The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-02

amethyst Is firmly set. The lightest
movement Of the fingers sets the wires
quivering, and the ring scintillates aud
seems TO 90 round the finger with SER
pentine movement that has something
eery in it. 1t was made in Egypt.
S. C. Rees, mining man, proposes to
revolutionize mining on inaccessible
lodges by ascending to them in q bal
loon. He says that a large balloon will
be inflated in the bottom OF the canyon
and secured by ropes there to proven!
its escape, when 1t is proposed to initiate
it and make the ascent to the point in
the walls Of the canyon where the ledge
is and ioothold will be worked into 1t
from the balloon.
Capt. Kron. OF Lexington, Mass, a
Union veteran, survived twenty battles
OF the civil war, including Cold Harbor,
where he lost an arm, to die last week
at the age of 81 through having his foot
trod on in street car. The pressure on
u bunion caused inflammation, gan
creme set in, and the poor man died
after weeks illness.
Prof. Goodale, Of Harvard, retiring
President OF the American Association
for tile Advancement Of Science, snid in
his recent address at Washington that
the fruits OF the future will tend toward
seedlessness, and that there's no reason
why We should not have seedless straw
berries, blackberries, and raspberries."
1t is all out now how Victoria rises so
gracefully in her carriage and bows to
ller subjects on state parades. There
are strong straps under her carriage
seat, and she cHn, by pressing hutton,
elevate herself as often as she likes and
acknowledge the public's enthusiastic
demonstration.
At recent meeting Of the Royal So
ciety of Edinburgh, Dir. A. Bruce read q
paper on u case OF cyclopia, or single
eye, which has come under his notice.
There was single socket for the eye, Of
lozenge shape and situated in the mid
die Of the base of'the forehead.
One feature of the good exposition ut
Chicago will be essentially American
the exhibits of animals. The authorities
having the matter in charge have set
apart $500 in premiums for the vari-
GUS sorts Of live stocks.
An Illinois man has just completed u
tramp from North Lawrence, n. Y,
TO Chicago, distance Of over 500 miles.
He is seventy-seven years old, but in
spite Of his long walk ''his step is firm
and elastic"
There is marble mine, recently To-
Gated, at Providence, Cache county,
Utah, that yields marble so much like
>mcttled onyx that the difference can
only be discovered by the use Of chemi-
calls.
The wreck of what is believed to be
one OF seven vessels sunk in Newport
harbor August s, l7SS, was discovered
by divers OH Monday.
A mining corporation in the copper
region OF Upper Michigan will sink the
deepest shaft in the world-over 1000
feet, ut least.
Nobody is especially enthusiastic over
the fact that oysters come back with
September, for the reason that early
ones are never the best.
BY recent appliance to kitchen
ranges the refuse from the kitchen is
thoroughly dried, converted into char
coal and used cs fuel,
San Francisco's cable system is greater
by fifty miles than that Of any other
city.
Ice cream was first made and sold in
Philadelphia ninety-one years ago.
Gable lines will supplant 1000 horses
in New York.
Englishwomen have returned to
square.toed shoes.