The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-09
BREAKFAsT BUDGET.

The crack Club-the policeman's billy.
Sixteen counties Of Michigan have voted
in favor Of prohibition.
A single trader in Orlando, Fla, pur.
chasca ., 900 alligator akins every week.
General Joe johnson, now seventy-fve,
is well preserved and as straight as On
arrow.
A dentist must be thorough in tooth
pulling; he must get at the root Of the
matter.
A good many have been cut up and
built over, but there are still 444 burying
grounds in London.
Elsie-"I had twenty.seven offers Of
marriagethis season, dear" Ella-"From
the came man, lover"
1.-THE Life OF Thomas Il. Gsllaudet" the
founder OF deaf mute instruction in this
country, is in the press.
"If there is anything l do like, remark
cd Crimsonbeak, az he came out OF church
yswning, "it ia finished discourse.
At Hot Syringe, Ark, ball young
lady, her mother, grandmother and great
grandmother danced in the came set.
Tho vile OF Gen. Low Wallace has writ
ten book entitled "The Land Of the
Pneblos," It will be published soon.
General Fremont is one OF the "stsr"
visitors at Los Angeles, and his cottage
there is ono Of the centres OF attraction.
Many persons use the phrase sin a
triCe" who have no conception Of It's
meaning. A trice ia tho sixtieth part Of q
second.
"see, mamma" said little Elizabeth,
bringing picture OF an enraged cat with
very much sIched back, "the kitty has
got psin"
CoquinR, the material for which the
three new Spanish hotels at st. Angus
tine, Fla, are built, Is claimed to be abso-
lutely fire proof.
A new street in Paris has been named
the Rue de Ssdi.Carnot. Whenever man
makes bis name famous in Paris he Ia
almost certain to Rue 1t.
Boiling snow to get diamonds is novel;
but 1t proved efiCacious in Bridgeport,
when 5000 worth that had been dropped
by lady were recovered.
Niagara Lsndlord-"You look tired and
thirsty. Won't you have O glass Of water ?"
Cautious visitor (Who hal read about the
Falls)-How much Is it,"
Mrs. Elizabeth Granger who died in
Pitts6eld, Mass, the other day, at the age
OF 102 years and 0 months, was thought
to be the oldest woman in the State.
A herd Of almost 1000 Angora goats,
"sbout which nobody knows anything"
It ia reported, are running at large along
the banks OF Little Wood River, 1. T.
A reporter in describing a tee-total
meeting, said that they had q mott har-
monious and profitable session, and retired
from the hall full Of the best Of spirits.
Old Gentleman calling down the stairs)
CLARA, didn't l hear that young man go
Just now?" Daughter-"Yes, papa, you
heard him 90 to the cellar for more cosl."
A Port Huron man has won the ever
lasting gratitude Of near.slghted men by
inveniing q hitching post which drops
out Of sight whenever no horse is attach
ed to it.
An immense cigar factory Ia to be built
at Key West, Fla, by Cuban manuiac'
turer. The coat 10 estimated at $200, 900,
and its capacity at over one million cigars
per week.
The State Of Sonora, Mexico, levies o
tax OF 81 on every baby born within its
limits, and charges the farmer cents for
every chicken he raises and so cents for
every sheep.
A hundred yeArs ago Julien Dubuque
set foot in Iowa, at the place where now Is
the city bearing his name. The Old Set
lsrs' Association is preparing for CEN
tsnniAl celebration.
Caliyuls once spent 100000 on single
supper. SO history Gays. The truth prob.
ably 10 that he spent 500 on the supper
and handed over the rest as tips TO the
wRiterB.-Baliimore American.
Congressman Tillman, oisouth Carolina,
has the same prejudice against oVercoats
which CharaCteriZes Hannibal Hamlin.
On the coolest day in winter the Palmetto
State Representative walks about Wash
ington in much tho same Vsrb which he