The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-24
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Vember 0,
Very few women carry watches in New
York city,
Governor Francis has appointed st.
Louis lady notary public.
The leading industry OF Helmeta, n
j., is the manufacture Of snuff.
Blanche Willis Howard, the novelist,
has patented music'RCe and bath-shoe,
Thirteen cords Of wood were sawed
from single tree in Lancaster county,
Pa.
In future every troop Of British cav,
airy will be equipped with machine
gun.
Though some Of our colleges are very
old, they are still in possession OF their
faculties.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie expects to
snend $4,000 on his public library in
Pittsburgh.
An electric launch in England recent.
y made sixty miles without recharging
tho accumulation,
Buggy wheels OF steel on the principle
Of u bicycle wheel will BIO made by a
Pittsburgh concern.
The cathedral Of Worms, built OF red
sandstone in the eleventh century, is to
be entirely restored.
Satellites, Spain, is supplied with water
by Roman aQueduCt that has been
lately cleaned and put in order.
A Hampstead IN. J.) boy, failing to get
fresh bread for supper, fired three shots
at his mother. They all'missed.
Among the hundred historical relics
in the Libby Prison War Museum in
Chicago there are few more interesting
than Abraham LiuCOln's bootjack.
The melancholy news comes from
Spain that old bull.Gghters complain
that the sport is not what 1t was. 1t is
the old cry. Too many amateurs in the
business.
A recent clever invention is the taxa.
nOm, little lantern.like apparatus
which, ingeniously placed at the back
VI a cab, measures the exact distance
Erayersed by it.
"Thcre is nothing newt under the sum-"
said tho preacher. The originality OF
history, philosophy and literature has
onsisted in putting old truths and as
pirations into new forms.
The Emperor William has ordered
every branch Of the German cavalry TO
be armed with the lance as It's chief
weapon, though neither tho sword nor
the carbine is TO be discarded.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad Com.
pany has contracted for three fast steam
SHIPS Of GOO tons each for the new line
from Vancouver to Yokohama and Hong
Kong, They are to be ready in 1890.
The lump Of silver, weighing ten
pounds. found Wednesday by workmen
engaged in digging n cellar in Hicks.
willie, L. l., is supposed to have been
buried By some one years ago and for
gotten.
lne increased binding power OF &C.
ment due to the addition Of sugar Is
thought to be due more to mechanical
than chemical causes, as sugar retards
rather than acCelerates thesetting Of the
cement.
Col. Franklin Fairbanks, President Of
the Fairbanks Scale Company, will give
to the town Of st. JOhnsbury, Va, his
entire collection OF birds, minerals, shells
and CuriosiLies, and erect q suitable
building rs a museum.
Most OF the lepers in the colony on the
Sandwich Islands are men. The average
duration OF the disease is eleven years
and the mortality fifteen per one thou
sand. The local physician, DR.. Hoffman,
ID d victim OF the disease.
Hans jaeger, one Of the Cleverest au-
thors Of Norway, has accepted the place
Of common sailor on one Of the Scan
dinavian ships. Although his books are
popular and read by all classes. he has
not been successful financially.
A magnificent English tree, known as
the "Winiarthing oak," which measured
thirty.eight feet seven inches in girth in
l7l4, has just been Ielneasured and
found to have grown just seventeen
inches in the interval-lS0 years.
The general estimate OF that electric
light decision Is that 1t permits any one
TO manufacture electric lights. This will
suit the public, as probably terminating
tho era Of paying Beventy.fve cents for
a lamp that can be manufactured for
quarter.
A hand refrigerator and lunch box has
been invented by Miss Phelps, Of Dor
chester, Mass. II 10 particularly suita'
BILE for lunches and picnics, and has a
compartment for Toe. The smallest siEe
holds three pounds aud half OF Ice in a
Einc.lined box, aud is said to last fol
seventeen hours.
Nearly $50 miles Of natural Gus pipe
have been laid in Pittsburgh since last
spring, involving an outlay OF $4,000, 900
Of capital. This has been the greatest
year Tor this manufacture Of pipe in that
| city, and there were more pipes laid than
at any time in the history Of the natural
gas business.