The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-03-28
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Fully 5000 Chinese have already set
tied in New York city,
A six weeks electrical exhibition d
proposed TO be held in st, Louis next
September.
There lisa boyin Luthersyille, Ga, who
has six grandmothers and three grand,
fathers still living,
A vein Of hot mineral water has been
struck on the Alma (Mlch.) sanitarium
at 0 depth OF 2,S76 feet,
The library Of the British Museum
will not hereafter supply novels to read,
ers until five years after publication.
Italy has opened It's universities TO
women and Switzerland, Norway,
sweden and Denmark have done like.
wise,
Breach Of promise suits tried in the
school houses are the latest thing in the
way oil entertainments In Cass county,
India rubber Is being tried as a substi.
tute for asphalt in payements In Berlin,
and the result Is said to be good, but ex.
pensive.
Protncted experiments in France have
been made with the potato with a view
toward a more abundant yield Of
starch producing roots.
A knowledge seeker put in a written
application to the Detroit public library
for "Goesoe's History OF FranCe,n but
accepted GuiEot's instead,
Henry O. Hunter, in Jail at Crawfords.
vile, Ind, for bigamy, had the cheek to
send 70 both his wives and ask them TO
goDn his bail bond.
1t is contemplated applying the pro.
cess OF electric welding 70 boiler plate
and other sheet metal, thereby r%eplacinV
the ordinary method Of riveting.
Mr.. D. w. Richards, q well.known
business man OF Newark, N. j., whoi Is
now Ill, has never before this, missed A
day from his business for fifty years.
There are men in Lincoln, Neb,, whe
remind the student OF human nature OF
q gold case watch with Waterbury move.
ments, says q local paper.
Aburglar, arrested in Boston, had on
his breast an India ink picture ola graye.
stone, on which was marked: "In mem.
ory OF my father and mother"
A Rushville (Ill., girl put her lump Of
chewing gum on her pillow. 1t got into
her a while asleep. II took several
days to remove 1t, and now she Is deaf.
At a recent beggars' ball in Vienna
there were 5000 persons present, all In
beggars' costume. The more beggarly
the costume the greater applause that
greeted 1t.
Speaking Of clothing an editor writes
ave have seven suits on hand at pres.
emit. The cheap half.wool suit that we
have worn since last winter, and six
costly suits for libel"
A negro at Dayton, Fla, went to sleep
last week with q half dollar In his mouth
and swallowed II, and it came near
choking him to death before 1t could be
poked down his throat.
The largest boat ever built for the
navigation OF the Missouri river was
launched at st. Joseph last week. The
boat is eighty.six feet long and eighteen
feet wide and will be used In conveying
freight
An old lady Of Sharon, Pa, aged
eighty.twO years, started with fear and
trembling to make q journey to Iowa,
her first ride in the cars. She died on
the train overcome by the excitement OF
the journey.
The fact Of a cob pipe factory in
Missouri paying $O4 TO a farmer Tor a
wagon load Of desirable corn cobs leads
the Memphis Audldnche to remark that
'the time may yet come when the PEG.
pic will raise wheat for the Chaff."
The demand for lizard skins for purses
and similar objects Is said 10 have ex.
hausted the supply in Java. The gov.
eminent has interfered to protect the
lizards, who arc wanted as scayengers,
and lizard skins have 10 be obtained now
from South America.