The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-16
BRRAKPAsT BUDGET.
Diamond scales weigh even a hair,
Ireland has 20O0OOwomen lace makers.

Diamond scales weigh even q hair,
Ireland has 2OO,0OOwomen lace makers,
John Christie, a Marion, CKas,) man,
has u field OF oats six feet tall,
Crows in Lewistown, Pa, are feeding
on locusts and letting the corn alone.
Seaside hotel men say they have bare
ly sixty days in which to make money,
Artificial ice is cheaper in Southern
cities than the natural article in the
North,
The worlds output OF tobacco Is in.
CTeasing more rapidly than either wheat
or corn,
There has not been an execution Of q
white man in South Carolina fortwentY.
five years,
Mrs. H. Hoffman, Of Alloway, n, ],
set a trap TO catch q rat, but instead she
caught a big ~rattesnake.
1t is said that Americans are being
swindled in Paris at a rate that makes
Niagara haCkmen enyious,
There are three brothers in Terrell
county, Ca, whose aggregate height Is
nineteen feet, They weigh 600 pounds
Russian military authorities state that
they can in twenty.four hours put $780,
900 soldiers in thelield prepared for war.
About a weeks association with a
threshing machine will pitch a farmers
voice fully an octave higher, as all town
folks know,
An ex.alderman, OF Fort Dodge, Ia,
has been arrested and fined on the
charge Of forcibly removing his COW
from the city pound.
st, Louis raised the money To forward
ten stranded chorus girls to Chicago
rather than support them at the Home
for Aged Women,
Australian papers announce the find
ing OF q large nugget, weighing $50
ounces and valued at Rl,360, II was
found near Wedderburn, Victoria,
It has been found that a nickel.plated
bullet will go through o man, where one
without will stop short, aud England
will hereafter nlckel.plate all her bull
lets,
Brooklyn has a German resident who
plays on a $50 silver cornet, a $3S French
horn, an SIS flute, a IS piccolo, a S25
drum, q $40 pair Of Cymbals and a so
violin.
A Morgantown, (PG.,) man bought q
lot Of old tinware at auction for which
he paid fifteen cents. A coffee pot in
cluded in the purchase contained l9s
buzzard dollars,
One more important vote will be had
this year upon the question OF ~constitu'
tional prohibition when South Dakota
adopts a State constitution next October,
A man with an artificial cheek, eye
and palate has been attracting attention
at an English watering place. It Is said
that he eats without difficulty and speaks
distinctly.
An enterprising merchantin Chicago
displays in front OF his store q lamp, tc
which Is attached a card readings Thii
lamp will be reduced In price ten cents
per day until 1t is sold,
In the Paris circus n trained lion Is a
present being exhibited who rides or
horseback, jumps through hoops and
over bars, tires OF pistols and performs
a number Of similar tricks.
According to tho society editor Of q
Clinton Mo- paper the maid OF honor
at a recent wedding at that PLACE wore 0
cream surah silk dress with an empire
sash and o Surplus waist,
The warm weather last Tuesday made
Amos Wallace, OF Columblana county,
o., seek an Ice house to keep cool. He
fell asleep, and when found six hours
afterward was nearly frozen to death,
The Arab believes 10 fate, and fate Is
whatever happens. 1.-The finds traveller
whom he pap rob, that Is fate; II the
traveller puts Q bullet ipt9 him that's
more fate, and he must be satisfied
with II.