The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-18
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The committee on color vision ap.
pointed some time ago by the council
Of the British Royal Society to discover
the causes OF color-blindness found that
though alcohol rarely If ever causes
this defect in vision, it results very FREE
ouently from smoking OF strong tobac-
CO. The most prevalent form OF color
blindness, as shown by the commlttess
report, Is the inability to distinguish
red from green, these colors being often
mistaken for white.
Ayoung girl, said to be of good fam
lily, has been distracting the authorities
OF Ocean Grove for week past by APP
pearing on the streets daily in decid-
edly decollete and CANDY dress, in re-
yenee for her removal from the beach
on account OF abathing suit she wore.
The censorship extends only to bathing
suits.
A resident of Salisbury, N. O., had
been bald for seventeen years until
about month ago, when he had the
hair on the sides of his head cut. Since
that time chair has been growing on
the bald portion OF his head, and he
now has q good head OF hair"
The citizens of Sheridan county,
Kan, propose to erect a sod house on
the Worlds Fair grounds that will cost
$4,000. The rattlesnakes to be en-
ployed in giving the layout a realistic
effect will be rendered inocuous by the
taxerdimists.
Carl Hagenbeck. the great wild beast
tanner and collector, OF Hamburg, Ger
many, is coming to the Worlds Fair:
With him will be 100000 worth OF
rare, curious and interesting animals.
There will be 1000 of them.
In recent appropriation of nearly
$4,000, 900 for an Indian tribe, attorneys,
claim agents, etc, got 500, 900. In an
other appropriation Of $3.50, 900 to pay
another tribe, attorneys, claim agents,
ETC., got $4,000.
They manage their criminal business
very carefully in Roma. 1t has taken
the authorities three years to complete
the arrangements. for the trial otseven
persons for forgery. Meanwhile the
suspects have been in Jail.
The number Of church-goers, or RAJ
Their, OF church members, in the United
States is 20,p00000. The Catholic de-
nomination heads the list with q mem
bership Of 6,250,000.
Steel pens have been used since 1903,
when they were invented by an Eng
lishman named Wise. For thirteen
centuries before that the quill pen had
been in use.
A London fashionable journal is au-
thority for the statement that l, 000, 1000
bonnets were sold in that city during
one week recently.
The St. Louis Mirror declares that in
the death of Mrs. RUFUS j. Lakeland,
ST. Louis lost her only recognized So
cial leader.
The art of stareotyping was invented
by Frenchman, DIdot, in 1893, and
was first brought to America in 1913.
The New Bedford (Mass.) Standard
knows of down-eastfamily Of eighteen
children, "all twins and all living"
OF 100000 women working at 100 DIFF
ferent trades in New York city $4,000
support their husbands.
A New Jersey man gives as cure for
hay fever the smoking Of pine needles
with tobacco.
Threshing machines weretirstinvent-
ed by Scotchman named Menzies in
the year 1882.
"Gilt Edge Bricks" is the name OF a
social clubrecently organized at Ottawa,
Kas.
The game Of backgammon was invent
ed by Palamedes, q Greek, about 1924
A woman Of Lyons, Neb., has nose
four and three-quarter inches long.