The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-07-31
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Black satin slippers with Eilyered
heels are much worn in inflated circles,
MAJ. GEN. PEARSON, who figured In
Pittsburgh as commander Of the militia,
is brother to the negro minstrel known
rs W. p. Collins.
on July 10th fine specimen of the
Colorado beetle was recognized crawling
along a rope, in the vicinity Of the Liver.
pool docks, Dublin. II was the first speci.
men seen in ireland,
THE kind Of verses that are read in a
Kentucky school exhibitions:
100, my son, and shut the Ihuttet'i--
This heard q mother utter.
"hhutteT's shut, tue boy did multer,
~ can't shut II any shutter"
Ex-Governor LErCHER, OF Virginia,
when returning from Baptist Fair, was
asked by n friend whathe had been do.
ing. II have been eating oysters for The
Lord at dollar dozen" was his reply.
The run on the ST.. Louis banks brings
out some curious facts. One Of these Is
that within two years past tWenty.threc
banks in that city have closed their doors,
and Of these, seventeen have paid or will
pay depositors in full.
PtERREPoNT, glanCing over the news
from Aperica, "Weally, nOwl A wiot
a wunipus! a webellion! And in the
Nawth, too, you know How yeWwy un.
fortunate that Genewal Gwant is out OF
the countwy"
In California wheat can be cut, thresh.
ed, ground, baked and eaten between
morning and night, and il necessary, one
Of the men can be buried and the woman
who does the baking get a divorce before
the hired men have finished their after
supper smoke.
MIR. Z. D. Mansfield, who is credited
with being very close and accurate OBJ
server, estimates that the wheat crops Of
Ohio this season will be worth $4,000
900, and hay S2O,OOO,0OO, which ought to
net the Granger community $50,000,00O.
ABOUT six months ago a pair Of ladies'
shoes were mailed from Troy to place
in Ireland, but were returned on account
Of insufficient postage. The package was
then forwarded to the dead letter Office at
Washington but was returned, with in.
structions to deliver II to the sender. AS
that person could not be found, the shoes
were again sent to Washington; but they
have come back again, with the former
instructions duplicated.
A RUSSIAN songstress, the Princess En-.
galitchefI, has been engaged for the Opera
House OF Paris on the following tsrms'
For the frat year she will receive $4,000
francs; for the second, $4,000, and for the
last, $4,000; besides retaining the right to
sing at concerts and appearing In other
towns. The Princess will sing under the
name Of Enghaly.
MIDNIGHT on North Hill. The declining
moon CLEANS from the starry heavens like
the smile on the face Of the jac o'lantern.
A young man against the end Of the vine
empowered porch beneath the window Of
his dear sings, "Oh for touch of that
soft white hand, on my iever.throbbing
brow" And then her father, emitting
himself stealthily from the front door
snook mp and touched the young man just
below the tournure, with a numbercnint
boot, and the moon went down in a sea o.
blood, and the pail OF darkness blotteG
out the stars.
FASHIONABLE watering-places are hall
empty. This rain of hard times fall,
equally on the just and unjust. People
never before suspected Of such habits now
spend the summer where they can &c,
board the cheapest, Fancy.prices and S.
per day piece for man and wife at oul
fashionable hotels are things OF the past
Porters and servants who once named
their own fees now regard even a dimt
with respect and iriendliness long I'm
known. The summer is half past, thu
harvest is half over, and more than ont
pretentious watering.place hotel woulC
close to-day were it not for the necessit,
Of keeping up bold 'front.' Graphic.