The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-17
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

The estate Of. the late John Bright Is
valued at s., 75O, 1000, which, by the terms
OF his will, is divided among II large
number Of persons, even his distant rela.
tives being remembered.
A York lady bit into an apple and
found wrapped around the core u piece
OF coarse thread twenty.fOur inches long,
1t is thought to have been dropped by a
bird when the apple was in full blossom,
The biggest barometer on the CONT
nent is being made for tho Georgia Tech.
biological School at Atlanta. The tube
Is to be twenty feet long, with n diam,
eter ofthree inches. SulphuriC acid will
be used in the tube.
How many houses in the trade can
boast the record OF Enos Richardson 4
Co., % Maiden Lane, whohave occupied
the same premises on tho "lane" for the
past forty years, the same factoryin New
ark for a similar period, and their very
postotlCe box in New York for the same
length OF time?
The lance, which once played IN i'm.
portant part in warfare, is likely TO find
general LeadoptiOn in several European
armies. 1t is picturesque, and could
doubtless be made effective in the hands
OF cavalry, but 1t is scarcely probable
that it will superSede the weapons which
have been SO longin use for hand.to.hand
conflicts.
Henry G. White, OF New York, in d
letter to the Tribune, says: '"ThIre Is
really no ground for the theory OF the
formation OF deaf race OF men, simply
because out OF tho $4,000 deaf mutes,
fully so per cent lost hearing from sick
ness or from purely accidental causes
and the defect Is not repeated in the OFF
spring; on the other hand C~ongenital
deafness has been decreasing, rs is shown
by the annual reports Of every State in
stitution in the land"
Alphonse Leduc, the h~alf.breed who
accompanied Lord LOndsdalO part OF the
way to the Arctic region, is in Chicago,
and still maintains, that with funds and
material, he can reach the North Pole.
His idea Is to 90 overland by sled. He
thinks that with 800 men in line Of com.
%munication for supplies North and South
be maintained without great difficulty.
Headquarters would be on the peninsula
OF Boothia, twelve days by courier from
the nearest telegraph TO Winnipeg.
Leduc will attempt to interest u number
Of newspapers to get them to back him.
The Homiletic Rcriet0 thinks that those
Of us not yet fifty years OF age have prob.
ably lived in the most important and in.
tellectually progressive period ofhuman
history. "Within this half century" It
says, 'the following inventions anddis.
coyeries have been made: Ocean steam.
ships, street railways, elevated railways,
telegraph lines, ocean cables, telephones,
Photographs, photography, and a score
OF new methods Of piCture-makihg, ami.
line Colors, kerosene oil, electric lights,
steam fire engines, chemical fire extin.
guishers, anpsthetics, and painless sur
gerry; %gun.Cotton, nitro.glycerine, dyna-
mite, giant powder; aluminium, mag
nesium, and other new metals; electro
plating, spectrum analysis and spectre.
scope audiphone, pneumatic tubes, cleo
trio motor, electric bells, typewriter,
cheap postal system, steam heating,
steam and hydraulic elevators, vcstibule
cars, and Cantilever bridges. All posi-
tive knowledge OF the physical constitu-
ton OF planetary and stellar worlds has
been attained within this period"