The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-13
Two heads aro better than one-e1cm
in the family.-PucE.

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A great show of canary birds was hell
recently in the Crystal Palace, London
The champion card player Of Manning
COL, was bes.ed in game Of old aledr9
by trained pig.
France has half as many people as the
United States, but her national debt Is
twice as great as ours. ''7r
Brooklyn, with double tho population
OF Boston, spent only $l5,SO0, 900 las,
year, while Boston spent sl7, $4,000. ]
When a man is lost in tho woods very
valuable Information may be contained
IN small compassionate Stittings..,,-
South Georgia BARRIERS have n rule tina,
is universal. A stranger Is required Ia
pay fifteen cents for shave, while a res.
ident pays ten.
It's no disgrace to grow old, but for nil
that. one hates to have ones friends for.
ever raven about ones crows feet
Boston Transcript. ~ q "
The health journals and, the doctors
agree that tho most wholesome part OF
the ordinary New England country
doughnnt is tho hole. y !,
Weather that forced Thermometers
exposed to tho sun up to 147 degrees has
prevailed in more than one place in
Australia within the last month or so.
The will Of Mrs. Mary Z. Mcdonald,
who died recently nj Flushing, +. l.. be.
queaths 500 to Or. Louis a, Stimeon,
With the request that he buy himself a
dog.
The meanest one yet is the man in
Vermont who wants the Government
to pay him interest on the money in.
vested in a two cent stamp on a delayed
letter. &; ga ViJ
The Michigan State fish hatchery has
more than l00,000.0O0, whitetish eggs,
and is shipping and planting young
whlteiish ut the rate OF about 4OO, goo 900
week., v \ 80 jazz - 4
The cityof New York receives two
and a half million dollars per annum
Tor water rents, Tho Department OF
Public dn ~ Works costs each year about
John Mills, OF Sparta, Ca, is iattening
jay birds for the market. lie feeds
them we'll and they grow large, He
thinks OF going into the business very
extensively.
An English naval officer has invented
pueumatic line.throwing- gun, very
light and portable, which fires hollow
shell, bearing the cord to wrecked yes.
sells, or into u burning building on dry
land. ~ - s--Ss.Ls
An Atchison man, who has made it a
principle all his life to got as much as he
can for his money, surprised his friends
lust TALL by marrying a..womanh who
weighed only eighty pounds.-Atchison
Globe.
Elegantly Attired Spinster--"I see you
advertise for cash.eirls." Merchant
"Yes, ma'am; but" Elegantly Attir-
ed Spinster-"Well, l have fifty thou.
sand in my own right. What's want
ed?"-Judge. gDt, j ,ll.1j. ( (.
Mrs. Teakum Strate-"I see that boil.
ing the hair. in a solution of tea will
darken it." Teukum Strate-"'So I've
heard my dear, but prefer to have my
tea darkened in some other way
american Grocer.
In library in Paris, the largest in the
world, is Chinese chart Of the heavens
made about 600 years before Christ, In
this chart | 400 stars are found to be cor
recsly inserted, as corroborated by the
scientists of the present day.
At J. Pierpont Morgan's dinner in
New York the other evening, each OF the
100 pieces Of silver recently presented to
him by the Vanderbilts was filed with
flowers. The center piece was the large
cup, to lift which it requires two muscu.
lar men. SO
Awful accident at the museum"
"What was it," 1.-THE wild dog from
Borneo got loose last night and ate up
three.quarters OF the ossitied man while
he slept" "Does the ossifed man
know it?" mo; they're afraid to tell
h;m."'-Lje. f13f .4,.g,
Mint Director Leech objects to the
designs on oursilyer money. He says a
slab.sided female sitting on bale Of cot
ton does not give true idea Of freedom.
| Correct. Let the new place have an
efiigy Of brisk maiden riding bicycle.
-LoreH Courier. Il 3. :
Watts-"I've got a good one for you,
Potts, mo boy. What is the marked
point Of resemblance between a Broad.
way blockade and barrel Of your
flour" Potts =" Because you 70 an ass. y
Watts-"No; because they both make a
hundred wait. See" -An'erican Grocer.
In Canada there is a company which
has nickel mine. Tho oar is mixed
with copper, and after tho dross ia taken
off the alloy is called matte, which con.
tains about seventy per cent of nickel
and thirty per cent Of copper. This il
shipped to Germany and Swansea, in
Wales, where the secret is jealousy
guarded Of the process by which the
two metals are separated.
| The Government printing office is now
engaged in filling one Of the largest or
ders in Its history. 1t is for $1,000, OO(