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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-29


OF the various sentimental fallacies
entertained by adult humanity in regard
10 childhood, none are more ingeniously
Inaccurate and GratuitOusly idiotic than
Il comfortable belief in its profound ig-
norancp of the events in which it daily
moves. and the motives and characters
OF the people who surround it. Yet even
the occasional revelations OF an cydnt
terrible are as nothing compared to the
purlous secrets which discreet infant
daily BUTTONS up, or secures with a hook
aud.eyc. or even fastens with u safety
hin across its gentle bosom. Society can
never cease to be grateful Tor that tact
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES more often
Joined with childish intuition and per
cention than with matured observation
that they owe to il; and the most ac-
complished man or woman OF the great
world might take 4 lesson from this lit.
tie audience who receive from their lips
the lie they feel 30 palpable, with round.
eyed csmplacenCy, or outwardly accept
as moral and genuine tho hollow sentl-
mcnt they have overheard rehearsed IN
private Tor their benefit.
II was not strange therefore that the
little people OF the Indian Spring school
knew perhaps more OF the real relations
OF Greasy Mckinstry to her admirers
than the admirers themselves. Not that
this knowledge was outspoken-for child
rem rarely gossip in the grown'up sense
or even communicable by words in
tellivent to the matured intellect. \
whisper, laugh that often seemed
vagpe and unmeaning, conveyed to each
other a world OF secret Significance, and
m apparently senseleSs burst oil merrl ;
ment In which the whole class joined
and that the adult critic set down to
animal srtirits"-a quality much more
rare with children than generally sup
i@ MY a sympathetic express
ion OF some discovery happily o3li EI?i
10 older preoccupation. The childish
.impiiciy OF Uncle Ben perhaps appeal;
ID more strongly to their sympathy, and
,ithouph, for that very reason, they re-
,arded him with no more respect than
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-29
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SINGULARlTIES.

w. D. Porter, Of Jefferson, Wis, has dis
covered two-stpry meadow-lark's nest with
brood In each fat.
In the window Of Bowery jeweller is dis
played section OF an elm tree about foot
square, shaped by some process of nature
into the form of q perfect human ear.
There IS man IN Georg who had pure
white hen. Recently she became mOlting
and every white feather that dropped out
was replaced by a black one. and now she is
clad in deep black from bill to tail.
A Garden City (Kas.) man is the proud
possessOr Of Jet black rabbit which has in
stead of an ordinary nose protuberance
shaped like an elephants trunk, which it
uses sometimes to convey food into its
mouth.
A Greene county, Mo-, paper says that q
local stock dealer who was starting to st.
Louis to take some cattle and hogs to market
told his wife that he would be home on the
following Wednesday. A shepherd dog be-
longing to the man heard the conversation
and at the appointed day was at the depot to
meet his master.
Tho Enterprise of Palestine, ILL.,, says that
William Corbin picked up In the street in
that place relic of the Mount Vernon cy-
clone in the shape OF an excuse blank used in
the Mount Vernon public schools. Palestine
Is nearly one hundred miles northeast from
Mount Vernon, and in the path in which the
cyclone travelled.
During a religious revival at Waverly, o.,
out Of It, she told her friends that one year
from that night she would die in child bed.
She was then single and not even engaged to
be married, but within q few weeks she
married o Mr.. Long. A few days ago she
gave birth to child, and four days lator,
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CONNUBIALITIES.


Four girls In one family at Atlanta, Ca,
have one after the other elopsd to get mar
ried. -
Two youths in Newark, N, J.. played q
game of whisky poker for tho hand of an un-
decided maiden. She married the looscr
Lii Lehman, the German prima donna,
was married to Paul Kallsh, the tenor i'm
mediately after his arrival in New York last
Friday.
Edmund Szezepankiewickz and Fannie
Kuzinska We're married in Philadelphia the
other day. Mr.. and Mrs. Piedalphabot have
our sympathy.
George Holmes, a jockey, eloped with Miss
Mary Morris, of Kansas City, and created a
sensation until it was discovered that
Holmes father was o millionaire
It is stated that General John M. Palmer,
ex-governor of Illinois and Mrs. Hannah M.
Kimball will be married April l. Mrs. Kim
ball is fifty years old and General Palmer is
In his seventy-sec0nd year.
