The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-07

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| found dozen gray hairs in my head
this morning and pulled them out:
Don't you give me away, though"
Father (sighing heavily)-"Give you
away, Emily? I've abandoned all hope
of it."-ChicdgO Tribune. -
Wife (pleadingly) -"I'm afraid, George,
you do not love me us well us you used
TO do"
Husband-"WhyW
Wife-"Because you always let me get
up to light the fire."
observation-disclosures, my love! Your
getting up to light the fire makes me
love you all the more"
Amelie Rives is essentially pocket
Venus. She is diminutive in stature
and sylph.like in form, with bright,
straw.colored hair, which she ties in a
Psyche knot; soft, violet eyes, under
sweeping Coal-black lashes, and verita-
BILE Cupid's bow OF mouth. She speaks
with slight Southern lisp, and is q
most charming listener.-Epoch.
The women OF the coast seem to be
more in love with the Acknowledged pagan
than even the men. They employ them
MS chambermaids, cooks, maids of all
work, nurse girls, washeI-women,
walters, ladies' maids, to button their
shoes, do up their back hair, etc., and l
am credibly informed that some of the
ladies are even talking OF utilizing
healthy Cinnamon as wet nurses.-Oak-
land, (Cdl.) letter in 81. Paul Globe.
At Princeton on Monday night ex-
President McCosh, in the parlors OF his
new home, read paper on Robert
Elsmere" to an audience composed OF
his elective class in metaphysics and u
number Of invited guests from New
York. The paper was prepared ut the
earnest solicitation OF several OF the
Doctors friends in New York, who sent
him COPY of the novel and one or two
reviews oft. DR.. McCosh's paper will
be published in pamphlet form and
given to the public in few days. He
refuses at present to give digest Of it or
any extracts for publication.
Miss Berry's private epitaph on herself,
written when she WINS u little over 80,
makes "pretty reading" and is worth
pIeservinRi
Beneath this Stone 10 deposited
The dust OF one whom
| Remarkable personal beauty,
Considerable superiority OF intellect,
Singular QulcknesS OF the senses,
And the noblcst endOwmentS Of the heart,
Neither distinguished, served, nor
Rendered hAppy.
| she was
Admired and neglected,
Respected and Insignificant
She endured years Of n useless existence,
OF which the happicst moment was that
In which her spirit returned TO the bosom
9''n Al@G(E sSsio anu AeF'pu'
The assumption ofremarkable person
al beauty in this singular epitah is one
OF the things not borne out by contem.
porary evidence.-LOndon Queen.
To see the two girls-English and
MISUNDERSTANDING polka is to see all
the differences between them emphasiz.
ed. The American girl is q nervous
creature. She is as excitable as O
thoroughbred mare. When she dances,
her eye sparkles, her cheek tiushes, her
face Is lighted up, and every nerve is at
tension In the thrill OF music and mo-
ton. Life Is q living, painting reality just
then. The English girl, on the contrary
does not alter her amiable torpidity in
the least. She does not smile. She Ii
as grave as ever. AS she turns solemnly
around she might, MS far as her expires
sion goes, be reading an invisible vol
ume OF sermons. She has not vestagt
OF abandon and so dances rather angu'
larly. The English foot is large. She
does not dance; she trots. Dancing Il
not delight; it is exercise. 1t belong
not in the domain OF art but OF Calisthe
MICS She is stately column Of blan'
mango on rotary pedestal, and SEEM
to have Just as much Of feeling as tina
tasteless luxury has OF flavor.