The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-09-25
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

London bootblacks charge two cents
Tor ashine.
In France the government runs the
tobacco and match business.
America has 200 900 telephones-moTe
than the rest Of the world combined, !
Germany is making steel fly wheels
They do double the speed OF cast iron
Down In Alabama sheep stealing, Is
known as "WoFkIng Mutton Trust,
The Granite Mountain mine In Mon
tans has yielded 81 100000 worth OF SILL
yer since 1884.
Out Of 1900 breweries in this country
twenty-five have been sold to English
syndicates. ~
Princeton, Amherst and Williams al'
begin the scholastic year with the laEg'
est freshmen classes on record.
Fred Mather, a London fish cultprlstl
estimates that a slx-pound eel produces
1900, 900 eggs in one season.
The Olin family reunion at GaIes6uFgl
Mich, last week was attended py aeou'
700 people, all connected with tue lam
lily,
A little girl 7 years old living nine
miles southeast OF Smith Center, has't
has plowed twelve acres OF ground lol
fall wheat with a three horse rlding
pillow,
Dentists advertisement Is a Reading
dailv. Teeth filled and extracted with,
out main by the use Of vitalized air, and
made fresh every day and perfectly
harmless,
j. w. Droney, OF Punxsutawney, Pa
| Ia the champion hunter, as far as hearG
from, last Wednesday he shot and
killed eighteen large squirrels and only
fired seventeen shots.
Two coal dealers at Port Huron BIZ
exactly the same figures for supplying
the city with 600 tons Of coal aud thel
they tossed cent TO see which should
have the contract
Peter DiedoiE, OF Brooklyn, put a stone
on the sidewalk and covered 1t with all
old hat. Mrs. Frankinmuth came along
and gave It a kick, and her broken toes
cost Peter $3.50
The BellTelephone company has spent
more In litigation since It's great pros
psrity became assured than for every
other item OF expense cOmbineds II u
in the courts from one years end TO an
other.
Samuel Harris horse ran away at kaia,
muxoo, Friday, with the lines WOUND
around SamueI's neck, but fortunately
tho animal fell and broke a blood vessel
thus keeping Samuels neck from being
broken.
Il. II, Plat and John Allen, OF New
York City, have completed their long
horseback ride across the continent
They reached San Francisco four months
and about four days from the time they
LEFT New York.
The Pittsburgh papers speak OF rol
Of paper among the exhibits at the Elk
position there Us the largest one ever
made. 1t 90 inches wide, IA miles
long, weighs 2,55S pounds aud is with
out break Of any kind.
Two tramps, who were surprised milk,
ing COW by Lehigh county, (ParI
milkmaid on Monday evening, were
driven of by the girl after q pIucky
fight on her part, one OF the scampS
being famed by a blow from a wagon
stake.
A bill making 1t illegal for any one to
let or sell houses unless q certificate fur
niShed by government inspector Ii
produced, showing that the premises art
In perfectly sanitary condition, is 70 be
introduCed'in the British House OF Com
mons.
At Deland, Fla, few days ago, Aman
da Worthy, Colored, fired at q CoachwhlE
snake, which was chasing ono OF hel
chickens, aud shot the Methodist preach
err, who was sitting at. his writing table
200 yards away. The reverend gentle
mans wound Is serious and painful, but
not necessarily fatal. Amanda was fined
$ and costs.
A Pittston paper recently printed
notice OF the death Of Jacob Rodgers al
the age Of III years. He was born neal
Pittsburgh on January !, 1878. He was
| in the war Of 1912, and was wounded al
tho battle OF Lundy's Lane. BY his first
vile he was the father Of fifteen chill
dren, and by his second Of six. Nine OIL
the twenty.one are living, one OF them
being eighty.two.