The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-17

A Londoner lately patented an ar
rangement for advertising in the
Clouds" and the necessary machinery,
with powerful lenses, will o be in
working order. The apparatus can be
operated whenever clouds are visible,
and during misty weather almost any
size or style OF advertisement, including
portraits, drawings, figures, with Oh
without colors car be reflected.
A man went through Platte county,
Mo-, lately and begged Of each farmer a
few varieties OF choice productions OF
the farm. Ho thus collected the finest
assortment OF fruits and vegetables ever
seen, which he exhibited at the county
fair as his own raising and raked in 500
from the fair treasury, besides free adj
mission and plaudits from the press.
An account OF electricity as a life
saver comes from Scotland, where a
man, while bathing, was seized with a
cramp and sank, being two minutes
below water. When rescued he was
thought to be dead, but after two appli-
cations OF the electric current anima-
ton was restored. The current was
passed between the nape Of the neck
and the heart.
The longest horse railroad in the
world runs from Buenos Ayres to San
Martin, in the Argentine Republic, the
distance being about fifty miles, and
the schedule time OF the trip thirteen
hours. Trains leave Buenos Ayres
every hour in the day and twice during
the night Every morning and evening
express trains leave5 carrying only
baggage.
Burial at sea is to be abolished for
those who have money to pay for the
transportation OF their remains in case
OF death on board ship. Alright steel
caskets for the transportation OF bodies
are now a part of the equipment OF all
the best steamers.
An effort to smoke a coyote out OF his
hole near Hatfield, kas., one day last
week resulted in the destruction OF a lot
of grain and some farm buildings and
the narrow escape of the entire village
from the flames. In the meantime the
coyote escaped.
The first douDle-deck twin screw fer
ryboat in use in the United States is
the Cincinnati, which runs over the
Pennsylvania railroad ferry from Jersey
city to New York. She is FOG feet long,
forty-six feet wide and makes twelve
miles an hour.
A Sioux squaw, living near San Die
go, Cal, will exhibit in the woman's
building at the Worlds Fair, a dress Of
deer skin, richly embroidered with six.
teen pounds OF beads. She worked
for two years in making the garment
A wildcat recently made its appear
anceE in the woods near High Bridge, in
Hundon county, n. j., and pursued q
resident OF that hamlet, who was
Obliged to take refuge in a friends
house and stay there over night.
In Alachus and other counties in
Florida, a short time ago, there was a
shower of fine spider webs, which COW
cred the ground for miles. Enough
fell, 1t is said, to start a cotton factory.
a postal card was sold in Paris for
$50 a short time ago.. 1t had gone
around the world after the person to
to whom it was addressed, and bore
seventy-two postmarks.
A large quantity OF counterfeit silver
dollars have been put in circulation in
Omaha. The bogus dollars are dated
1891 and bear the New Orleans mint
mark.
One Of the new cruisers will have a
smokestack 100 feet high. An English
mail steamer has tunnels 120 feet high.
A Chicago newsboy has been fined for
crying sensational news that did not
appear in the paper he was selling.
1t has rained SO hard in Bombay that
sufficient water has been stored there
to last for two years.
For the first time in years in North
Carolina there are no convicts at work
on railroads.
There is room for just five more dead
in the poets Corner OF Westminster
abbey.