The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-06-30
Gossip Of the Day.

. lu9 Is luC WuT IL
puts IL: "Itis thrilling sight to see th
thousands OF children throngiDg Mai
=. street at noon, when going for their grub
MIR. AND Mrs. J. B, McARTnuR, ol II
, dianapOlis, who were divorced two year
ago, have been remarked, after both ha
yainly tried to marry somebody else
Boston Pot.
AN Illinois editor, who was eDloytn
himself at San Francisco, when Horsc
F. Clark stopped issuing passes over th'
U. P. r. H., writes to his wife that he i
walking hOme, and will arrive in the FaI
or early Spring.
A YOUNG woman at Auburn, Me., tool
thirty grains Of slrychnine because he
husband mildly rebuked her for going I
the fair at Portland, contrary to his de
sire, but was saved from dying by ioFci
bly, administered remedies.
THEY hang women in Canada for kill
| ing their husbands. An execution OF thi'
kind occurred few days since. We d.
not know what would be done with
man who would kill his wife 10 thai
country, though they would not be Sc
hard.on him.
The Nantucket Inquirer and Miro
SAWS there are now living Of the family oil
the late Jonathan and Ruth Parker, o
Nantucket, twelve children, five sons ant
seven daughters, whose ages are respec
lively 70, II, Os, O5, OS, 60, 5s, Sc. 81, 81
40, and AZ.
A BALD HEADED man says that lie cant
sleep a wink ailer daylight any more
owing to the flies and mosquitoes which
get on top Of his head, where they skate
and slide around SO recklessly as to give
him the Gdgels all the time they are tax
ing their recreation.
The fruit growers Of Delaware held
meeting at Dover the other day, at which
the estimate Of the peach crop Of 1877
was given at 9, ,ls3,7SO baskets. This esti
mate Is over 100000 baskets more thar
that Of last year, when the yield WaE
500, 600 baskets more than the estimate
With an equal margin, the crop this veal
will be very large.
A WoRcRsTER man claims 70 have con
structed the smallest steam engine In the
world, with a boiler holding three drops
The engine, boiler, governor, and pumps
stand in space seVensixteenths Of an
inch square aud fve.eighths of an inch
high, and contains one hundred and forty
eight distinct parts. The longest screw
is one.eighteenth Of an Inch, and thE
smallest about one.t e.thousandth oi IN incl
Ia size.
THE President, when asked recently
whether the report was true that he had
never, even In army life, used prOlant
language, no matter what the provocation
ho Is said to have admitted the soft i'm
peachment, and added this explanation
~ have always regarded profane Language
as unnecessary, to say the least, and as
am man Of few words, have never beer
able to understand the necessity for use,
less expressions Of the GhAra Cter referred
To-"
A cARRLEss tank keeper on the New
Y@kGenual Road neglected to shut OF
the water after an engine had been sup
piled, the other day, and train Of pal
ace cars passed under the stream and
were flooded, the water pouring dowr
through the venlilstors in torrents, anC
running much costly clothing. The con
ductor told the saturated ones TO MAKE
out their bills, however, and tue Compa-
ny would pay for the damage.
SPEAKING Of the drought in Western
Massachusetts,, the Springfield Union says
Many fields which should now b.
wearing their most vivid green, and waV
ing with abundant promise of cheap hay
are as brown as November landscape
Riding through the Connecticut Valley
one sees on every hand carts loaded Will
water casks, and the numerous genulex-
ions Of the farmer, who, watering-pot II
hand, goes up and down his rows Of to
baccO plants, would shame the pLety Of I
Mohammedau, though the thought o
profit, rather than pieIy, bends th'
Yankees knee