The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-16
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Rumored that Mrs. Cleveland will at
tend the st. Louis National Convention
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
think OF making another trip to the Adj
rondacks during the coming summer.
DR.. Calling has patented a new gun
metal. composed OF steel and aluminium,
and said to be Of remarkable strength.
Ruskin has decided to republish his
poems, of which a few copies were pr:
vately printed in 1850. New ones will
be added.
Cornelius Vanderbilts income from
his capital is said to be in the neighbor'
hood Of 100000 n month, while that
OF William X. is not far behind it.
Senator Salisbury, OF Delaware, still
proudly boasts OF the fact that he ID the
only bachelor in that unhappy assem-
blage, the United States Senate.
Governor Beaver, OF Pennsylvania, is
hard worker. He spends nine hours
daily in his office and does not even go
out TO lunch, but has a pitcher OF lemon
ade and some soda biscuits brought to
him Mt his desk.
Justice Lamar is reported as saying
that he doubts "whether the young
white men OF the South have any more
energy and thrift than their fathers had
while fear the blacks are going from
bad to worse"
Prince Bismarck has been much con-
cerned about his private affairs lately, us
the inundation near Varzin swept away
three OF his largest sawmills, in which
several hundreds OF workmen were reg
ularly employed.
Joseph Davis, OF Wayne county, West
Virginia, has daughter aged six years
who weighs 230pounds. This is believ-
cd to be the largest child Of its age in
the world. The father weighs but 100
and the mother l20 pounds.
When the memorial tablet to the Rev.
George G. Haddock was unveiled in the
Sioux City Methodist Church the other
dry, the pastor said that in August, 1856,
when Mr.. HaddoCk was murdered, one
hundred saloons were running in the
city. Now there is not single saloon
open.
William A. Andrews, OF Cambridge
port, Mass, will start from Boston for
England June Is in the smallest boat
that has ever attempted to cross the At
lantic. twill be only fourteen feet long,
five feet wide, and two iGet deep. Mr..
Andrews should leave his obituary in
the newspaper Offices.
Richard W. Thompson, OF Indiana,
ex-Secretary OF the Navy, has probably
been longer in active public life than
any man living. He was IN able and
popular Wing speaker over fifty years
ago, and was elected to Congress about
that time. Apparently there are still
many, years Of active service in "old
Dick"
The Duke OF Wellington (IIenry
Wellesley is also Prince OF Waterloo in
Belgium, Duke Of Cindad Rodrigo and
Il Grandee OF the First Glass in Spain,
and Duke OF Vittoria, and Count de
Vimiera in Portugal, series OF foreign
titles and dignitics achieved by his Illus
trious grandfather, the first Duke.
The Rev. T. W. Springer, of Vicks.
burg, says the reports Of intimidation
and fraud ut the elections in Mississippi
published in the Northern papers are in
no way exaggerated. Many persons arc
driven from the polls by bands OF out,
laws, who warn them few days prior
TO leave the State until afte: that event
A Western mining superintendent
says that in 1859 he put up the first tail
Gnme in California at French Coral
and after taking out few hundred dol.
lars worth OF ore, "salted" the mine and
sold it for $1,000. The tenderfeet, Of
whose innocence he had taken advan'
tagc, were able, however, to clean W
100000 out Of it in few months.
The people of LaNToille, ILL.,, have {
curious sort OF problem in their village
politics. At the recent election two
candidates for president OF the board o.
village trustees were tied. Before tho
day of determining by lot who SHOULD
| be declared elected one OF the tied can
didates died. The puzzle is: Does this
create n vacancy or is the surviving can
didate elected?
The Empress Victoria, says Gcrmdnid
has been tho good genius OF the Empe
ror throughout his illness. Every day
she is in the kitchen to see for hersel
that her husbands food is properly pre-
pared; day and night she attends Z
every one OF the doctors orders. II
moments OF danger and at operations
she assists like skilled nurse, resOlutel!
helping to move the bed.
II il said that Fenimore Cooper be
came novelist through his wite's chal
lenge. One evening while reading {
novel he threw it aside, saying, 81 be
lieve could write better book myself.
"Let me see you do it," said his wife
In few days he had written severa
chapters OF 'Precaution," which he hat
published at his own expense. 1t at
tracted but little attention, but he con
tinued and wrote "The Spy" Haw
thorne, too, it is said, was induced t,
write 1.-THE Scarlet Letter" by a remarl
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