The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-16
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Henri Rochefort uns his paper in
Paris by telegraph from London.
II 1880 keeps up with its present ratio
for calamities it will rub the record OF
1889 very closely.
Lord Tennyson is spending the sum-
mel near Haslemere, Eng, and is in
good health again.
Miss Louise Imogene Quincy, the
poetess, thinks nothing Of walking TWEEN
ty miles ut a stretch.
A f%orty.year.old wagon is seen daily
on the streets OF Denison, Texas. It was
made Of Usage orange.
The experiment Of tanning leather
with palmetto roots has been successful
ly tried at Aapaiachicola, Fla.
Mrs. A.. ]. Seeley has 10000 silk
worms in her house at Benton Harbor,
Mich, busy at work spinning their CO.
cooEs.
The Chinese may be bad citizens for
America, but it is a fact that only two
Ccleatlals were ever inmates Of an aims
house.
Two men OF Pomeroy, Wash, tried to
play base ball. In running for a wild
ball they collided and each had a Leg
broken.
The last day OF February and the 18th
OF July always occur on the same day OF
the week. The same is true OF May day
and Christmas.
Hugh McCulloch, ex.Secretary of the
Treasury, who has been seriously i'll at
Washington for some days, is eighty
two years Of aye.
Mrs. Jane Ramsey, who died at De-
troit last week, aged eighty.seven years,
was a niece OF George Stevenson, the
locomotive inventor.
The granddaughter OF Dickens, Mary
Angela Dickens, has written her first
long novel, her previous works having
been divers short stories.
OF thirty.tiye cooperative associations
Tor manufacturing purposes which have
been started in Berlin since lSGS, only
five are now in existence.
1.-THE salt held il solution in the ocean
were spread over the earth it would
form a layer Of more than thirty feet
deep covering the whole globe.
An ordinary elephant produces 100
pounds OF ivory, worth $500. England
consumes $50 tons, for which it is neces-
sary to kill 1900 elephants a year.
E. S. living, postmaster at Chester
Gross Roads, o., has received a check
drawn in his favor from the Govern
ment for n cent in settlement of his
accounts.
The reason given why birds do not fall
from their perch is because they canno.
open their foot when tho leg is bent.
Look at q hen walking, and see it close
the toes as 1t lifts its foot and open
them as 1t touches the ground.
A Methodist church at Lowell, Mass.
hasdecided to use water instead Of wine
in tho communion service. One OF the
members, who had been adrunkard, &C.
cording to his own statement, and had
} TWICE returned to his old habits through
! the temptation placed in his way at the
communion service, was the cause Of
THO change,
The youngest son OF Dickens, u young
man named after Bulwer, the novelist,
: is II member Of the New South Wales
Parliament. A spiteial Sydney paper,
which is in the Opposition, says Of him;
HE possesses merely his illustrious
fathers nose, and was chiefly elected be.
cause he bore his fathers namc."
Mr.. Gladstone, In his regent article on
the Bible, says: "Iohn Bright has told
me that he would DO content to stake
upon the Rook OF Paalms, a1 it stands
the great question whether there is OF
is not 4 divine revelation. 1t was not tc
him conceivable how q work so widely
severed from all the known production:
Of antiquity, and standing upon a leyelst
much higher, could be accounted tol
except by a special aud extraordinary
aid calculated to produce special ant
extraordinary results"