The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-11-22
PERSON AND THINGS.

returned.
The patent apparatus which enables
every bar to dispense glass Of excellent
wine at low price has this year received
the silver medal at the Fair OF the Ameri.
can Institute.
ltis stated that ex-SpeAker' Blame will
in all likelihood succeed Mr.. Morrill, in
the United States Senate, which will take
him ont OF the list Of Presidential aSpi-
rants,
A girl in BCrks county, Pennsylvania,
only twelve years old, rises daily at four
A. NJ, milks thirteen cows and prepares
breakfast for the family. Her hair isn't
"banged," and she doesn't wear a one.leg.
ged dress.
A college newspaper significantly re.
marks "The President has appointed
the 25th Of November as a day Of thanks.
giving, and II behooves every honest citi.
zen to pick out his turkey and wait for a
dark night"
Mr., Henry G. Bowen announces in his
paper that, as one Of the founders Of
Plymouth Church, he Is reluctant to leave
1t, but the events Of last spring will prob.
ably require him, while still member
and pow.holder, to attend worship for the
most part elsewhere.
Jennie June, in the Graphic, Laura
HOlliwuy, in the Eagle, Nellie IIutChin-
son, in the Tribune, Hannah Sheppard, in
the Mail and Star, Mrs. Battey and Miss
Ballard, in the Sun, MILDLY Morgan, In
the Times, and Lucille Hollis, in the Tel.
sgram, are some Of the prominent lady
writer's Of New York.
The Toronto Globe says; "Ths egg
trade Of this Province Ia enormous, In
Oxford county, one firm has this season
sent to tho New York market over one
thousand barrels, Of seventy dozen each
This supply was procured in radius of
twelve miles"
Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y, will not
ship this year more than 10000 barrels
OF apples, while last year the entire ship.
ment from that place amounted to nearly
1000 barrels. The crop Is q compare.
lively light one, yet the quality Is far
superior to last year.
The shipments Of iron ore from the
Lake Superior district up to the Sd, inst.
Amounted to 743,lO3 gross tons, against
| TAI, ,lGl tons to the 9Th Of November last
year. The Journal thinks tho production
this year will fall below that Of last year
by at lenst 100000 tons.
Tho whisky trials at 81. Louis disclose
that the favOrite name bestowed upon
children In that city is "COn," 1t seems
to he almost universal among the first
families. There Is Con Megrue, Con Can.
non, Con Mcguire, and, we suppose, Con
Mckee, Con McCulldgh, Con Mcdonald.
The prosecution insists there was con.
spiracy, embracing number Of conGden.
tial contributors to the pool, but this nceds
confirmation.
The following "Ode to the Prairie Wind"
appears In the Burlington HaWEsyc rs
original, but It reads amazingly like Jon.
quin Miller: "Oh, the blizzard, the beaut-
ful blizzard; freezing fellow from eNr.tip
10 lizard; making his face Us blue as u
wizard chilling the life.blood that flows
from his giz1ard; blowing, snowingi cold
as lizard; get up and get out of this,
beautiful blizzard"
The nblest Democratic leaders In the
next House will be Cox, Wood, Kerr,
Holman, Alexander Stephens, and Faulk.
ner. The ablest Republican leaders will
be Blaine, Eugene Hale, Wm. A, Weeler,
General Hurlburt, George +, HOar, and
KaSsOn, Of Iowa. The talent seems to be
about equally divided, although there Is
no Democratic member who Is the peer
Of Blaine as a debater or parliamenta.
rinn.
1t was twenty.one years ago, on the
10th inst, when the Hon. James G.
Blaine became one Of tho editors and
proprietors Of the Kennebec Journal, at
Augusta, Me. In announcing his advent
the retiring editor said: "Mr. Blaine
comes among us comparatively a stran.
ger. II Is but Just to say that hc is
gentleman Of decided talent, Of liberal
education, extensive travel, and ucqauint.
ed with the public men and measures Of
the country"
A malicious attempt was made lately
to stop the working Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company's lines between San
Francisco and Sacramento, by twisting
about them a strip Of fine wire, one end
of which was fastened to a hail driven
into a tree near by. The diStructing
wire was so fine, and the foliage Of The
tree covered the nail 80 completely, that
il was long time before the workmen
could find out what was the matter with
the lines.
The boring for gas at the Steel.workS
Of Jones, 1ngold 4 Co., at McKain Sta.
tion, near McKeesport, Pa, Is down | 400
feet, and will be sunk to depth Of 1000
feet II necessary. At the depth Of 75O
feet gas was struck, and the tools, weigh.
ing /, 400 pounds, we're thrown out Of the
we'll, but the vein proved to be Of small
capacity, ns did one found at depth Of
800 feet. The great Burns and Delama.
Ter wells, in Butler county, are 1000 feet
deep.
Fiityseven per cent Of married Eng.
lishmen among the 'old families" choose
cousins to we'd. Every country and
every nation has its little peculiafities
In respect 10 marrying. Englishmen have
a fondness for cousins, and the laws
trouble him not In the pursuit. Of his hap.
piness and his relative. In Persia mai,
may marry his mother-if 10 be he can
mix flial affection with the grunde passion
and no law Of Mede or Persia says him
nay, while In our own free country 4 fel.
low hardly dares marry at all, and yet
we are not happy.
ALAdER VicroRY.-Cotbin, the plucky
saloon.keeper Of Westerville, Ohio, who
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