The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-21

but tHe average man pr lerS him
Minus skip and plus green peas.
-ruct.
Over $4,000 watermelons came to New
York on the steamer Kansas City fronl
Savannah last Monday.
The United States at the close OF its
first century has as many cities with IL
population OF over 1000. 900 MS France.
The Boston Trareller chronicles the
death OF "Charlie," a cat, at the yenera-
BILE age OF t%wenty.lour years and five
months.
Ten years ago there were 200, 900 com.
merciat travellers in the United States.
The census this year will probably show
i00.0
The Atchison Globe says TINT out OF
tho thirty good people who assembled
to pray for rain in that hamlet the other
day only n carried an umbrella.
Not u island has risen or sunk in
the Pacific ocean for thirty.four years,
and geologis,s declare that the earth Is
resting for come mighty effort in the
future.
There are 5000 insane people in the
city Of New York, and experts on in.
sanity say that the ratio OF lunatici is in.
creasing much faster than that OF the
population.
A wild sweet orange has been discov.
cred growing in the northern part of
Florida. The fruit hangs on the trees I'LL
the year round, often for six months At.
ter it is fully ripe.
Captain Williams, OF Jacksonville,
twenty years blind, is recovering his
sight. He thinks the glare in his room
OF an electric light has something 10 do
with the recovery.
Mrs. Backlot-"They say Slick 90. of
on that indictment of his'u7" Mrs.
Bascom-"Yes." Mrs. Backlo;-"How'd
he DO it?" Mrs. Bascom-Proved nn
albino.' Free Press.
Maud-"Jack proposed to me when
we were in the surf together yesterday"
E!hel-"And did you accept him?'
Maud-"Yes. l was afraid he would
duck me if l didn't."-New York Sun.
1t is said that there is nothing pleas
anter to use for rough or sunburnt skin
than slices OF raw cucumber. The way
is to cut a slice and rub the juics well
into the skin, and then dry With a
towel.
II have changed my mind" said Mr..
,Poots loftily, when his wife reminded
him that he had promised her u new
Int. ~ pity the one you changed it
With" said Mrs. Poots scornfulty.-1erds
Sytinys.
The largest fruit farm in West Vir.
ginia is the Becker farm, ncar Harper's
Ferry. 1t contains 5000 apricot trees,
$1,000 peach trees, 5000 plum trees,
5000 miscellaneous fruit trees aud 49,
000 grape vines.
1t costs the English government So
$4,000 annually TO support Queen Vie
toria and her immediate family. When
ever the Queen visits Balmoral castle
it takes 5000 to deiray the railroad ex-
penses Of the journey.
"No, my man, this is not mine. It
was a SO bill I lost" "But it was $50
bill before I got it changed, Sor." What
did you get it changed for?" "Och,
sure, 80 the wne could conveniently
reward me, Sor."-Fuck.
The most thoroughly disgusted man
is Dr.. Burton, Of Andover. He spent
Sl2 aud q large amount Of work on the
cultivation Of Russian mulberry trees
and the one tree that survived develop.
ed into a healthy sycamore.
In reply to an anxious inquirer, wo
u-nt,I1 nor II, %tot $40 a,.. L.tt,J 49,.
base bali reporter. He died in hope OF a
glorious resurrection when tho "beau,i-
ful snow" and the other fall and winter
setups are in Observation-Disclosures Nems.
Miss Unso Phistic-"Mr. Dash, why
is it that your leading ladies never wear
their diamonds in the daytime?" Mr..
Dash Theatrical msnager) swell
ahem! You see it is Il hahit of stars to
chime only at night."-Jewelcrs' Weekly.
A bean club has been organized in
New York. This was the bill Of fare at
Il recent meeting: Bean soup, Lima
beans, s,ewed beans, bean ~iritters, string
beans, pork and beans, beans and brown
bread, bean omelet, beans and mush-
rooms.
William Becker, otherwise liking OF
the Tramps," who lately travelled from
Boston to San Francisco and return in
twenty.one days, without spending a
cent for food Or railroad fare, offers to
wager $500 that he Il girdle the globe
on the same conditions, in l02 days.
1t is Estimated that water leaking
through q hole just large enough TO pass
a needle through during twenty.iou
hours at a fourteen pound pressure
would be sufficient to supply a house
idr a day. The waste through a one.
inch pipe under the same conditions
would be ,liO gallons.
At Norristown, Nd, W, B. Logan, a
horseshoer, made nine miniature horse
shoes from q silver tcn.cent piece. Each
shoe has the number OF holes usually
drilled in h%orseshoes OF tho usual size,
but, strange to say, the smallest needle
is too large to be used as nails for
these little wonders. Logan has made
affidavit that each and every one Of the
miniature shoes were made with the
same hammer and punch used in max.
ing the largest sized horseshoes.
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