A we'll known old Philadelphia gossip was
counting on her fingers the other day some
of the fashionable people whose marriages
were the result OF runaway matches, and In
not single instance had they turned out
well.
Fair Matron-Won't you let your wife take
a chance in this lottery9 Husband-Oh, no
she never draws anything worth having;
swell, you know, marriage is a lottery, SIR"
"Yes--er-that is--well, put her name
down."
Rafael Luna, of Guanajuato, Mex, al
though ninety-nine years old, has married q
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congregation, will, in the future, hold servi-
ces on Sunday mornings for the convenience
Of those who canRot attend tho regurlar SER
vices on Saturdays.
The Adveptists of Battle Creek, Mich, be-
lieve that tho end Of the world is near, and
cent meeting 5000 was turned into the
church in cash ana 81, 600 in iewelry, to be de-
voted to missionary purposes. -
The Baptists of Wales possess 701 chapels,
which provide accommodations for 24O, 9O3
persons. The number of communicate is
given at q, 43 There are in connection with
the chapels s,535 Sunday school teachers and
ber 367.
The Roman Catholic church has tn our
country l54 hospitals, with $4,000 inmates
800 asylums, with 10000 inmates; cares Tor
10000 orphans; has 124 Jesuit and other col
ieees and institutions Of high grade. with
classes under instruction, and its church
buildings and other edtRces number about
1000, with seating capacity Of 5000, ,OOd
Rev. George q. Barnes, the Kentucky
evangelist, conspicuous among his Kind as
Calling cali @ is s IN reai % financial straits ana is be-
ginning to feel the bitterness that flows from
q conviction that he is not, appreciated. He
writes strongly Of his neglect by his people,
and says that IL he were to die he has no
doubt q thousand dollar monument would be
erected to his memory
to Rome for q rehearipg of his case, though
he admits that he has hopes in that direction.
He says: II have no quarrel with the doc.
trines or the sacraments OF tho Catholic
church, but in the best interest of the Catho.
lic.religion make q clear distinction between
these things and the policies and politics Of
churchmen, which policies and politics may
be not only blundering but criminal"
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Though little is being done in San
Francisco in the matter OF electric rail-
ways, neighboring towns and. cities are
active in this matter. The DAFT rail
way in Los Angeles is giving complete
satisfaction. San Jose Is also looming
up, and representatives of an Eastern
company have just petitioned the Oak
lapd city council for q franchise TO lay
rails and conductors through the streets
Berlin will soon be the most brill;ant-
ly illuminated city in Europe. The
electric light is being fitted all along
the Inter den Linden, and the Leipzi-
ger strasse,, which 10 upward OF mile
in length, is already illuminated
throughout by electricity, which is to be
introduced into all the principal streets
and squares.
A low estimate puts the number of
persons supported by all the forms Of
employment furnished by electricity at
| 100000.
The instances OF electrical phenopena
accompanying the opening fury OF the
storm aud when at its height are numer-
GUS. At tho residence OF John McChes-
ney, west OF Fargo, Dak., sparks few
from a steam pipe in such volumes that
precautions were taken to protect the
| woodwork from fire. Another family
had baked potatoes for dinner Thurs
| day, and found each potaso small dy-
namo, which emitted three-tined flames
| as they were taken from the oven.
The ordinary guarantee OF life for
Edison's incandescent electric lamps
is 600 hours, but one lamp in the To-
ronto Globe has just gone out sitter .
| about the end of November, 1884, when
the Edison system was installed In the
office. 1t has continued burning ever
since on the average five and quarter
hours every day, six drys week, maxi
! ing total Of 1892 hours.
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EDUCATIONAL.

The University of Wisconsin has gradu-
ated larger number of women than any
other co educational institution.
New York city educates about three hun
dred thousand children annually. in 134
school buildings, covering an area Of thirty
five acres.
President Holden of the California state
university, receives salary Of $50 600
as president, and 5000 ~ director Of the
Lick observatory. e..
John 7. Allen, who aiea = Galveston,
Texas. january u, bequeethcd his fortune
$15O, ,O00rtO the city OF 0alvcaton for the
establishment of an industrial school.
