The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-30
BREAKFAST BUDGET,

Ball, the sculptor, is writing his auto
biography.
Florida has a new cropot watermelon
ready for the market,
New York's Washington memoria
arch fund now amounts to $62,796 q,
Tolstoi, yielding to the solicitation o
his friends, has resumed his literary
work,
Mr.. BOokwalter, the would.be Ssna
TOT, owns q farm OF 1900 acres in Ne
braska,
G, W. Bachman, OF Allendale, Mich,
claims to own q violin made BY Prugal
In 1919,
ALondon postman has been dismissed
for having $4,000 worth OF diamonds
stolen from him.
President Carnot Ia not an early riser,
but he gets Through q vast amount oil
work every day.
Miss Amelia B, Edwards does not like
New York, She says the city reminds
her Of q great soap bubble.
Rev, Howard b, Gross, OF Pittsburgh,
has sent his aCCeptanceOf the presidency
Of the University OF Dakota,
1t Is said that Canon Farrer will make
another visit " this cOultry next spring
at the invitation Of friends.
A wine company in California lust
week received an order IRON England
for $4,000 gallons ofsweet VINE.
Mark Twain, in his home life at Hart.
ford, linda great c0lutOrt in the society OF
an amiable black cat that no has named
Satan.
The Iroquois Club OF Chicago will
give u reception. Saturday evening, De-
Cember %, to Governor.elect Campbell,
Of Ohio.
A Chicago man and bis wife, who had
lost their home by fire, walked all the
way to Milwaukee, where they obtained
situations.
Senator Mcmillan, Of Michigan, has
given the Pfesbyterians $4,000 TO build
a church hall " tue State University Ut
Ann Arbor.
The deepest bore hole in the world Is
in SChladenbaCh-5,7S 4 feet. 1t took a
diamond driller three years and u half
10 reach the bottom.
Senator Ingalls, Is as fond of literature
as he is OF politics, aud Is said TO double
his Congressional ealary by his magazine
and newspaper articles.
Miss Marie Van zaudt says that she
took her earliest lessons from the singing
birds that were kept In cages In her par
Gnts' home In New York.
In parts Of Brooklyn the excellent
custom has been adopted Of placing on
street lamps the numbers OF the houses
nearest to which they stand.
Boston street omnibuses, which have
been running for twenty years, are a
thing Of the past. A street railway com.
pany has go6bled them up.
Rev. Robert Collyer, who began life as
a blacksmith and Is now u OF the
most popular living preachers, has Just
entered upon his sixty.seventh year.
Arab Pasha, now an exile on the
Island Of Ceylon, is said TO BE- f%retting
himself into an early old age. Although
but forty.nine years old, he is gray and
thin.
In tho last Congress there were nine
Republican States which had no chair.
manshlp, and this Congress there are
twelve Democratic States similarly
treated.
Prof. John s. Newberry, in a lecture
at Columbia College, Saturday, on the
theological History Of Man" said there
are signs that man lived eighty thousand
years ago.
Ex Secretary Bayard- has accepted an
invitation Of the Huguenot society OF
South Carolina to deliver the anuiver-
sary Grafton ofthe society in Charleston
April Is.
The Congregationalist points out the
fact that a recent sermon Of Dr.. Talmage,
announced US cabled from Italy, was
published in this country over fifteen
years ago.
A meteor OF great illuminating power
passed over Fofkston, Pa, on Thursday
night, and in q minute thereafter a heavy
report Was heard and the earth shook
perceptibly.
1t is believed the Black Hills are about
10 enter q season OF great prosperity.
Last week several important mining
deals we're contaminated and several
more are pending.
The collapse Of Carmen Sylvia, the
queen Of Roumania, 10 due TO oyerRork.
She has been very ambitious to win fame
L., lt~lnnaIuEn and N "A nurtatn aYtank aha
has accomplished her object.
"Cigarettes for ladies' smoking are
sold in London, provided with specially
prepared mOuthpleCes. They are per-
tuned with musk and violet, and they
are enjoying a very extensive sale.
signor salvini, at home in Florence, Is
one u the most hospitable men, and his
house IL continually throngsd with
guests. He has a country place on the
Bologna road, whittier he goes now and
then for retirement.
A duck belonging 10 a Rockland (Me.)
man was frozen into a pond the other
night, aud was found ia the morning
with Just her head out OF the Ice. The
Ice was broken and the duck freed, up.
parently none the worse for the night
out.
The British boat Brisk has given the
most conclusive proof that o torpedo
may be effective. She fred one OF hers
at a buoy which had been toWed out az
a target by her steam cutter and, missing
the buoy, bit the cutter and sank her,
Hpre are n few deAnitinna viven Inv
pupils OF the Gardiner (Me.) grammar
schools at a recent examination exile,
q part Of a wagon; byword, a word thai
has gone bYi mermaid, d kindof q maid,
turmoil, a kind Of oil fepaBt, 70 pass BY
A boundary commission, Jointly ap'
pointed by New York and New Jersey,
has found that Bedloes island 10 Ia New
Jersey and not In New York, ~ hAI
heretofore been held, Gotham will MOI
he so proud Of that Liberty statue "a Oh,
used TO be.
The late Henry Grady was a rapit
newspaper writer. Az the time Of thI
Oharleslon earthquake he did not reaOl
tho stricken city until 10 O'Clock thA
night, but by 2Lo'CloOk next morning b.
had a report eight columns long on al
10 the telegraph office for transmission u
the leading Northern aud Southern
newspapers, tss,,1
The Tempe tAtiEonA) Neus had q dc
linquBnt advertiser. The editor too
out the al and replaced Il by the To-
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