The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-26
BREAKFAST RuDaET,
Baltimore has debt of s3s,O0O,000.

J, A meazchsnt in Chicago bears the season
able name OF "Zero Marx" f.
The down Of domestic fowls is hein
made into cloth in Lyons, France.
photographing on silk and linen Is nov
successfully practiced In London. ~
! The recent snow storm In New Yorl
stopped all the public clocks in that city.
A Texan who has lost both arms hal
learned to shoot his revolver with his toes
i Asst. Louis hackman is in jail for send
4 log false orders to other drivers to get then
of on a wild-goose chase.
There has been good sleighing ant
coasting in Washington this winter, which
Is an unusual occurrence. .r,5 rE
Mr.. King, Of Middleton, Mass, is lOs
years old. His eldest daughter Is So. ant
his two sons are respectively &C and 10.
] It is asserted that, Notwithstanding al
the grand new telescopes, the palm To-
sizs still belongs 10 Lord Rosss's in Ire
land.
The old world can offer the United States
few attractions. We have now out in Co..
oEsdo better avalanches than the best Ssks
article. .IS.2s
Bills amounting to $l,25O,00O for dam.
sges done By the Union armies,in the civil
war have been introduced into the present
Congress.
A recent census of horses In Russia
showed that there were 10 875, 1903 in the
country, OF which l4,S35. 05l were tit io1
military service.
Capital punishment has been unknown
in Finland for nearly fifty years, yet the
Finlanders aeBert that fewer lives are finish
ed by violence than formally.
The Maryland State department has Just
forwarded TO his widow the resolutions Of
coincidence upon tho death Of President
Garfield adopted two years ago.
The Cape Cod ship canal, when com.
pleted, will do away with navigation
around Deyil's Bridge. the spot on which
tho City Of Columbus was wrecked.
The reports of the discovery OF enor.
nously rich gold placers in the Cnur
d'Alene Mountains, Idaho, are pronounced
greatly exaggerated by Professor Tiernan,
who has examined the country.
1t is now being found out that the terri
BILE volcanic etuptions which took place re-
Gently in Java were not an unmixed evil,
as the enormous masses Of ashes hurled
out OF the craters are excellent fertilizers,
which, with proper treatment, may make
Java bloom again,
Nearly 500 milea Of railway hays been
built in Mississippi during the past two
years, and the cotton mill output Of the
State has been doubled. Governor Lowry
predicts that Mississippi will manufacture
into cloth within few years every pound
Of cotton raised in its limits.
Every seventh year has been dry one
in California for q long period. The last
dry year wes in 1877, when only nine
inches Of water fell in the rainy season.
This year tho quantity Is very small, and
unless all precedent Is overturned this will
be dry year, in which case there will be
short crops Of grain.
4 farm in the town Of Elliot, Me-, has
been tho homo Of nine generations Of one
family, having been handed down from
fnther to son for nearly $50 years. Upwards
OF seyenty.five children have been born
and brought up here, and it is recorded that
only one unmarried person has ever died
IN 1t, except one child, who was accident
ally killed. ''.$ ~ NM.
Tho British throne, magnificent with
velvet and silk aud gold, is in TACT only ian
old oak chair" It's existence has been
traced back to the days OF Edward H.. and
1t has been used as throne for over 600
years. The wood is very hard and solid,
and WAS once painted In various colors.
The seat is q rough:looking slab Of sand
stone. ~ ri ~ s5a
Gems and precious stones are gathered
on tho surface in many places in this
Fcountry, IS sapphires in Montana and moss
aagates in Colorado, but systematic mining
for them Is carried on only at Paris, Me-,
and Stony Point, N. G. Nearly ninety
different stones used in jewelsy are found
In the United States, Of which q DEAN oo-
cur here exclusively. .', al n