The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-23
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Dearborn county, Ind, has twelve
year-old boy with feet fifteen inches in
length.
A society has been formed in England
to abolish capital punishment for female
murderer.
Iron bolts. exposed to water in the
bridges over the Thames, have, in TWEEN
ty.five years, been eaten away one-half.
A "boom" town OF Colorado that a
few months ago had four thousand in
habitants, now contains three hundred
people.
Water works are to be erected at But.
Ter, NO., the manager Of the theatre hav-
ing doomed the new scheme in order to
provide the necessary facilities for tank
dramas.
The enrolment of the University Of
Michigan is now 2,3T7, distributed as fol-
lows: Literary 1895 Law 577, medical
S95, dental surgery 1873, pharmacy 95,
homeopathic II.
One Of the latest thiDgsin church fairs
Is bazaar held in Edinburgh, Scotland,
for the purpose Of raising funds TO pro.
vide accommodations for ladies who
faint during church service.
The proprietor OF one OF the TruCkee
(Cal.) hotels makes practice offeeding
liver to cats twice q week. By actual
COUNT last Friday, when he was ready for
feeding, l49telines responded.
The Morocco Manufacturers Associa-
ton OF the United States is discussing
the adyisability of establishing tech
MICA! school n connection with the
University OF Pennsylvania, in which
the chemistry of tanning shall be taught
by specialists.
Attention Is being given TO lengthen-
ing tho life Of incandescent lamps. Dis
colored lamps can now be opened and
cleaned without interfering with fla
msnts or mountiDgs. When the lamp
is re-exhausted and sealed it is as dur
able as when new.
Mrs. Ruth Phelps of Venice, Mich,
doctored for rheumatism ia her arm for
nearly three years. The other day
physician removed darning needle
three and o half inches in length which
had been imbedded in that same arm
for over. three years.
It is claimed for the State Of Missouri
that she has three Of the largest spring,
IN the world. One in Dent county is so
large that it was proposed to supply the
whole city OF st. Louis with its water by
running an aQueduct from its neighhor.
hood TO the city reservoir.
A little boy in Utica thought it would
be a pleasant amusement TO play being a
letter carrier. He accordingly secured
secretly bundle OF old love letters that
his mother has kept since her courtship
days, and distributed them from house
to house throughout the neighborhood.
December II, George Carson, of Farm.
ington, 0conee county, Ga, in his at
tempt TO Lift five silver dollars with his
tongue, was so unfortunate as to have
the top dollar slip down his throat.
Failing to extract it, at supper, after
few mouthfuls, down went the dollar.
Since then that dollar has not been
heard from.
AT Dischau, Prussia, an express train
running at the rate Of 60 kilometers per
hour into the station, broke down the
butiiug apparatus, ran into the station,
and broke up against neighboring
house. An Investigation established
that the accident is to be attributed to
the effect OF lightning, which fell upon
the train.
A Rhode Island man died, directing in
his will that the sum OF $4,000 be equal.
Iy divided among his servants. And
when the division was made the woman
who had washed the windows Of his
house was left out, on the ground that
abe did not come under the designation
OF a servant. She. has brought suit to
find out whether such is'the case.
English writer's refer to the phase "too
thin" as an "exsoFable Americanism :"
hut, as a matter OF fact, its paternity is
English. Rev. DR.. william Gave, who
was born in 1887, in his life Of st,
AthaDasius, SAID: "F0r procuring a
synod to be called atAntioch, Eustachius
10 charged ss heterodox in the faith,
though they knew that too thin to hold
water"
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