The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-05
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

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Hung up amid the worlds Of space,
| where wheeling planets glow
It's dial plate the orbit vast
| Where whl'ls our mundane sphere
Has pushed It's pointer round HgAln
/ And struck another year.
Some acrobats are fresh and somerssult.
How the ice man prepares 10 take the
cake.
A single Puritan rOso costs dollar in
New York. y
Gold weather gets the drop on all the
Thermometers.
Failure in the yarn Writing un-
successlul novels.
The retail price Of coal at Pasadena,
CAL, is SIS ton.
The Chinese alone hold the secret OF
making India ink.
For obvious reasons bookseller should
not be much OF bookkeeper.
A New York life insurance agent has
opened an ottiCo in Jerusalem.
The Vulgarity Of basket on the New
Years knob has nearly disappeared.
Persimmons from Florida are in the
Eastern markets. They cost 81 doZsn.
Kentucky still hestn her Stats House
with wood fires in Old-fRshioned open fire.
places.
A man in Titusvills has received from
Colorado a potato weighing 3 pounds, liz
ounces.
The word Canada is said to hRvo come
f.om an Iroquoia word Ksnnsta, collsC-
ton oil huts,
Tho man who has the contract Of clean
ing away the Raihsga in New York City
clesIB $4,000 year.
a Chicago German had to be dragged
into q jury room under the impression
thathe was being arrested.
Lindley Murray 10 the name seen on the
sign Of furniture store in Brooklyn by
people who parse that way.
1t ia when q man sits down suddenly,
Unexpectedly and severely that he real
ICES what hard, hard world this is.
A Fetorsburg, Va, patriarch, seventy.
five years OF age, ia married to his eighth
wife, and is the happy father Of thirty.six
children.
For the moat perfect good breeding OBJ.
serve the manner oil two ladies' who hate
each other. Each ia on guard against the
slightest slip.
The recent ssssion Of the South Caro-
lima Legislature lasted but twenty -aeven
days, yet 2S6 laws and 80 joint resolutions
were passed.
O. P. Huntington, the railway msgnats,
whose wealth is computed at $4,000, 600,
once peddled out butter by the pound to
the miners OF California.
Jones-"srange thing, Mirandy; every
time you draw breath somebody dies"
Mrs. Jones-"Well, amt going to stop
breathing on that account"
Elihu Stevens, Of Smithfeld, Me-, is ct
the head Of family which 10 probably the
largest in the country. In this family
there are five generations which comprise
SiS persons.
W. W. jackson, one Of the pioneer in.
habitsnts Of Chicago, who Is eighty years
old, has just been married for q third
time. His bride has also been married
twice before and has eight grandchildren.
The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal, while it
does not claim that the town has the pref.
test women in Nebraska, is quite certain
that 1t has the homliest men. "They are
warm hearted and nice" IL Gays, "but
IS homely as . sorrel horse with q blszed
face"
Hon. Charles Edwards Lester, once
United States Minister to Italy, and tho
author Of "The Glory and Shsms Of Eng
land" and other popular works, is now
supported at New York hotel by the
charity Of friends.
A Ksiir in the diamond fields, suspect
cd OF atealing number Of valuable uncut
stones, was seen to shoot an OK just before
he was searched. After tho search was
over he Coolly picked the diamonds that
had been in his pistol out Of the OK where |
he had fred them.
"Well, poor SMITH He Is rid Of that
laxative wife of l." .tWhatl II hadn't |
heard" "Why, she fell headIoremost
into a tubiul Of cream this morning."
"Land sakssl Did she drown2" "No;
but her chin churned fifty pounds Of fine |
butter before she could be pulled out Of
tho cream"
ItisRaid that the English sparrow, when
prepared for the table, Is great
delicacy-equal, according to the testi-
mcny Of some people, to the Virginia reed
bird. When served on toRst 1t Is delicious.
These sparroTs are bscoming q great
in West Virginia. They are
driving ont our sorEstors, and ruining our
crops, and aggressive measures should be
taken for their determination. In tho