred pro-
perty worth $1,000 from nobody to no
body.
In New York there are said to be
lawyers who visit the jails and station
petitions, &C., ready to give instant
legal relief to any prisoner who desires
it.
"A history of Boston Is going the
rounds, which describes Faneuil Hall
as the original SOlomon's temple, and
Boston Common as the garden OF Eden
with "modern Improvements" The
city is named after the Boston cracker.
Kentucky furnished lis Governors
nSNHN tNlS
and among the Items in the official re.
port are: One euchre stand, 1926; patent
ice cream freezer. Sl3 so; two dozen
whisky tumblers, SO; one patent churn,
$l4.
The New York Herald says: "In a
murder case tried in this city in the
year 1899, the accused was defended by
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and
Edward Livingston. Names OF this
class do not appear in our criminal
cases now.
"A sporting man in Paris has opened
an office for advising inexperienced
young men in regard to so-called affairs
honor. He teaches them for fifty francs
how to insult their adversaries in the
most Genteel manner, and how to re-
sent afronts so as to render duel in
evltable.
For one of the offices in President
Grants gift, there are, according to a
the following applicants:
"a Bloomer woman. loyal negro, a
reconstructed rebel, q Republican Irish
man, wounded soldier, and . red-hot
politician" Each OF them is confident
Of success"
The Emperor Napoleon has post
poned the execution of his plan to erect
a spledid statue to his mother, Queen
Hortense. The unpleasant illusions to
her with which the opposition papers
in France have recently abounded, had
no doubt much to do with this. decis-
ion. The monument was to have
been erected in front of the Tuileries.
james Haggerty is New Yorker
whom policeman found drunk and
asleep in the street. The officer testified
that he would fall down, Whereupon
the officer "lost his temper, and tapped
Haggerty on the head two or three times
to wake him up" Next morning Hag-
gerty was found dead in his cell, with
wounds on his head, "inf1icted by some
blunt instrument" They look upon
his death as a mystery.