The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-11
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MIsCELLANEoUs. aLAITERs.

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Eighteen million letters were col
lected from the elamp-post boxes of New
York last year, and about the same
number were delivered by carriers.
"A Milwaukee paper chronicles the
arrival in that city from Boston of a
boy who lately ran away from his pa.
rents in Lake City, Minnesota. He
was sent back by express. A tag was
sewed on his hat, upon which the agents
made their marks.
During the past year the income OF
the Girard estate was more than $4OO,.
600, of which SI52, GOO went for the sup
port of Girard College, and the balance
was applied to the estate or remains In
the treasury. :
1t Is announced by Wisconsin
paper that It will hereafter be printed
wholly at home. It has been its custom
heretofore to have one aide printed in
Milwaukee, and the sheets sent TO its
office tosreeeiVe the other impression.
This curious m ethod Is much in use In
England and France.
1t is found by a French experi-
menter that eleotrifying seeds hastens
their growth, and the same process
with fruit causes it to rfpen more rap
idly. he reports, however, that in the
case of seeds, many of those subjected
to this process persist in growing up
sioe down, the root growing into the
air. he was probably experimenting
with beans about that time.
There is an old quotation, familiar
to turfmen, which says:
"Fourwhite feet,
And one white nose:
Cut OH his head
And nmg him to the Crows"
Nevertheless Dexter, the fastest troL-
ter; Lexington, the fastest runner; and
Pocahontas, senior, the fastest PAGER in
the world, have or had "four white
feet and one white nose."
Glass has always been supposed to
resist completely chemical action by
acids but fiuoric. 1t is found however
that some bottle-makers in Europe are
in the habit of increasing the amount
of alkali, and thus saving in the fuel
required to fuse the ingredients. Wine
placed In bottles thus made acts upon
the glass and makes 1t opaque, and
thus adds to the wine salt which is
neither pleasant or wholesome.
Paris has queer case of 'klepto-
mania. An English lady of high birth
has many times been before the courts
on the charge of stealing, although her
circumstances are such that she might
buy everything she needs. Her latest
trick was fastening fine silk thread
to one franc piece, and when the per-
son by her side in the omnibus opened
her purse to pay fare, she handed her
the coin with the remark that 1t fell
from her portemonnaie. BY means of
the silk thread 1t was afterwards with
drawn from the lady's pocket.
In these days of easy and rapid
travelling it is curious to look back to
the year 1872, when in all England only
six stage coaches were running regu-
larly, and to find that these facilities
were thought too great by some we'll
meaning people. A Apanphlet was pub
lished urging that they should be abol.
ished, aud among other reasons gave
the following:
"These coaches make gentlemen come
70 London upon every small occasion,
which otherwise they would not do. but
upon urgent necessity; nay, the con-
Venience of the passage makes their
such long journeys ON horseback,
would stay at home. Here, when they
come to town, they must presently be
In the mode, get fine clothes, go to the
plays and the treats, and by these
means get such habit of idleness and
love of pleasure, that they are uneasy
ever AFTER"