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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-12

As one sits upon the deck Of steamer,
where the view 10 wholly unobstructed,
the picture presented from Lake George
Is magniacient,-The lake Is Just wide
enough that the shores may be dis.
tinctIy seen from every side. The CLASSY
water on tho right reflects like a mirror
every tree and shrub, broken now and
then by romantic island covered with
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-12
New York Dry Y Goods.

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Business unset.
tied to-day, by tho break in the print
market, and package transactions were
light; jobbing trade progresses tavorablY.
American and Aliens fancy and side
band prints were reduced to 0 cents but
staples are unchanged. Cotton goods
Quiet at current prices. Cotton and Wool
Flannels active. Wooleus = Quiet.
Foreign goods in better demand.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-12
Toledo.

TOLEDO, Sept. 11.-Flour-Demand fair
and market firm. Wheat-Demand fair
and market firm; No. 2 white Wabash
81 90; No. 8 do 81 PAT; No. l white
Michigan, 81 II; extra do 81 cot; amber
spot 81 10i; seller October 81 l1a1 1871;
No. l red 81 IA. Corn-Firmer; new
higher; high mixed 82ic; seller septem-
her Sltc; seller October 9Oic; no grade
Sic; damaged 7Gc. Oats-Firm and 2a3c
higher; No. l Soc; No. 3 54a55c; Mlchi.
gan 54ta55c.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-12
RA1I.RoAp BoNps-Firm.

RAILROAD BoNDs-Firm.
SToCKs-Steady in the morning board
with an advance Of tat per cent on the
entire list. Union Pacific was especially
strong and the principal feature Of the
market, During the last hour 1t reacted
fraction from the highest point OF the
day: In tho general list Northwestern
and St. Paul were exceptionally weak.
Northwestern common fell from 81 10 35s
and st. Paul common from $3.50 to 32s. At
the final close the market was steady in
tone. Tho strongest stocks were Union
Pacific, New York Central, Lake Shore
and Western Union. The reaction
towards the close Of business was the re-
cult Of bear raid on the granger stocks
in Northwestern and ST. Paul Among
the sales Of shares were II 1000 Western
Union, l,OC0 Pacific Mail, "a 600 Erie,
1880 Lake Shore, $4,000 Union Pacific,
$500 Northwestern, 440O Rock Island,
$500 St, Paul, and $4,000 Wabash.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-12

We are now steamipg down Detroit
river, homeWard bound, and in a lew
hours more will land again at Cleveland
from whence we set out on this pleasant
tour Of tho lakes. As we arc go near 10
our journeys end, | will here suspend my
narrative OF the trip, leaving whatever
may betide us TO be told at future day
in case you may want to hear further
from your CORRESPONDENT.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-12

RUCKWHEAT FLOUR-5O BAGS
~ eholco Mountain BuckwheAt Flour, justre.
dOe' LIST, DAVENPORT SPARKS.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Hand.shaking.

How did people get in the habit of
shaking hands? The answer is not far
to seek. In early and barbarous times,
when every savage or semi-savage was
his own lawgiver, judge, soldier and
own safety, in default of all other pro-
lection, two friends and acquaintance,
or two strangers desiring to be friends
and acquaintance, when they chanced
to meet, offered each to the other the
right hand, the hand alike of offense
and defense, the hand that wields the
sword, the dagger, the club, the toma-
hawk, or other weapons of war. Each
did this to show that the hand was
empty, and neither war nor treachery
was intended. A man can not well
stab another while he is in the act of
shaking hands with him, unless he be a
double-eyed traitor and villain, and
strives to aim cowardly blow with the
left while giving the right and pretend
ing to be on good terms with his victim.
The custom of hand-shaking prevails
more or less among all civilized nations,
and is the tacit avowal of friendship and
good will, Just as kiss is of q warmer
passion. Ladies, as every one must have
remarked, seldom or never shake hands
with the cordiality of gentlemen, unless
it.be with each other. The reason is
obvious. 1t is for them to receive hon.
age, not to give it. They can not be ex-
pected to show to persons of the other
sex warmth of greeting which might
be misinterpreted, unless such persons
are very closely related to them by
family or affection, in which case hand
shaking is not needed, and the lips do
more agreeable duty.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Looking Bear Out Of Countenance.

