The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-05
pERsONs AND THINGS.

A woman never so fully realizes her de.
pendencs upon man as when she under
takes to sharpen alead pencil. I
Some husbands, it is said, write wv.
p" in the corner Of their letters, which
means wife permitting"
The Emperor Of Germany has an in.
come Of 81, 100000, but the crown prince
has to support his family on a Paltry
$4,000 year.
Though Osman Plsha has been mar.
ried man fourteen years, be has spent
only three months at home. But before
passing judgment on his conduct we
should remember that he has seven wives.
Japan has no patent Laws. When a
Jap inVents a square cart.wheel, or a
shovel shaped like hat.box, he reaps no
further reward than brass medal, which
entities him to free bath once week.
A great granddaughter Of Thomas
Jefferson, Esther Alice Meikleham, ia 4
clerk in the Interior Department. Her
father was a son Of Professor Meikleham,
Of the University Of Glasgow, and Alice
Scott, cousin of Sir Walter Scott.
A new industry is said to be extending
in Paris. It consists in the manufacture
OF cloth, much lighter and warmer than
wool, from the feathers Of domestic and
other birds. The material is waterproof,
and takes dye readily.
His wife caught him with his arms
around the hired girls neck, but his cour'
age even in this trying extremity never
forsook him. II suspected some one oil
stealing the whisky on the preserves,
Jane, for some time, and you know her
breath would have told il she was the
guilty party."-BaltimOre Sun.
Mrs. John Drew saw in the papers that
the venerable widow OF Gen. Eaton had
received at Washington on New Years
day, and wrote the old lady graceful
note, introducing herself as the little girl,
Louisa Laner, dramatic prodigy" who
was presented to Mrs. Eaton by Jackson
in 1920.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair is credited with
telling this story: "Van Buren, said to
me in St. Louis, when | told him his son,
| Smith Van Buren,, had been married: Il
thought he had given up that girl. Well,
he's ruined. She is very rich. Nowhell
give up his profession Of the law, where
he had great ability, and become resily a
rich mantle least useful ot...human
things. Poor Smith"
In Louisa county, Virginia, a few days
ago, Robert Appleby was shot in the neck
by Lindsay Poindexter, in accordance, il
is said, with the terms OF a mutual con.
tract. They agreed upon trade for Ger.
tain cattle to be delivered and traded on a
certain day, the one falling TO come to the
contract 10 be shot. ApPleby failed, and
Poindexter drew n horse pistol loaded
with slugs. Appleby fled, and Poindex.
ter fired the charge taking effect in Ap.
pleby's neck and inflicting severe but not
fatal wounds. Poindex;er was arrested
and committed tojail.
The Finance Committee Of the lower
House Of the Virginia Legislature says
tha.with the present rate oftaxation there
is an annual deficit OF 100000, and the
Senate by a vote Of 80 10 4, and the lower
House by vote Of lO4 to 4, have decided
it inexpedient to increase the tax rate.
The measures now urged by the repudia'
tion party, who are known as "forcible
readjusIers," propose that the present
rate Of taxation be retained, that seven
tenths Of the revenue be collected in cur.
rency to the exclusion Of tax receivable
coupons, and that the bondholders be
allowed to fund their bonds in three per
centum bonds, and that those who do not
so fund their bonds shall receive no in
i tprest