The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-24

and the soda water apparatus bus tizzlet
out.
"0ur band was in q smazhup las
night" "Any bones broken" tive
trombones."
Sue lat the seaside, in reference to nj
exceedingly meagre bathing cossulnc)-.
Isn't that ridiculousP" Harry-''A
regular take OIL"
A new model school in Germany,
which has been built ut 4 cost Of $685..
600, contains n large dining room, where
700 poor children can be fed in winter.
The AhenTum hes this advertisement
"Writers OF fiction, ladies' especially
may be supplied with new materials
Of an exciting and romantic character"
A recent hait atorm ut Alusa, CAL, cx-
posed the fact that bats live iu the green
foliage OF trees during the GUNNER. The
hailstones knocked Il great many to the
ground.
Fakir-"Necktie, suspenders-" Ba.
boony, (haughti!y)-"Do l look like n
man who'd wear u 20'cent necktie? %
Fakir-"Vcll, l hat some for 10 cents,
mister"
swell, Chappie, ! see you have been
WHILE" ibid you bag anything? ;" mot
u thing, Chappie, but the Knees OF these
new pants"
The boundary line between the United
States and Canada is distinctly marked
from Lake Superior to the Pacific by
cairns, pillars OF iron, earth mounds and
timber clearings.
The whistle on a Santa Fc locomotive
blew a blast the other day, between
Usage City and Topeka, thirty-tive miles
long. The people along the truck
thought tho end Of the world had come,
sure.
The German universities have been
unusually well attended during the sum-
mer semester. Betiia has 1913 regulur
students and 1880 visiting students;
Leipsic, 3,l77; Halle, 1926; Erlangcn,
1000.
Governess--"Oh, Tommy, I'd have
been ashamed to write like this when I
waa your age. Tommy-"You never
was my age, Miss Smith. You was al.
ways older'n me. You was horned
frat"
"Are you sure it was the fpirit OF
Lindley Murray who came at the medi-
um's call?" "Oh, yes; be said so him
sell. ! said, I want the spirit OF Lindley
Murry,' and the ghost replied, Pm
him."
The interesting fact may lie stated in
q line that New Works new acQuednct is
thirty miles long, 1t cost SO, 900, 900,
and eight lives were lost in its con-
struction. 1t brings 3lS, GOO, 900 gallons
Of water 10 New York daily.
There are drifts of snow in the Little
Smoky mountains OF Idaho that are fifty
feet deep. These drifts are remnants OF
the heavy snowfall OF last winter, and
it is conjsciurel that it will take two
more hot summers to melt them.
South Attica Mich.) farmers planted
mustard seed. They did not expect
pineapples or oranges, but they were
wild when the plant came up and proved
to be Western mustard, which rs about
ten times as hard to eradicate as the
Canadian thistle.
!. The Baltimore american : w. that a
couple from Pocahontas. ". Va who
went to Cumberland, Md, IL ua married,
were delayed thirty-six hours in having
the ceremony performed, because the
groom was not old enough by that
many hours to get a license.
Most Of the few surviving members OF
Eilsworth's famous zouaves live in Chi.
cayo, where there are fourteen OF them.
When the company started for Washing
ton from Chicago on July 3, 1868. it was
composed OF eighty-three men, the pick
Of the youth Of the Lake city.
Tho use OF electricity is offered to the
lion tanner in the form OF a light wand,
with an insulating grip for the hand,
connected by a flexible wire with a bat
terry, OF which tho power can be varied
at will. An experiment with this form
OF applied science has been successfully
made.
New York electrician, who has made
a specially OF spectacular electricity,
says the day is not fur of when %electri-
cal fireworks will supersede those now
used. He declares that for q compare
lively moderate outlay he could arrange
an electrical display for the city which
would last for many yea7s, and could be
| repeated as often as desired. IL would
comprise rockets, Roman candles. wheels,
Nisgnra Fall and all the modern pyro.
technic effects.