The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-08
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anon county, Pa, who twenty years
ago was nearly killed BY sunstroke and
lay i'll for months. Then his health be-
came as good as before, but his concep-
tions of temperature underwent re-
markable change. He has ever since
worn thin linen duster in winter and
slept with the windows open, while in
summer he has had to wear heavy
overcoat and have his sleeping room
heated by stove.
Isaac P. Monfort. an old gentleman
who lives in Macomb, Ill, still has the
mare Nell that he drove all the way
there in 1876, and he proposes driving
her IN the procession at the dedication
ceremonies at the Worlds Fair in Chi
cago. He has owned her thirty years,
and claims to have driven her in that
time about 1000 miles between shafts.
Four wealthy citizens of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, have left there with the in
tentiou of making the longest drive on
record. Their destination is Jackson
vile, Fla, a distance OF $500 miles.
After spending the winter in Florida
the party will early in the summer
drive from Jacksonville to Chicago, and
after taking in the Worlds Fair begin
the return drive to Winnipeg.
A shower Of flies fell at Mt Joy, Pa,
Monday evening. The flies appeared
on the horizon like a black thunder
storm and rapidly approached the
place. The air was literally black with
flies about half the size OF the common
house fly. They alighted by millions,
and everything was alive with the pests
for several hours.
Parsons Kan. Eclipse: A Fort Scott
couple who came to town to see the cir
Gus Numbered into the Holiness camp
meeting tent, but after giving their
money to one of the Holiness people
discovered they were in the wrong pew.
They were too mad to stay and get sal
walton.
The water in the drinking tanks Of
the produce and cotton exchanges yes
terday had been boiled in view of the
fear OF cholera. 1t had been boiled in
whisky barrels by the introduction Of
steam. There was come complaint Of
the steam taste.-Mew York Recorder.
A contortionist at an exhibition in
Halifax, N. S., twisted himself into a
ludicrous shape and said: "This Is an
| imitation of an Albion hotel bedbug."
The audience laughed, but the hotel
proprietor couldn't see the joke. He
began suit for 5000.
A cholera suspect, that was put under
surveillance in New York on Thursday,
was found to have made dinner of two
pounds OF corned beef, 50 small noun
tain OF cabbage" and two watermelons.
Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools OF Belgium and
10000 Of the 100000 primary pupils
have deposited over 100000 francs.
Great Britain has also established the
penny banks.
The largest tuning-fork ever manu-
featured was one recently made at Ha-
nau for the physiological institute at
Leipzig. 1t weighs little over seven
ty-two pounds, and gives fourteen
double oscillations second.
A lady writing from st. Louis says
that her hair lie tifty-four inches in
length, and there is another lady in
Chicago who can easily stand on her
hair, which is five feet nine inches
long.
A New York halter has just made a
hat 81 in size. The length and width
are OF by u. This, no says, is the size
necessary to the comfort Of the man
with the biggest head in town.
A practical calculator has discovered
that an average waltz takes one over
about three-quarters OF mile. A
square dance Is half q mile and galop
Is a good mile at run.
Asst Joseph (Mo.) marble cutter has
sued a woman who refuses to take ST.
500 tombstone off his hands which she
ordered before she was married the last
time.
Veteran Joseph Shook, aged eighty
seven, is walking from Vassar, Mich, to
Washington, D. G., to attend the G. A.
R encampment
An Oklahoma girl was married by q
Judge, divorced by the same judge and
married to the same judge all in six
months.
August 20 a meteor fell at Brunean
Falls in Idaho, which a local assayel
says shows traces OF gold.
The cost per capita Of living at the
Confederate Home of Missouri is q
cents day.
The wardrobe Of a gentleman who
died lately in Connecticut, included 500
pairs Of stockings.
FoR Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neural
gia, Cramp and Collie there is no remedy
snperior To the genuine DR.. Thomas