The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-03-10
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"A rOilSteu onion DOuuu upon TIC Pulse
on the wrist will stop the most inveterate
toothache in o few minutes,
One hundred and twenty.one mem.
bers ofthe Forty.tirst Congress have re-
turned to private life.
Miss Susan Rusk, Of Allegheny coun-
ty, Virginia, died last week at the age Of
III, leaving an orphan daughter only 0s
years old.
"A young lady being asked 10 play the
"Maiden's Prayer" cheerfully struck up
Mother, may l 60 out to swim?"
John Il. Miller, OF Steubenville, has
been appointed Common Pleas Judge Of
that district, in place Of Hon. W. g. Nell
vaine, resigned.
The American Watch Company OF
Cleveland has filed articles OF incorpora-
ton. saaa q 81 a.Aas ,E-A
The death of DR.. Williams, Of Jack.
son county, leaves the Ohio House Of Rep
resentatiTes divided as follows Republi-
cans SO =; Democrats IS; vacancy l. It
requires, under the Constitution 81 votes
TO pass bill through the House.
-Ofthc twenty.three bills before the
last Congressional House for land grants,
all failed but the Oregon Branch Of the
Pacific, which gets 100000 acres, a sup.
Elemental to the North Pacific, with II ).
100000, and the Texas & Pacific Railroad
and branches, which receives about9 ,0O0,'
900.
MIR. Catacazy, the Russian Minister,
suggested to Secretary Fish few even
ings since that in view Of the numerous
dinners, partaken Of by the Joint High
Commission, it would be more appro'
priately styled the High Commission on
Joints.
"A youth cleaning up San Francisco
printing Office found o key Of black sand.
Another boy bet him the spruce gum that
It was powder and he took the bet. A coal
oil fire was gently but firmly dropped into
the key. The two experimental youths
are supposed 10 have gone in the country
looking for the gum. "#
An old Arabic proverb says: Isl.
lence Is often an answer" Often it Is the
most suitable and eloquent one that can
be given.
Tho expenses OF the war to France
arc calculated to BIO $1,200,0OO0O0.
Tho Mississippiriver is now open be.
tween ST. Louis and Dubuque, with o
good prospect OF an carly opening to St.
Paul.
Mrs. Kingsley, in her recent lecture
in Lima, New York, gave utterance to
this remak: "Show nc q family where
woman's rights prevail, and will show
YOU a home full of dissension and strife.
While, on the other hand, show nc fami.
ly which is ruled by its rightful ruler, and
where the laws are wisely administered,
and l will show you family where love
is the guiding star. and peace and harmo-
ny Is ever fONnd." .....
The FOrty-first Congress will be al'
ways remembered with satisfaction as the
one that brought the land grabbcrs ind
subsidy schemes to grief.
An excellent old deacon, who, hay.
ing won m old turkey Mt charity rattle,
did not like 10 tell his severe orthodox
wife how lie came by it, quietly remarked,
rs lie handed her the fowl that the Sha'
kcrs gave IL 10 him,
Innocence Is like an umbrclla-whcn
once W. have lost it VIC may never hope
to sec il back again.
Lent began this year On Washing.
tors birthday and will end on tho unni.
vorsary OF Lees surrender. n
What is cOmmerceI An editor IN.
swGrs this question in the following sim.
plc words: Commerce Is merely q re-
CiproCatiOn orindustrles. It's the systOlo
and diastole Of the industrial heart OF the
civilized world" Nothing could DO plain.
or.
-"IfthC stars" writes Emerson" SHOULD
appear only one night in Il thousand
years, how would men believe and adore,
and preserve for many generations the
remembrance Of the city Of God which
had been shown. But evcrynight como
out these preachers OF beauty, and light
the universe with their NdmOnishing
smile"
"A good t0ast-somCthing never TO be
found in clearinghouse.
"A SCOtchman, fifteen years ago, told
his cOuntrymen that ''the American never
plays, not even the American child. In.
Dor is his element, and his only relaxation
from hard work is fierce excitement,
Neither does he laugh. The Americans,
l imagine, arc the most serious people In
the world" Is this true today An
honest reflection will show that it is meas.
urably, II not literally correct. a
Touching handles, let us consider,
with some scientific strictness, what u
dandy specially is. A dandy is a clothes
wearing MANA man whose trade, Office
and existence consists in the wearing Of
clothes. Every faculty Of his soul, spirit,
purse and person is hGroiCally consecrated
to this one object-thC wearing Of clothes
wisely and well; so that as others dress tC
live, he lives to dress.-Cdrlie.
Bret Harte is now disparaging the
Californians in his and their own maya.
zine. Forgetting that it is not in good
taste to abuse the bridge that has brought
one safely over, he speeks Of their selfish
m0terialism, their overweening conceit,
and their manifold infrmities. Having 50
far succeeded in annihilating the Pacific
slope, and the Central Western States,
whereof Chicago is the metropolis, he has
concluded never to write any more. 1t is
understood that he has disdainfully de-
clined the cditorship of the Atlantic
Monthly and the presidency Of Harvard
College.
WE find the following among the brief
sketches Of U. S. Senators retired on the
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