The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-01
PEissONB AND THINGS.

Here b your writ d attachment, \ aid
altowu clerk, Is be handed . lover q
marriage license. ~
TO Ees 6Es from thiitles: Reduce one
ton Of thistlss 10 seventy pounds Of potash.
Then cell your potash for cash. Then
take the cash and buy fgs.
A devoted husband says that the pho.
.noEraph Is simply a machine that
stalks back, !" and be has one Of that kind
IN bis house ever Si6ce be was married.
1.-THE London &Laaeett says blow Oh
tks eli has often tuptursd the drum, and
warns "A 1 parents againt boxing children,s
ears. You can get more music out Of a
child by applying the slipper couple Of
fee. below the drum ~ sus -s"
Thsiarmer who sent his son to the city
70 become s clerk now writes and aSks
the merchant II there e Hiny tbing in the
boy 2" aYes,' replied the merchant ''jusl
after he has been to.the saloon"
The conundrnmi aboutthe pins Is we'll
enough, but who breaks all the needles
A single factory ID ,ReaditSh, England,
turns out between 100000 and 1000.
900 Of them each week Tor about 10000.
900 year, which isequsl to oue-third Of
the population Of the globe. With all
the factories in the world going, who
breaks these millions Of needles? air,l
A Young woman went into The Portland
Block at Chicago the other day TO answer
m advertisement She entered the ele.
vator, and when she found it moving
upwards gave a yell and jumped through
the opening above the entrance, landing
on the ground unhurt, though deaOral,
lied. She then, according to the stsid
Tribune, gave q wild whOOp and caaier'
ed up Dearborn street" - rti boz aso
Mary Medill, a aoomely white girl Of
sixteen, was on Thursday q last week
stripped to the waist, tied to the Eliza
beth City, Va, Court House whipping
post and given 25 lashes, with . rawhide,
the master. Of the eat.o',uine.tails being a
negro constable, big, burly and aecus-
toned to hard knocks. The girl had stolen
u pair Of shoes. The constable barely
touched in bis strokes, but It is said that
all concerned in the whipping were mis-
cradle at the time, only executing the law
under protest r1Is.l ne U.J .al'' H,4
II The Portsmouth IN. H. Times tells this
one: Al Rye Beach, a few days ago, q
young man who was smoking had con-
siderable difficulty 10 making his cigar
burn after II had been partly consumed
BE picked the weed to pieces and found
inside the wrapper a. 22-calibre pistol
cartridge, with the bullet pointed toward
the mou!h-end. The cartridge was heat.
ed and would soon have sen. its lead
somewhere around, possibly down the
smokers throat. suaet-.s ii.. ..i
Tenlyears ago Piute boy Of twelve
years was captured by General Crook
vest Of Stein Mountains, Nevada. He
saw the dead bodies Of his chieitain faith
er and Of his mother lying near the wig
wan aud 1t was with heavy heart that
he went to work. q San Francisco store
when taken thither. Nevertheless he
learned the English tongue, adopted San
Francisco manners, became scholar and
Joined hand. with the peacemakipg breth.
rem Of the church. Notlong since Cen
eral Mcdowell told him to go among the
Indians and councifthem to bury the
tomahawk. He visited the warriors o.
Chief hatcher and there found both
father and mother, who had feigned death
and thus escaped the soldiers. ire