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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-11

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Ivory Soap by eminent profession and all pronounce
to contain free alka to be made with great and Of ma
teas of the best quality carefully selected unhestatngyre
ommend for every purpose about the house for which good
is required"
A WORD OF WARNING.
There are many white soaps represented be goOda The Oy'
they ARE NOT but like all counters lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities
oft genne' Ask for Ivory" Soap and Insist upon getting IT.
Copyright 1855, by Proctor Gamble.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-11

VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE
v IN wELLSBURG, situate on corner Inia
and Yankee streets, opposite r., W,& NY pggPes s
Lot 6Sxl20 feet Good buildings. HOube o. w. vi y
rooms and BtOferOOni also ANAL tenant hQuE ,"
two rooms and kitchen In roar, II 500 De'GI w
October lSt will DO sold At bargain. Reasons w
selling want 70 10 west Call on OF address u |"
ARAlBTRONG, WollSburg, W. Va, aun
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A soul Absorbing Occupation.

Yes, my son. it is possible for you to
live 10 the end of your days, performing
successfully every day the rare feat of
keeping your mouth shut at the right
time, OF never uttering sentence until
you have first weighed it carefully in
your mind, revised it, and adjusted it
accurately to existing conditions of
things. Yes, you can do that But then,
you won't do anything else. No, my
boy, if you do that, always, you won't
do one other lingering, solitary, lone
some thing in all your life. You will
have time to do nothing except to think
what You are going to say and how you
are going to say it, and then by the time
you are all ready, and open your mouth,
the man you were going to say it to will
have grown weary of waiting and gone
away.-Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-03-26

Il sent him off to College Il sent him
off to college" That is the cpitome Of
damnation of thousands of boys. Il sent
him off to college" Now, sir, you strike
me at point where | am ready to say
this: 1t iss question in my mind
whether | will ever send one of mine to
college or not. Yes" you say, you
are opposed to education No, | amt;
but I'd rather my boy would sit down in
heaven to learn his A b C's than sitting
down in hell reading Greek. / tell you
my congregation, il I had a good boy
who was loyal to God and the right, l
might trust him at college; but if have
got a wayward, dissipated boy | will
never send him to college to get shut of
him. You have made a mistake as long
as eternity to do so. There is many u
man who has sent his boy to college
because he did not. know what else to
do with him. You had better lure that
boy to steal something and send him to
the penitentiary. That is my Judgment.
If he is no account the penitentiary is
about as safe place as a college, because
he will not only disSipate but ruin every
other decent boy he meets there. Let
him practice ON convicts if you want
him to ruin somebody. Boys, let us be a
comfort and consolation to MOTHER
Rev. Sam Jones.
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We were discussing superstitions the
other night. The mercuTiai De Vivo was
telling us about the Italians and their
superstitions Brignoli, the tenor, was
a child Of superstition. In Italy sheep
are always supposed to bring bad luck.
and De Vivo says he has seen Brignoli
run away like the wind from flock of
sheep. On the other hand he would
walk clean into herd of pigs and al
most embrace them. Hunpbaclxed peo-
Pile are always supposed to be good luck,
and BrigiIoli would rush across a street
and put his arms around humpbacked
man, it being necessary to touch the
hump to get the full benefit of the good
fortune. All the great singers nearly
are superstitious. Parepa-Rosa was ex-
cessively weak on this point. and al
ways carried as an amulet coral horn.
which she Immediately touched when
ever she came across anything unlucky.
Cross-eyed people are always looked
upon rs unlucky; why, nobody knows.
Most cross-eyed people that | know are
rather lucky than otherwise. There are
several very widespread superstitions,
which take different shapes with differ
ent people. Perhaps the most uni
versal one is the thirteen one. In
theatyes for instance, on salary day when
a man comes up to sign the payroll
that is, in the theatres where they pay sal
aries-he always counts the number ahead
of him. and if he is the thirteenth he will
not sign. If you go to a theatre with a
pass and you are the first man there they
will not allow you to go in until some
body has gone in on paid ticket.-San
Francisco Chronicle "Undertones.
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Il often think" wrote Olive Wendell
Holmes. in his letter declining an invita-
ton to dine with the New York Odonto-
logical society. "of the forlorn condition
of some of the great personages of history
in the days when there were no dentists,
or none who would be recognized as such
by the dental artists of to-day. Think of
poor King David. worn-out man of 20.
probably without teeth. and certainly
without spectacles. Think of poor
George Washington, his teeth always
ready to drop like portculls. and cut
sentence in two. See him in Stewards
admirable portrait, his thoughts evidently
divided between the cares of empire and
the maintenance of the status quo of his
terrific dental arrangements.
Think of Walter Savage Landor's
melancholy complaint that he did not
mind losing his intellectual faculties, but
the loss of his teeth he felt very great
+ calamity. | venture to propose, then,
the dental profession and their associa-
ton as its worthy representative. 1t has
established and prolonged the reign of
beauty: it has added to the charms of
social intercourse and lent perfection to
the accents of eloquence: it has taken
from old age its mott unwelcome feature
and has heightened enjoyable human
life far beyond the limit of years when
the toothless and purblind patriarch
might well exclaim, i have no pleasure
/ in them '"-Exchange.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-03-26

