The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-24
PERSONS AND THINGS.

In Ensland dogs are butchefed and
sold for mutton. There Is no doubt q
good deal Of mutton In dogs at times.
The Dan Rice circus has been sunk in
the Missouri river. while on the IhoE
boat Damsel. The veteran Daniel would
thank any county Sheriff to seize and
raise his show. tfa
Oil City Derrick: Every once in q
while we hear offs California woman
killing . bear. That Is all right But
challenge the world to ransack the pages
Of history and show Us where woman
has ever got away with mouse.
A convict at Auburn escaped hard
work during his confinement Of two and
a half years by feigning paralysis. he
was so successiul 10 the fraud that he was
lifted about by attendants, and on his re-
lease had to be carried to the depot in q
chair and placed in thecars. An hour
afterward he visited the prison officials
and astounded them at his speedy and
full recovery. -t
The Pope has ordered congregation
Of cardinals to study the laws Of the
guarantees and the speeches that have
been made In the Italian Parliament con.
corning them, with view to define the
position Of the PontifF, the Sacred Col
lege and the Pontitcal Court, II being nc
longer possible to proceed on the present
provisional footing.
Many good people with inquiring
minds have probably gone down to theii
graves without ever finding out what
made circus lemonade red. The mystery
is solved; It is raspberry syrup that doel
II, Circus lemonade Ia composed Of .
pail OF water, hall a pint Of "surrup,'
four slices Of lemon for advertising float
ers, and chunk Of glass for Ice.
A Nevada teamster Lost his sweetheart
who was kind but obstinate; and 30 HI
named a mule Nancy, because the mule
reminded him Of bis girls character. The
mule has kicked $500 worth Of harness to
pieces; but the teAmster loves the beas
all the same, and has tears in his eye
when he sees the leather flying. AL the
sentiment Of this world Is not confined tc
newspaper Offices, after all.
Sand bathing has been introduced OF
the beach at Ocean Grove, NJ. A trench
is dug in the damp sand near the ocean
and the suns rays are allowed to pour in
to it until the sand becomes almost hot
The bather then reclines in the trench
and an attendant covers him with sand
until he looks like terrapin. The
bathers say the baths are not only pleas
ant, but beneficial, and that three sucf
baths will cure rheumatism.
The great typo tramp, John T. McGin
ty, otherwise "Texas Jack" Is now In
New York, and, after a journey to Bos
ton, where he hopes to meet and marry
an old sweetheart, he will settle down tc
permanent work. He has walked from
California to Quebec and Boston and back
again. he has been up and down the
Mississippi, setting type in every Office
between St. Paul and New Orleans. BE
has crossed the Atlantic and wandered
over half Of Europe, but be now means
to put period to his wanderipgs.
Philadelphia correspondent Baltimore
American: A few months ago the Centen-
nial Board Of Finance decided the main
building to the Permanent Exhibition
Company for $4,000. This sum was paid
by number Of the Directors Of the
company, It is now desired to return
this money, and as the receipts from visi.
tors to the exhibition barely pay the
running expenses, resort will be had e
the accommodating mortgage. An ef.
fort is now being made to borrow the in
significant sum Of $40, 600 on the building
whose cost was up in the millions.