The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-27

distance covered will be indicated, Be-
sides this there Is an arrangement by
means OF which the work done and the
money taken arc recorded on card
board disk ut the back OF the machine.
A Missouri man left his wife and
went TO Australia iorty-one years ago,
where II was reported he died. A few
days ago, however, lie unexpectedly re-
turned homo with a large fortune. There
was II joyous meeting between husband
and wife so long separated, but once
more happily reunited. Strange TO say,
his wife had lived single all these many
years with the dim hopo OF once moro
seeing her husband. They are both
quite aged now, being upward OF Sow
cnty years.
A letter received by an Augusta (Me.)
publisher few days ago from Salem, o.,
was mutlated in remarkable manner.
Tho Ohio postmaster had enclosed the
letter in an official envelope along with
note explaining that the mail carrier
who collected II had been shot by q
highwayman, tho charge passing
through his pouch and its contents and
taking effect in his leg.
A postotice inspector OF Sioux City,
H., who has been watching for some
time to discover who had been pilicr-
ing the cash drawer OF the Sioux City
postoilicc, found day or two ago that
the offender was Il mouse. Tho mouse
had been carrying OIL paper money for
several weeks and had taken one $50
bill. About $40 was recovered from the
mUuso's nest.
W. l.. Gamble, OF Barber, county,
Kan, thrcshcd his wheat last week and
marketed $3.50 bushels ut scvcnty-iour
cents Il bushcl. Tho crop was pro-
duced from nincty-six acres. This is
an income OF over SIT an acre. and the
pasturagc for stock last winter was
worth all oil s. m acre.
The model OF honey bee measuring
four and half feet from sucker to
sting, has been received by the biologi-
cal department OF the University OF
Pennsylvania. II was received from
Paris and is Tor the use OF students, and
is perfect in every part.
Desccbco, an island adjoining Porto
Rico, is infested with rats. There are
millions OF them there and it is unsafe
for man to set loot on the island.
They have destroyed all the goats which
were formerly bred there and arc now
eating the shrubbery.
Vincent Ncla, the distinguished Ital-
ian sculptor, who died recently at the
age OF seventy years, began life as Ia
borer in 4 stone quarry. Twenty-Five
years ago one OF his groups in the Paris
salon won him the decoration OF the
Legion OF Honor.
AtTucson, Ari., woman was fined, di-
vorccd and remarked within hall an
hour. She pleaded guilty to violation
OF the Edmunds act, her husband OBJ
tanned divorce and she remarked her
lover, Tombstone man, at once.
DR.. John Piente, the amateur tele-
scopc-makcr, is now finishing 30l-
inch-silyer-on-glass mirror for ALE
gheny college which, when mounted,
will give that institution the largest re-
ilecting telescope in this country.
The saying about the receiver being
Ms bad rs the other fellow has been thus
varied by Judge Holmes, OF Boston:
"a receiver is gun that is good deal
easier to fire oil than to control alter it
is fired"
a mischievous boy in 4 menagerie at
Budapest, the other day, leased 4 lion 10
such an extent that the animal became
cnragcd and reached out his paw and
scalped his tormentor before he could
escape.
A woman in Minneapolis has obtained
4 judgment for $50 against the man who
concluded to be brother to her rs pay
for the meals she furnished him while
he was counting her.
A Vermont man claims to have II
squash vine, on the end OF one branch
oil which grew cluster OF eighteen full
grown squashcs, all we'll developed.
A Glasgow (AIo) Sunday school is so
large that two classes must 90 out doors
to recite,
An herb that is reported to cure any
kind oil insanity has been found in Yu-
catan.
a now play to be tried in New York
bears the singular title OF "Lettcrblair."
Red silk stockings are rapidly coming
into favor.