A physician friend of mine called my
attention to an account of a recent at
tempt to observe in the retina of a muir
dered girls eye the image of her un-
known slayer. He laughed and said:
ut is all nonsense to expect that this
thing can be done. have known of a
dozen experiments, all of which failed
from the very nature of the thing. All
there is to it is this: The brilliant coat
of the retina has color due to what is
known as visual purple, and this color is
to some extent visibly impressed by
light. When in college we tried care
full experiment on a horse. We gave the
animal atropine and placed a negative of
my own photograph over its eye. 1t
was then kept in a dark room for six
hours. This was followed by exposing
the retina to the picture in broad day
light for a few moments. The result
consisted of three dark patches repre-
senting my chin, nose and forehead. 1t
was an absolute failure as far as produc-
ing a recognizable likeness is concerned" :"
Chicago News Rambler
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-03-26

No one who has not been in a blizzard
can form the faintest conception of it's
fearful character. Why, do you know
that every farmer in that country takes
the precaution when the first snow ap-
pears to provide himself with rope by
which he guides himself from his house
to his stock sheds or stable? He ties one
end of the rope to the door-knob of his
house and then walks to his barn-door.
AT this point he ties a stick into the rope,
and when the blizzard comes he simply
takes what he thinks is the right direc-
ton and follows the rope until he reaches
the stick. If he does not strike the barn
door when he reaches the stick he knows
he has missed his bearings, and simply
starts off in Il circle holding the rope
taut until he reaches the barn. When
he gets ready to start back he hauls HIM
self in hand over hand until he reaches
his door If he looses his hold on the
rope the chances are that he will never
reach his door even though he might
wonder within five feet of it.-Chicago
Tribune Interview.
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LATENT STREAK OF INSANITY.
pecuiisrities of People who Are Not Ex-

