The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-19
BREAKFAST BuDuEr.

Little Billie HutChina, OF LawrenCeVille
Ga, IS a hero. A can Ci powder dropped
into a basket Of chips and Was thrown or
the fire, before which stood Billle's three
little sisters. The boy jumped for the
can, but just as he sti1sd 1t the powder
exploded. The little girls were not hurt
at all, but the boy was badly burned
Someone asked him why he grabbed The
powder. He answered as well as he
could, for he was suffering intensely, nc
save the girls"
There has been no gush over murderer
Hermann. No weeping women, ssyi
Tile Buffalo EEprctS, have brought him
flowers and delicacies. This Is Buffalo
not EImiar or Btnghamton. The only at
tention Hermann bus received came IrOln
reporters. Every newsgatherer who
visited the condemned cell seems 10 have
lett behind q cigar or two. 1t is to be
hoped, for the miserable being who dies
to-day, that they were good CigMs.
No article Of commerce Is subject &c
greater fluctuations in prGs than whale
bone. lImGy sell for 81 a pound in Jan
uary and s. in June, according to the
catch and the run Of ice In the whaling
regions. The main supply comes from tho
North Pacific, arriving in November. The
South Seasupply arriving in June. New
Bedford and San Francisco are the great
whaling ports.
lfEdison has arranged matters 60 that
telegraph messages are able To limp
through the air rom point to point, the
unwaly pedestrian Is placed 10 a preCari-
Gus position. What with slippery side.
walks, banana and orange peel, and the lig-
bility Of getting knocked down by tele.
graphic message that is in hurry To get
somewhere, outdoor life will be q burden.
The bark Mark Twain, lying at New
Orleans, has been llbeled by David s.
Brewer, who claims that one day when he
viaited the vessel on business a large hog
belonging 10 the bark threw him down,
tore his clothing, and terribly laCerated
him. He claims to be ~''irretrievably in.
jured," and demands such damages as the
court may award him.
The manager Of q st. Paul museum says
that he taw an ape once that would take
hypodermic injections OF morphine him.
self. He had been experimental on by q
veterinary surgeon, and being pet and
becoming addicted TO the use OF opium,
discovered the secret and commenced
operations himself.
The latest instance Of English ignorance
Of American geography Is rather fragrant
one. The 81. JdmsS's Gdstie, In an editor.
ial on the Florida land sWinlleB, makes II
ConspiCuously apparent that the able edi.
tor believed Florida 10 be situated In Cen.
trail America.
The latest style in hair.dressing Is called
Sweet disorder" Ills said that In order
To DO fashionable In this regard ali a girl
has to do Is to let her hair go as It lays''
In the morning after a night Of uneasy
rest.
On Holy 1nnocents' day in Antwerp
boys and girls are dressed up like men
and women, and are for that day allowed
10 be the masters Of the house. Here In
America many little folks are masters all
the year round.
The receipt Of large bag Of rutabaga
turnips from our old and staunCh friend
Mr.. Isaac Jeesup enabled us 10 bridge over
last week safely 90 far az rations were con.
Cerned.- QuiiSian (Pa.) Free Prsss.
During the recent cold snap and snow
storm In Florida the unBophistiCated
chickens greedlly snapped up the hrst
snowaakeS that fell, supposlng them to be
a new species Of food.
violin.playing girls arc multiplying Ia
fashionable society, and have crowded out
those who put their musical affection
In bapjos. ltmakes quite harvest fol
the "protessors.n