The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-03

evening before a girl living in the
ncighborhood caught ono OF the young
birds in her hand, but released il.
The people near Marbleliead, Mass.
are becoming interested in the mysteri-
Gus digging which has been gazing on in
tho Wyman woods for some weeks. a
ditch has been dug running east and
west, 100 feet long, from five to eight
feet deep and six feet wide. The work
has been done at night and no one
seems to know who Inns been doing 1t.
1t Is thought, however, that parties are
hunting for hidden treasure.
\ dispatch from Mechanicsburg, O.,
says: 20. G. liupp own II bantam roos.
ter which every night crows p%unctually
ut 0 o'clock. 1t will carccly vary thirty
seconds either way from the time. The
rooster Is n veritable town clock in Its
own section, and Its punctual manner
OF using its voice creates much comment
and amusement"
The C0ngre1ationdlit tells OF m erring
church brother in Vermont who got up
in open meeting and made the follow
ing confession: brethren, my con
science compels me to confess that
when boiling down my sap this spring
l put into the kettle two buckets Of
water and sold tho sugar ut the same
price as that made from pure sap"
An electrical journal tells OF the con
struction, by NJ. TrouvC, OF an electric
walking stick OF which the knob con
sists Of a small electric lamp in n thick
glass bulb, the battery being two cells
OF q peculiar shape down the cane
itself. Tho lamp gives sufficient light
to read a newspaper in 4 train, or to
lightthc bearer up stairs ut night.
Dredgers working in the Tiber to pre-.
pare for tho construction OF q new en-
bankmcnt have brought up q magnif,
cent ancient Roman bronze helmet. 1t
is perfectly preserved and is decorated
with bas-relieis. Signor Rossi, the 1tal-
ian archmologist, assigns it to the sec
cond century before the Christian era.
In laying the foundation.stone Of 4
new church the other day, Stewart
Clark, exM. p. for Paisley, made him.
self responsible for a rather curious
kind Of climax. Having occasion to re-
fer TO n certain Notwithstanding d.
vine, he described him rs having been
mot only a credit to the name OF Chris
tianity but 4 credit to Scotland!"
Tho fig is n wonderful tree for sending
down its roots in search Of moisture,
According to the Oroville (Cal.) Register
there is a gigantic fig tree in the yard Of
L. Tucker, OF that place, the roots Of
which have filed the bottom OF his we'll,
which is thirty-two feet deep.
A Youngstown TO- ministerial widow
or married again, and so soon that the
churches felt scandalized and none Of
them would have him for q pastor. The
only thing to do with him was to
promote him to be presiding elder and
this was done.
Quong 70 lex, a Chinaman, who has
all the advantages OF a iirst-class cduca.
ton, has recently married an Indian
woman OF the Soughies tribe, and they
will enter the field al missionarics OF the
Methodist church, to which they both
belong.
a clergyman in England in an earnest
address to his parishioncrs advocating
the establishment OF 4 cemetery asked
them to consider the ~"deplorable condi.
ton Of 10000 Englishmen living without
Christian burial"
The only pauper in Tucker county,
W. Va, is handsomely lodged. The
Door farm cost $4,000 and he has it all
to himself.