Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-30
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JONES AND FRANKFEsTRTN
Correspondence Of the Ohio state JonFn., J,

iouSteds Governor haSes aSsnever man was bust
| ed before in America Jones was lust pitcbinp
Into work upon the Perry monument rs full 81
iPoetic fire sever seethed under5his knocked.up
felt tile. Sitting with Jones at twilight in the
Angler House, in came Godfrey Frankenstein
the panorama painter, saying he Gas Just off for
new sketches of niagara Falls, when, catching a
dim glimpse ofmy hirsutc visage, he seized and
saluted mo with great warmth, for which he was
Immensely langheda at by Jones, because he lad
mistaken me for certain New York Artist, and
4 so We parted.
g. Last week, after taking a hasty jaunt in Can.
ada West, 1 came down to the Clifton House at
| Niagara, and going along the shingle beach from
Table Rock to the ferry, there was Godfrey, as
busy us n bee in pumpkin blossom eketching
the jutting rocks and vines that hang out Just
below the Clifton House. Ithen jumped in one
oft the skiffs that dance across the water to the
foot of the American Fall, thence ran over to
Goat Island, down Biddle's Staircasei and SO
along to the Cave of the Winds, for which
lplace [ always reserved my most devout en-
thusiusn The fall which comes down here is
unlike any part of Niagara-the waters
make sheer leap in solid column, and o with
what a terrible rush do they tramp their SAN
/ dalsupon the great threshold rock below, which
is worn like the pavement of an ancient city,
over which iron heels have passed for centuries.
| Here, as the water bites the rock, it pushes on
ward in peculiar way, and the spray that rolls
outward is likeno other, aud the spray that
rolls inward against the cavern walls is like the
van of tempest multiplied by the thousand
! Right in the face Of all this magniGCence
stood John Frankenstein, in shirt and panta.
looms, with no eye or ear or thought for any.
thing else in the world, as with busy crayon and
glancing eye he caught the flashing glories Of
torrent and rock and spray, and the beautiful
| iris bow, which seemed to hover under the
mighty sheet like the Angel of the Cave And
then as the artist rested from his work and came
forward to greet me, there was supernatural
light in his eye. sol" said he, 81 never APP
preciated this spot SO much before-whcn |
came here to-day to make this sketch, felt
more like praying than ever did before in all
my lite!"-and his breath came and went like
that of one who has no words for the great
emotion of his soul. So when we had gone
forward for kiss of this giant grandeur,
turned and left the artist to resume his work, of
which, doubtnot, the world will see more one
ofthese days.
SooN after Lola Montez arrived in this country
shelost couple of bracelets set with diamonds.
One dropped from her arm ing New York, and
the other in Boston. The papers talked good
deal of the matter at the time, and the Boston
Times chronicles the lady's misfortune in a pa.
thetic aragraph-whereupo versatile friend
Anonymous" sends the Boston Post the follow
| i"S conservatory epiSram =
Three jewels of beauty and cost
| Are loss it were hard to sustain;
4 But the tSoO in Amenca lost,
She may chance to recover again!
Some people may be puzzled to find the joke,
but it is not tho fault of the epigrammist we
are quite sure.
Tue New York Express, in abiding TO the
late duel, saYs-"H Hereafter, we respectfully sub.
init, if wounded honor feels so unhappy, that
it must put its own and its enemy'S physical
"pluck" 10 the test, why not substitute walk
across niagara, or the Genessce Falls on a tight
rope, for the pistol2 Blowing out brains, and
shooting at calves, should be left to the butch
ers. 1t is not a gentlemanly business"
A letter from Saratoga says-s.Y Dung Ameri.
ca expands himself wonderfully at the States,
where he gives his whole mind to nursing his
side ~hiskers and colorirg his meerschaum.-
He docs just rs everybody else does, eats aud
drinks three times day and drives to the lake
once-in fact everybody follows the old routine
of dress and drink, dress and dine, dress and
drive, dress and dance, and dress and dissipate
generally"
A Buffalo paper says tight rope walking is
undoubtedly an elegant accomplishment, and
should be introduced in yound ladies' boarding
schools, but only under competent instruction.
1t is one of the fine arts and no to be mastered
by every aspirant, and proves its assertion
by mentioning several little boys with collar
bones broken in attempts la Blondu
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TnE N. Y. Times is disrespcctful. Ola build
ing in the Park it says-'But neither beaver
nor prairie dog, nor any animal on earth, save
a City Father, could ever have devised such
INDUSTRIOUS pile of bricks and mortar AZ the
structure in question. It belongs TO that order
of architecture which, for lack of n better name
may be defined as the municipal"
'scRIpTunAL QuoTATIoNs. is said that
Daniel S. Dickinson, sometimes irrevcrcntly
dubbed "Scriptural Dick, !" from his Gondness for
furnishing his political harangues with biolc
Qnotatons,) shed tears on reading Gov. Wise's
un-wisc letter to Doaney. That emincntly
Biblical and Exegetical statesman was evident
ly reminded Of the passage of scripture, "The
fool is Wise in his own conccit. - Utica (M.Y.)