The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-25
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Colored popcorn killed Cleveland boy.
The liars must go.-Troy Times. Good
bye.-Rochestsr Union.
John Quirk, q laborer, who died at Nor
wicb, Conn, last week was ITO years Old
Because his girl went back on him, a
North Carolina man named Comfort com.
mitted suicide by swallowing paper oil
pins Ii may be he found some comfort In
pinning his grief to the lining oil his stom-
ach.
A Young woman who had great trouble
in getting permission to attend Professor
Iiixley's recent course Of lectures on biol.
oyy at South Kensington has just passed
through the consequent examinations over
Two hundred and tifly male competitors.
The South now has nearly 200, or, more
exactly, l0l cotton factories in operation
aud 10 course Of erection there, when IS
more than half the number IN the New
England States, though the former, o.
course, are on q much smaller scale, and
thew manufacture only the coarser yarns
and fabrics.
There are said to be about 1900 den.
fists In this country, who put 81, GOO, 900 oil
metal into teeth each year, and about one
| ION Of pure gold is used annually. The
making OF artificial teeth Is large indus
trv also, about 100000 being made an
nually. Only one American in eighty has
teeth perfectly free from decay.
Although gold has been found in Alaska,
II ia not good country for poor miner OF
prospector, says a Portland, Oregon, CORES:
pendent. The climate Is disagreeable and
the season short. In the immediate vicinity
Of Juneau the country is thoroughly pros
peoted and the claims located. Unskilled
labor Is abundant and cheap, the Indians
working for 81 and 81 SOL day.
Admiral Baldwin's snuff box coronation
present from the Gar is thus described in
Hamburg letter: at Is estimated TO be
valued at SIS, 900. Six solitaires, three on
each side Of the portrait, are said to be
worth 81 200 apiece. The portrait Is sur,
rounded by a ring OF about forty diamonds.
The box itself is an art gem, and has a
capacity for fully half pound OF snuff"
After describing the repeated failures oil
tumble-bug to get his ball out OF o rut,
the indianapolis Neus adds; "Finally he
plowed out a space, like sort Of railroad
cut, with a smaller slope than the buggy
track, and pushed his ball triumphantly
out through It. Was that rea on? It was
exactly the course taken taken to raise the
great winged bulls OF Ninevah. Has a
tumble.bus got amind?
One Of the most singular sentences ever
imposed was by Judge Krekel, OF the
United States District Court OF Missouri,
recently. An illiterate prisoner was sen;
fenced to Jail till he could learn to read and
write, and another often Ter was sentenced
till be could teach the former the art. Ina
little over three weeks the prisoner ap-
peared, able to write fair letter dicta.
ton, and both men were discharged.
Miles OF spruce forest in Maine are dead.
Lumbelmen are not agreed as 10 the cause.
About eight years ago the heavy Autumn
rain loosened the earth, and that was fol-
lowed by terrible gale and severe winter.
The theory, however, generally accepted
by the best judges Is that the trees died
from old age. The decay is mainly in sec.
tions which have not been cut. The sge
OF the spruce is from sixty to ninety years.