The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-19

that no paid election expenses Of $500
In the recent contest.
Birds liayc n special mechanism fol
sweeping the eye, rapidly and often, by
means of third eyelid.
A permanent library, composed
solely Of books written by women, is to
be established in Paris.
E~ngland's military garriaon in Ireland
Is numerically larger than the. regular
army OF the United States.
From London comes word that stripcs
are to be the fashion In mems ulsters,
and a cape that comes to the waist.
There is q man in Atchison who looks
30 much like President Harrison that
scarcely n day passes that some one
doesn'tstop him on the street and tackle
him for an appointment.
An clipping couple were married tho
other cay in Muskogee, /. T., tho groom
being aixty.two ycars old and tho bride
iltty.two. They ran away because OF
the opposition Of their children to the
match.
The city gas works OF Berlin brought
$l,75O,oO0 clear profit into tho treasury
during the last financial year, despite
the unusually heavy expenditures for
new gas houses and conductors.
Judge Mulkey, a prominent iurist Of
Illinois, laid his false teeth on a mantel
slab in the wasi room OF the Laclede no.
tel in st. Louis and never missed them
until be got up next morning, and then
they were gone.
Clocks arc going out of favor in fash.
ionable French drawing.rooms. It is
stated. It Is now the thing to have an
old watch hung on tho wall, with nh
artistic drape'y around il, and the time.
piece should be old.iashioned and a
family heirloom.
Mira. Belle Wooster. Higgins, OF Sulli.
van, Me-, who has been alnos. constant.
" at sea Tor nineteen years, and has
sailed to nearly every port Of the globe,
is said to haveeu Hicient skill and knowl.
edge to command a vessel and sail her TO
any port in the word.
Not n few oil the phrases in use at this
day originated with Lyly. and are
found in his "Eupheus," a populer book
published in 1850. Among them may
be mentioned caught mapping" "a
crooked stick or none, " "brown study"
Catching birds by putting salt on their
tails" etc.
a man in Astoria, Ore, has a marine
curiosity consisting Of an ordinary sea.
weed twenty feet in length, the roots
having firm hold OF an aggregation OF
marine shells several pounds in weight,
These shells are occupied by a curious
inhabitant, which has u beak that re.
sembleB u chickcr's."
Eugene Bunch, the noted train rob.
Der, who is now in Mexico, has written
to tho New Orleans stock exchange to
know II cer!sin issue Of State bonds
(Which he admits shaving stolen) are all
right as he doesn't want to nell them ito
anyone who might suffer by it If they
are not good"
A resident CT New York has several
curious old Chinese coins. One, it is
said, dates from the administration OF
King Wa Wang, 1l19 B. G. 1t is Of
brouze with Engraved characters, which
modern Cinnamon cannot discipher,
Another is q knife.shaped coin oil the
dynasty Of Isl, Ss7 B. Q.
Africa has now at work within her
borders ten American, twelve British
and twelve continental missionary so.
%cietiea. There are more than 7CO OF.
dained missionaries and moro than
1000 local preachers. 1t is estimated
that there are, both white and native,
about l75,GOO communicable and 500, 900
adherents.
A strange story is told OF a marooned
Dutchman. The crew that put him on
shore at tho sanle time buried an officer.
as oon as they had gone the man dug
up the coiin, tunbled the corpse out,
launched the coffin as q boat, and using
tho lid rs n paddle, overlook the chip,
which was becalmed. He was pardoned.
Sugar was unknown 10 the ancient
Greeks and Romans, even as a medicine;
and not until tea and coffee and alec.
holic beverages created a popular de-.
mand for its use, early in the eighteenth
century, did it become an important ar.
licle Of diet in Europe. The annual
consumption in England was then only
three pounds per capita; it is now at the
rate Of sixty.two pounds.
There is really but one place in the
world where violins are made extensive
iy. That place is Markneukirchcn,
with its surrounding villages. There
are altogether about 5000 people living
there who do nothing else but make
~violins. The inhabitauts, from the little
urchin to tho old gray.headed man, the
small girl and the old grandmother, all
are Engaged in making some part Of a
fiddle.
A curious accident occurred to the
locomotive Of train No. 10 OF the Bal.i-
more 4 Ohio railroad tho other night.
While'runnins at good rate Of speed
near GAINESVILLE, on the metropolitan
branch, a large white owl flew into the
locomotive headlight, smashing the
heavy glas, front into %smithcreens and
overturning the lamp. This set fire to
tho lantern, which was destroyed. His
owlship was cooked, head, feathers, fee,
and all.
H I!N hwy Ninin,u q, - .sH .r.