The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-17

Wanamaker, I. T., has a co!ored lady
postmaster.
A school teacher at Bonneville, Pa, is
but thirteen years Of age.
The faculty Of An Indiana college have
forbidden students to smoke cigarettes.
Bears and deer are more numerous in
the Dismal swamp Of Virginia than for
years.
A San Francisco woman is walking
across the continent on a wager at the
rate Of 81 a mile.
A special attraction at tho York (Ps.)
fair last week was & fine white Durham
bull with Elk legs, four hips and two
tails.
A Marcellus (Mich.) liar says he dug
up n stump and found eighty.three rat.
tlesnakcs in q neat, varying from four to
ten inches in length.
The Clarion.Ledger and many other
leading Mississippi papers are firm and
vigorous in the demand for a popular
vote on the new constitution.
The police authorities OF Atlanta are
being sued for damages by the owner OF
a gaming house whose 'tools Of trade"
were burnt after a raid in 1882.
Tie 'cap that was snapped" when
e1.Copgressman Breckenridge was max
ing 4 speech in Arkansas proves to have
been a match struck by u countryman to
light his cob pipe.
Susan La Flesh, m Indian girl, who
graduated in medicine after going
through the Hampton (Na.) school, il
praclicing among her tribe, the Omahas,
and with reported success.
A contract for q 50, 900, 600 sixteen.
story building, to cover tho hall block
bounded by Adams, Dearborn and State
streets, Chicago, has just been let out.
The building is to be d general store.
The blasting Of the Iron Gate" the
great rocky pass Of tho Danube, is now
in progress. This work has been con.
templated since Trajsn's time, but no
one has had the courage to undertake it.
Engineer Springer killed three deer
the other night near Gladstone, Mich,
dis engine was running thirty.ive miles
an hour, when a buck and two doc.
stood in the center Of the track, fssci'
mated by the flash Of the headlight.
1t has been suggested that the study
Of the influence Of diet and habit upoI
the color OF hair in different nations oil
men may cause discoveries by whict
the color Of the hair in the human rac,
may be modified by %judicious treat
ment.
Auctioneer Green, Of Media, Pa, ha!
al umbrella said to be $50 years old, II,
never left in u hotel, restaurant o
church rack. 1t has ribs OF cane thicl
as tho average umbrella stick OF tn
present day, covered with a bottle-greel
material nearly as thick as a canva
tent.
The city Of Vancouver, B. O., paid $50
to be advertised in q pamphlet profess
ing to be IN accurate description OF tn,
province and designed to influence i'm
migration. When the work was nrintet
1t was discovered that Vancouver WI
only mentioned in the index, there be
ing no account Of the city whatever.
The following method Of making pare
transparent, for copying drawings ha
been found very serviceablei Place
blank piece Of paper oyer .heIdrawihI
and rub it lightly with pure benzine
The tracing can then be readily made
and the benzine upon eyaporating, leave
the paper as opaque MS before.
On q plantation nine niies from ST.
vannah, Ga, q monster rattlesnake wa
killed. 1t had charmed a cat" m
when the snake wac hit with a billet c
wood "the cot sprang into the ci. q
though released from ca eu;hrsllmon...
The snake was ehot, It measured seye
feet and he'd twonty.two rattles and
button.
Six years ago a..iarmer Lying near Mir
neapolis, HAM,. put a pump in a we
which contained six feet OF water. Lat,
~ the well went dry, and when he cam
to examine the cause he found that tw
cottonwood trees, one twenty feet an
the other IL thirty feet distant, la
sent out their roots and drank up all tt
water in the we'll.
There has been discovered on the we
coast OF Africa q bush, the seeds Of whic
yield yellowish fat Of a very agreeab
nutty flavor, which might be used as
substitute for butter. 1t solidihes III
butter, and contains no acids whit