The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-23
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

a llHn M6uG INV u BLOGeAy ot oSAaeo y
Me-, the other day, ordered $40 worth
of goods, and laid down cart-wheel
dollar in payment therefor. "Hold on,
this amt right" yelled the shopkeeper
as the customer started of. "0h, yes,
that's all right" responded the man.
eve got permission from the judge to
nav ten cents upon the dollar" He
had recently settled in insolvency upon
the ten per cent basis and expected to
continue that method indefinitely.
About 1000 people, most Of them
pleasure seekers, sailed away from New
York for Europe in a recent week, and
during the same week about 10, 900 i'm
migrants, most of them seeking new
homes in this country, came from for
eign lands. A prominent banking
house estimated that each passenger on
an average carries out of the country
$3.50, and that the average immigrant
brings in $40
Alexander q. Carver left Whitman
tic in 1910 and went to California.
Nothing was heard OF him until Mon
day, when a letter was received an
nouncing his death in Rio Janeiro, at
the age OF 81 years. He leaves two
sons, who will inherit an estate OF
S4,00O,OOO.
The original standard chain author
lied by the act Of Congress Of May Is,
1907, made for the purpose OF executing
surveys Of the public lands in the
Northwestern country, will be e6bib-
tied at the Worlds fair.
A Western liar says that in the cy-
clone belt they do not take their car
pets up when they clean house. They
open the cellar door for a few minutes
and let the wind blow through the
cracks in the floor.
Madison, Ga, has a queer dog that
has complete figure OF the moon and
seven stars on one side Of his head. The
effect is produced by the different col
oring of the hair, in black and white.
Mi. o. NJ. Crandall OF Independence,
Mo-, is survivor Of Company D, Sixty
fourth New York, which came out Of
the battle Of Seven Pines with eight
men left out Of eighty-four.
The General Term, an appellate
court, of New York, has declared that
it is a crime for citizens OF that state TO
fish on Sundays, even in private ponds
or lakes,
While drilling gas well at Ander-
son, Ind, on Friday the drill went
through vein of iron at 375 feet, tin at
$50 feet and lead at 500 feet.
Wichita comes to the front with an
ear OF corn that weighs two pounds and
three-quarters and measures twelve
inches in circumference.
A water moccassin six feet long was
lately killed at Utica, Ill. When cut
open sixteen frogs we're found, several
Of which were alive,
Hops in Sacramento valley are threat.
ened with much damage from small red
spiders which have appeared In large
numbers.
Ice cream Is served at seaside resorts
in the shape, size and color OF billiard
balls. 1t is an idea borrowed from
Geneva.
A story Of a COW in Washington that
eats hops and yields a buckettul Of
brown beer twice a day Is going the
rounds.
A horse and wagon, with six occu-
pants, fell over precipice and were
killed, on the Cheyenne reservation, ].
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A society has been organized in Iowa
whose object 1t is to push the pansy a
the flower OF America.
Connecticut, spelled in On Indian
dialect, Quin-neh-tuk-gut signifed,
Gland on a long tidal river"
The New Orleans messenger boys
struck because they were ordered Il
wash their faces.
Alfred Wagner, Of Plainfeld, Ind,
owns garden hose which he claims is
100 years old.
There are $50 mountainsin the United
States, each exceeding 10000 teet in
height W
Canada whaclSs duty Of Eve cents q
dozen on egg imported from the United
States.