The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-21
THINGS You MAY NOT KNOW,

"spuds" Is Californian for potatoes,
Siberia is larger than the United States,
including Alaska.
L, B. Brown, OF Albany Ga, has o 81
shinplaster bearing date Of 1777.
An Athens, Pa, baby Is said to have
weighed thirty.one pounds at birth.
According to the Herald there are two
lepers under treatmentin New York.
A letter mailed In Liverpool about q
o'clock in the evening OF May was de-
liyered to It's destination in ChicagO
early in the morning Of May 10. ~
An exchange says that "another South
ern newspaper reporter, having gone
without whisky for two weeks, has made
his debut in thepulpit as an evangelist"
1t Is proposed to celebrate, in the city
OF St. Louis, April 80, 1908, the one hun.
dredth anniversary Of the greatest real
estate transaction in American history,
the purchase OF Louisiana.
The Advocate, OF Stamford, Ct, knows
OF a couple who have fourteen children
down with scarlet fever. Tho medicine
Is mixed In pitcher, tho ordinary bot
tie being too small.
A curious freak OF nature has been
found at Weathersiield, Vt. Two birch
trees, q short distance apart, are united
q few feet from the ground by cross
branch, which seems to belong to BOTH
A lunatic who escaped from his care
takers entered a church in West Corn
wall, Conn.,, about midnight, and alter
vigorously ringing tho bell, lighted all
tho gas and attempted to play the organ.
A. D. Thompson, OF 0swego, N. Y, is
said to be the Oldest railroad conductor
in the United States. He began rail-
reading in 1874 on q tramway from It'll
AGA 10 Oswego. He Is about seventy
years old.
According to the newly published pro.
Ceedings OF the Wisconsin Historical
eoCiety It's bound newspaper files num-
Der ., 557 volumes, and are surpassed in
extent only by those Of the National
Library at Washington.
A piano tuner is working the towns
along the Missouri river, ] travelling
down the river on raft. He lives with
his wife in a little cabin on q raft, and
claims 10 have tloated all the way FROM
the headwaters OF the riverin Montana.
About the cheapest living for single
Congressman at a first class hotel Is $25
a week, and II his wife Is with him the
cost Is doubled. The highest price paid
by any member OF Congress for hotel
accommodations is about 81 500 a month.
The smallest church in the world Is
said to be the Catholic church at Tadou.
sac, at the mouth OF the Saginaw river,
It's extreme capacity Is not more than
twenty people. This church Is supposed
to have been founded by Jacques
Cartier.
When Christ. Post, the North Lon.
sing (Mich.) saloonist, went TO bod Sat
urday night he put two seli.acting re.
volvOrs and 81 100 in money and certiti-
Gates under his pillow. When hewoke
up he found that the money and re.
volvers had gone off without waking
him up.
The oldest OF all the obelisks is the
beautiful one Of rosy granite which
stands alone among the green fields up.
on the banks OF the Nile, not far from
Cairo. 1t Is the gravestone Of great an.
Cient city which has vanished and left
only this relic behind. The city was the
Belthemesh Of the Scriptures, and the
Heliopolisoi the Greeks.
Elberton, Ga, claims to have the lazi.
est man in tho world. He says that he
would starve rather than do anything In
the shape OF work, and would freeze be-
fore he would cut fire Of wood. He
says no has lived thirty.six days with.
out q particle otfood, for the reason that
he did not have II, and has more than
once lived through the summer on fruit
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