The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-13
PERSONS AND THINGS.

seripta Boston lady has fallen in love with
her husband. How let her run away
with him.
The Governor Of Kentucky sets a free
lunch daily while the Legislature isin
session, and yet people wonder at the de-
liRhtiu! harmony that exists between
himself and the members.
AtelephOne has already been placed in
the House Of Commons to enable the edi.
tors Of one Of the leading London news
papers to hear by word Of mouth the la
test news Of the Parliamentary debates.
A young woman in Belfast, Me, has q
passion for killing cats. She shuts the
victim in a room, watches her chances to
catch it BY the hind legs, gives 1t a swing
and dashes its brains out. AT one time
she had Eve laid out at once.
New Haven Is busy erecting an i'm
mense temporary building for the use Of
Moody and sankey, whose services are to
begin there on the third Sunday in March.
The building, which will cost $4,000, will
seat 5000 persons.
When called before the curtain Mad
anne ModjsSka does not wear the stereo.
typed smile Of the actress upon her face,
but simply goes to the front and bows,
with the same expression Of c%ouptenauce
shs wore during the play. Her Camille
is said to make weeping common behind
the scenes.
While the autographs Of Presidents
Washington, Jackson, Tayler, and Pierce
brought but IS or 81 at auction in New
York; while the signatures of Clay, Doug.
las, Webster, Hamilton, and numbers Of
others, more or less famous in American
history, brought little more than 81,
those Of Edgar Allan Poe and Tom Paine
sold for Sl3 and $40 respectively.
Itthat problem about a man marrying
in such q way as finally to become his
own grandfather has been settled, the
following may be taken up: .There Ia
now a gentleman from Alabama visiting
Atlanta who has a third wife, whose
youngest sister his son married. Then
his daughter married his wife's brother"
Through the carelessness Of a servant
girl, who left a mixture Of arsenic and
corn meal in a pantry. where it was found
by her successor and used to fry oysters
in, a New Orleans family was poisoned.
The head Of the family, himself a suf.
ferer, was a druggist, aud his shop being
down stairs he promptly procured and
administered the proper antidote. 1t is
noteworthy that all Of the family re-
covered save only the mother.in.law.
AT Runcorn, England, a cook and
waitress lately sued their late employer
for damages for wrong dismissal. Upon
the lady's complaining Of the %sloyenly
state Of the larder, they became very In
solent and then left the house. Ju6g.
ment for defendant, followed by an en-
venomed Parthian dart from the cook, in
the form Of q remark to the Court that
"she had been in service in Liverpool and
Manchester, but had never heard Of such
a thing as a mistress claiming a right to
90 into q larderl In fact no lady would
think Of doing I'll"
Myra Clark Gaines Ia up TO ~inscrutable
mischiei. She proposes to erect in Wash
%ington, District Of Columbia, a large
hotel for Congressmen and their familiesi
The board will be put 10 low that no
member of Congress can possibly have an
excuss for not bringing his wife and
children with him during the sessions.
The rules Of the house are very strict.
No man Is to so TO any amusements with.
out bis wife; no man ia to be out at night
after a certain axed hour. Mesciful
deWdrops to a dry and parchsd .landt
What a poetic conception she has Of the
average Congressman.