The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-18
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A woman of graceful reserve is monu
4 ment of frozen Impulse.
1t doesn't look well when men spenC
more money in burying their wives thar
they do in keeping them.
And now the notable housewife des
cribes to her younger and less experienced
neighbor her method of making pickles
They went fishing. She looked languid,
ly at HIM, and said: 81 wish the fish
would bite at your hook. Il / Was fish
l would san.
From La We Parisiehptc: Woman
can never be Republican: her nature Is
opposed to it. She only understands
slavery or royalty"
One would think that good part OF
the dialogue about THAT Husband OF
Nine" would take place over the back
fence with the woman next door.
Mrs. Spilkins thinks Grant must be
popular in Paris. She notices they've
even named an avenue after him, the
Champs Ulysses Commercial Advertiser.
The other morning Fourth avenue
lady received = telegram that her father
was dead. "Now," said she, "John cant
help buying me some new clothes"
The saddest duty woman ever has
to do is that of examining her husbands
pockets, but from the way she performs
the duty one would suppose she gloried
In 1t.
"You are pretty as picture" he NUT
tered, gazing into her upturned face,
land it would have been great deal
cheaper for me If | had taken your picture
instead of yourself"
IL is the duty of gallant man always
to pretend to believe everything a woman
says, out of respect to her: and never to
believe anything she says out Of respect
to himself VuLainous Exchange.
The minister WAS talking of purity Of
heart, and the boy was dreaming of fruit
cake. So when the good man said,
What more can we haveW the boy
replied, you've had two pieces already"
Rome Sentinel
Z. w. Flower, Jr., who was the man
ager OF the narrow-gauge railway around
the Centennial grounds, has recelyed y
proposition to go to Paris and build and
operate u similar road on the Exposition
grounds there next year.
Mr.. Wilkie Collins has been exceed
ingly i'll with rheumatism in his knees
He will remain in London long enough
to superlntend the production OF "Hhe
Moonstone," which is being placed on the
stage, and will then go to Switzerland.
The New York Mail says that Tweed
daughter, who msrried Maginnis, in 1870,
and whose wedding presents cost $4,000,
is now living in absolute poverty, the
bridal presents snd tinery having all been
sent to the pawnshops.
Irene A. V. House, who murdered her
husband, ha, been released from the n ew
jersey State Lunstic Asylum. completely
restored. Ii is a remarkable tact in
pathology that murderers are cured Of
insanity quicker than any other class.
William Cullen Bryant has delivered
q temperance lecture in which he attacks
the pernicious practice of mothers quiet
ing their young with soothing sIrup'
and other narcotics. The venerable poet,
in striking for temperance reform,
would go to the fountain head.
Man never is but always to be blessed.
Some people look forward to peace ana
contentment when the end of the
mosquito season shall have arrived.
About that time the nominations are
made for the elections, and the buzzing
goes on as it went before, only great
deal more Socially Derrick.
Sentiment and reality. The young
man is leaning over gate prsising the
starry eyes which belong to his compan-
ion. Suddenly his dream is interrupted
by the shrill voice of his little brother
across the street exclamiAg: "You quit
spoonin' and come to supper" and he
moves Oft surprised that being SO finely
organized rs himself should be cursed
with AN annetitp