The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-17
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More than 100000 signatures have
been obtained to the jubilee petition to the
Queen in favor Of closing public houses OF
Sundays.
Persons who have snsered at Mrs. Lang
try's intellect as being Of 9 low order have
been disarmed. Mrs. LanHtry has the
rheumatism.
Miss Story, the daughter OF North Ire.
land clergyman, has won the literature
scholarship OF $500 year for Eve years
awarded by the Royal University Of Ire
land.
Senator Fair recently paid his divorced
vile $500 for bunch Of rose buds at a
Catholic fair in San Francisco. This
smacks little Of sentimentally on the part
Of the Senator.
Mics Annie Robe, who Ia shortly to be
married TO Mr.. Griswold, a gentleman
with $4,000 8 year, fits and makes her
own dresaes, only employing dressmAksr
on rare occasions.
A Wellesley girl has almost paid her
way through college by sewing on ahoe
buttons for her mates. She charges ten
cents an hour, and devotes two hours q
day to her trade. Few young men 10 the
same position have helped themselves
that much.
Mrs. Christian K. Ross, the mother Of
long.lost Charlie Ross, Is q prominent
member Of the Woman's Foreign Mission.
airy Society. TWAS mainly due to her sf-
forts that the fund wa1 raised for the sup.
port Of the Girls' 0rphanags established
recently by Bishop Foster in the City Of
Mexico.
A girl gambler on board the Alaska dur.
ing recent trip created quite sensation.
She Cleimsd to be Canadian by birth, OF
an English fatherRnd New Orleans mother.
Her speech and msnnerisms were de-
Cidedly American. But whatever her nR.
honality, she managed to win handsome
sum Of money OF cards before the end Of
the journey.
Mrs. BssChsr, who now lives with a
son In Brooklyn, was recently invited to
attend o spirituslis!ic seance whereit was
claimed the spirit Of her dead husband
materiAlized once week. It Is need
leaa to say that the sensible woman con-
temptuously ignored the invitation. Mrs.
Beecher does not wear mourning, for she
shares her husbsnd'a disbelief in black
garments as an insignia OF wos.
A grsduste Of Vssssr come years ago
married and went to her husbands home,
where it was suggested by soms friendly
relative that she should make John some
shirts. Ths fret shirt was unsatisfactory,
and indeed the sewing wa1 picked out
three times. When, however, week
later, the young bride showed check Of
800 for magazine story she had written,
and in another week check for $50, the
vine aunEies meekly and generously
acknowledged ct once: "YeS, Mary, per-
haps 1t will be as well for you to give out
the sewing, "-BGSton Traveller.
Women are creatures Of infinite re.
aource. A Boston girl has hit upon an
original plan to support herself. She
studies the newspapers, poets herself on
what is going on in the world, uses the
sciSsors freely, pastea, writes and revises
carefully until che has condensed digest
Of the live topics Of the day. This she
reads to class OF wealthy women, who
pay her well for turniahing them with In
formation concerning what they ought 10
be able to talk intelligontly about.
A very pretty little county maiden was
lust In the act OF boarding a train at the
Union station this morning, when Penn
sylyania Railroad brakeman stretched
forth his strong right arm and said
ePleass let me Gee your ticket" The lady
turned red in the iRce, and, with an limo
cent smile, answered: 81 don't like to-
but-but-I have a ticket, sir." "Well
well, you must let me see your ticket, and
don't keep other passengers waiting" re-
marked the brakeman, q little impatient
ly. The young lady placed her foot on
the step OF the car and drew out from one
OF her black hoee coupon ticket almost
half ySrd long. "There 1t 10, sir" said
abe, with Ialtering voice. The brakeman
gave the ticket hasty glance, assisted
the young woman to the car platform,
raised his hat In polite bow, and was LEFT
to blush alone, while the other railroad
boys laughed at his expense. 81 was 6
brute" he gaid.-PttLsburgh Pres.
Amelia Barrett, in Auckland, New Zsa
land, went walking along the beach alone
one evening, and next day her clothes
we're found in q heap, but no other tract
Of her except tho marks Of hor bare feeI
where she had walked into the water
El6 ponce EthtCudu hIvuk Luo huOLo iOi
her sll the next day, but the waves faileC
TO cast up her body, and the newspapers
setit down as case OF suicide. That nigh
she came home clothed principally in isrn
leaves, and said that IS che was on hel
way homo the night before her hat blew
Of into the water, and, seeing nobody II
sight and knowing that no one was likely
to come, she had gone in alter 1t. ThI
tide was stronger and the water deepeI
than she thought, and when ahe did man
age to get back to shore 1t was not ct thu
same spot where she went in. In the dark
ness she could not find her clothes, anC
spent the night in searching for them III
and down the beach. Just at daylight Bht
saw them, and OF the same time sawa pc
licemAn come along and pick them up
She spent the day In alternating between
Ia IL.