The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-20
PERSONS AND THINGS.

The silver dollar can now hold itS head
up and be somebody.
Kentucky paper: "Whst should be
done with people who save up rotten sggs
and sell them for eighteen cents dozen,
II there Is no hell?"
Old Mr.. Lord has, as yet had no
.'spatso With his wife. Mrs. Hicks Is an
abIe.bodied woman, and this would 80
far toward showing that Mr.. Lords mind
Ia round.
Tho Duke Of Edinburgh Is terrified
slmost into conyulsions at the prospect o.
q war with Russia. The Empress oil all
the Russias Is his mother.in.law, and II
he should be taken prisoner Harkeyt.
Senator Blain, in the hearing of a
Washington reporter, said he never want
cd to hang JEFF. Davis because he was in
the rebellion, but he did want TO hang
him for the way he built the National
Capitol.
Tho late DR.. PeaSIee, Of New York
leaves $4,000 in money to his widow,
which 10 to go to Dartmouth College II
neither or one Of his two children do
not survive their mother. Otherwise the
college Is to get 5000.
When the handsome Mrs. Hicks mar
ried the venerable Mr.. Lord, she was de-
nounced as mercenary; but now that she
yields her claim to his wealth, the boot
seems TO be on the o.her-that Is to say
the Lordchildren are the msrcenary par
ties.
one Of the best SUBSCRIPTIONS advertise
ments Of actresses and singers Ia that re-
lating to Miss Thursby, which Is to the
effect that Senator Dawes was so charmed
with her singing that he followed her
from Washington to Richmond, Va, to
hear her again.
IA Lendon firm has introduced a
hunting biscuit, containing in small
compass great amount Of nutrition
This was in accordance with fact, but the
next editor, in attempting to condense
the item, makes this statement: "a
London firm has introduced q hunting
biscuit containing email compass"
"A Minneapolis boy was sent by hie
teacher, woman, to the superintendent
to be whipped. The lad suspected the
contents Of the note and hired boy he
met on the street to deliver it, giving him
ten cents. The superintendent didn't dis
cover till after the castigation was over
that the boy he had logged had not seen
the inside OF school house for a month
Another Of the theories Of DR.. Le'
Moype, the cremator, is that the applica'
ton OF water to the body is injurious tc
the health, and he recommends an occas
ional scraping with the back OF o table
knife in place Of a towel, soap and water
The Doctor would be received into the
Democratic party with open arms.
In the new play called "Chicago," now
running at the Eagle Theater, New York,
every inciden. al the great fro is por-
trayed from the traditional COW kicking
the traditional bucket to the scenes Of the
starving people on the plains, and The
arrival Of the relief train on which the
curtain falls after the last act.
Washington ID. C) Sar: Mr.. Henri
Laurent, Of the Oates Opera Troupe, de-
niles emphatically that he was In COM
psny with Mrs. Oates when he met his
wife; says he was at the time near the
stage door OF the theatre on his way alone,
to friends house In Washington, 70
which he had been invited. He deems II
due to himself al well "a 10 Mrs. Oates
that this statement should be published