The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-26
PERSONS AND THINGS.

An Iowa schoolmistress has been dis
charged for standing on her head. Are
the women of this country always to be
denied their rights?
An eccentric and useful sheep is kept
on a steamer plying between Ban Fran
cisco and Stockton. he is trained to 60
out on gang plank at a landing when
flock is to be loaded, to show that The
approach Is safe, and TO act as pilot,
A foolish fellow named Henley, resid.
ing near New York, has issued chal'
lenge to any man in America to smoke
cigars. Henley says he hiss smoked loo
| in % hours and can beat that He de-
sires to wager $500 to $1,000 on the re
suit.
Two years ago drover started from
California with 1000 sheep. he has just
arrived in Texas, having driven the flock
all the way, assisted by two welI.trained
dogs. The sheep have increased in mum.
bers, and frequent stops for pasturage
have kept them in good condition. They
are intended for slaughter In the Eastern
market.
Fashionable intelligence from a Balti-
more paper: "Gail Hamilton began
losing her hair, but by persistent annoint'
ing Of the parts with raw onion not only
arrested the process. but has produced a
second growth Of qnite a different and
slightly reddish color"
Anew Jersey editor Is in luck. Re
Gently. q neighbor presented him with q
side Of pork and twenty yards Of sausage
and the next day his wife dislocated her
jaw while yawing, and was unable to say
a word. A much more cheerful tone Ii
now discernable In his editorials, and his
face always wears radiant smile.
While out hunting during a late storm
Texan encountered q herd Of bewildered
bafIaloes numbering one hundred grown
ones and about forty calves. The SNOW
lay upon the ground to the depth Of a foot
he was alone, but alter several days oil
hard work he secured the entire lot in q
natural corral in the bend Of stream
and, proceeding to;the nearest Town sold
them to an entsrprisipg dealer for $500
A resident of Dubuque, Iowa, on leav'
| ing home, eighteen months ago buried his
earthly wealth, $4,000 in gold coin, in
field, having taken the bearings very
carefully by the fence, tree and the Gu
pola Of a house. When he returned the
field had been cut up into building lots
and the tree cut down, and it was not un-
Ill q land surveyor had been called In
and variety Of abstruse calculations had
been worked with the ,rotting roots Of The
tree, which were fortunately discovered
10 the ground, that the money was found
The spirit OF Calvin has reached At
lunta, Georgia, where a Presbyterian dea'
con has been arraigned before the session
Of his church charged with The crime o.
shaking the light fantastic toe, or, more
specifically, of having given a party
whereat dancing was permitted and en-
couraged. The deacon makes a manly
and learned defense. His Christian pa
rents, who hnd reared him carefully, made
home pleasant to their children by en-
couraging innocent amusements, includ.
ing dancing therein they infringed not
al all upon the declarations Of the Bible,
which speaks repeatedly Of the exercise
Of the dance as INDUCED in by the hcliest
OF lis characters. The entertainment for
which he is csnsured was given in honor
Of his mother and sister. II the church
chooses to expel him for an act which he
believes to be proper, he can only submit
to expulsion, and before God declare The
sincerity of his opinions and the purity
Of his motives. The elders ordered in
the fagots.