The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-27
rALK WIN A FRER MAsoN.

treat,
ATALK WITH A FREE MASON.
talked with another fellow. BE ask,
ed me was | Mason? told him no;
that the nearest ever cameto Masonry,
had been called q brick Then he said
he was a Mason, and had taken thirty.
three degrees.
"Why don't yon take more?" saysb
81 can't" says he, THAT'S the whole Of
EN-" :
Says |, "Sir, do you sit there and try to
make me believe there are only thirty,
three degrees ?" D
That Is all, sir;" he replied.
"Ill bet ont" saidI.
"l'lI take the bet" said lie.
Then he asked me how | would prove
there was more than tlirty.three degrees,
and told him I'd leave it To the first
thermometer we came to. He got mad.
THECRoPs.
The crops look awful, There amt nc
apples onto the trees. The corn has come
up dried stumps, and they cut the hair of
Tue country so short last summer that
lhgrc amt grass enough in q hundred
miles to lunch u nanny goat. Instead Of
attending to the crops, the farmers arr
oOlIng their time away around wood piles
and lenccs The chickens look as though
lucy had been struck with cold lightning
and The only MARBLES that are heard come
from the hog pens. There are very few
ShOrt'horned cattle up here. All that
have seen around the tavGrns take awful
long hOrus, III l,ll ..l-,I -. -"
,, But must tell you something about
CLEVELAND.
Cleveland is dry and healthy, and Ia
sec tho folks pour down rye whisky you
would think thecilizens were all dry and
healthy too. The city is rectangular and
eighty feet above the lake. II is queer
how they ca1ie 10 put 1t up so high ii the
air, Olt they did it They have piece Of
grass here. They call tia park. II has
got ten acres into it. The New York
Park Hospital alone has more than ten
achers intoit. In 1890 there was only one
family in Cleveland, and now there Is
over tltty. ltis named after Gen. Moses
cleveland, and is in Cuyahoga county,
anu 1t may have been named after Gen
Moses Cuyahoga for all | know. STOP.
PED at hotel in Cleveland. All hotel
clerks are gorgeous, but this hotel clerk
was the most gorgeous Cuss ever saw.
ms moustache would have been worth a
fortune 10 a shoemaker for waxed ends,
ana he had more pride than six George
Msshlngtons, four Christopher Colum.
pases' and three returned missionerys
o'Led down into one small man.
pa gays | to him, says ], "Can you say
"'Yes," said he, ~ can say fork pic"
We'll" said |, I'm glad ont, That
upper lip Curls up so didn't think YOU
'OHIa ever get it down to say pork pie"
lie didn't like ii; so he nut me down
WI room S5,OGG. Then asked him was
' uaS room easy OF access to tue street. He
%'u, very that all had 10 do 10 get
@ihG street was 10 crawl out the scuttlc
S agS S' Ta! down, Then l was mad, and
S SS him did he keep balloon TO send
I IOl1s up there, and he said no. Then /
.ooAeI at his spindle shanks. Those lees
wren bigger than hardshell Baptist
pump,handle, and l observed 70 him n
York. " ~ " 'N" NC"
Why said he.
W. ny gosh| says I, ayoii wouldn't be In
NeE York five minutes before they would
nave them bones in them legs Of your!
'ASed up into eating house checks"
u, Gays he, sam, show this gentleman tc
%s room, and commenced travelling
oae lot Of halls with bedrooms OF
sam went ahead with my carpet bal
S %,u Stallow candle that belonged to tlt
I IUIse' We never spoke but once. We
S Saa been walking about an hour and :
G n",I, when sam,says be, 'ihis isa noblS
ST y U ~ .S tek ~
les" said | door knobby."
That was all. Not another word pass
Gu, and along sometime in the night
styIachcd my room. Sam left me a pair o
Sn, for fear my shoes would wea,
anu before l got back TO the Office
~ SH ! was alone with my carpet la!
S' uISa | undid, united my whisky
SNS poured some spirits into a glass
'"" SWeetened 1t, then sung that song
a., Sweet spirits hear my prayer" '1T
I I1u Nndid myself and retired. twas
"Su'allc entertainment, ~.
a TALK WITH A REFNED LADY.
r,i spent Sunday in Cleveland. A lad,
ed GO. showed me round. The hair curl
SaS aoSn the back Of her neck like she ia,
chou u LIlylnG on buffalo steaks. She wa
k I'M iulI Of romance. She was of IN
"0 mat would make you think chick