The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-27
~DREAkRAST BUDGET,

The hot winds have ruined tho peacl
crop in Southern md Western Kansas.
A shoe firm in Macon, Ga, has bee,
conducting business ut tho one stu nd foI
sixty years.
What is considered the fine st ant
largest melon patch in Warwick, R. l.
ts lighted by lanterns through the nigh
and guarded by an armed watchmau.
|, A family in Parkersburg, W. Va.
have been losing meats 80 often from the
well, where they were put to keep COO
aud freah, that last week they act @
watch and found the thief to DO u black
snake several feet long.
Chief Of Police Crowley, OF San Fran.
cisco, who hns been ut the head of tho
Police Department for eighteen ye ars,
says the Chinese there commit more
crlmcs In proportion to their number
than any other race, and arc the IN est
difficult Of detection.
A remarkable proceeding is reported
from Chicago, where d father-Jacob
Lafieid-was arrested for not taking out
II theatrical license for a little theaier
which his children ran in the cellar,
charging five pins admission. He was
arrested on a warrant sworn out by a
policeman.
DR.. Leonard J. Gordon, President of
the jersey City Board Of Health, has
made a suggestion that all Telegraph
poles on which live electric wires are
strung be painted red, that the public
may be able to distinguish them. DR..
Gordon will bring the subject up for
discussion at the next meeting OF the
Board.
Dr.. Peablea calls our reporters atten-
ton to a remarkable potato patch. Mrs.
Bryant, OF Auburn, hung up q calico
wrapper in the pocket Of which was a
potato, Il year ago. She did not use the
wrapper till one day last week, when
she discovered a whole hill OF potatoes
in her pocket. There were seven or
eight perfect little tubers. = Lewislon
NE J Journal.
Five Apache Indiana passed through
81. Louis the other day on their way to
Washington to See about renting some
Of their spare land to q cattle syndicate.
They were all neatly atlired in citizens
clothing" says the Globe. Democrat, "aud
had it not been for their peculiar long
black hair aud bronzed faces, they could
easily have passed for cowboys. The
usual red blanketB were missing.
Mo.quitoes Hate Oil-"Whereyer you
hni petroleum you won't find mos.
%quitoes," said IN oil country man. "Tbe
Internal ineects can't stand the smell OF
the grease, and wherever oil wells are
plenty there is no call for moequito bars.
Over and over again I've seen mosquitoes
leave a new oil field as soon as u well
flows. Whether petroleum, applied to
the hands and face, will drive of
mosquitoes I don't know. But ono Of
the few compensations of the driller is
that he's eeldom troubled by mosqui-
toes."-PiHsJuryh Commercial Ga-ele.
According to reports FROM the princi-
pal States north Of the the Ohio river,
it appears that the potato crop this sea-
son will be almost a failure. The Chi.
cago Tribune says that, averaging the
probable yield in these States, it will be
the smallest ever known in one season.
IL eO1ho palt 70 tuo lhlAuIc ID AlluOSL COuQ.
plete, in others the yield is fair, but
nowhere above the average. The sur.
plus will be small, hence prices higher,
though the unfavorable season precludes
the raising OF any superior quality. In
many places there will not be enough
for home consumption"
"The residents Of Dyer street, saco,
7 puzzling," says the kennebec Jour
nal. "overa strange phenomenon recent
ly noticed at the home of Lawyer
George +. Haley. About II o'clock at
night Il dark cloud was seen to apparent
ly descend from'the sky and settle upon
the roof Of the house. There was a flash
Of FIRE and then volumes Of smoke rolled
away from the roof. Those who were
witnesses began TO cry fire, but before
the alarm bad spread the smoke hnd
cleared away and the house was seen 10
be all right. Adczen responsible parties
say they saw the queer spectacle"