The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-07
BRbAKFAST BUDGET.

Mrs, Sidney Ann White, who has
lived in Missouri one hundred and three
wears. died the other day at Sedalia.
She weighed $50 pounds.
An Atchison woman recently fell in
love and married q widower, for no
other reason, she says, than that he took
such good care Of his first wite's grave.
An association Of colored residents Of
the State OF Washington has been tormeo
Tor the purpose OF encouraging the i'm
migration OF negroes into that State.
Mrs. George Redpath opened stove
door at Marengo, Ill, with an apron,
which caught fire and burned her 80
badly that she died in few hours.
A new specimen OF herring has been
found in San Diego (Cal.l waters. II
has pocket membranes for slipping in
the dorsal, pectoral and ventral fins.
The physicians Of Berlin assert that
their practice has fallen off % per cent
since Koch's operations began, and con-
seouently they demand from the govern
ment free lymph.
A lady who advertised for girl "to do
| light housework" received letter from
an applicant who said her health de-
manded sea air and asked where the
lighthouse was situated.
A pair OF moose are to be broken to
harneEs in South Sioux Falls, s. D. lt Il
expected to drive them in Sioux Falls
until the opening of the Worlds Fair,
when they will be taken to Chicago.
The only Chinaman in the regular
army of the United States is Edward
Cohotz, a private in Company 3, Of the
Fifteenth Infantry, at Fort Sheridan,
I'm. He served through the war as
volunteer.
In Fall River, Mass, Anna Allen has
sued James D. Grinnell for damages.
she alleges that he had wooden snake
which she thought was real. He Hour
ished the snake a. her and in endeavor-
ing to run away she fell and broke her
ankle.
Something happened at Belle PLANE,
Kan, the other day which never occur
red before and never will again. A
woman in that town gave tramp an old
vest. and in q short time he returned
and handed her a ten-dollar bill which
he found in one Of the pockets.
Grant Allen, a Canadian by birth, has
won the prize OF Gl,0OO for the best
novel, in the competition recently an
nounced by q member OF Parliament,
George Newnes. Several hundred novels
were in competition. Mr.. Aliens
IWhat's Bred in the Bone" won.
In the Mayors court ct Anthony,
Fla, a few days ago, q lad, for violation
Of an ordinance, was fined -. The court
granted the boys mother the privilege
Of paying the fine or whipping the lad
In open court. She accepted the latter
and the Mayor bad to check her to pre-.
vent an unmerciful whipping.
The Chinese have found way to
make the exclusion act rebound to their
proiik, Those who desire to return to
the Flowery Kingdom go down to the
Mexican line and in crossing back take
pains TO be arrested by the officers on
the watch for contrabands. After trial
thew are returned to China at the ex.
pense OF tho United States.
While Germany loses only ITO persons
per annum from smallpox, France actu-
ally loses II GOO, to be accounted for by
The rigid way in which vaccination is
enforced in Germany, and by the care.
lessness OF the Frenchmen. In 1863,
when vaccination was not obligatory in
Prussia, the mortality was twenty-seven
Der 100000 inhabitants. After vacCina.
lion was enforced the mortality fell in
1874 to 500 per 100000, and in 1885 to
OOl9. At the present time the mortal
ity from this cause in France is forty
three per 100000.