The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-17
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Gas in st. Louis has been reduced TO
81 80 per thousand cubic feet.
Baton Rogue, La, has band Of organ.
lied thieves composed Of boys.
silk culture is to be carried on bv large
number Of boys and girls at Nashville,
this spring.
A Lockwood, n. Y, man has contracted
TO build seven miles OF the Panama Canai
for million dollars mile.
The garden truck raised about Norfolk,
Va, this season will require nearly l,VVV''
900 barrels in which to market in.
A new charity in San Francisco has re-
ceiyed the terse title OF the Golden Chariot
Star Chamber Benevolent Association.
In England the yearly average expendi-
ture for drink per head Of population has
declined from S2l,53 in 1875 to Sl7.S2 IN
1882.
A wise man OF Athens says friendship is
like good coaee-whe1 once it has become
cold, it cannot be warmed again without
losing its first SAVIOR.
On one occasion 1900 acres Of land were
given for Staiuer violin, and, US portions
Of the city Of Pittsburgh are now built
upon the land, it may well be said to have
been the larges price ever paid ior 4 Sio'
lin.
Southern Indiana Is receiving a large i'm
migration from tho northern part oil mat
State and from Central and Northern I'LL
nois. This will change the political aspect
OF that region, which is now virnlenuy
Bourbonism.
A recent visitor to the South saysCharles:
ton Is the only city which reminds one OF
confederate days. Pictures OF the rebel
leaders appear in public places, though the
absence OF any picture Of Jefferson Davis
was remarked.
A Young politician explained the tattered
condition Of bis trousers to his iather by
stating that he was sitting under an apple
tree enjoying himself when the farmers
dog came along and contested his seat
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Paris paper, OF recent date, has this:
"Marriages-Several princes, dukes, counts,
yiscounts wish 10 marry rich American
Young ladies. Write in the first instance:
In all confidence, to Madame Ia Baronne d
=, care =, No. :, Rue =, Paris."
A GOClallbt pfUClhuluLlOu 10 ShSu1oAAhb
through Southern Russia inviting the Peo-
pie to profit by the coming Russian iestivi'
ties to pillage the mobiles, usurers and Jews.
A deputation Of mobiles has left for ST. Pe-
tersburg to see NJ. Tolstoi to obtain the
means of-pfeteetion.
One Of the leading industries Of Germany
Ia the manufacture Of pins. The eight FAC
tories OF Iserlohn alone consumed last year
600 tons Of wire and produced 2 100000, 600
needles and pins, employing 1900 workpeo'
pie, besides seven steam engines and ionr
water. wheels Of go horsepower.
Charles Dickens is reported to have AS
sisted" at peance once, and requested the
attendance OF the spirit Of Lindley Murray.
He was soon informed that the spirit
awaited his questioning. "Are you the
spirit OF Lindley Murray" asked the great
author OF the great grammarian: II are"
replied the incorporeal visitor. Mr.. Dickens
was Immediately convinced.
The Oldest tree in the world, 30 far as
any one knows, Is the 30 tree Of the sacred
city OF Amarapoora, in Bnrmah. 1t is said
to have been planted 2sS B: G., and is,
therefore, 2l7O years old. Sir Emerson
Tennet gives reasons for believing that the
tree is really OF this wonderful age, and re-.
fers to historic documents oil 1872 A. d. and
22S A. D., in which 1t Is mentioned, and so
on 10 the present day.