The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-08
PERSONS AND THINGS.

L. is stated that Bob IngersollS lecture
tour this season will net him $4,000. Bob
finds inadelity profitable.
Mrs. Edwin Adams expects to join Mr..
and Mrs. Joeeph Jefferson on their Lou
isiana plantation when they go South.
Niuety.eight widows under twenty years
Of age are Living in Franklin county,
Kentucky, Of which Frankfort is the
county seat.
For twelve hours previous to being EN-.
balmed the body OF Victor Emmanuel
was immersed in astrong solution Of cor.
rOsive sublimate.
Bob Ingersoll made it lively for Satan,
at Chickering Hall, last nightly. Y
Star. And II there is 4 devil won't he
makei it lively for Bob some OF those hot,
swelterinS daySH
A discharged emplOye Of gas compa-
ny in Louisville Ky, actually obtained a
coat upon forged order purporing to
come from its cashier, and reading
GPlease Let bero hev the over coat and l
will Dictate the same out Of his months
salery."
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg sang at a
concert in Titusyille, Pa, the other night
and the Herald, Of that place, thus de-
scrlbes her performance: "Like the
smooth, unctuous trickliug Of the olea'
ginous commodity from hundred'bar'
rel we'll we're the liquid, oily notes Of the
handsome, bediamonded Kellogg to the
enraptured Titusyillers."
A Californian has invented an ingeni'
Qua water.faucet, through which, il water
ia drawn, it comes out as cold rs ice
water. Boiling water placed in any re
ceptacle, and allowed 10 run through, will
be found cool and fit to drink. The fau'
Get contains numerous small tubes incloS
ed in large ones, and between the outside
Of one and the inside Of the other certain
chemicals are packed, which produce the
desired effect.
When Abraham Lincoln was a poor
lawyer, he found himself one cold day at
n village some distance from Springfield
ILL.,, and with no means Of conveyance
Seeing gentleman driving along the
Springfield road in a carriage, he ran up
to him and politely said: "sir, will you
have the goodness to take my overcoat to
town for me?" "NYlth pleasure" an
swered the gentleman. "But how will
you get it ngain% "oh, very easily"
said Mr.. Lincoln, "as l intend to remain
in. it," Jump in" said the gentleman,
laughing, and the future President had a
pleasant ride.
A pleasant place in which to study
human nature il the New Jersey State
Prison. An account OF the tanning pro-
cess in that institution says: "There is,
first, the boot.heel gag Ia very painful
instrument); second, the paddle ian in.
strument used to beat prisoners on the
bare flesh, inlicting intense suiering)i
third, the stretcher' (which is equal to
the rack Of olden times. The mans feet
are fastened to the floor; he is handcnfled,
and by rope drawn up to the ceiling as
tightly as possible. From five 10 twenty
minutes Of this would make any one
weaken; fourth, alcohol is poured on the
prisoners back and &c! on fire. In one
case man was twice burned in succes.
sion so that the hair on his body cracked,
and he was twice put on the stretcheri
fifth, the douche, which consists Of pour
ing water from hose on the naked bodies
Of prisoners. This creates most agonizing
pain, and is apt to produce insnuity."