The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-13
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

A curious result hnsiollowed tho in.
PRODUCTION OF electricity for street light
ing in Orizaba, Mexico. Millions OF in.
sects have been attracted from tho
mountains, and their dead bodies have
collected in great heaps about tho lamp
posts. Under Il hot sun an unbearable
stencil has arisen from tho decaying
masses, and fever has broken out
among tho inhabitants. 1t has been
found necessary to send out wagons
every morning to carry away the dead
insects. l.pci,'i
Sidney Clarke, ex.congressman from
Kansas, now OF Oklahoma, and chair.
man OF tho statehood executive com.
mit,ee, is in Washington at tho head Of
q delegation 10 urge tho admission Of
tho infant territory to tho Union. He
says there Rre 800 1000 white people and
$1,000 Indians in Oklahoma.
India has sent missionary to Eng.
land, Miss soondcrbai Powar, native
high.caste Hindoo, who comes to point
ont tho evils OF tho opium traffic She
wears an Oriental costume, but speaks
English llucntly. Her oratory is simple
and direct, and she excites the sympathy
Of her hearers.
Tho laying OF tho new submarine
cable between tho Bahama islands and
tho United States was skiliully exc
cuted job. The cable was not expensive.
1t is go miles long and cost $4,000, or
about $3.50 for each mile OF its length.
Parents can not name their children
Just what they please in Germany. By
imperial order Government func-
tionaries arc forbidden henceforth to
register any infant in Christian name
bearing tho slightest relation to politics.
A citizen OF Hume, No., while under
the influence Of group OF Gags"
traded horses With friend and was so
delighted with his bargain that ho led
the animal into the house twice for his
wife's inspection.
A traveller reports that there is a
spring in st. Tammany parish, Louisi-
ana, which pours forth clear, cold water
all day long, but at sunset goes sudden
ly dry, discharging, no water until the
sun rises again.
The Pratt (Kan.) Times, voicing the
indignation OF tho people at repeated
Jail deliveries, advises the county to sell
the steel cafes and cells and hire cow
boy to herd the prisoners in the city
park.
At n baptism in tho river near Plain
field, Conn, last Sunday, thefloatingice
was so thick and plentiful that two men
wero constantly engaged in keeping it
away from those being immersed.
Kansas City Star: Aunt Einnice
Wolf, 4 colored woman, by being born
in Virginia and moving early to Mis-
souri,, and by the steady use OF tobacco
contrived to live to tho age OF 100 years.
Dora Lowenbcrg, a servant in New
York family, gaye her life last week to
save that OF the child OF her mistress,
and did it deliberately, knowing before
hand the result. .
The Japanese some time ago adopted
burial of the dead, but they have re-
verified to their old custom OF burning
the dead on account OF its sanitary rec
concentrations.
tits proposed to build an electric rail-
road between Chicago and St. Louis and
to have it in operation before tho
Worlds Fair opens.
Judge Tutthill, OF Chicago, fined man
$40 in his court for remarking that he
hadn't had a square deal"
Boise, Idaho. is now heated By. water
from hot spring near the city. ~