The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-25
PERSONS AND THINGS.

hall. Yip Yong was the belle. Atmid.
niRh. two Cinnamon entered the hall,
seized her, and carried her Of. All Song
started to rescue her, and was instantly
killed BY 3 pistol Shot. The belle has
not been found.
An Ohio uchoolmaster marked pref
~ girl pupil nine in the examination in
chemistry, although her real grade was
III. and wanted her to kiss him As a re.
compense. She told her mother, and now
Inc schoolmaster Is in trouble.
A negro magician gave . show in an
Alabama village one dark evening and
announced that he was bullet proof. The
next forenoon coroner's jury rendered a
verdict TO the effect that he must have
been mistaken.
Belgian iron girders continue TO arrive
in Sheffield, England, and are being ex'
ten,iyely used in the construction Of
buildings. Instead OF the competition
being, "a heretofore, confined TO rolled
sirders, a novel feature in those just
supplied is that they are riTeted,
Brackets on the wall are handy things
By hitting them you always know when
you reach the wall, they catch what dust
| Is overlooked by the picture frames and
centre table, and Sundays you are kept
out Of trouble mailing up those which
have tumbled down during the week.
Bridgeport Standard.
Little Fannie Hayes, the nine.year-old
daughter Of the President, Is never visi'
bic at dinner or to evening visitors. In
speaking OF this Mrs. Hayes said recent
| ": ~ am obliged to compromise with
my little lady, as I found her growing old
too fast for her year,; We serve her din
ner In her room, which she esteems q
high compliment"
Seventy hours without food or drink
was the recent experience Of tramp
who stole ride on a freight train from
Hannibal, No., to Toledo, o. He hid
himself in car Of wheat, and when he
tried to get out he found the door sealed,
Ills last thought, as he became uncon-
scious, was that he was to be dumped into
the vast caverns Of the Wabash elevators,
which, indeed, would be death as unique
as that Of Clarence, who Is popularly
supposed TO have been drowned in a
MslmSey butt.
A three.ton iron roller lay at the top
0! a hill in Eureka, Cal. A boy called
his companions attention to the chance
for fun in seeing 1t go down the long and
heavy grade. They started 1t with con-
siderable difficulty, and at the very out,
set It ran over q pile Of states and school
books, crushing them to bits. Gaining
speed as it whirled along, 1t soon over
took and ilattened a dog. Next Il
smashed wagon, from which a mar
jumped Just in time to save his life; and
then, quitting the road, it crashed through
a Chiaaman's shanty, and buried itself ii
a ravin. The boys are said to be fully
satisfied with the diversion.
General John A. Suffer, the discoverei
Of gold in California, has been interview
ed by Washington reporter, who found
him man very stout, though only a lit
tie over Eve feet high, and very gray, buI
active and social. He went, he says, tc
California IN 1888 as a farmer. SOME
years afterwards he built mill, in The
race Of which his wheelwright an intelli
gent man named Marshall, discovered
some gold that had been washed by thu
stream. Marshall at once conveyed th'
news to his employer. The men couldn'
keep the secret, and one Of them went L
a storekeeper named Smith and offered
to pay for bottle Of brandy in gold Il
be got from the mill stream. Then thu
news spread, and the General was ruined
He could hire nobody to save his immense
wheat crop, into which tho prospecting
parties turned their cattle. No ont
would dig gold for him, and finally he los
his land to the American Government OF
. flaw In his Mexican title. he has ioI
thirteen years past been trying to se
some compensation for it from The Gov
eminent,