The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-31

Wuo WIG III uept 10 the wlg.maker.
When n new book comes out, I 70 L
my library shelves and read an old one
II an ordinary man was muscled LIKE
q flea he could throw a book agent two
miles.
The important information is sent on
that President Harrison weighs 10;
pounds.
Avoid exposure 10 tue damp air. Tha
would even take the snap out Of q gin
ger cookie.
"What n stout, heavy race the Ger
mans are2' "les, they are all Twotons
you know"
1.-THE first shall be last" That's whal
every man Gays when he has a new baby
III the house.
Mrs. Grundy: The number Of fashion.
able people who live on nothing u veal
Is remarkably large.
Good citizens are always willing to lie,
the law take its course, but sometimei
the law does not do it.
The first elephant ever seen in En-.
gland wassent as a present to Henry III
by the king Of France about the year
1865.
The Cigarette trust threatens to raise
tho price OF cigarettes. The Cigarette
trust would seem to be q blessing in dis.
guise.
There is a women in Atchison 60
Stuck" on the town that she prefers to
work on the rock pile rathe than leave
the place.
A Charlotte IN. o. clergyman wears
undoubtedly the largest shoes in this
country. The size is 50 aud each shoe
is 20xS inches.
It is said that a man cannot be in two
places at once, and We suppose that is
why it is impossible to be in Owego and
in luck at the same tine.
Gen. +. Z. Spinner has got so he can
not read his own writing. His writing
many years ago got SO that nobody else
could read it. But it went.
Colored Cadet Whitaker has turned
his opportunities at West Point to full
advantage. He is teaching at a colored
military college at Sumter, S. G.
Cumso-"Jaysmiih, is penurious, isn't
he" Fangle-"I should say he was!
He won't even laugh at a joke unless it
1t is at some one else's expense"
A story comes from S.ratford, Conn,
that an enterprising colt there the other
day cfiewed up a mans vest and several
hundred dollars in the pockets thereof.
A prisoner in the city Jail at SedaIia
attempted to commit suicide the other
day with aid Of his socks. When dis.
covered he was completely asphyxiated.
PhiladeIphians call it Borr HORROR,
Chicagoans say Bahr Harburr and true
Yankees speak fondly of the present
diplomatic headquarters as Bah Hab-
bah.
At an equality Of age the male is gen.
orally heavier than the female, except
toward the age OF twelve, when the
average age in both sexes is about the
game. m
Mrs. Fawcett will contribute IN intro.
duction to the new addition Of Mary
WollGtonecraft's "Rights of Women
which is announced as in preparation in
London.
An apateur scientific student at
Wakefield, Mass, planted a potato in a
little dirt on top OF a factory, to see il
the potato beetle would find the plant,
1t has found it. m
Gen. Lew Wallace is using some OF his
summer leisure at his Charlottesville
home with pushing to completion his
new novel, the scent of which ia laid in
Constantiuople.
"Pretty hard work ditching, isn't,
1t, Terrence?" "Sure it's not the work
| moind, but what's breakin' me heart il
Pm the only American on the lob, The
rest is all Eyetalians."
Henry n. Alden studied theology al
Andover, but entered the house OF Har.
per y Brothers instead Of the ministry
Tie has been editor Of their magazine
for more than twenty years.
An office has been opened in Pari!
where the ~impecunious nobility may
consult a list OF eligible American maids
widows and Divorces, with information
as to the amount Of their fortunes.
W. D. Howells never uses tobacco
except once in a great while he viii
smoke a cigarette when a great many
other people are smoking. He is ex
pected to spend next winter in Boston
Another volume Of uncoliecteL writ
ings by De Qlincey will soon be brough
out in London. They originally appear
ed in the Westmorland Ga:eHc in ISL!
and 1870. when Do Quincy was III
editor. ,
The greatest marvel In telegraphy /
said, to be the synchronous multiple1
in instrument by means Of which 81,