The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-14
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Ostrichcs sell for $1,000 per pair in
California,
A catfish in Selma, Ala, is five feet
from tip to tail.
Thefavorite tint in hair is one shade
lighter than bronze.
It seems queer that a bee headed man
cannot sting.-PiHsJurgh Chronicle.
"A good man gone wrong" is usually
bad man found out.-Bugaio Express.
A new express train runs from Lon
don to Edinburgh, 400 miles, in eight
hours.
James Cheesman, OF Toronto, is Sec
rotary OF the Ontario Crcameries Asso-
citation.
Four men met in Baxlev, Ga, the
other day who weighed altogether l,047
pounds.
The largest marble quarry in the world
is that of the Georgia Marble Company
III Pickens county.
The reason Monammed refused TO so
to the mountains was because the hotel
rates were so high.-LDe.
A wealthy citizen Of Milwaukee is
going to build n palatial residence mod
eled after an English castle.
Men will work harder for days
pleasure than they will for weeks
wages.-Philadeiphid Inquirer.
Salt and vinegar brighten brasses as
well any more modern and expensive
notions. They are also good on salad.
The man that cheers butnot inebriates
may be handy at political meetings to
take the other fellow home.-Georyid
Cracker.
One million dollars is the sum that the
Standard Oil Company will give to the
man who invents process for refining
Lima oil.
1t is said that the oil pumped from
Lima to Chicago will take the place Of
at least half the coal now consumed in
the Lake City.
On account OF the high price in rents
in this city, the Globe. Democrats japan
correspondent has moved out to East st.
Louis.-,S. Louis Republic.
A local paper at certain summer re-
sort recently stated that well known
young lady was present at hop, "rav-
ishinSly attired in Psyche knot"
Reporter-"Can you name the best
hundred books, Mr.. james" Mr.. Henry
James-"I have only written sixteen
books up to date.-Detroh Free Pres.
In thirty years the consumption OF
whisky per bend in this country has de.
clned fifty per cent. Wine and beer
have occupied the space vacated by
whisky.
Tho State militia Of Indiana will &C
into camp at Evansville from the 2Otl!
to the 9th instant. Prize drills and
sham battles will be features OF the en-
campment.
First Deacon (criticising minister
swell, il Mr.. Hardtext isn't very inter
esting, he ut least doesn, 7 slop over.
Second Deacon-"No; he's too dry iol
that.
So far us known the consignment o
Cape Cod Holsters that were planted re
Gently in Monterey Bay, Cal, are al
thriving and making themselves thor
Oubul1 uG ASLhts
DR.. ]. E. Briggs, Of New York, who
believes that physicians should veal
some distinctive dress or insignia, ha'
started the reform by wearing an Olive
green button in his coat lapel.
While Charles Cogswell was counting
n pretty young woman OF Birmingham
Conn, the other night, he dropped deac
by her side. She tainted from the shocI
and was for a time likely to die.
An ingenious young man of Battle
Creek, Mich, has n valuable summe
dog. He ties fan to the animals tail
and the canine waves it TO and fro Us HI
reclines in the shade OF a tree reading
book,
The Board Of Aldermen, of New York
has adopted an ordinance providing
penalty Of $50 for each trip or part OF
trip made in the city by any horse ca
not provided with both conductor ant
driver.
An unfought duel was investigated b.
a sententiously eloquent scribe for III
esteemed New York contemporary las
week, at South Orange, NJ ]. He re
ports that: "The facts OF the case ar
that-there are no facts in the case"
A Harvard professor, who is passin
the summer on Canobie Lake, n. H., ha
cottage built on craft made OF fifty
three empty oil casks, and the dwellin
is towOd about the lake whenever tn
owner wants a change Of airand scener!
The Oldest rose bush in the world
trained against the old church at HELD
ersheim, in Germany, and it is elaine
! that authentic record states that in l01
Bishop Hepilo caused trellis to !
erected TO support the rose. The mai
\ branch ia laFIpr than n mans hodv