Mrs. M. F. Townsend, Of Canton, Ill, has
been appointed to the chair Of modern
languages IN the Ohio university, from which
position Mrs. Ebert recently resigned. :,
One year ago the value Of the Methodlst
fornia was 81 100000. At present their total
value is $3.50, 600, making an increase in one
year of 81, $50 900.
A school teacher, in Franklin county Kan
sas, insisted that his pupils should come to
school with their hands and faces washed,
and the outraged parents rose in their indig-
nation and 'tfired" him.
The scholarships established by Cornell
university four years ago are now, for the
first time, all filled. There are thus thirty
six students receiving the benefit of these
scholarships which amount to 500 year
each in money.
One of Denver's public spirited citizens
proposes to erect and equip first class OBJ
servatory for the Colorado university. DIR.
Howe, formerly first assistant in the obser-
yatory Of Cincinnati is preparing plans for
the building.
The Cannon School of Theology, which is
part of Clark university, at Atlanta, Ga,
has just received gift of $3.50, 600 from Rev.
Z. II. Cannon, of Batavia ILL.,, through
whose efforts mainly it was established. 1t
has fifty-six students.
Rev. G. L. Tood, Of the Auburn, N. Y.
theological seminary, who was recently mar,
RED at Antrim, NJ H., to Miss Alice A
Gould, will soon sail for South America.
having accepted the presidency of the Boliv,
ian Institute La Paz, in Bolivia.
Kentucky University at Lexington, is in
trouble over the theatre question. The fac
ulty threaten to suspend every student who
attends play, and 100 students announce
that they will leave the institution if they are
to be interfered with IN that way.
Prof. Swift, Of Plateau academy, Montreal,
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RELIGIOUS.

A determined effort will be made in the
Episcopal churches during Lent to secure
the million-dollar fund for missions.
Mr. Spurgeon's resignation (when he had
resolutely declined to withdraw has been ac-
cepted by the Baptist union, of London.
Rev. ]. B. Thomas, ID. D., of Brooklyn, N.
Y, has recently been elected successor of
the late DIR. Heman Lincoln, at the Newton
Theological seminary.
Bishop Bedeil, who has been In poor
health for year or more, is about to retire
from active service in the Ohio diocese o.
the Episcopal church.
Chicago only has three clergymen who
have been settled there twenty years or
more: DR.. E. G. Goodwin, who has just en-
tered the brief list; Bishop Cheney and Rev.
DIR. Locke.
There are no protestant missionaries IN
Belochistan, Afghanistan, in the French
possessions of Anam and Tonqain, or In ST.
beria and the adjoining countries under
Russian rule.
A remarkable revival has just taken place
In the WilberfOrce, Ohio, university. Recita-
ti0ns were suspended for two days, and 90
per cent Of the students are protesting
Christians.
Rev. Leon Harrison, rabbi of the Temple
Israel, in Brooklyn, with the approval of his
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has become insane from overwork He had
mastered twelve languages and was consid-
cred the finest Shakespearean scholar in
Canada, yet his mental powers have been
completely wrecked By the strain to which
he subjected them. 49,.
Teachers who bring enthusiasm to their
work. who magnify their vocation, entering
upon II as q career and not rs makeshift,
would doubtless be more numerous II pub.
lie csentiment could be aroused which, would
remove the school house from all influences
which tend to eheapen or degrade 1t.
The college publication known as Univ er-
sity has made a list Of the United States SEN
ators and congressman who are college men.
There are 1875 out Of 40, but good many of
the l95 are duplicates" This is, Senator
one for Yale and one for Harvard, where he
was graduated in the law school. These men
represent 103 institutions.
Rev. John H. Vincent, d. D., chancellor Of
tho Chautauqua university, has engaged DIR.
William II. Harper. Of Yale to spend six
Profs, Adams and Ely, Of John Hopkins un-
iversity, and DR.. j. A. Broadus, of Louis.
vile, KY, to be present in July. A long list
OF names of well-known speakers and teach
ers are announced to be present. The un.
the theological department 25O. More than
1000 persons are now pursuing the Chau-
tauqua readings and studies-making Chau-
tapqua the largest university in the
world.
During the present term there ore 28945
German students at the German university.
