The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-27
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

A man named Lowe has taken an aft
davit that blue gum tree at Whittier
CAL, has grown forty.fiye feet in ont
year.
Mrs. Mary Harden, Of Hampton, Va.
claims to be 105 years old, and her wore
is:believed. Her mother died in 1861 a
the reputed age Of l06 years.
The latest savings bank is in theshapt
Of tube, which may be carried in the
pocket 1t is for dimes and only openi
when S. worth has been deposited.
1t is estimated that in 100 cents there
is about seventeen cents worth of metal
and in twenty niCkle five-Cent pieCet
there Is less than eight cents worth.
Mics Zoe Gayton, aged % years, who
is walking from San Francisco to New
York against time, has reached Laporte
Ind, and is nearly 400 miles ahead o.
schedule time.
Jasper Morley claimed $1,000 damages
for being put off a West Michigan train
near Newaygo, and a Grand Rapids jury
gives him 81, 900 for the loss Of time anC
his Inconvenience.
The distress from cold is 30 great il
Rawlins county, Kan, that settlers arr
said to be burning their furniture fol
fuel. Coal will be shipped to them al
the States expense.
There Is woman in Atchison, Kan.
who sets chair at the table every day
for her husband, who died over a veal
ago. In his plate she never fails tc
place little bouquet OF flowers.
The Treasurer Of Tehama county, Cali.
fornia, paid out sos 40 for scalps in
December. There were Eve lions, los
coyotes, 63 wild cats, 1852 rabbits, IS
coons, 10 bears and two eagles.
Complaint Of short weight made in
reference to Brooklyn coal dealers has
induced the Coal Exchange OF that city
TO arrange for the employment OF an
official weigher, who Is to weigh all coal
brought to him.
The British bark Girvan is on It's way
from Honolulu to San Francisco with
1884 bags OF sugar, "valued at $l70,.
9S2 49," This is said 10 be the largest
cargo shipped from the islands during
the past two years.
The San Diego, CAL, Sun tells of a
monster black bass, taken with hook
and line, recently, at Cedros Island. II
weighed 3lS pounds, and the catcher
vas forty.two minutes in getting the
tish alongside the steamer Kaluk.
The preachers in Manistique, Mich,
announce that dogs will no longer BIZ
allowed in church, as In days gone by.
The dogs brought this ukase upon them.
selves, because the other day two dea.
cons dogs fought right in church and
delayed the sermon.
While grading on a road near Lodi,
CAL, q workman unearthed the skeletons
Of six human beings, As they were
found on the line Of the old emigrant
road between Stockton and Sacramento,
I has been suggested that they are the
bones of some Of the early emigrants.
Rarely has blowing been done 80 far
into winter as this season in Colorado,
says the Salida Aper. Up TO the opening
II the year but in few localities has
glow been compelled to stop on account
II the weather, unless for few days
hut the middle Of November, when
there was q brief cold snap.
Nothing had been known Of the where.
bouts OF Frank Price, Of Greentown,
Ind, for Ave years, until the other day
I letter was received from him by his
Iarents, saying that he was member Of
the Seventh Cavalry, and in the battle
Wounded Knee he was slashed by a
;omRhAWk in the hAnda OF an Indian
md severely wound"d.