The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-05
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

1ODeku JuBttut' JOuu u. EIosbi lAAN
commissioner of Santa Fe, has received
a letter from Mr.. G. A. D%usenberry, OF
Barton county, telling OF his remarka-
BILE success with wheat this year. He
had 5000 acres in wheat. II averaged
twenty-one bushels to the acre and it
was sold for tfty-two cents per bushel.
Mr.. Dusenberry says it cost him just
50 So per acre to raise the wheat and put
it. in the market. This leaves a net
profit of SIS 05 per acre, or on the entire
acreage u profit OF S24,l 5O.
1t is said that the season OF 1892 on
the Erie canal. which will formally be
closed for a few days. has been q pros
porous n for canal boat owners. One
OF these men tells the Albany journal
that all the boat captains have cleared
expenses and paid up ONE OF last
wears debt, and no less than twenty
five new boats and ten new steamers
have recently been built.
Tho French Canadian emigration
from Quebec to the United States was
astonishingly heavy in October. The
emigration fever has extended to Chau-
teaugav and Beauharnois, the two coun-
ties OF the provinces whose people have
been supposed to be the most pros
porous and contented.
At a late Missouri wedding, says an
exchange, "the guests repaired to the
dining room, where all beheld with de-
light the fine table that was loaded with
a great variety OF the finest articles OF
diet OF the richest d~elicacies that would
satisfy the appetite OF the most hungry
person."
For three years past Miss Annie
Shepard Spooner, now eighteen years
of age, has published at her home in
Hinsdale, N. H., a monthly paper tor
Young people, called around the Lamp.
She sets her own type, %solicits her own
advertisements, and is saidto have I, 200
subscribers.
The Pennsylvania railroad depot in
Philadelphia promises to be the most
magnificent structure OF its kind inlthe
world. 1t will be modern gothic, gran
lite and brick, ten stories high, With q
tower 240 feet high.
Five thousand canaries were among
tho passengers on the steamship Tauric,
which arrived in New York on Monday
from Liverpool. They were consigned
to a bird iancier in that city.
A Norwich Comm hunter expert
enced n queer incident the other day.
He fred at a partridge that was flying
towards him in the air and shot it, aud
the dead bird fell into his hands.
A big cavalry pistolloaded and capped
was picked up in Pulaski county, No., q
few days ago, near the scene OF an old
fight with bushwhackers, in which two
men were killed.
Kansas paper: "Four hundred miles
long, 200 miles wide, 5000 miles deep
and reaches to the stars" This deini-
ton OF Kansas, by q glorious Knnsan
now gone, must not be spoiled.
A Rails county (Mo.) man found
| himself so big that he could not getinto
the voting booth, and the sheriff was
obliged to construct for him a screen oil
horse blankets.
The largest telephone center in tho
world is that in the exchange at Berlin
Germany, where 1000 wires are con-
nected with the main Office.
Indignation meetings are DelHs He'N
| and petitions drawn up all over Ger.
many to protest against the proposed
increase OF the beer tax.
Prof. tiootz has been experimenting
with brainless dogs. One animal, de-
prived of all its psychic faculties, sur
viyed eighteen moaths.
A bill has been introduced in the
South Carolina legislature to establish
a confederate soldiers home at the e1'
pense OF the state.
The mining industry Of Colorado is
reportad to have never been more ac'
tive than ut present.
The Boston Po1 has been sued for
nine cents by the Boston& Albany rail-
road,