The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-08
BREAKFAST BUDGLl.

One Of the latest crazss in st. Louis is
that Of riding upon the electric cars 10
cure Rheumatism.
There are 5000 Indiana living on res
erystions in New York State. The
senecas number 1900.
Purdy, Texas, has a bride who is six
feet five and three quarter inches IN
height and only seventeen years old.
Lsmbertville, n. j., has midget
eighteen years old and scarcely two feet
high. She is Mary Kelly.
The newest nickel,in.the.slot machine
gives you photograph OF yourself IN
three minutes by the watch.
A new material called "laciite" has re-
Gently appeared in England SIS subssi-
tute for bone or celluloid.
Talleyrand Gays CT La Fayette: he
gives one theidea Of man following the
advice OF somebody else."
Uranium was unknown century ago,
but q lode has been found in a mine IN
Cornwall, England. 1t sells for Sl2,OOO
a ton.
Mrs. John Reisner, OF Atchison county,
Kan, made 1920 pounds OF butter last
year, churning and working 1t all by the
old.fashioned process.
The number OF telephones now under
rental by the American Bell Telephone
Company is 47S,725, an increase OF 3S,SS5
over the same time last year.
Against a Mississippi river steamboat,
recently sold for Sll 900, there have been
fled attachments for claims OF various
kinds amounting to q total OF $4,000.
Recent investigation into the question
of the use Of an anpular drill by the an.
clients lead to the conclusion that jewe!
points were used in both drilling and
saving.
James P. Scott, con Of Thomas A
Scott, late president OF the Pennsylvania
railroad, proposes by way OF experiment,
to plant 1000 acres Of rice near KiBsim-
NEE, Fla.
New York city has ], 357 electric lights
at an annual coat Of $50 each New Or
leans has l,Ol0 at $3.50 each; Philadel.
phia hsa 500 at Sl77 each; Toledo has
100 at 500 each.
The electric light OF 20,0O000O candle
power in the lighthouse at Hanstholm,
coaat Of Jutland, said to be the most
powerful in the world, is now lighted for
service.
Animals ale kept on the roofs OF the
housesin Lima, Peru, and it frequently
happens that COW passes her whole
lilo on roof, being taken there as a
calf and brought down finally as fresh
beef,
L. Elwood, of Mount Morris, Mich,
guessed he would die nine yearg hence.
He was 30 sure OF it that he had his
tombstone erected and dated 1899. His
prophetic vision was at fault, as he has
Just died.
Governor Russell, OF Massachusetts,
couldn't be inaugurated until his wife
transferred to him $1,000 worth Of real
estate to comply with an old Law which,
requires that the Governor shall be pos
sessed OF at least $1,000 worth OF real
property.
A recent invention is an electric min.
eral ore detector, by which it ia claimed
that the presence OF ore may be in
stantly detected. By this means com
paratively inexperienced person is able
to tell whether the sample contains ore
or not.
A young Russian nobleman recently
inherited IN estate in the neighborhood
OF st. Petersburg from his aunt. He
sold il, paid his debts and with the 70,-
600 rouples which remained went to
Monte Carlo "to increase his fortune"
He lost all OF his money in few days
and then attempted to commit suicide
by shooting himself in the head. There
Is little hope OF his ultimate recovery.