The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-04-03
BisEAIiFAsr BUDGET.
Over 0O,OOo paper car wheels are in dali
10 i,se on American railways.

Over 6O,OOo paper car wheels are IN dai
" use on American railways.
A minister who preached to some
Georgia conyicts sued for his payreCehtly
but the judge decided that tho Gospel waf
free in every sense 1.-THE word.
The Maryland Legislature two years ago
passed an act authorizing the whipping OF
wiie-beaters, and the first case under the
statute was brought into court during the
past week.
In Montana, recently, three tramps,
who stole box Of railroad tickets, were
captured, arraigned before two iuries,
both OF Which failed to agree, and sen:
fenced to term in Jail for vagrancy, all
within four days time.
Yale College has, in the way OF trophies,
slxty.nine base balls, won tIom her vari-
GUS adyersarics. Each ball is painted the
color OF the stockings OF the vanquished
nine, and is lettered 10 indicate the time
and place of winning.
The Queen OF England never wears, oil.
cially, any state robes, excepting only at
her coronation, when she goes to West
minister Abbey in crimson, and is there
invested with purple, and when she visits
Parliament, when she is alfred in red.
The imporLance,of wholesome, palatable
water for cities is shown in Vienna. Since
the introduction into that city oil water
drawn from the Syrian Alps constant
and very considerable decrease has been
observed instomach and intestinal troubles
and cases OF typhus fever have become
rare.
Two Frenchmen have invented q new
kind OF harp, made entirely OF wood. In:
stead OF strings, the inventors use strips OF
American fir. The sound is produced as
in the ordinary harp, by the contact Of the
fingers, but the player wears leather
gloves covered with rosiR. The tone OF
the instrument Is said to be OF remarkable
purity.
Ina London police court the other day
poor lad who stole pocket handker-
chief worth sixpencc WIS sentenced to
sixty.days' imprisonment. Next day in
the same court two highly connected
young men stood charged with taking
from In front OF shop where they were
on sale two silk umbrellas, but in both
cases they were allowed 10 80 free, because
they said their indiscretions weredue to
absence OF mind.
The City Of Guatemala has recently
been placed in direct communication with
the port OF San jose on the Pacific Coast
by the opening Of q new limo Of railway.
The total length OF the line is Z? miles
single track and the narrow three.teet
gauge. Between Esculintia and PALMA
distance Of 10 miles, the road rises over
5000 feet the total rise between San Jose
aud Guatemala is within few feet OF o.
600. The entire rolling stock was import
cd from the United States.
The succession to tho honor and estates
OF the Scotch earldom Of Iauderdale,
which is now Ia dispute in the Court OF
Sessions in Edinburgh, turns upon the
question OF whether or not one Maitlandf
an ancestor, was born in or out OF we'd
lock, the defendant claiming the former,
and that the marriage was performed by
the assistant rector OF Trinity Church,
New York, on July II, 1712. The case Is
now under consideration pending cxami-
nation Of the colonial marriage laws OF the
State Of New York.