The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-05-22
PRISONS AND THINGS.

IT cost Krupp, the German gun maker,
$4,000 for the Centennial Exposition.
NEARLY 100000 worth Of human
hair was imported into France last year.
THE trial Of the men who attempted TO
rob Abraham Lincoln's tomb will take
place at Springfield, ILL.,, in few days.
Captain jerks, Of the hons marines,
Cant feed his home on pork and beanij
Till COngTCal meets he'll have no means,
BecIuie he's In the army.
-CouriT.JOurndI.
The man who invents some way by
which fellow can take his liver out in
the spring and hang II up in the back
yard and whip II as they do carpets, will
confer a boon on his iellows.-ROmc Sen
iine,
THERE are estimated 10 be 100000
wolves in Russia. Last year they ate lGl
human beings, and in various ways cost
the country $lO,OOO,OOO. Since the eman.
cipation Of the serfs "woli hunting" has
ceased.
a WOMAN in Minneapolis partetttrom
her husband because she believed that he
did not love her, and then he killed him.
self because she had deserted him. Evi.
IDENTIFY they did not understand each
other.
THERE is piquant report to the effect
that after carefully reading his obisua'
ries, Mr.. A. II. Stephens has declared
that from them he has learned Of Incl.
dents in his life and traits Of character Of
which hitherto he has been profoundly
ignorant,
lam willing 10 rock the baby while
wimmin folks are billing soap; am reddy
to kut rags to work into rag carpets; they
kan keep me hunting hens eggs, or pick
ing green kurrants; or / will even dip
HANDLES or kore apples for Sn7s, but |
won't churn.-,Jo,h Billings,
AN English woman, who was born with.
out arms, has just had twins. She wears
her wedding ring on her toe, and does all
the Homework with her feet with dex.
terity that is surprising. How she will
manage to nurse her twin babies is a prob
lem yet to be solved.
JUDAH T. BENJAMIN, the Confederate
Secretary Of State, is one Of the most
popular lawyers in London, and has an
income OF over 100000 year. He is
G5, was born in St. Domingo, is n He
brew, went TO New Orleans after gradual
ing at Yale, was Wing, then Demo-
cratic United States Senator, and then a
Confederate.
JUDGE KING, the new Collector Of New
Orleans, in assuming his position, an.
nounces that outside OF four or five Of the
chief subordinate positions in the Custom
House he intends to make very few
changes. Altogether he has received
about fifteen hundred applications for
positions, although the whole number to
be filled in the Custom House il only
two hundred and for.y.three.
THE Philadclphia Saturday E,.niuc
Post one of the Oldest literary pewspa.
pers in the country, was sold by the
sheriff Saturday, TO satisfy n iudcmen,
for $4,000. The papcr was started in
1921, and at one time before the war
reached circulation Of over 10000 cop.
les. It's memorable fact, illustrative
of the intolerant spirit of those times
that the advocacy Of The nbolition Of
slavery cost the Post sudden decrease Of
AZ, 900 in its circulation.
THE practice of muzzlinp, DOES during
the warm weather is based npon the no.
ton that they are more liable to hydro.
phobia in the summer than in the winter
season. 1t is very doubtful whether
facts will sustain tilis theory. An unu-
sually large number Of cases OF hydro.
phobia have been reported during the