The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-22
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

Nearly t~hree-fourths OF all the cases
of cholera in Southern Russia, or in the
region between the Caspian sea and the
Black, have proved fatal. In St Peters
burg, where better sanitary conditions
| exist, over half the cases have proved
fatal. In Hamburg the ratio OF deaths
| in cholera cases has been nearly one
half, while in Northern Germany, in
Belgium, and in France, it has been
about one-third. About eighty per
cent OF the cases in Persia are thought
to have proved fatal. A quarter OF a
million Persians are supposed to have
persisted by the Asiatic cholera this
year.
Arailroad with a gauge OF but twenty
four inches is now building in North
Carolina. 1t is to run from Hot Springs,
near the Tennessee border, to Laurel
river, a distance of twenty-four miles.
Its course is through a very mountain
GUS country, touching also a fine farm
ing section. The main purpose OF its
construction is to get out the timber on
about 10000 acres OF land. A type OF
mogul engine is being built Tor the lit
tie road.
Secretary Tracy has decided to name
Cruiser No. 6. now being built at San
Francisco, the Olympia, after the capt.
tai OF Washington. The vessel is a twin
screw protected cruiser OF $500 tons
and will have engines OF 1880 herse
power, giving her a speed OF eighteen
knots an hour. She is expected to be
launched early next month.
A wonderful rustic table is owned by
a Philadelphia lady. 1t is formed OF
the boughs of q tree and the bark has
not been removed from them. 1t has
been in her possession just two months,
and about q fortnight ago it began to
throw out green sprouts and is o in
full bloom.
The word "pig," as applied to iron, is
a mere play on the word Sow" When
iron is melted it rum offinto a channel
called a SOW" the literal branches OF
which are called the pigs" Here the
iron cools and is called pig iron"
A vein carrying four feet of ore, Of
which foot and a half on the foot wall
lis solid g%alena, is reported to have been
discovered in the Red Elephant mine
at Bullion, in the Wood river country,
Nevada.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McCrary, of How
ard county, Missouri, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary the other
day. Among the guests was the minis
ter who performed the ceremony fifty
years ago.
Rev. Ng Poore Chew, a native China
man, thirty-six years old and a gradu.
ate Of the San Francisco Theological
Seminary, has been ordained a minister
in the Presbyterian church.
Calverley, the young Toronto athlete,
who walked over Niagara Falls last
week on a wire cable, is going to repeat
the performance next July, with a
newspaper man on his back.
A man in Tacoma, WASH, recently
gave a dinner to twenty-eight people,
the dining room being the interior OF a
trunk Of a tree on his estate.
A resident OF Waynetown, Ind, boasts
of n petriied turnip measuring forty
five inches in its greatest circumference
and twelve inches in depth.
Iron telegraph poles are to be put up
along the line Of some of the Russian
railways in place OF the wooden ones
there now.
The relief fund for the widows and
tho orphans OF the men slain by the
Dalton gang at Coaeyyille, Kas., will
reach $4,000.
An Atchisen grocer has a sign posted
in his window which reads "peck bas'
kets OF all sizes"