The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-05

The average length Of lie Is greater In
Norway than in any other country in
Europe. a
Two thousand two hundred trains
leave London ordinarily every twenty.
four hours.
A fashionable way 10 serve bread and
butter is In two long thin slices like
lady fingers.
! A child, Eve years old, died In Ale
gheny, Pa, the other day from drinking
whisky, 1t is reported.
The Danish Kings crown is worth
Sl35 600, the Queens crown Sl7 500, and
the sword Of state $4,000.
A boarder in the New York Fifth
Avenue Hotel has been there contin.
uously since August q, 1850.
There ia a patient in a hospital ut
Washington, D. G., suffering from the
effects OF eating q raw pumpkin.
There have been making great fuss
| in San Francisco because u fish dealer
was caught selling shark meat for sole.
It was Richard Golden who upon one
occasion praised soup as the real source
OF the prosperity OF tho French nation.
The Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton OF Haverhill, Mass,, Is in receipt Of
an anonymous donation oil $4,000 10 its
building fund.
The Illinois farmer who won $4,000
in Burlington gambling house on Mon.
day has already been twice importuned
10 invest in gold brick.
Berlin come up to the front once more
as the best governed and regulated city
in the world. She has buried all her
telegraph and telephone wires.
Joseph Shower, Denver bootblack, is
worth 5000. He has farm Of $50
acres, fat bank account and works
fifteen hours day at his trade.
A man can have only one past, But he
| is not limited in the matter of presents,
and he can have all the futures he can
manage to buy.-Rochtsier Post rpresS.
Sculptor-"Fhete, how is that for a
polar bear" Critic-'Admirable. So
original, too. Totally unlike any polar
bear We have seen beforo."-Nelp York
Herald.
I'll you want to 90 to sleep quickly"
says Chicago physician, drink half o
pint OF hot water" Eli, hello, see here,
doctor! what are the other ingredients?
Judge.
Clara-"Jack intends to have every
thing his own way when we are mar
ried." Clara's Alamma-"Then, why
do you marry him?p Clara-To relieve
his mind Of a false impression" Life.
Near Dawson, Ga, a few days ago, two
negroes qaarreled over the Ownership OF
a "yaller dawg.." They came to blows
and to using deadly weapons, with the
result that one man Is dead.
a burglar was neatly captured at
Hounslow, England. He became fixed
in the panel Of door, through which
he had endeavored to make his way, and
in this position was captured.
Philanthropic Old Lady-sDear, dear,
John, what do all these girls who are
growing up without any education, not
even knowing how to spell correctly,
come to be?" John-"Typewriters."
Judgt.
The fisheries division OF the census re.
ceiyed the following from town in
Western Kansas: 'We have no fish
here, as We have not yet succeeded in
finding arariety tina! could live on prairie
grass"
In the French villages boards are set
bearing the following instructions:
Hedgehog: Lives upon mice, snails
and wireworms, animals injurious to az.
riculture. Don't kill hedgehog. Toad
Helps agriculture; destroys twenty to
thirty insects hourly. Don't kill toad. |
Cockshafer and Its larvae: Deadly
enemies to farmers; lays 10 to 100 eggs. |
Kill the cockchafer. Birds: Each de-
partment Of France loses yearly many |
millions Of francs through the injury
done by insects. Don't kill the birds.h