A Michigan paper says that Mr.. .. Il.
Turner, of Grand Rapids, recently met
with the following adventures:
He was returning to his boarding place,
very much wearied, after hard days
tramp, when he came to a snarl OF fallen
trees which the late winds had thrown
across the track. He climbed upon the
body of one of the prostrate pines, and
as he was about to leap down, heavy,
cultural growl saluted his ears.
Looking in the direction of the sound,
he was surprised to behold brown bear
standing erect upon his hind feet and
facing him. He was as tall as man. He
remained in that attitude some time,
growing, whining, gnashing his teeth, and
challenging him to combat. Mr.. turner
had no weapons with him, not even his
favorite hatchet. Seeing the threatening
attitude of the bear, and realizing his de-
fenseless condition, his first impulse was
to turn and run.
But on second thought he concluded
that would be useless if the bear should
choose to follow him, SO he decided to try
the experiment of standing and looking
him out of countenance. The bear was
very angry at being thus interviewed, but
after eyeing his interviewer for some time,
he turned his head, looked backward,
then dropped upon his feet and cantered
away. The interview lasted about five
minutes, but Mr.. Turner says it seemed
to him much longer. He had doubts for
some time what the bear intended "to do
about it," and he left it entirely to the
bear to have his own way. AT any rate,
he felt sensible relief at seeing the saw
age monster disappear in the woods
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Lively Butter.

There is an old goat owned in Detroit
which has received great deal of train
ing from the boys. Last Fourth of
July they discovered that if they stuck
a fire-cracker in the end of cane and
held it at William, he would lower his
head and 90 for them; and they had
practiced the trick so much that the
goat will tackle any human being who
points stick at him. A few day ago he
was loafng near the corner of Third and
Lewis streets, when corpulent citizen
came up and stopped to talk with a
friend. They happened to speak of side.
walks, when the corpulent citizen pointed
his cane just to the left of the goat, and
said,-
"That's the worst piece of sidewalk in
this town."
The goat had been eying the cane, and
the moment it came up he lowered his
head, made six or eight jumps, and his
head struck the curpulent citizen just on
I" the belt" The man went over into a
mass of old tin, dilapidated butter kegs
and abandoned hoop skirts, and the goat
turned somersault the other way, while
slim citizen threw stones at a boy seated
on a doorstep, who was laughing tears az
big as chestnuts, and crying OUT
HOh, it's 'nuff to kill fellerP
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18

If the old faithful servant that has
worked for you so many years is not quite
as strong or feet as in years gone by,
perhaps he is worth as much to you as to
any body. Good care and generous feed
ing will make even an old horse more
valuable than If starved or abused. If
your business requires younger or smarter
horse-hesh, keep the old one for the wo-
men and children to drive. Old ac-
quaintances are often safer than new
ones. If you can not keep both, give the
old one to some old farmer, who you know
will be kind to him, with the promise
that he shall not trade him off TO some
brutal master, but will keep him as long
as he is worth keeping, and then kindly
lay him away where he will be beyond
the reach of hunger, cold and pain.
Many an old horse, il he knew his sit
uation, would thank his owner to take
away his life as a burden too heavy
to bear. We have got into the
habit of being both too careless and toe
cruel to old horses in this country. We
owe IL to them as our servants, as well
as in ourselves as human beings, that we
see TO it that our horses are not neces-
sarily abused or neglected as soon as they
begin TO show signs of old age.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
BerthOn's COllappible Barge.

