The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-03
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

AT Ostcr, in Kjobcnhaycn, Denmark,
balloon was found with slip OF paper
attached to it. On this slip the owner
OF the balloon declared that in shower
or shine he would love the maiden who
might find the balloon. "Fatc would
have it," says the scandinavian Voice,
that the maiden who actually found it
had seen seventy winters; but she is
advertising in the papers for the eccen-
trio suitor."
There is said TO be q small religious
sectin New FORK, the members OF which
call themselves "mates." 1t is COM
posed OF men and women who are mar
ried by Spirits" Every quarrel or do
nestle problem is settled by the same
agency, the matter being stated to the
spirits in an open meeting. Most OF the
members are Swedcs.
While ]. I. Jones, n storckccper OF
Pocahontas, W. W., was engaged in
opening bottle OF ginger ale at his
store few days ago, the cork would
not come out and Jones put the bottle
UP to his face to examine it, when the
cork suddenly flew out OF the bottle,
striking him in the right eye, ex-
tinguishing its sight forever
1t is related. as 4 sample OF patience
and skill, that John J. Taylor, OF
Streator, ILL.,, once wrote 400 words on
the blank side OF postal card without
artificial aid. The words on that single
card, ii printed in regular newspaper
type, would fill two columns OF any
OF the great metropolitan dailies.
Mr.. Nathan Harris, OF Rich Valley,
Va, has daughter nineteen years
odd, who is only two feet ten inches in
height and weighs just forty and half
pounds. She is well proportional and
intelligent, and her hair sweeps the
floor when she stands erect.
A buried city has been discovered at
the bottom OF the Adriatic, little to
the south OF the peninsula OF Istria. It
is believed to be the lost town OF Cissa,
which was located on an island de-
scribed by Pliny, but which cannot now
be found.
Henry CAN'T, OF Hazelwood, Ind, has
invented unicyclc or locomotive wheel
about ten feet i'll diameter, by means OF
which he says he can travel eighty-three
miles an hour. The rider sits within,
not outside the wheel
The Siberian exile petition to be sent
to the car IRON Philadelphia will weigh
several hundred pounds, contains $780,
600 names, and il the sheets were pasted
together would stretch out two and
three-quarter miles.
The real estate firm OF Wilson {: Will
son, OF Chicago, was formerly in the
millinery and dancing school line. The
first names OF the members are Cora
and Kitty, and they are said to be
building up large business.
The editor OF the Carrollton Mo
Democrat says that he has not made a
dollar out OF his paper in ten years, and
has made several efforts to kill it but
each time his murdcrous hand has been
stayed by his patrons.
Albert Bushnell Hart writes in the
Nc,c England Magazine that Confederate
Secretary OF War Sedden fixed an official
price OF $40 per bushel ior wheat and
then sold his crop to the conicderacy
at that figure.
There is q dog at Cheyenne that will,
it is claimed, pick an American dollar
from pile including any number or
sort OF coins OF similar appearance, size
and weight.
]. B. Welburn, an bingham (Kas.}
man, proposes to keep his house warm
in winter and cool in summer from
the air in the bottom OF well 100 feet
deep.
1t is said that %, 900 persons died dur
ing one OF the recent epidcmics of small
pox in Guatemala.
There are fourteen Maricttas in the
United States and three OF them arc
county seats.
In the Missouri penitentiary there are
LAO males and but n females.