The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-13

raised ~ NorthWeelefn Ohtoi where they
have no hills, he said he had never cross
ed the mouutains OF been east Of Column
bus until he had family and carriage.
BE then started with them for the East.
After passing ZanesVille the bills led him
to conclude he was entering the moun-
tains. On past Wheeling, Washington,
Brownsville TO Unionlown, they became
higher and more Of them. As he gave
his reins 10 the young hoStler he remark
ed well, my boy, / suppose ] am most
over the mountains, arn't II" swell,
yes" was the reply, "but there are some
right smart rises ahead" When he had
reached the top Of Laurel Hill, the next
morning he thought the boy had told 4
part OF the truth.
A STAGE DRIVER WHO WAS NOT WANTED.
Mt. sulliyant, Of Neill, Moore 4 Co.,
once gave proiane young scamp good
rCbuke. He was At Wheeling q few days,
and the fellow came 10 the office, probabl J
the worse for liquor, and asked Tor a
place a. driver. "CAn you drive stage,
said Mr.. s. "Well, ] can drive stage
plump into hi" "As we have no lines
running il that direction We don't want
YOU" There were many OF these aimee
dotes, some good but ! am running TOO
long,
RIVER REMISIsoENcEs.
The river, too, had its jokes, by The
hundreds, and some that were pretty
good. Capt. LodWick was long on The
river. Al GuyandotIe he took on pass.
enger who was pronounced by other pass.
engers the homliest man living, The
Captain said he had one on deck that was
more than match for him. From words
they came to bets, when the Captain went
down for his deCk.hand, who was named
Knight from Ozark Monroe" he came
up making hideous grimaces which lie
could do 10 perfection. "Stop that" ex-
claimed The Captain, "Come Just as God
made you. We will beat them any way"
Would not all Of Us gain more by look
Ing and acting naturally, than by aaecIa-
ton or making faces for the world
Steamboats, looked 10 me much larger
and finer in those old days than they dc
now; but boatmen say they are much i'm,
proved. Perhaps the assertion frequent
on the lips Of Mr. Mclean, a portrait
painter Of Wheeling, long ago, Is always
true, that when young the eyes are very
wide opeH and gradually narrow day by
day until they are shut in the last sleep,
Hardly, however, Is that true in all
cases, for we can see many small things a
long way behind us. 10 some, river
travel Is not pleasant; to me it 10. You
can converse on boat-you can only
talk on the cars. On the former you car
observe-on the latter only look, and
there is much to observe on this beautiful
river both Of what nature has done and
what man oughtto do. The hundred and
fifty millions ofdollars sometimes lavish.
ed annually by our people in visiting
Paris ard the Rhinc,it spent on this river
would throw them 80 far in the shade that
they would never be heard Of again.
Randall Brown, formerly chandler Of
Wheeling, was a dry genius, Coming up
with him on boat from Cincinnati III
lS47, he asked where was the night be.
fore; said he had called at the hotel &c
see me. Told him had spent the night
at the observatory by invitation Of Prot
Mitchell. "Nhat did you see p ! de.
scribed the moon, planets, fixed and
double stars as they appear through the
different lenses OF the big telescope and
then told him that our attention was
turned, under the highest power, to a
luminous ring that was so far beyond any
other stars that il required fifty thousand
years for the light 10 reach this earth.
GLOW fast did you say light Travelled p
said he.
Twelve million miles minute. "FiEly
thousand years! Jerusalem; but this
is great country