pecuiisrities of People who Are Not Ex-
actly Compos Mentis-"A Fixed Idea"
Some one has said that in every one Of
us there is latent streak of insanity, and
guess he wasn't far in the wrong. The
only thing is to keep our streak from be-
ing discovered. There was an old lady
in Michigan who kept boarding-house
for students. She kept good boarding
house. She made royal pies, and she
brought the juciest roasts upon the table
that the hollowest student ever con-
sumed. She had the popularity of not
being able to write her name. The stu
dents, although they liked her pies, re-
garded her with great contempt. She
was the last person To whom they thought
of applying when they began TO miss
their Greek and Hebrew books, and great
was their astonishment when one of
them, who happened to go into her room
for fire-shovel, found them hidden in
crannies about the fireplace. They re-
covered possession only to have them
stolen again, and it became the regular
thing, when one of these books were
missing, to search the old lady's room
until it was found
Her popularity is equaled by that of
another old lady over seas who had
mania for watches, and never peddIer
came to the door with them but she made
considerable purchase of them. So
poor was she that she must have denied
herself her full allowance of porridge to
indulge in the singular luxury. When
she died her friends found an immense
oaken "kist, as high as table, and half
as long as her ill-covered bed filled with
them. There is an old gentleman Of re-
spectability and comparative wealth who
never loses an opportunity to possess
himself of a paper of pins. If he goes
into a dry goods store to make pur-
chase. which he does once "a week. he
never rests until he catches sight of the
pin basket, and he is apt to carry these
pointed reminders of his visit away with
him.
But after all is he any more of mad
man than we who collect more books
than we can read or pay great sum fox
a black k-letter volume whose pages are
sealed to us? What under the sun does
a man want with sixty different editions
of Shakespeare He might just as well
have sixty different pairs OF spectacles.
physician of an insane asylum would
denomlnate this as species of compara-
tive alteration known as IA fixed idea
For instance, know man who never
pays his fare on the street cars without
afterward holding an imaginary alterca-
tion with the conductor-the latter de-
mandlng the fare second time, and he
Indignantly insisting that he paid 1t, and
that the conductors carelessness is mex
cusable. lie fights against this feeling
whenever he ieels II coming on nut 1t Is
TOO strong Tor nm. nave recom-
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-03-26

In the presence of their masters the
English servants maintain manner that
may almost be said to be refined. 1t is
quiet and subdued; too obsequious per-
haps to suit the democratic idea, but
otherwise unobjectionable. This man
ner, however, | suspect is something like
the livery, put on for their superiors, and
laid aside as soon as they alone.
In many old families there still fingers
among the retainers an attachment for
those they serve, a fidelity and devotion
that recall the feudal feeling, and which
are returned by protection and interest
that make the tie not unlovely one. !
knew instances of friendship on both
sides as sincere and loyal, if not as famil-
lar, as ever exists among equals.
Badeau's Letter.
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THE SOUTH OF THE SouTHERNERS

The Obliging Conductor A subtle
ascination-Nsture's Loveliness.
But there is another south, the south
of the southern people, not SO easily
reached, but well worth reaching One
needs to have plenty of time and plenty
of patience to travel in this south. And
he will be happier if he carry with him
certain simple stores besides the articles
/ have mentioned--such as tea, coffee,
lump sugar, potted meats and preserves.
A portable bath-tub and his own soap
and towels will make vast difference in
his comfort. Certain things he must not
expect to find here either. Southern
trains have little regard for their time
tables, and he had better carry supply
of paper novels for odd hours Mt stations
in what are most appropriately named
waiting-rdbms. But, as a compensation,
southern railway officials ON local roads
are the most affable and obligingof men.
They return for you if you are too late;
they wait for you to eat your dinners;
they stop anywhere in the woods to let a
man get OFF. "Neveryou mind. ma'am,
says the obliging conductor, "you take
your time with the dinner; the train
amt going off without you"
One time | remember a train which
waited half-hour for the passengers to
get dinner before they started, Wewere
altoRether three hours behind time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-03-26

