The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-01

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| To think Of Solomon In n similar case,
Explaining where he WAS 10 seyen hundred.
philadelphia Tlm.s.
Kalamazoo shipped IS! tons OF celery
one day this week.
What the House really needs is the
storage quorum system.
A woman in New York furnishes love.
letters at dollar apiece.
Thoprice ofagood looking female slave
in the United States Of Columbia is 500.
Spectators are offering Maine farmers
s. barrel for winter apples on the trees.
a Missouri peach bns been found that
measures lll inches and weighs l3I
ounces.
The most expensive fur is the Russian
sable, for single skin Of which rs much
rs SljO is sometimes paid.
An imitation in gold OF wicker rock.
ing chair, swung by two slender chains,
forms recent addition to chain pend.
ants.
The Bedford (Pa.) Gazette is eighty.live
years old, and its publisher thinks it is
the Oldest newspaper in the United
States.
The Salvation Army, every member OF
which must be total abstaincr, is now
the largest temperance organization in
the world.
iale's academic and scientific fresh.
men classes will aggregate nearly 400
members. Princeton will open with
over S00men.
The oldest man in England, who has
just died atElgin, attributed his good
health and longevity to oatmeal, whisky,
tobacco and fresh air.
An instance OF Just retribution is
found in the case OF the man who in.
vented thepigs-in.clover puzzle. He has
been sent 10 IN insane asylum in St.
Louis.
The New York Yacht Clubs fleet OF
seventy.slx steamers is estimated to be
worth 100000, and Commodore Gerry
is said 10 spend $4,000 year Oh his
Electra alone.
Mrs. Wolfe, OF Birmingham, Conn,
published r poem in the local paper and
on the following day her husband, a
good, kind man, disappeared and has
not been seen since.
A well.iniormed cotton broker esti.
mates shortage OF 5000 bales in the
Alabama crop and a gain of $1,000 bales
in that OF Tennessee, and the entire pio.
duct at 100000 bales.s
The papers OF Aficager Hancock, of In
diana, for whom the Senate Pension
committes has recommended pension
Of SO for his services in tho war Of 1872,
show thst be is l02 years old.
A blind old soldier asking for aims at
a Manchester (EnglaEd) church door,
had board hung round his neck in.
scribed rs follows: Engagements, s;
wounds, 10; children, 6; total, "a"
A Bangor (Me.) policeman was riding
in carriage the other day when high.
wayman cssayed to "hold him up" The
officer leaped out, and, alter a tussle,
overcaMe the criminal and locked him
up.
Rev. DR.. George B. Cheever, one Of
the few surviving pioneer anti.slayery
laborers, and who Was q classmate OF
Hawthorne and Loneiellow, at BowdoiH,
is seriously i'll at his home in New York.
He is eigh,y-6ye years old.
Some sharpers advertised "cold tea" at
a Conueautvllle fair, and with wink
sold it to the thirsty ut fifty cents bot
tie. When the purchasers drank it
they found it to be cold tea and nothing
more. Then, strange to say, they were
mad.
A woman was at the depot at Decatur,
ILL.,, the othef day who was on her way
to Nebraska. She has seventeen chill.
dren with her. She hat been married
only ten years. The first three years
she had triplets. Then she had twins
for two years.
AS William Turner, OF Morgan county,
Ga, was driving the other day, light.
ming struck the harness on his horse,
and running up the reins to his hands
benumbed them and gave him slight
shock, which he did not get entirely
over during the day.
A kansas exchange Gays that this is
Tic tiulc VI year " ueu tlle hdteN5 phil
osophers quit talking about their plans
for keeping the hot winds out OF the
State and begin figuring on specifica.
tons ior keeping tho northern billiards.
out Of the kitchens.
The colored pressman in newspaper
office at Houston, Ca, claims to be we'll
posted on bible subjects. One OF it's
precepts he renders as follows: "If your
brother smote you on one side OF the
jaw, turn the other side to be smoted,
and the third blow ia yourn."
A horse belonging to Mr.. W. Stuart,
OF Ballaghadereen, England, jumped
through ap open window three ieet
three inches by two feet two inches and
three feet from the ground. The horse
is about sixteen hands high. He came
through safe except little scratch on
the hips.