The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-02
BREAKFAST BUDGET.


being given away for cattle feed, such a
drug are they on the market.
sardou, the great French playwright,
writes a hand so fine that It almost re-
quires u magnifying glass to read 1t.
George Lippert, Bavarian, having
three legs, is under treatment at Belle
vue, Hospital, New York, for q fracture
of his abnormal limb.
In Memphis, Tenn, in forty-eight
hours three white women were locked
up in the station TO save them from i'm.
aginary medical students who wanted
them for dissecting purposes.
A Saratoga letter tells Of q woman
there whose hair has turned with
in year from gray to black-its origi.
nal color She Is seventy years old, and
her hair had been gray from early in
the '70's. s.
A cheeky thief in New York stole the
bed from the house in which he had en-
gagged lodgings, and was preparing to
make off with the bedstead when he
was caught. He carried the bed down
stairs on his back ut 2 p. m.
West Chester, Pa, has goat that
chews tobacco with relish, and would
eat a pound If he were given a chance,
He is rather choice Of the weedof which
he partakes, however, and II piece ts
bitten off he will not touchit.
A notice upon the window Of a north
Georgia postoftice reads: "When you
Kun for Yore Male hay Pashuns Know
Shootin around the PostotIice duren
busneis ours by oarder Of the Postmaster
his sine and Seal Chickens bot on
Kommission."
Alta forthcoming vessel launching in
Venice the ancient custom OF christen-
ing Of the Venetian Republic is to be
revived. 1t consists in attaching a gilt
ring to the vessels prov in such way
by the godmother that when the ship
is launched the ring shall be the first
thing to touch the Water, this fulfilling
the wedding of the sea-"
A burglar, possessed evidently OF q
queer idea OF value, has been operating
in Florence, S. @. He carried OFF two
cheap watches and few worthless
rings from iewelry store, leaving val
liable gold watches, diamonds, ETC., that
were in sight, untouched, while from a
drug shop that he entered he took moth.
ing but a bottle each Of paregoric and
tincture Of iron.
The latest "fad" IN Lewiston, Me-, is
telling ones age with a hair. 1t is not
new, but IN old fad that has been re-
vived d, and it is generally tried on q
horse, the hair being taken from the
tail, although on human beings it
works Just as WE'LL" The idea is this:
Suspend gold ring from piece OF
hair over half n glass Of cold water, and
the ring will begin to swing to and fro
until it hits the sides OF the glass. 1t
will strike the exact age OF the horse, or
if it be q persons hair, OF the person
upon whose head it grew"
The remarkable fight Of q carrier
pigeon has caused considerable COM
ment among the sporting people OF Ger
many. a few weeks ago a man in Char
lottenburg, a suburb of Berlin, sold q
carrier to Londoner. On the second
day after his arrival in London, howev-
er, the Englishman missed the pigeon.
The former owner OF tho bird was not q
little surprised a week later, says the
New York Tribune, to see 1t alight
again in his yard. 1t is almost needless
to add that the man will not part with
his treasure again.
A correspondent of the Indian Engi-
neering recently witnessed very inter-
esting mode Of obtaining foundation
for a new building. Ahole was bored
in the ground, which was previously
damp, and string OF cartridges was
lowered into it. The subsequent ex-
plosion not only produced a cavity a
yard in diameter but also drove the
water out of the surrounding earth by
means OF the expansive action of the
gases. The water did not return to its
former place for fully an hour, so that
an opportunity was afforded to fill up
the cavity with quickly settling con-
crete, and rapid rate OF working was
thus attained.
Workmen, while engaged in tearing
down an old building in London, found,
under the floor, the skeletons OF a cat
and rat. The cat was within two
inches OF the rodent, an obstruction
preventing it from going further when
alive. There was nothing to stop egress
OF the animals by the way they had
entered except the cats disinclination
to leave its prey; and so they remained
watching each other until overtaken by
death. Both skeletons were covered by
thick layers OF dust, leading to the sup
position that they had been there for u
long time. The Pail Mall Gazette re-
counts another such discovery OF skele-
tons that was made in London long
while ago.