The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-17
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Chicago Issued 10G4G marriage licenses
last year, and only $50 DEGREES Of divorce.
TripletH, named Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob Kile, aged IL years.. are living in
Bucks county, Ia. s ~
A man in Volinia, Mich, pays s. 60 tax
this year-siXty cents on his house and lot,
and So on his dog.
Not o nail Ia used in the construction Of
houses in Japan. They are put together
by method Of mortising.
England yearly pays million and half
pounds for water that ia sold for milk.
London pays half million.
A vessel recently brought IS New Bed.
ford an eagle which alighted on tho mast
head 1900 miles from shore.
Old Grow, q prominent Indian,chief, evi.
IDENTIFY inclined TO become civilized, has
subscribed for Bosnian (Mont) paper.
An oyster grower Of Orange, Conn, enti.
mates that the recent storm caused hin
$40 600 loss by washing aand in his oyster
beds.
A bookseller at Glencoe, Canada, put
$40 in bills in stove for saie.keeping,
and during the recent cold snap it helped
Eindle q fire.
Mrs. Emma Hopkins, Of Spring Lake,
Mich, thinks she has Ethan Allen 5 sword,
and wants the Vermont Legislature 10 pay
her 1000 for it. 1F-
A sidc.track OF the Southern Pacific
railroad is bailasted for 1900 feet with
shining blocks Of rock salt from the vast
bed to which it runs.
A miscreant has amirched the beautiful
white marble atatue OF Liebig at Munich,
with black corrosive preparation, which
it is thought will ruin it.
The annual consumption OF beer &C
cording to Washington statistics ranges
from 20 quarts per head in the United
States to l25 in Great Britain and lG3 in
Belgium.
The slaughter OF deer this season must
have been immenEe. One firm alone in
Fort Toward, Wis, purchased about IS 900
pounds OF yenieon saddles, mostly from
Indian hunters.
The colored church at Austin, Ark, on a
recent Sunday, being half full OF water on
account OF the flood, the pastor climbed to
the roof and preached sermon 10 the con.
gregation attending in skitIs.
\ female mifsionary just returned from
China relates that her confesaion 10 sume
Chinese women that she was forty years
old and unmarried brought down upon her
the opprobrium OF her hearers.
The first Town to DO entirely lighted and
have It's tramca1 driven by electricity
will be Montreux, on the Lake of Geneva,
Il company having obtained q concession
for the purpose. The motive power will
DO derived IRON the waller Of the lake.
The authorities at S.. Giles, in Belgium,
have supplied the policeon night duty with
cloth boots, having india,rubber soles,
With these boots the police are SO perfectly
noiseless that they are at least placed on a
footing Of equal advantage with burglars.
The following case "a recorded by one Of
Tho native papers publised in uiogo, Japan,
The wife Of dealer in sand for securing,
who resides at Nippon-Basbl, Yochme, in
this city, gave birth on the G.h inst, to i've
children, Ill Of whom are strong and
healthy.
A singular and distressing accident
betel 4 New Yorker who sprained his leg
by falling on Friday. BY the advice Of a
friend, he rubbed it with turpentine, but,
unfortunately, held the injured limb ever
a stove, and the fire set this oil ablazs i'm.
mediately. The leg was burned TO criep