The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-12
BREAKFAST RuDaEr.

A meteor which fell in Alabama last
week plowed up iurrow about as large
as -four barrel and three or four feet
deep, then bounded and struck large
pine tree six feet from the ground. SHY.
erng tho tree, 1t then exploded, scat
tering its fragments in every direction,
cutting down small growth and tearing
up the ground.
The other day a neatly dressed re-.
specialize looking man appeared on the
streets OF Philadelphia with paste.
board placard on his hat, on which
were tho words: ~ have tried every
means to got work, VIII somebody
please give mo n situationW Pretty
soon kind hearted Quaker gentleman
noticed him and got him situation,
DR.. Kelley says he has used asaic,ida
this winter Tor tho euro Of the grip at
his Dwight TN sanitarium, and that
in every instance It has given almost
immediate relief and not one out OF 600
to 500 patients has been compelled TO
remain in bed a single day. He admin.
listers tho asafetida in 16.grain doses
four times day.
II seems that there Is really whist.
ling language. A French traveller has
written a work on the subject which has
been occupying the attention Of tho
Paris Academy OF Sciences. II is in
the Canary islands that people whistle
instead OF speaking when they hold con.
verse with each other.
About 1857 horseshoe was found
under the ice OF tho glacier Theodui, in
Switzerland, which led biologists to the
idea that this pass, $500 metres high,
was formerly not embedded in ice. This
has been further confirmed by a recent
find OF coins bearing the likencsses OF
Augustus and Diocictian.
The Congregational thinks that
good many people might learn some
thing from Wellesley teacher who re-
Gently said: 81 want to resign when
people will say What shall we do
without her? and not when they are
saying How can we get rid OF her?' !"
A diary begun moro than three CEN
turies ago by tho Hozaka family, of
Japan, has been kept up continuously
by the various heads to whose charge it
was committed until the volumes now
fill eight large chests.
There is said to be in the lunatic
asylum at Alilledgeville, Ga. man
tifty-two years old, who weighs only 50
pounds, measures SO inches in height
and is perfectly developed.
Asingular phenomenon lately pointed
out but not yet explained is that the in
terror OF piece OF mild steel may be
raised to the fusing point while the out
side remains solid.
Rainmaker Melbourne's visit to Mex
leo is not likely to be productive OF any
lasting good. The Mexlcans showed no
disposition Of keep him there.-ChicGgo
Tribune.
Boston's Council has voted to return,
to the Cleveland guard, OF North Caro-
lima, flag captured by one oil the Mas
.sachusetts regiments during the civil
war.
A French chemist has found that
aluminium may be used instead OF mag
nesium for producing the intense light
sometimes required by photographers.
a boy OF twelve, in New York, has &C.
quired Swedish, German and Italian by
escorting cmigrants to their trains.
Minnesota furnished 1854 three
years men during the war, and she now
has 1888 men on the pension roll.
One OF the scholars in country school
at Grayson, Ky, is ajustice OF the peace,
aged forty-four years.
Playing upon the typewriter is said to
produce IN ailment known as the type
writer's stub finger"
Male Chinese quails are being i'm
ported into California, it is said, ior
lighting purposes. is5-