Among other scientific devices with
which the Faraday is supplied, with the
view of facilitating the laying of the di-
rect United States cable, is "collapsi-
BILE" barge, the principle of which is the
invention of the Rev. E. l.. Berthon, a
name already well known in nautical
circles in connection with his "perpet-
ual log" The principle was originally
applied by Mr.. Berthon to lifeboats, a
number Of which, it is stated, are in
course of construction. The barge was
built by Mr.. E. p. Berthon, the son of
the inventor, and is to be used in laying
the shore end of the cable, of which it
will carry from twenty to thirty tons
with very light draught Of water. The
proportions of length to breadth in the
barge are very unusual, being nearly
two to one, the dimensions being: Length,
81 feet; width, 16 feet; and depth, A
feet. Such, however, is its collapsibility,
that, slowed away on the deck of the
Faraday, it only measures two feet at its
greatest width. The barge is cellular in
construction, and when small confining
rope is cast off it expands automatically,
inhaling into its ten cells about 800 cubic
leeI VI air. DuIiuR Iho PIVSooo VI GA
pansion the jointed bottom boards, which
are IA feet wide, fall into their places,
and lever-stanchions being placed under
the gunwales, the barge is ready for low
ering in minute or two. When in the
water, very substantial platform is
lowered into the barge; composed of
beams u inches thick and 1-inch planks.
Upon this deck the cable will be coiled,
and will be payed out over a large iron
sheave at the stern post. The barge
weighs about 25 cwt., and having great
powers of fotation with light draught,
is expected to be very serviceable in lay
ing the shore ends of the new cable. The
principle, moreover, appears to be one
which it might be found desirable to in
troduce into the slifeboat service.-Lon-
don Times.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
That Boy.

Bayard Taylor seems to have made a
lasting impression on the Egyptians
when he visited them twenty years ago.
During his recent visit there one of the
native hangers-on of the Khedive'sp palace
said to him, "You were here a long while
agoT' eyes," answered Mr.. Taylor.
"Twenty years or more p eyes" "And
there was a gentleman with you--a Ger
man think T' Eyes" "And you had
trouble with the men who went up the
Pyramid? You went to yonder village
and had the men punishedw eyes"
"And there was boy who carried a
water-bottle, and the Shekh of the vii
lage told him to bring coffee for you, and
there was no coffee at first; and the
Shekh gave the boy a slap, threw him
out Of the door, and told him not To
come again until he brought itT "Yes
well p T was that boy" said the
hanger-on naively.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
GOOd.Natured People.

The specially social qualities are good
nature, amiability, the desire to please,
the kindness of heart that avoids giving
offense and can not bear to hurt any0ne's
feelings. A good-natured person may
frankly disagree with you, but he never
offends. He quarrels good-naturedly.
He boxes with gloves on; when he fences
ever so deftly, there is great soft button
at the end of his foil. He may satirize,
ridicule, open up all your weaknesses and
absurdities, but so kindly that you can
not help loving him. He can not say a
harsh, hard, bitter or contemptuoust thing,
because he has no hardness and no con-
tempt. This is simple, natural goodness,
like the goodness of fond and friendly
animals. 1t may not be high moral
virtue; there is no particular merit in it
any more than in beauty or any natural
gift but it is very delightful quality,
and those who do not possess it should
initiate those who do.
Just as we avoid in person, dress or
manners, anything that may give disgust
or pain, so must we do in our converse
tion. We must no more use vulgar ex-
pressions than we would wear vulgar
garments. Our talk should beas clean as
our fingers. We should no more bite one
with our words than with our teeth. An
angry word is as bad as blow, and a
satirical word is like sting. If we are
never to sayanything to person that
will give him disgust or pain, we must be
even more careful not to say anything of
anyone which will injure him in the es-
timation of others. Playful, good-natured
criticism upon the little foibles and pc
culiarities Of others may do no harm, and
may be even useful, but it ceases to be
good-natured when it gives pain. Slander
is sin much worse than theft. Charity
forbids that we should even tell the truth,
when that truth can wound and injure.
The best rule is to say all the good we
can of every one, and to refrain from
saying evil, unless it becomes a clear mat
ter of duty to warn some one against him.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
The Naughty Man.