The collection of manuscripts which
the sultan of Morocco has turned over
to the medresseh, or high school, of Fez,
proves to comprise copies of numer-
Gus west Arabian works which in Spain
We're destroyed by the holy inquisition
In scientific attainments the scholars of
the Moorish universities were several
hundred years ahead of their Trinitarian
rivals, and by ignoring their existence
Christian historians of civilization have
been obliged TO assume 1000 years inter.
regnum of science. In the ghastly night
of the middle ages Bagdad and Cordova
We're the intellectual Goshens, still en-
joying the light of a sun which in the
land of their neighbors seemed to have
set forever at the downfall of the Roman
empire.-Dr. Felix l.. Oswald in Chicago
Times.
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asked the man at the station if this train
did not meet another. "Yes, ma'am,n
said he; "but, you see, we meet at,
and whichever train gets there first waits
for the other, so there amt bit of
trouble" Somewhere at the end of the
line boat waited for the train with the
same engaging politeness. The south
ern conductors are always kind to women
and children, and Hospitality polite to
strangers, and the station-masters seem
rather to like answering questions. One
has to expect certain absence Of the
virtue next to godliness south, and he
can not look for honesty among the
blacks; but what are trunks made with
locks for?
At first the untidy ways will jar on his
sense of order: he will very likely be an.
noyed by the languid fashion in which
life moves on; it will irritate and dismay
him to see the absolute lack of compre-
hension of the meaning of comfort. But
very soon he will feel subtle, reluctant
fascination; he will be soothed by the alb
sepce of hurry and hustle; he will appre.
ciate the gentle courtesy which seems to
be the southerners birthright; he will
be touched by their pathetic hospitality;
he will learn to admire their bravery,
gayety, and that energy which often
turks beneath their Incidence.
And nature will have her word. Those
weird cypress forests, those solemn pine
woods among the red clay hills, those
tropical splendors of plant and flower
and sky, that softer loveliness of the
southern homes-stately old mansions
which ruin makes but the more
picturesque, set amid their gardens on
shady streets or overlooking fields of
cotton, OF rice, or cane--all these and a
hundred sights as fair come to capture
his heart and haunt his memory. II
the traveller have friend with planta-
ton, in that case he will have all the
poetry without the discomfort. In any
case, the real south (Which, by-the-way,
is by far the cheaper SOUTH is the one
which is sure to repay the traveller for
his outlay a time and money. My
friends who are going to the real south,
you who are about to enjoy-I congratu-
late you.-Cor. Harper's Bazaar.
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THE BRIEF LIFE OF A SONG.
whistiing II Tune into Notice and Thsn
Burying II In Oblivion.

Wuistiing rune INTO Nottce ana IhSn
Burying IT In Oblivion.
A song, a flower, an actor becomes
popular Everybody sings and whistles
that song because it has tune? Not
exactly: other songs have tunes and do
not achieve this universal sequence. The
girls who sells paper of pins huns a
certain tune as she wraps up the little
package: the grimy little boy who blacks
"yer boots" whistles it as he puts on the
shine; it is in the air, in the streets, in
the parlor; it is played by German street
bands and GROUND by the street organs;
babies murmur 1t before they can talk;
jokes are made at its expense; it resounds
from Maine to Mexico; but how did it
Begin and when and where does it endi
There is even now generation which
has never heard "Pindfore;" in ten years
from now no one will care for the
"Pinafore' that drove this generation
half distracted, and the chances are,
should that opera be then revived, it
would fall fiat; its fun would not touch
the hunor of the day and the young
folks would say: "Dear me, this is
decidedly antiquated; Why. cant you
give us something amusing?"
Once upon time, about thousand
years ago, there was written song
known as "Nilikins and His Dinah." 1t
travelled far and wide, from cottage to
palace, by rail and by sea; it was sung in
the theatres between the acts; as encores
at concerts; somebody even ~'rote play
on the touching story it was whisted uni
versally, and every undevelopcd musical
genius in the land sung nothing but vii
likins.' Who knows now where that
popular ditty first impressed itself on the
sensitive public ear? Who knows. in
deed who wrote it, or by what inspira-
tion he hit ON IA melody that bewitched
millions as it did. Nobody sings it now,
any more than he sings Life on the
Ocean Wave" ben Bolt" and dozen
other sentimental ballads that had such
vogue; yet they are unchanged, and
quite as fetching in substance as the
hour they We're written. 4 song or a
tune has its day, and can never be resus.
citated. The first person who whistled
it into notice is lost in obscurity, and
more singular yet, he who was the last
to whistle it can never be discovered
Who is the man that finally bures the
popular tune?
This view of the life of song is dis.
tracing. Yesterday the classic See.
Saw" permeated society, to-day it is Tit
Willow" to-morrow--well, tomorrow
tune is unborn, but, as sure as the sun
rises over Park street steeple, it will be
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-03-26
INDIANS SLIDING DOWN HILL.

