The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-24
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

While Il Georgia angler was INDUCING
in his favorite sport u day or two ago,
he hooked small fish. lie jerked 1t SO
hard that the fish went about fifteen
feet above his head and lodged in the
branches OF big bush, Before he had
achance to let go the polo it was nearly
jerkcd from his hand, and then he dis.
covered that n large snake had seized
and swallowed the fish and hook and
was making OF with much difficulty.
lie reeled tho reptile in and killed It.
1t measured seven feet nine inches.
1t is stated by Engineering that half
the TIN OF the world is exported from
the Malay peninsula, where mining is
carried on almost entirely by Chinese.
The mining is that Of flood tin, and the
metal Ia taken from the lowlands near
the mountains, whore It is found in
pockets ten to twenty feet or more
below tho surface.
a New Jersey landholdcr who is striv-
ing 10 make city OF his farm by selling
it oil in building lots, in order to advcr-
tiso the scheme sent up d balloon. from
which the deed OF one OF the lots was
thrown, and the person who got the
deed in tho scramble down below was
allowed to keep it and to own what it
represented.
Under what is known rs tho enabling
act there is appropriated to the State OF
South Dakota 10000 acres OF public
lands Tor the support OF educational and
charitable institutions. OF this amount
10000 acres have been filed on and
$4,000 acres selected
A royal blue Wilson set OF pottery
was purchased recently by Miss Foster
for the Sccretary's house in Washing
ton. This was OF American manufac-
turc, Mr.. Foster much preferring this
to any foreign ware.
A family living near Augusta, Me-,
have ms a pet Il tame crow, which nc
companies them whenever they go to
the city on Sundays or market days, fly
ing above and q little in advance OF the
horses.
The only woman train dispatcher in
the country, it is said, is Miss Lizzie T..
D. Thayer, who gives natty and festive
air to that branch OF tho New London
Northern railroads business.
Tho manufacture of buttons from
blood is 4 great industry at Bridgeport,
near Chicago They also turn out ear
rings, brcastpins, belt clasps, combs,
and trinkcts IRON the same material.
The Pottawatomic tribe OF Indians in
Cass, Van Buren, and Berricn counties,
Michigan, numbering about $50 per-
sons, will have about SS223,00O dis
tributcd among them next spring.
Atchison has a damage suit on its
hands which was caused by a banana
peel. A woman slipped on it and died
from the effects OF her injuries. Her
relations now sue the city.
A heavy cannon for which the Gov
ernment pays $4,000, is good for 227
rounds, while 45-ton gun, which costs
S50,.40, is good for only 100 charges.
A farmer OF Dwight, Mich, named
Morris Baker, is forty-tive years OF agc,
and is just thirty-two inches in height.
Black potatoes are raised in Zululand
They are called cetwajo, and the tuber
is b.uish black and rather waxy.
A California woman has triplets so
much alike that they can only be dis
tinguished by different colored ribbons.
Howard university has this year
total OF 2,6lO students, 4 gain OF 35S
over last year.
Only nine per cent OF cases of ampu-
tation are fatal.