The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-09
BREAKFAST BUDGET.

BREAKFAST BUDGET.
The cashier of the First National
Bank Of St John, Kan, didn't believe
that girls could walk much except on
Brussels carpet, so he offered as bluff
10 wager SIS that Misses Minnie Ben
ford, Rose Woolley and Minnie Potter
couldn't walk from Stafford to st. John,
ten miles, in four hours. The girls nc.
cepted, rode to Stafford on the cars and
walked back, escorted by the Stafford
brass band, and were received at home
by the st. John band, with time to
spare The cashier paid the girls in
silver dollars and gave them grand
banquet in the bargain.
The first pastor Of the church at East
hampton, n. Y, directed that he be
buried with his head TO the east so that
at the resurrection he might face his
congregation; but so general is the GUS
tom Of burying with the head to the
west that this direction is noted az an
instance OF the minister's eccentricity.
Alaska covers an areaof 575, 900 square
miles and has $4,000 miles Of coast line.
The population is probably about 3d.
900, OF which all but 5000 are native In
dians. The United States government
derives large revenue from its vast
fisheries and fur trade. The fur seal
and fur otter trade alone is worth $780,
900 year.
Referring to the finds Of remains Of
extinct animals, none is more curious
than that OF finding the antlers and
bones OF an elk los feet below the sur
face, in q shalt that was being sunk on
a ledge near Hewbridge, Oregon, this
season. They were found imbedded in
astratum of gravel.
The first woman admitted to the bar
in America was Arabella Mansfield, Of
Iowa, in 1869. Now there are seven
women lawyers practiciug before the
United States supreme court, and a
large number have been admitted to
general practice.
A resident OF Long Creek, Ore, had
quite thrilling experience with an elk
the other day. After wounding the
animal, the elk turned upon him and
ave chase. The man finally escaped
by rolling under log, and having re-
gained possession OF his rifle, soon
killed the elk.
In walkerton, Ont, the Office OF iailer
is being filed by Miss Roether. This
lady has the distinction OF being the
only galleries." in Ontario, and the in
spector OF jails and prisons has given a
very favorable report of the Bruce
county Jail, as it is under her superin-
gendence.
Mrs. Elizabeth osby- Hunter, an &C.
centric old lady who recently died in
London, forgot to leave anything sub
siantial to her relatives, but be-
oneathed $500 year to be held in
rust for her parrot. In a codicil $500
we're added with which to buy the par
70. a new cage.
A correspondent Of the Contectioners'
Jtlrnal says that banana juice makes II
tirst class indelble ink. A spot on a
white shirt from dead ripe banana ia
marked forever, and the juice from ba-
uauas thoroughly decayed is bright,
clear crimson.
An aged couple in Monroe City, Mo-.
Maj. Dean. eighty-two years old, and his
wife. eighty, cultivated piece OF corn
lhs season. In planting it the major
iraye the horses, and his wife, riding
On the machine, dropped the corn.
The unsinkable steam launch recently
launched at the New York navy yard
made its second trial trip through He'll
lrste Inst week. II has been named the
Turnabout, as it can turn completely
around within its own length.
he Cotton marble works have Just
or.,rried what is claimed to be the lar
fa-t block OF marble ever taken ont IN
California Iii reported to be 10 feet
in length, feet inches in width and
ieet 8 inches thick.
Ia about one hundred of the syna-
ropues In this country, Sunday meet
ms arc now held, at which lectures
ace delivered by the rabbis who had
conducted the regular Jewish services
on the previous day.
Mrs. Poingdestre, of Jersey, England.
recently reached her one hundreth
birthday. She writes clearly without
the aid OF glasses, has good memory
ior past events, and joins in singing
Probably no woman's club is better
hou,ed than the New Century club, Of
Bos,on. which has recently taken up
quarters in building that cost $4,000.
An indianapolis man wants a patent
for "ageing% violins. and by wnIch he
claims toturn any old fiddle into Gre
mona-like instrument in two weeks
H.P. Albert, OF Philadelphia, belong
to more secret societies than any other
man in tile United States being en-
rolled in seventy-eieht OF them.
ROY Robert sellers, pastor OF the
Christian church OF South lend, Ind,
wa, lately presented by his congrega-
lon with a bicycle.
LEROY Brownbridge, an employee Of a
South Bend (Ind factory, sneezed so
violently the other day thai he dislo-
Gated his shoulder
The city of London covers Gs7 square
miles
Autumn sun.hades are seen in New