1t is related of Spanish grandee that
upon one occasion he cOndescended to
leave his carriage to walk for short dis
tance, when he stumbled against some
thing in his way and fell. He gathered
himselfup from the ground, and, draw
ing himself up, exclaimed, with great
"This comes of walking upon the
earth."
If the hidalgo had carried his head less
high, and looked down little, in all
probability he would have seen the i'm
pediment in his way, and so saved his
fall.
But how many men there are in every
community whose naughty and proud
bearing subjects them to tumbles of this
kind We frequently hear it said of
such and such an individual that he is
very dignifed---but in analyzing this
that this so-called dignity was based upon
the most intense pride. The dignified
man never perpetrates a joke, never con-
descends to laugh, lest he should COM
promise himself. He bears himself to-
ward his fellow-men as though it were an
unutterable condescensiOn to honor them
with anotice.
A man who has tolerable personal
appearance, and so conducts himself,
often gets the reputation of being
learned man and profound scholar, and in
this his dignity stands his friend for not
allowing himself to be familiar with his
fellows, he does not commit himself, and
like great many solemn donkeys we
know of, gets the name of being profound,
because he could hurl three or four encyc-
lopedias of knowledge at your head, did
he think it worth his while to do it,
when, in truth, he is one of the shallow
est fellows in the world, and only pro-
found in ignorance.
The man whose claims to learning or
to the respect of his compeers is founded
on reality needs no starched assumption
to maintain its position. 1t is only the
naughty, dignified man who is afraid of
the approach of familiarity and geniality,
and who inscribes on his brow, Noi me
tdngere.
We never meet one of these dignifed
men in the street, with solemn face,
head erect, and body as rigid as though,
like Lord Duberly's ancestors, he had
swallowed walking-stick, without think
ing of the observation of very tall Irish
recruit, who was being drilled by very
diminutiye seargent.
"Heads up"
"And am T." said the incipient soldier,
"always to hold my head up after this
wayT' ~
"Of course"
"Then, good-by, seargent, for shall
never see you any more"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Sense and Nonsense.

"WHAT kind of sausages is themT'
queried an old lady of the young man of
literature and peanuts, as he passed
through the train selling bananas.
A CANADIAN matron, one hundred
and eight years old, is still able to devote
much energy to the bringing up her little
boy, aged ninety-three.
A MARRIED man in Chicago is not
looked after until he has been absent
from home five days. Then his wife be-
gins to think something's wrong.
WHAT singular contradictions there
are throughout nature and life. For ex-
ample: Salt water gives us fresh fish,
and hot words produce coolness.
WHAT goose the man who talked
about busy fly. The indolent creature
can only wink two billion times second,
and mosquito can beat him ten to one.
COAST IRON SINKS" is written upon
the sign of Hartford plumber. "Well,
who the (hic) said it didn'tT chuckled
an inebriated man after reading it over
three times.
AMONG the most modern cOnveniences
in the latest dwelling house is the crema-
ton cellar, with self-rotating roaster,
odor-escape fues and comfortable seats
for the mourners.
MANY a man thinks it's virtue that
keeps him from turning a rascal, when
it's only full stomach. One should be
careful, and not mistake potatoes for
principles
A DELAwAREman willed his thirty-eight
relatives five cents each, and $50, 1000 to a
college; and the funeral procession
didn't occupy two minutes passing
given point.
A MISSOURI jury, in the case of man
found with ten bullets in his head de-
cided that che had been shot, or met
with some bad accident in some manner
not just now known"
A DAIRYMAN was awakened by a wag
one night, who told him his best cow was
choking. He jumped up at once, went
out and found turnip stuck in the
mouth of the pump.
$50 here I am, between two tailors,"
cried beau at public table, where a
couple of young tailOrs were seated, who
had Just began business for themselves.
"True," was the reply; "we are begin
ners, and can only afford to keep one
goose between us.
"OH! what do you think, Mr.. Lilly
brow? The other day | was taken for
twenty-five, and l am only eighteenF
Haw wonder what you will be taken
for when you're twenty-tiveY' For
better or for worse, hopeW MIR. Lilly
brow looks pensive.
SOME crusty old bachelor says:
have noticed that when there is only one
daughter in family, and her parents are
very anxious to keep her at home as
long as possible, some chap coaxes her of
before she is seventeen. l have also
noticed that where there is house full
of girls, and the parents are praying daily
for husbands for the same, the whole lot
are apt to live and die old maids.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
A Professional Borrower.

