The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-28

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land gazing from his sanctum at esi
The board OF strnte-gee & IT.
Hse,,wished3 them with McGlnty ut
81 The bottom Of the seas n
e The war will be a farce he wrote, 4
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V 80 said this man so .wondrous wise,
III. and sad 1t 10 to Say = ,ifS
" Spain was licked to a finish though 81
His plans we're thrown away
4 The number Of people who "play poll
Icy in this community forms a larger
chunk of Wheellng's population than
mang people suppose. Trusting in
their luck of!hlttlng the winning COM
bination of numbers that rolls from
the goose every drawing-ln most
policy shops there are three drawings a
day--are males and females, whites and
blacks, storekeepers, BARRIERS, laborers
and business men, men who work land
men who do, not. Every policy shop has
Its runners, who collect the coin, take
the numbers guessed by their custo-
mers, ITO whom they report the lucky
drawing. s 1t$ls q common spectacle to
see the narrow slips OF paper, upon
which are inscribed the rows Of num-
bers, at barber shops, the tonsorial ar
fist getting his little commission for
his trouble. and 1t Is at his place where
female nelghbors leave their spare
nickels In the hope of tempting tickle
fortune. Often the trustful do strike 1t,
and their investment is then multiplied
many times over, oftener they come
out on the other side, but there Is no
game Of. chance any fairer than policy,
q reason doubtless for the tenaclty OF
its devotees. And watching one OF them
scan a dream book" or "Napoleon's
fate book" to pick out the numbers to
play the spectator, can't help observing
that superstition still holds sway In
this, the close OF a progressive CEN
tury. A popular method to get some
thing equal to the colored mans ali
Artistic watch the daily papers forsthe
age recorded of a person who has COM
'mltted suicide. For instance II his age Is
given as 50 years. the combination may
start With 3d.; and by little addition or
multiplication be made, 53-S-15. This
can be transposed to 53-2-15. by using n
little subtraction, or worked over many
other ways. Street numbers also come
in for attention, or In fact any old thing
In the hope of hitting a winning combi-
nation. Atfs ~
3 Some queer requests are received by
the coupon contributors to Bloch Bros
tobacco factory The Mail Pouch"
mastIcators are OF several states and
territories. and since the firm introduce
ed the system Of giving prizes, varying
In proportion to the number Of cou-
pons, the festive coupon has piled back
into the big factory in such profuslon,
that o special force Of employees Is kept
busy every day, looking over them, and
in return making glad the lovers Of
SCRAP" with their hearts wish. be II q
razor, watch charm. knife. or what-not.
In looking over the list of premiums Of
fered, Is list of $50 books TO choose
from, II the coupon holder Is fond Of
reading, and for certain number Of
coupons he may get book. it was q
surprise, therefore. when one man ask
/, ed for all the books, he thinking that
his coupons called for all. instead of a
selected book. A recent request came
from. a mining town across the river.
A foreigner sent sufficient coupons for
a scycloneter, and his. I knowledge +, of
English being represented by a minus
sign. his wants, were made known by
the village postmaster. This time the
coupon holder was surprised first,
Through his friend the postmaster. he
wrote gain, saying he had received the
cyclometer. but wanted bicycle like
the; firm advertised. His mistake arose
from the fact that In the picture the
cyclometer was shown on a bicycle, and
the miner supposed that he was 10 get
the bicycle. SO he returned the road
measurer, saying that he had no blcv-
Gle, and didn't want such machine as
that, which was as beneficial to him as
free grant OF land at the north pole.
One can't blame the man who can't
read for making bluff at It, though he
does hold the newspaper upside down,
for maybe he never had chance to
learn 10 read. and maybe he played
hoohy" contrary to parental injunctions
and now regrets It more than he can
tell you. The girl who plays by car,
and has the piano score In front OF her
at the same time is more of sinner.
She Is obtaining credit under. false pre-
teuses, but her penalty Is modification
unlimited II she learns that her auditor
has stumbled" There Is one more indi-
vldual. He is the man who knows Wag-
ner on concert programme, and pro-
nounces It "Vogner." IL the selection
has Wagner's name appended he knows
It's "Vogner's' and II there's lots of
bass notes and crashes he wakes elo-
quent In his. enthusiasm for "Vogner."
Not SO long ago Brooke's band held
forth for two evenings at Wheeling
park, and the separate programmes
were combined In the one book, but
printed on different pages. The third
number each evening waslan overture,
the second by Wagner, and the first by
some tumble OF consonnnts, whom tho
dcnonent cannot now recall. It was on
the first evening. The band started
out on It's overture, composed by the
unrecallable. and when the bass notes
began to make their appearance. "Vog-
ner" began to get lifted to the skies
from the German tomb, by the man
who knew his music. At every crash
the Wagncrian devotee let loose his en-
thusiasm, at tho same time driving his
elbow Into his companion's spare-r!bs.
This physical pain was allevIated, how
ever, when after n few preparatory
laughs, the sufferer turned over page
and showed 10 the dlsgusted Wagnerian
that what he had so admired was the
work OF another mans brain, and that
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