The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-03-11
BRLAKFAsl BUDGET,

Potatoes are only twenty cents u
bushel in parts OF Michigan,
An eight.ioot vein OF kaolin has been
found at Golden, Colorado.
AIusket balls were legal tender as far
things in Boston in 1885.
Three men caught sixteen foxes near
Cairo, No., one day last week.
The John Bright University at Wich-
tia, Kan has received u loan OF $li0, 600
from Eastern capitalists.
According to n California paper one
Of the tramps Of the Santa Cruz chain
gang wears Kid gloves when sweeping
the streets,
A thousand colored people passed
through Birmingham, Ala, the other
night, en- route to new homes in Kansas,
Arkansas and Texas,
Jake seligman, clolhier OF East sagi-
nav, Mich, owns ranch in Colorado
thirty.Ave miles long, on which he is
pasturing 1900 head Of cattle.
On Tuesday last a whisky bottle In the
breast pocket OF u man ut Spinville, Ala,
stopped " uUllVL ullVSSSu w hls AVNl W
The bottle was broken and tho man es'
capped being shot
1t is proposed to establish a 5000 po'
tato starch factory ut Muskegon, Mich.
The name Of tic product is "feCuline,"
and it is claimed to be- u big thing in the
way Of food supply.
An enterprising resident OF l.angresr
France, who had been arrested for shoot
ING at Ills sweetheart, made love to the
iaiIors daughter. She assisted him to
escape and tho pair then eloped.
One transatlantic line OF steamships in
New York uses 10000 tons OF Ice, 1000.
600 pounds ofmeat, 100000 eggs, 10000
loayes Of bread, % tons OF raisins and
currants, 400 tons Of flour and Is tons Of
cheese every year,
The product Of tho Calumet 4 Hecla
copper mine for February was 2,S07
tons. At the present selling price Of
copper the value Of the months product
was nearly SOSO,OO0, Part Of the mine is
still closed on account OF the fire.
A great ilume has been completed at
San Diego, Cal. 1t extends fifty miles
from the western slope Of CuyaInaca
mountain, where there Is a reservoirCon'
taininga four years supply OF water at
an elevation Of 1900. The cost was $780,
900.
Two lovers with only a little money
went not long ago to Monte Carlo, the
great gambling place, to try to get enough
to take them to America. They lost the
last coin, went forth and died together,
she arpyed in the dress she expected to
DO married In,
Francis W. Lasak, when she was thir-
teen years old, walked from Prague to
Berlin, where no learned the fur bust.
ness. He came to this country in 1919,
without cent in his pocket. He died
recently at DObbs Ferry,'N. Y, leaving
IN estate Of SG,000,00O.
Nearly $500, 100000 worth OF property in
New York city is exempt from taxation,
including the following: City property,
SlS5, PA, S2S; United States property,
SIC, G5S,0OO church property, S3S 0l3,500;
miscellaneous property, mostly charita-
BILE institutions, S4B,27O,445.
Benjamin johnson owns u farm in
Rush Valley, Utah, upon which he has
Just discovered mine OF natural shoe.
backing. An analysis Of this peculiar
material shows that it contains 10 per
cent carbon, 81 per cent aluminium and
tho remainder clay. When taken out
the material is moist and soft, and when
used rs u shoe-blacking produces fine
polish which is not easily destroyed.