OF this number B79l study theology, 5,769
law, $3.50 medicine, and S,784 belong to the
Philosophical faculty; 1,844 students are
foreign The Vienna university has sss the:
ologians, 1850 law students, 1,565 medical
students, and 634 of the Philosophical fac
tlty. In Graz there are 1905 students, and
in 1nnsbruck 68a. Prague has 3,S05 Cracow
i,234, Lemberg l,112, and Czerhowity $50.
At Berne university there are 837 students
81 theologians; 1853 law studentss 2S7 medical
students, and 14i physical science students,
At Zurich there are 70 female students, AZ
being medical
I When vassar had q preparatory school
under her own management in the. college
buildings there were many girls FROM al
over the c0uhtry who attended the school
for q year or two, and then left to pose as
Vassar college students and graduates. They
may not have intended any wrong, but some
how or other the people with whom. they
came IN contact got the idea that the erud-
tion of the Vassar alulnns8 must be rather
limited IL these slips OF womsnhood were
specimens This and other reasons induced
the trustees last year to abolish the prepara
tory school in the college, and have thore
only the college students In the academic
scientific and special courses.
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the scriptures, Interpreting them in
harmony with the teachings OF Rabbi
nical wisdom. Wharf.-The, he evolves
unique and startling plots from the Oc-
cult emblems engraved on the CartOuch
Of Theban scarabei.
Truly it may be said of him, all time
his hour and all place his workshop.
Whether he Is walking, riding in an
omnibus, or waiting in an underground
railway station, he seems oblivious Of
the external phases of life. and is ever
busy with the looms and the yarns from
which he weaves his fantastic fabrics.
aimlessly objects right and left, as
though the motor forces were stimulated
with an energy in concurrence with his
unbridled conceits.
"She" 10 not q recent composition, as
many suppose. But not until day before
yesterday was popular taste in the least
degree attuned to the relish Of pabulum
spiced with the secret forces which AMI
mate the world. The dual personality,
the interminable chain OF reincarnated
good and evil, the laws OF reversion to
type, and life the gift Of life are pre-
cepts as old rs the eternal hills and as
fresh as the dawn.
heard, in conversation, a lady object
JO CHo Oh tHo grOunu Vi VulSurlty =,
and when asked her to point to those
offensive passages which had failed to
send an extra thrill OF warmth TO my
face. she explained that there was too
much stress laid on the physical beauty
of the divine Ayesha. That the descrip-
tion Of that dazzling loveliness of brow,
throat, and thigh, strong in love ana in
immortal youth, which could have rev.
olutionized society and changed the
destiny of generations, was vicious
doctrine.
Still, again, I stood nigh when wor-
thy dowager remarked OF the much-di
cussed and Observation-Disclosures
"She." What lawless imagination
the man possesses; it Is absurd!"
wondered if neither one OF these
we'll meaning persons had caught ray
Of that higher morality, those god-llke
truths which lie as an everlasting foun-
dation for the emblematic eloquence OF
every chapter.
Ye godsl and these are they who read
and sit In judgment on Rider Haggard.
EM'LY.
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A LION IN LONDON SOCIETY.
A Glimpse at Rider Haggard. Eng
lands Weird Romancer.
HIS sccENTRlclTles OF MANNER
How He Looks, Lives and Acts
Shaping His Romances While
Walking and Riding
Teacher and Preacher.

Written for the Sunday Bse--CopyrtOhted.
Last season the lion of London liter
ary salons was Rider Haggard. While
the Pail Mall Gazette was daily print
ing several columns TO prove TO the
world his plagiarism, he was being feted
ut dinner and high tea.
There Is prevailing idea among the
general public that the writer Of "She,"
''King SOlomon's Mines" and "Allan
Quartermain" must be one OF those
mysterious creatures living in state Of
artificial exaltation, and evolving those
weird fancies from o chloral-heated
Imagination. ToOrealize the desperate
fallacy OF such theory, one needs to
meet and observe man who lends no
external indications Of importunate in
sight: not one OF those nervous, fragile,
unearthly entities, such type as our
Edgar Allan Poe vividlv furnishes
forth.
When first met Mr.. Haggard I was
ance, his self-p0ise, and air OF speechless
self-appreciation. saw in q throng Of
three hundred authors tall, slender
young man accepting the worship of q
deity with scarcely a prOpitiatory smile.