A streak of Copper Lightning-Squaw-
Mothers and Pappooses--Fun.
Twenty-Five years ago, in Minnesota,
used 10 watch the Sioux boys and girls
in their winter village up the Minnesota
river. Their arrangements were simple.
First, strip of bark from four to six
feet long, and not over twelve inches
wide, was peeled from a living tree.
One end was cut to point small hole
bored through, and a string tied in. Then
the little Indian, taking his piece of bark
to the top of hill, placed it on the
crusted snow smooth side down. bent up
the pointed front by pulling at the string,
and, placing one foot about in the mid
die of this crude sled, gave hard push
with the other, and went scooting like
streak of copper lightning. He stood
erect. and sometimes with both feet on
the bark-one behind the other, but usu-
ally the hind leg was sruck out as "a sort
of balance and rudder combined.
The dash down the hill was all right,
and so was the arrival at the foot if the
crust of the snow wasn't broken; but the
fun for the spectators began when use
wore out the hard surface, and the
striking of a toboggan into a soft spot
sent the barks nose into the snow and
the Indian flying in somersets. His
proboscis might plow the snow too, but
usually not until he had taken header
of about fifteen feet; and he didn't stop
at that but usually did two or three flip.
flaps before coming to a rest. Hurt EN-;
Bless your heart, no. Why. / have seen
squaws of sixteen to eighteen-lithe,
graceful young things-take the ride and
the tumble shrieking with gee; and, if
one happened to have her papoose along,
didn't bother about the baby bit. You
know, they carry them on their backs,
held in place by blanket, which is
belted around the waist.
To see girlish squaw-mother shoot
through the air head foremost, while her
babe went rolling end over end, would
have stirred Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to children; but the pappoose
seemed always to come out all right,
being so swaddled in rabbit-fur, thistle.
down, and blanket that it hadn't the
remotest idea of the mercury dropping to
90 degrees below. Now, for real. solid
fun that kind of sliding down hill beats
the luxurious toboganning that has come
into New York fashion, out and out
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
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"One of NJ. de Dessep's strong points, +"
says the London Times Paris correspond
ent, lis never deferring for a inisute
what he thinks it necessary to do.
have several times been present at con-
versations with friends or advisers who
would recommend him to see particular
minister to ask for something. The ex-
ped ncy of the step would be discussed,
and no sooner had this been settled than
NJ, de Lesseps would ring for a cab to be
fetched, and would start at once to make
the application, At the end of the day
nothing Of what had to be done is left
undone, He is unique in this respect and
never violates his rule. Exchange.
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When Biu-Bo.rds First Came Into Use


Blll-boards came into Use as articles
upon which announcements and procla-
nations We're pasted in London about
the year 114O. 4 man by the name of
LoOmis, who had been street Crier, OBJ
tanned permission from the authorities to
erect on vacant lots a number of boards,
upon which he placed the official adver-
tisements of the city and received
small stipend from the municipal author
tiles for the service. The erection of
these boards and the matter placed upon
them of course attracted the attention of
the populace, and they were constantly
surrounded by crowds reading the an
nouncements. This fact struck the
fancy of a jew clothier as being an ad-
mirable plan to get an advertisement of
his goods and place of business before
the people, and he applied to Loomis for
permission to have his proclamation
pasted ON the same board with the Of
fetal announcements, Loomis being un-
der the direction and in the pay of the
city authorities could not agree to this
proposition without consulting his supe-
riors, and this was done.
The council debated long and seriously
over the matter, and at last gave their
consent on the condition that the jew
pay the city so much year for the priv
ilige. This was agreed to, and the bill
board and its covering was brought into
existence as one of the necessities of COM
merce. The jews example was followed
by other merchants, and as Loomis re-
ceived commission on all the new con-
tracts made for billboard work, he soon
did ilourishing and profitable business,
and his boards could be found in every
quarter of the city. The idea being new
and novel, spread as such things do, and
it was not long until the bill-bAr rd
was found in every civilized country.
Columbus Ohio Capital.
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A telegram from Askabal announces
that the yield of the Transcaspian
naphtha springs having been found
amply sufficient to supply fuel for the
locomotives used on the Transcaspian
railway, work at the springs has now
been commenced by order of Gen.
Annenkotf. Foreign Letter.