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

The false ruby is the latest addition tt
cheap extravaganza.
A new map Of China has been ordered
by the Emperor and the surveys have
already begun.
Mrs. Grundy; Society is flooded with
people who want to ring the door.bell
but cannot find the knob.
A man confessed the other day, under
oath in a New York court, that he had
been drunk for fifteen years.
"Towel supply" companies and "car'
pet cleaning" companies are now sup
plemented by building cleaning" COM
panies.
A tourmaline ledge recently discov
cred on q farm near Auburn, Me-, is
said to have already yielded s., 500 worth
Of gems.
1t has recently been found that certain
fungold growths have the power of re.
moving gold from water containing 1t in
suspension.
Biologists have proved that the dia.
mond mines OF South Africa are situated
in vents or chimneys varying from 70 to
/ 500 feet in diameter.
The Attorney General OF Texas has
decided that the Court House OF Bowie
county must be built at the geographical
center, which isin the woods.
1t is reported that Edison is now al
work upon q patent appliance which
will make the "hello" girl in the tele.
nhone office a useless luxury.
Bacon and watercresses, with a poach'
ed egg, is the breakfast OF anglomaniacs,
who believe the report to be true that
this the Prince Of Wales first meal OF the
day.
A new institution to be incorporated
in New York is the New York Bacteria.
logical Institute. 1t will furnish free
treatment to contagious diseases, and
will have Pasteur and Koch depart
ment.
All the forts and military establish.
ments OF Belgium have been connected
with Antwerp by telephone. Special
precautions have been taken to prevent
an enemy tapping the wires in war time.
Almost curious indication OF the linRer-
ing OF superstition is an agency which
he's been inaugurated in Paris for the
supply of the "fourteenth guest" Din
ner parties OF thirteen may be increased
at short notice.
The chair OF Sir Walter Scott, given
by him to Landseer, the painter, and
sold with Landseer's other effects in
London, and recently offered for sale by
I. W. Bouton, the New York bookseller,
has been bought by Francis Wilson, the
musical comedian.
~ opened an envelope the other
morning" said young man, "and took
out what thought was a check for 500.
Il was check paper and printed in check
form, When looked closely saw it
was only draft for 100 good wishes on
the Bank Of Hope"
At a test OF steel manufactured at
Reading, Pa, the other day, one.inch
bar broke at a strain Of 2S3,SSS pounds,
'being about 10000 pounds in excess Of
the highest record authoritatively
known" The test was made under the
supervision OF Government officials.
Ye.Cha Yum, the CoreGp Charge d'Af.
flares at Washington, is believed never
TO have eeen his little son, who died q
few days ago, as the Corean custom pre-
vents a father from seeing a child until
three months after its birth, and the lit
tie one was only two months old when
it died.
Mrs, William Aston has q gold dinner
service valued at $50, 600, and this aerVice
in lion and unicorn repousse work 70 set
always upon the finest OF white linen
cloths, with no sashes or fluff or silk.
The most valuable dinner service in the
world, however, belongs to Queen Vic
toria, and occupies two rooms AZ Buck
iDgham palace, over which two men
watch continually.
The following story is told on the |
OF the Kansas Legislature |
from Ellsworth county: Being asked !
about the Mckinley bill, he replied: ~
have not given the matter 30 much
thought as 1t should have and will do
nothing rash. When l get down TO
Topeka and the bill comes up, will in.
yestigale the matter thoroughly, and II
ind it is right my vote will be recorded
Tor it."
A gentleman who greatly admires his
castor said OF him the other day that he
rs q great preacher who never falls be-
ow hrs average, but often rises above
l." Another gentleman writes 70 the
yhriaian Advocate that his pastor lisa
rue minister, q man OF God--more than
hat, a man OF brains" This suggests
he old story Of the English parson who J