The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-22
TaE wHlsPsalNe GALLERY,
"Ths Tom and Jerry days have come,
The boozIess Of the year;
Farewell to gentle claret punch

'The Tom and Jerry days have come,
The boozesE Of the year;
Farewell to gentle claret punch
And soothing lsger beer"
Which reminds me Of the fact, that the
members Of the Saloon Keepers' Association
have decided that this year they will not
treat their customers to the usual Holiday
drinks on Christmas and New Years, as
they believe that 1t tends to drunkenness.
No doubt it does, and then besides there's
mo,e money in the anti-treat policy. By
The way, why Is it, wonder, that so many
think il necessary to get beastly full in
order to properly celebrate Christmas?
: ia merry season, Igrant you, but the
sacred event 1t commemoratess should serve
as arestraint.
Speaking Of drinking, read the other
day that beef tea had become popular
l,ar.room drink in Omaha, and that the
prohibition people were delighted over the
TACT. Now that is a good idea, and hope
sons Of our fashionable sample rooms will
adopt 1t. AS II Is q Decent drink there
ouaht 10 be money in 1t, and when 1t is
properly made IL Is delicious and would
& iske. 1t is a splendid pickup for the
man about town, who lhas been out with
the bows; tho business man who comes in
! in Inc afternoon would fad 1t the proper
thing to brace up his system, and the tenn
petance man who drops in with bibulous
friend to take something would find 1t Just
the thing.
How thete weather saws do disagree.
Now, there's one who says there will be as
many SHOWS in winter as there are days
remaining in November after the first
snow fall in that month. According to
that we may look for seventeen SHOWS this
winter, since we had little furry on the
18th OF November. Another one says that
the three first days OF December govern
the winter month";. You may remember
that the first was warm and clear and the
second and third clear and cool. You
know what we have had the past week
then tell me what We may expect.
i want to write few words about the
music we have been having between acts
4 at the Opera House. That it is fine I'll
admit. The trouble is, it is too fine for an
average theatre going audience. Music
that would do first class for concert is not
the thing for the intermiRsion between the
acts OF any play. And especially ia this
the case at a matinee. Now Q few after
4 noons since, 1 listened to two elaborate
selections with intricate, soft and difficult
passages for violins and flutes. The audi.
ence got restless. What is wanted is some
thing lively and catchy, with good swing
BIT. Why can't We have more potponrri,s,
from the popular operas-"lo lanthe,"
Handkerchief, y and host OF others? The
orchestra used to play them splendidly and
they were always encored. One more thing
about the Opera House music-the orches:
! tra should, / think, play at the close till all
are out Of the building. And let It be q
jolly, stirring piece that will put all in q
good humor.
Ihaye noticed good deal in the papers
lately about the Doddridge county homi-
cidal epidemic. "A gentleman who is well
acquainted in that part Of the State told me
recently that Of all the murders Of various
degrees committed there, but one, that Of
ths tom If West Union. and onIy one
.,ss;re' "a Doddridea cnnntv Rio R;Ii Kin.
.,a .s wss aver arcnsed al n,nrder This IA
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as ~ M ths er9entions ara he worst
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~ .s;th nsida IN tha ahaenca n anyth;ns
ha.,as What tha Nd dr;dce reonIa reailss
gant h ,adsem them- Ia 4 ieeal 'haneinc.
TS;a si,i On far toward WIRING ont the
stain and fonr LEGAL erecnt;nns will 90
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wv company does not play cards %
pass away the time 70 One cannot always
read or talk Miss Pease does not play,
but Nine. Carreno is passionately fond Of
II, and she, Clara Louise and Mr.. Schwab
generally ait down to the great American
game while on the cara The game Is five
cent ante, twenty, five cent limit-very in.
teresting and delusive. CLARA says that one
can lose considerable at this game, and sew
eral young men that I know in this city
will swear that the fair and stout songstress
is eminently correct. Carreno, according
to Kellogg, got reckless one night blufed
horribly with bobtail fushes and quit loser
some $50. She got excited and forgot to
play 'em close. Clara thinks that q game
Of cards is no game at all il there Is not q
stake, sees nothing immoral in II, believes
that pokerplaying is on the increase among
ladies and denies that she Is going to re.
wise Schenk's rules on the great American
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