Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-14
sslsFLY TOLD.

rIor;dl has seventy'0ne newspapers
-, pses 100 gallons of water day for
..c1 inhaOitant
r,,;,sntiary convicts at Laramie, Wy,
,,,p GU, ooCco bricks a week.
rr,-la has raised a watermelon weigh
.S.ysn,v five pounds and tfteen people
roa,dr eat It
si,seu yesr old New York girl has
.,,t 10 a a.eformatory for very sing
pSs- ts.r,r,s. She was afflicted with a mania
orpcnicS.
me- tree near Sumpter, Ca, is fifteen
r:ne inches in circumference five feet
,.,2, i.,- the ground, and at the base nearly
twenty teet.
Eo,,or school boy was asked: why
49, animals larger in a tropical than a
S-;,;s r,ne?" The quick reply was: "Be-
.,r,s heat expands and cold contracts"
Florida grower has raised granadilla
,;rIs which bears an East India fruit oval
:, ,bspe. of a light yellow color. 1t is
eaten by scooping out the inside with
spoon.
legislative blundering has set off from
between two counties a strip Of land in
Niprs>ots sixty five miles long and a mile
wide. without local government or official
rscucnIion.
yr. Wolohiu, Of Albany, Fla, set hen
~ hers eggs. Mr.. Wolohin lifted her up
The other day and found her keeping warm
three vouug kittens, apowder gourd and
door bnob.
The Ann Arbor High School wanted a
tss,l er Of English and elocution; but out
- the l. 400 students of Michigan Uniyers-
f,v. which is itself at Ann Arbor, not one
could b., found competent for the situation.
NA.r:mony between persons Of the same
ir.,& IN France is forbidden by law only
?, rgreuts, grandparents and full half
I-rrl-.s and sisters. Marriages between
~. p and nieces, aunts and nephews are
permissible.
-:.h mine has Just been opened in
,.srroSs after curious history. IL had
Ing tten known to the Indians, who be-
r,y,,. that the Great Spirit would kill any
me v'.a revealed its location to a white
,.a, At .as. a Frenchman married
s.r.a. Who in time told him the golden
CT.
v. Alexauder Paul, in his short Pdrlia-
nerts which has Just been issued by Ne
-an, P.uI " Co, shows that hundred
years ago a caucus system was in existence,
which Lad its centre in Yorkshire, and that
James was hearty supporter Of the Clot-
IRE though he did not know the thing by
that name.
NJ nneapOlis is reported to ship annually
beyond her local consumption l,G50,S10
barrels f flour. These, says TIE Tribune
s.ati,ticiau. If piled one above the other,
end 20 end, would reach 7S0 miles. The
flour would make about 1913, 255, 900 lOayes
oibread, the ordinary size Of bakers loaVes.
These, piled in a pyramid, would make,
roughly calculated, square pyramid with
base &nO fee. square and with height OF
nearly l.ugO i,et.
A stretch OF water on the Tweed two
miles 'ong, and running through the Duke
OF Roxburch's estate, is let at rental OF
$1,000 a year at which figure the enthusias'
tic angler could not possibly recomPense
himself for his outlay except in sport even
if he got the fish for hiC-selt but he has
not even that privilege The Dukes fish
e-man attends him, and when each days
fishing is concluded he will give him the
hsh he has caught, but at market prices.
No Engl;,h fortunes have ever been &C
cumula.ed by individuals in England
equal TO those of Stewart and Vanderbilt.
The largest personality was that Of Mr..
Brassey, the great railroad contractor,
SsDU0u,pO. The next largest was that of
Mr.. Morrison, dry goods. 2O,O0OOOO, with
resl estate equal to some S2,500,o0O. The
Duke OF Westminster's realty can fall little
short OF 100000 600, but his father only
lt$LulotuO personally, and this included
8 famous collection Of pictures.
A little Boston girl travelling to Maine,
passed through a tunnel, and was greatly
awed oy the 6lackness into which she was
suddeny plunged. "Oh, dear where are
we goiasa she whispered, as she closely
Clasped the maternal hand, We are going
through the tunnel" replied the mother.
There i, no danger" As suddenly as they
had di5cd iato the gloom they emerged
into the sunlight sgain, when the child
asked, Mamma. what is a tunnel 1T IS
q hole in the ground, said the mother.
The Child looked OUt the car window with
grea, surprise and interest depicted on her
face, and said, Then is this the bottom Of
the world She evidently thought she
had Ia. sed completely through the globe,
ard vas passing through the country OF the
Chinese or some other antipoial race.