The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-03
nEw- oF ALL SORTS.

Jimmy Elliot, the ex- champion
prize fighter of America, whs sent to
the woTkhouse in Detroit, Michigan, II
few days since, FOR vagrancS.
The Marquis of Westminster man
ul,es to live comfortably on an income
OF ten thousand dollars day.
AT fancy ball at the Union Hotel,
Saratoga, one young lady appeared in
IA dress composed OF pieces of sheet mu-
sic sewn all over n skirt and corsage,
with fan covered with music.
breYeL female. ..
The Pittsburgh Gazette says the
travels on the railroads leading to that
city is very small, and the prospect for
January dividends is consequently not
great. The hotels unite in the la
ment.
"A farmer from Dixon, Ill.,, writes
to the Agricultural Department In
Washington that he has successfully
made sugar from the box elder trees.
The sap, he asserts, is very sweet, =,
granulates as readily as the maple, and
makes white sugar of finer taste.
Bismarck talks of coming to this
country to see Gen. Grant.
The Paris Exposition is to close on
the 3lst of Octo er.
not much over twenty years OF age, is
the wealthiesL man i'll Cleveland.
The belle of St. Louis, pretty Jew
ess, has eloped with her husbands
cash and IA lover.
Napoleon mt Chalons led regular
camp life. The general officers in COM
mand dined with him the other day.
AS soon as dinner was announced the
Emperor said, "Messieurs, we are now
going to make the SOUP" A servant
handed his Majesty Il bottle, with
which he proceeded to the kitchen. The
contents of the bottle, which conclude
to have been a preparation OF meat es-
sence, was poured by the Emperor into
a huge saucepan OF boiling water, and
instantly made soup for sixty persons.
Robert Bonner commenced life in
the office of the Hartford C0urdnt,
where he earned his first few dollars ut
the compositor's case. Henow returns
an income of S2OO, 600. MIR. Bonner has
paid more money for advertising than
any publisher in the world, and by
thus using the columns of the press as
his forces, he has subjugated the read
ing community. Mr.. Bonner recently
stated that of the first issue of Beecher's
story 352, coo copies were printed, and
that 10000 more were subsequently
added. Norwood thus outstrips Uncle
Toms Cabin, hitherto considered the
most popular story in the world, of
which, in the course of twenty years,
800, 900 copies have been issued. Mr..
Bonner is now putting up II new fire
proof building for the Ledger at an eS-
pense of S2l6, 900. What is more, he
can, at the present success orthe Ledger,
put up such building every year.
Starting Il journeyman printer he is
now II millionaire. From ten dollars IL
week at the case his income has run up
TO four thousand dollars week the
year round.
How the universal heart of man
blesses flowers! They are wreathod
round the cradle, the marriage altar,
the tomb. The Persian iu the far East
delights in their perfume, and writes his
love in nosegAys; while ths Indian
child of the far West clHps his hands
with Glee as he gathers tue abundant
blossoms-ihe illuminated scripture OF
the praifieS. The Cupid of the ancient
Hindoos tipped their arrows with How
ers; and orange buds are the bridal
crown with us, a nation OF yesterday.
Flowers garland6d the Grecian altar,
and they hang iu votiYe wreuths before
the Christian shrine. All these are APP
propriate uses. Flowers should deck
the brow of the youthful bride, for
they are i'll themselves a lovely type Of
marriage. The should twine round the
tomb for their perpetually renewed
beauty is II symbol OF the resurrection.
They should festnon the altar, for
their fragrance and beauty ascend in
perpetual worship before the Most
High. .r..-. ..-