The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-06
HERE AND there.

HERE AND THERE.
The holiday. are over and we've hndO'
10 arSiiy on politics and ways to run the
But mostly comes the scrlmmage as to
what we're Twin in. -,
And II the Twentieth cenchry-When dlu
The questions got Us tangled to mighty
We Kin aEht i ont ali night and none on
Preacher teachers, doctors. ev'ry jestiee
Jlne In the heated arguments and give
their tongues a lease.
They argy on tho corners, they fight it out
It's the pfeySilln' topic wherever you may
And he men as never fought bout re-
Ris ~ up on on The eensSry's Sndln' and then
begin to mix.
We're hepiR for a settlement in a salts
For We hate p shake cenchry Il it haln't
And as they don't come often We OrtO
treat 'em square,
So I'll greet no Twentieth cenchry till
I'm sure I'm there. II. w.
Travel at the hotels IS at a low ebb
during the holidays, for the very good
reason that most people prefer to be at
home at that particular time OF the
year. 1t is interesting to note, there
fore, that local hotel proprietors say
that their holiday trade was far in exc
cess Of that in former years, thus unit
ing with the merchants In tributes to
the gladstone period Just closed. BY
comparing his register with a cores
ponding period year ago, one hotel
man finds that he sheltered double the
number during the last three weeks.
The year Of 1885 was one Of the best in
the business, and as the well groomed
drummer has begun on his rounds
again in great profuslon this year
promises to be as good, II not better. A
Water street hotel clerk. when asked II
the same was not a good Republican
argument, last night, quickly replied:
"well. / should say so. There's hardly
q Democrat among the drummers any
more"
Like the prophet that must go out Of
his own country to receive honor. a
newspaper man seldom gathers up the
festive Item within the shadow of his
home. To indulge in the figure of
speech known as hyperbole, which per-
mits Of exaggeration a la poetic license,
a scribe may go through the day in
bllssful ignorance of the fact that his
next door neighbours house was burned
down or burned up. whichever 1t is.
He will hear Of all kinds Of happenings
in remote parts of the town, but few
are the incidents of interest occurring
In his immediate nelghborhood that
reach his ears. Probably because It Is
taken for granted that he has knowI-
edge Of these Incidents by reason Of
his dwelling near the scene that he is
not otherwise informed. or 1t may be
that his long hours are against his
presence in his particular neighborhood
while the said incidents transplre, for
his work calls him elsewhere, and his
time at home Is almost exclusively
given over to worship at the shrine Of
sleep. Be It as 1t may, 1t is an oft-re-
marked sIngularity that newspaper
men miss good items right before their
very doors.
The graduating classes next June will
severally be known as the class Of
'Oo," which might mean nothing re-
peated. The years abbreviation is des-
tined to undergo some curious twists.
There can be the class Of 1900. which
sounds too ponderous and formal for
the average senior. be he ever so grave
and dignlfed, and other tltular refer
ences would include the class Of
''Naughty-naught," or "Nothing-noth-
Ing" "ought-he-not," "Knotty-knot,"
and SO on.
Bricklayers as a rule look to good
weather for the prosecution of their
calling. The wheeling members Of the
craft have been fortunate for two
years or more. since the Riverside be-
gan the erection of It's first coke plant,
which was not handicapped by weather
owing to the shelter provided. and the
second coke plant is now under way
and nearing completion. Not so many
wheeling men are employed as at
first This was explained by one of
them yesterday, who said that II the
average knight of the trowel and
plumb-bob got in five days a week he
was satisfied, and he would consider 1t
something awful to be worked week
in and out without intermisslon. In
this city, bricklayers are paid forty
fve cents an hour, with a nine hour
work day. so 1t will be seen that
weeks pay is not inconsiderable.
FIENDIsH WORK.
Cistern Poisoned with Paris Green.
Third Attempt,
PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Jan. 81
Quite a sensation occurred in Belpre, a