The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-12
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The Danbury News wishes 10 know
why women, like men, do not have par
ties on their twenty-frst birthday.
Japan has twenty-five national bankPi
with S29,OOO,OOO Of capital, all estab.
lished within less than two years, and
all under Japanese managers.
Did yon ever watch the noiseless move.
ments Of a pretty girls lips as her dress
Is troddsn upon and marvel at the self.
command which enables her to do justice
to the subject in SO quiet a manner?
/. is reported that Mrs. Hicks, like
other fond Wiyes, already stands over
the register, and monopolires the heat,
while her dear Lord stands apart and
kicks the wa~inscoting TO keep his toes
from freeEing.-DErisk.
The following Is 4 rather equiYocal
obituary: "Maria Brown, wife Of Tim
othy Brown, aged eighty years. She lived
with her husband ffty.nine years, and
died In the confident hope Of a better
life"
The New York Board of Education
reduces the salaries Of principal and vice.
principal teachers from 10 to % per cent,
other male teachers from 10 to 10, and
female teachers o. per cent, with no re-
duction in the primary grades. Gross
reduction about $4,000.
"John," remarked a Portland parent to
his son, there's ten dollars coming to me
to-day, and I want you to try and collect
IT." @Yes. sir" responded John; and he
asked, as he glided towards the door, vi
the money! coming to you what's the
use of me going after it."-sL John
Torch.
General Crook thinks that Sitting Bull
will be compelled to come to the United
s.ates 10 order to hunt the buffslo neces.
sary for his subsistence; also, that there
is no possible way Of keeping him from
crossing the frontier. There will be al.
ways more or less trouble Till Sitting Bull
is cleaned out.
The Newport Ntns tells Of the persecu-
ton a young man who had abandoned
drink suffered al the hands Of bis former
acquaintances. They tried to get him to
ioin them, and, when lie would not, put
iiuuor in his food, placed druga In his
room and put on bogus blue ribbons TO
obtain his confidence.
A Paterson man, who is a great breed
err, was exhibiting to a number Of visitors
a new, large, elegant brown mule. In
order to test his power Of argument a
number Of lager beer kegs were roll
ed up, and the brown mule, in
nineteen seconds, kicked the heads
out Of eleven kegs in a possible ten.
The visitors expressed gaeat won.
der, when the Paterson man said, "But
you ought to see him in summer, when
he's really thawed out"
General Mcdowell has told a cores
pendent Of the Chicago Tribune that "the
removal Of troops from Alaska was at
bis own suggestion and was done purely
on the grounds Of economy" He con.
siders the acquisition of detached terri
tory a detriment rather than a benefit to
our country, especially a region Of SO lit.
tie value as Alaska, which is separated
from the States by a long stretch OF dan.
serous sea, and he thinks that the United
States government would do wisely to dis.
pose Of, ever giving it away, II no pur.
chaser could be found, to some country
that would guaranty the inhabitants the
protection which, under the treaty with
Russia, they have an undOubted right to
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