He impressed me as one who had be-
come familiar with applause rather than
His figure is interesting and entirely
wanting in eccentricity, but not, IL Is
true, wanting in certain kind Of dis
tinction that 10 almost plainness.
He is q blonde type OF man, with q
prevalence Of those tints known as
Aeh "A Aan Iii
lighted by warmer hues; hair darkened
only by the mingling OF the deeper drah
shades, and a dull, blue eye which
physicians arc won't to associate
with the annmic temperament.
His forehead is square and
strong, his lips firm, his chin
rcsistive, and his eyes full of clear
deep, concentrative force. An unemo,
tiOnal face, implying none of the
lighter, tenderer moods; face utterly
lacking in strong pigment, but rich in
puissance Of modelling. In stature
symmetrical, erect without pomposity-
a physical structure held together and
given motive power by sinews of spring
and elasticity. His voice in speech IL
low, measured and melodious.
He passes through great drawing
room In mood Of complete absorption
and complete abstraction, looking ovel
the heads Of people. When he is intro
auced to an hitherto unknown admirel
rand there is at all times galaxy O
humber satellites waiting to join the
revolving circle and catch CLINT from
his splendor--with q vague manner o
well-bred ennui he listens TO the full
s0me and over-fuil allusions TO hi,
books.
When he is in London he lives quietly
IN bachelor artlessness; q figure at re
ccptions, banquets, and lawn fetes, ye
pever making his presence in grea
throngs too cheap. He belongs most pre-
eminently to that easy and brillian
world, from social point Of view
known as Upper Bohemia. In socia
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Just one year from the date Of her Fremont
tion, she died.
The engineer on Georgia railroad while
running at the rate Of twenty-five miles an
thing on the pilot Of his engine. On reaching
the next stopping place he found cozily
Nesting on the pilot an old red-headed buz-
zard which had been carried distance OF
ten miles. 1t was then taken off by the train
force and let loose. It walked away as II
nothing had happened.
Hereis story that comes from an Ala
bama town. Marion Merritt and his sOn-in-
law each lost cow. After searching sew
eral days they found them dead in o field.
Their heads were iammed together between
each others horn so tightly that they could
not be extricated, and the surface of the
field was all torn up, evidently by their des-
perate struggles to get apart. During the
struggle the hair OF each COW. had turnod
gray.
that goes sliding on the ice. After picking
out nice, smooth place the cat would go
back and take good run and slide twenty
feet or more. 1t would return to the starting
point again and again and go through the
same performance. 1t would be a great boon
would devote more attention to tobogganing
and less to operatic singing.
While some workmen were making an ex-
cavation at Pueblo, Col, recently, they came
upon petrified SNAKE totally different from
any known species found In that part OF the
country at present. Itowas found eight feet
from the surface. From its appearance 1t
would seem that the snske had been caught
between two rocks by the tail ages ago. its
peculiar position eloduently expressing its
agony. Instead Of deGomposins, the body
dried out go perfectly. that no taxidemist
eOsd hss hSps ns. to ssssl nlarss work. the
Mrs. James, Of Syracuse, Kas., discovered
her five-year-0ld boy stirring around In a
basket Of old clothes that had been placed In
q corner OF tho woodShed to be out of the
way. Upon the child looking up and hastily
he was about, and to her horror discovered
q nest Of rattlesnakes, six you, ones and an
old one with eight rattles. A scream brought
MIR. James to the soene and he hastily dis.
posed of all Of them. Questioning the child
It was learned that he had been caring for
the snakes since warm weather. He could
handle the young reptiles as he pleased and
the old snake never objected.
George Mitchell, of Liberty, Mo-, was out
squirrel-hunting short time ago when he
discovered squirrel in tree little ways
on. He hastened To the tree and was closely
scrutinizing the TOP branches of the oak,
where he had seen the game, ct the same
time walking slowly backward with his rife
| ready to quickly throw to his shoulder, when
10 the weapon went of accidentally. This
| surprised him greatly, but he was much more
I astonished to see tho squirrel drop but dead
| 1t having run down the trunk of the tree be-
| low where he saw it first, by chance getting
| in range Of the rifle, just as it accidentally
fred at the right moment.
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This bed is made with, back, or can
be made also with roll pillow at each
end. Has same number Of springs as
Mol bed. This also contains recep-
acle for bed clotothing. =. - -