The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-02
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

BREAKFAST BUDGET.
In n bazaar for u children's home at
the Worlds Fair it would have been an
anomaly to leave out the Christmas
tree. Germany and Holland are to
have this honor, and lots OF pretty
things have been brought over from the
land OF the kindergarten and the home
of New York's ancestors just to decorate
the tree. Pretty toys, dolls that talk
and walk and wink, queer little me-
chanical toys that appeal to the young
sters' curiosity-almost everything that
ingenious hands make for Kris Kringle's
annual trip will be gathered for the
occasion. @
1t had been pouring bad all day, every
thing was soaking, and the poor pony
looked in vain for q dry spot to lie on.
After evidently deliberate thought, it
went up to a COW that had been lying
in one place for q long while and gave
her a most vicious kick; this he re-
peated several times until at last she
was compelled respectfully TO rise,
&hereupon the pony promptly lay down
in the very spot occupied and kept dry
by the cow.-London Spectator.
A Newton (Kansas) man recently
made a bad speculation. His gun was
stolen, and when the thief was captured
and the gun recovered, he agreed not
to appear against the prisoner on his
paying him SIS. He was prosecuted for
compromising a felony, and his fine and
costs amounted to S43 80.
Two former Savannah ladies-sisters
Misses Louise and Anna Hartman, who
have been active workers OF the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union in
Savannah, Ga, for several years, are
now confined in Bloomingdale asylum,
New York, suffering with a religions
mania.
A Georgia editor says to his subscrib-
ers: Brother, don't stop your paper
because you don't agree with the editor.
The last cabbage you sent us didn't
agree with us either, but we didn'tdrop
you from our subscription list on that
account"
An advertisement OF n nursing bottle
winds up as follows: "When the baby
is done drinking it must be unscrewed
and laid in q cool place under n tap. II
the baby does not thrive on fresh milk,
it should be boiled"
A two-months-old kitten at Orlando.
Fla, jumped from the balcony Of a
building to the sidewalk below, a dis.
lance OF sixty-two feet, and it is claimed
did not injure itself in any manner.
The English Court OF Queens Bench
has decided that grocers may weigh
paper with tea, coffee, sugar and such
commodities without being guilty OF
fraud upon the purchaser.
The Boston Boat and Shore Club,
which will soon have its annual celebra-
ton, has engaged only women for after
dinner speakers. One OF these is u Chi
cage woman.
A San B~ernardino (Cal.) woodchopper
claims to have found two tin cans filed
with gold to the value OF 81. 900 hidden
among the limbs Of u tree in that town.
An Oklahoma man who was playing
draw.poker became so excited upon
finding that he held four aces that he
fell dead Of heart disease.
Since November s it has been esti-
mated that seventy.eight Democrats
have been killed by powder in celebrat-
ing the victory.
1t doesn't pay to be too modest. The
man who is Just modest enough is the
fellow who gets the largest salary.
Salutatory of the editorof the Smith
vile Meus: 81 will monkey with this
paper awhile. ]. +. Proctor"
A hen that it is said catches rats as
expertly as a cat is owned by a resident