The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-30
BRhAkEAsr BUDGET.

Strawberries sell for 50 so a quart in
the Boston market.
W. A. Kent, living near Rea, Mich,
has six-year.old son who weighs 92
pounds.
The underground system of telegraphs
Of the German empire has total length
Of 5000 miles.
An octogenarian who lives six miles
west Of Moberly, Mo-, was baptized the
other day by his grandson.
The Chinese have no straight streets
or walls, because they believe the devil
travels in straight line.
The people Of Mexico have taken to
drinking beer. Breweries are spriuging
up in every city Of Importance.
The printing press which Voltaire SET
up in Fernay to demolish Christianity is
now used TO print Bibles in Geneva.
The soreness can be extracted from a
ragged wound or puncture by holding 1t
over quantity Of burning sugar.
Mrs. L. D. Byers, Of B4nta, Ind, has a
clock, made entirely OF wood" which
mas been keeping excellent time for
sixty years.
1t is said that 10000 boomers, with
headquarters at Caldwell, Kan, are pre-.
pairing for an early invasion Of the Cher
okee strip.
They are talking about drilling we'll
1t Butler, Pa, 10 be 10000 feet deep,
with the idea Of piping of heat for
economic purposes"
Statistics show that about thirteen
per cent OF all railway accidents in the
United States arising from derailments
arc caused by defective frogs and
switches.
It costs five cents to swear In Ger.
tain Grand Rapids factory, and the box
which contains tho fines and which is
now nearly full, is soon to be sent to the
heathCn.
A drunken engineer on steamer de-
layed cargo bound for New Orleans,
and precipiIated q law suit that has beer
in the New York courts for nearly thirty
years.
An Eaglish company is working a sill
yer mine in Bolivia which Yields more
than three hundred and sixty ounces Il
the ton, while ppeclmens Of almost pure
silver are met with,
TIE Central ChrittiGn Advocate, one o
the official church papers Of the Metho
ldist Episcopal church, Is authority fol
the statement that the entire circulation
Of the weekly church papers is less than
100000.
In counting his small change thu
other day, a Michigan man found TIL
most valuable five cent piece extant
The jarripgon the table caused the piec
OF money 10 split in two and from thu
center rolled gold dollar,
More cabin passengers arrived at New
York in 1890 on the ocean steamers thar
ever before 10 the history Of that port
The steamers made b. totsl Of al4 trips
bringing 90, ls9 cabin and ST. ,69J steer
| age passengers.
A Southern farmer has produced from
cotton stalks fabric suitable for baggjn1
which may rival jute. The problem
which the inventor successfully solve,
vas how to separate cheAply the mate
rial from the woody 6her.
Robbie Read, Of Union City, Mich
went rabbit hunting the other day, bu
, carried home only q load Of shot. Il
laid his gun on some brush to scare on
the game, when his dog jumped on tn
trigger and discharged the piece.
A bill has been introduced into th
aotaiat,tpa M Indiana pFoPidinR thS
, any man who shall be proven guilty {
whipping his vile shall himself receiy
sixty lashes, and that the public sha
be admitted to the Jail yard to see hi
whipped.
, A man WIS recently sent TO prison !
New York city because he could nj
: furnish $500 bond to keep the pehct
Q As there WAS no one TO furnish 1t Il
: him this was practically impriSonmeI
4 for liis, 80 after n couple Of months u
man was called MP and discharged.