Had Mrs. Carey been man she would
have occupied a leading diplomatic po-
sitiOn, but being woman, her special
qualifications found other vent.
Her emissaries were two sons of tender
age, but she did not scorn to do her share
of the execution, or even, on rare occa-
sions, to impress her husband into the
service.
1t came to be doubt in the neighbor-
hood if the Careys ever set down to a
meal of which some portion was not
freshly borrowed.
Before other people had fairly got out
of bed, the emissaries were on their secret
missions, and until the candles were ex-
at night they were at work.
A tap at the door just as the family
were about to draw up to the table,
would invariably draw from the house
keeper the remark:
"There's one of them Carey boys to
borrow something; come in!
1t was either for a cup of sugar, or a
bowl.Of -four, or grain of saleratus, or
a dish of molasses, or a little sugar, or a
morsel of butter.
1t appeared that Carey was going down
street presently, and would get quantity
of the desired article, when the loan
would be returned; or he had just got
home and forgotten to bring it, which he
had been specially directed to do in the
morning, and she would send one of the
boys downtown after it in an hour or
two.
1t was always observed of Mrs. Carey
that the article which she was out of was
something she was just on the eve of send
ing for to the store.
When Mrs. Carey expected company
(or, we may say, had company-as she
never appeared to anticipate anything)
it was busy occasion for the emissaries.
There was a cup of sugar from the
Schuylers for "crow's nest;" little
saleratus from the Millers for biscuit; a
hunk of cheese from the Wildmans a
pitcher of milk from the Finches, and a
cup of white sugar for the tea from the
Smiths.
The older Mrs. Carey grew in years,
the more embarrassed she became by ad-
verse circumstances
Advancing years made Carey's men,
ory more uncertain, and brought ad-
ditional duties to the emissaries to prevent
them from going to the store as often as
she desired.
1t got SO that no housekeeper, however
careless, would sit down to a meal with
out first casting precautionary glance
out of the window for Carey.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Carey returned
the loans.
We say unfortunately, because other
wise she could have been indicted for re-
ceiving goods under false pretenses, and
shut up in consequence; or the commu-
nifty could have arisen in a body against
her, and by the inexorable law of society
crushed her out of existence.
Az Ii WAS they prinned-they bore it.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
A Tragedy Indeed.

One of the most heart-rending stories
of the year comes from Fond du Lac: A
Young lady was passing through piece
of ground adjoinining a farmhouse with
her lover when the girl was attacked by
savage dog. Before her escort could
protect her the dog had seized her by the
breast and tore the breast from her body.
When the young man saw the dog shak-
ing portion of the body of his intended,
he tainted away. The young lady, how.
ever, did not faint. She was so mortified
that she seized fence rail and went for
the dog, and she pounded him until he
laid still. When her lover recovered the
young woman was trying to hide one OF
the wire screens that people put over
plates to keep the fes of. II seems that
the dog didn't draw blood, owing to the
fashions at Fond du Lac, which is need
less to describe. However, there is great
excitement at Fond du Lac, and the young
man has broken off his engagement and
has bought that dog--what there is left OF
him--and he is going to set him again.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Punctuality Mt Death.

Mr.. Higgins was very punctual man
in all his transactions through life. He
amassed large property by untiring in
dustry and punctuality, and at the adj
vanced age of ninety years was resting
quietly upon his bed, and calmly waiting
to be called away. He had deliberately
made almost every arrangement for his
decease and burial. His pulse grew faint
err, and the light of life seemed just flick
ering in its socket, when one of his sons
observed:
Father, you will probably live but a
day or two, is itnot well for you to name
your bearersT
"To be sure, my son." said the dying
man, it is well thought Of, and will do
il now."
He gave a list of six, the usual number,
and sank back exhausted upon his pillow.
A CLEAN of thought passed over his with
cred face like a ray Of light, and he rallied
once more.
"My son, read me that list. Is the
name of Mr.. Virgins thereT.
at is, my father"
"Then strike IL off," said he, emphatic
ally, "for he was never punctual; he was
never anywhere. in season, and he might
hinder the procession whole hourp
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
A WESTERN YARN.-A Western paper
go. up;I NVbaIav racentIv diad in n

A WESTERN YARN.-A Western paper
says: "Bill Whaley recently died in a
California poor-house, and he formerly
drove a stage-coach in that State. He
wouldn't own horse that had more than
enough skin to cover his bones, and
through which the moral law could not
be read. His animals were queer geo.
mctrical puzzles; combinations of angles,
right, obtuse, and acute. One day he
came driving into Uniontown at full
speed, and just as he drove up in front OF
the hotel one Of his horses dropped dead
That wasa very sudden death, remarked
bystander. 'Suddenp replied Captain
Bill, that horse died in Smithland, nine
miles from here; but never let him drop
until got him in town."